Economic Perspectives Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?C.P. ChandrasekharCalls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
Counter Culture Films like ‘Avatar 2’ challenge how acting is thought of as a craftPrathyush Parasuraman
Economic Perspectives Debate over old pension scheme divides State governments and CentreC.P. Chandrasekhar
Choices on the streetsHARSH MANDERFor many of Delhi's homeless people, the city's night shelters are their only stable anchor. Closing them down leaves the destitute with no home and n
Skewed supportThe problems of accumulation of food stocks cannot be dealt with from the side of supply; it can be done only from the side of demand. The recent chan
Bringing barbarians to bookAll possible forums, including national tribunals and the soon-to-be-established International Criminal Court, must be explored to prosecute the commu
Financing the corporationsThe International Conference on Financing for Development has provided a depressing sign that even the United Nations has succumbed to the pressures o
A challenge in ChinaA mammoth OECD study documents the loss of dynamism in the Chinese economy, but predictably asserts, unconvincingly, that more reform can break the st
End the butchery, sack ModiThe pogrom in Gujarat spells this nation's descent into unalloyed barbarism. It can only end if Modi is sent packing and Vajpayee shaken out of his sm
Incompetence or connivance?The Gujarat Police have not distinguished themselves in recent weeks, but the question is whether they alone are blameworthy.
Foreign investment illusionsGovernments with over-optimistic expectations from foreign direct investment should be aware that it does not necessarily increase employment and can
Passages rememberedTHIS time I am not writing about a particular book. I have over the decades kept notebooks in which I put down excerpts, memorable, stirring phrases a
The foreign threat in bankingThe clearance granted for a major expansion of foreign bank presence in India will hit priority sector lending overall, reduce the Reserve Bank of Ind
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
