Partners in rebuildingV. SRIDHARCuddalore district, which has seen an active presence of NGOs, perhaps best demonstrates the public-private partnership model for rebuilding tsunami-h
On the Volcker trailV. SRIDHARThe 630-page Volcker Report is an exhaustive account of the audit trail relating to the Oil-For-Food Programme.
What Volcker did not probeV. SRIDHARThe Volcker Committee's failure to investigate how Iraq was short-changed for its oil exports represents a serious omission.
Honour for game theoristsV. SRIDHARTwo long-time proponents of game theory, Thomas C. Schelling and Robert J. Aumann, are the winners of this year's Nobel for Economics.
Soaring SensexV. SRIDHARThe stock markets are on song, but their volatility and the rampant speculation deter genuine investors from venturing into the market.
A play with penny stocksV. SRIDHARTHEORETICALLY, the price of a company's share is supposed to reflect its worth. After several scams, now it is evident that this is mostly not the cas
Empowering the rural poorV. SRIDHARThe National Rural Employment Guarantee Act differs from earlier schemes in that its starting point is the empowerment of rural people, rather than "p
Bias in the criticismV. SRIDHARCRITICS of the employment guarantee programme base their case on two premises. Most of them ask: Where is the money for it going to come from? Others
The farmers' plightV. SRIDHARTHE Orathupalayam dam on the Noyyal in Erode district was built in 1992. It has an ayacut of 500 acres. Further downstream is the Chinnamuthur barrage
Technical solutions and problemsV. SRIDHARONE of the standard excuses offered by dyers in Tirupur over the years is that they do not have "cost-effective" or "viable" technologies for zero dis
Tirupur's crisisV. SRIDHAR in Tirupur Photographs by K. AnanthanThe ruling by the Madras High Court asking dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur to install reverse osmosis plants for the secondary treatment of effl
Reviving DabholV. SRIDHARThe revival of the power project, which has been idle for the past four years, puts a heavy burden on Indian public lending institutions while the for
A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
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.
