COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Not the first revolt against the British
It is fruitless to keep stoking up the controversy over whether the uprising of 1857 against the British in India was a war of Independence or whether it was just a series of ill-organised armed attacks by sporadic groups with their own axes to ...
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
Indices may move within a trading zone
Global, Asian macro-economic clues point to high degree of volatility
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
`Consumption, infrastructure will be driving factors'
Higher returns will be generated by better stock-picking, timely execution
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VISION 2020
A tale of three visions
The President, the Prime Minister, and the HRD Minister have visions that offer three key lessons: One, long-term vision is difficult to sell, particularly to harassed politicians concerned about the next election. Two, logical vision has little chan ce of holding against ideology. Three, though powerful, ideology can defeat itself if it lacks logical foundation. P. V. INDIRESAN focuses on the visions.
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CHAT
Inflation, industrial growth numbers did the trick
Khan was studying instances of wide variances, between survey forecasts and the actuals. Dakshinamoorthy was stooped over the latest bank results, trying to decipher the sources of reported strength. And Sridevi was reading up all that was ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
What it takes to be on the board
Directors who provide advice and information are looked upon favourably and get additional board appointments while those who want to monitor performance and exert control over managerial decision making by asking the hard questions are not likely to . Perhaps it is time researchers started looking closely at the contribution and compensation of company boards.
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