Counter Culture What explains the asphyxiating glut of biopics in Indian cinema?Prathyush Parasuraman
Presidential Election 2022 Droupadi’s moment: Can the presidential candidate push the envelope?Peter Ronald deSouza
Australia to make big tech pay for the news they link and direct users to C.P. ChandrasekharAustralia’s proposal to make big tech firms such as Google and Facebook pay for the news they link to is being closely watched by many countries as a
Economic Perspectives GameStop case changes the speculative gameC.P. ChandrasekharThe meteoric rise in video-game retailer GameStop’s share price, which was propelled by day traders using Reddit forums to take on the Wall Street maj
Economic Perspectives Few reasons to hope Union Budget 2021 will be one 'like never before' as claimed by Finance MinisterC.P. Chandrasekhar Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman claims that Union Budget 2021 will be one “like never before”, but the Narendra Modi government’s persistent neol
Investor exuberance amidst real economy recessionEven while the real economy remains in contractionary mode, not only have stock market returns exploded but India’s stock of foreign exchange reserves
Little value from global chainsThe episode of violence at a Wistron iPhone assembling facility near Bengaluru was not the ploy of a set of rogue managers but is in tune with the nat
Through my Window From the earth and the skyK. SatchidanandanONE of the dubious privileges of senior writers is that they get a lot of books as gifts; I said “dubious” for many reasons. While, at times, they are
RCEP and China: A deal that can make a difference By opting to withdraw from the 15-nation RCEP agreement citing national economic interests, India has lost an opportunity to counter China’s growing
A final push for the entry of corporate players in bankingEntry of corporate players with deep pockets into the banking space, as the RBI’s internal working group proposes, could trigger certain processes tha
Public spending for private revivalIn a marked departure from its usual stance, the IMF makes a plea for enhanced public expenditure that is debt-financed, but hidden within its recomme
Household debt crisis in South KoreaSouth Korea may have been successful in handling the COVID-19 outbreak, but it nevertheless faces a soaring debt crisis, with the GDP shrinking and th
Tech platforms feel the heatThe United States Justice Department sues Google for misuse of monopoly, even as this promises to be the first in a series of cases against leading fi
A damaged federal structureThe centralisation of financial resources has intensified under the Modi government, as seen in the transition to GST and its response to the revenu
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
