The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 04, 2007

OFFHAND
Caught in a cleft stick
Medical researchers have found that there is nothing that happens in the human body that can be called sudden or unpredictable. Any event that is apparently sudden — a heart or brain attack, let us say — is preceded by signs of ... More

WIDE CANVAS
Farm reforms are the key
The key to the future of the Indian economy lies in its agriculture. While effective reforms in this sector will be the toughest to devise and implement, without such restructuring the spurt in the economy will be nothing more than ephemeral. More

A RINGSIDE VIEW
Bull market sees spot of uncertainty
Appreciating rupee, higher interest rate regime could check progress More

MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
Asset base - still small in global compass
`Worldwide institutional assets of 500 largest players grew 14.3%' More

ADR WATCH
MTNL, banking counters sizzle
Infosys among losers' list More

SAY CHEEK
We humans are `unpredictable self-writing poems'
A one-letter word that fills our brains all the time is I. It is `the realest thing in the world' for each human being, and `the most complex symbol in the brain,' says Douglas Hofstadter in `I am a Strange Loop' (More

CHAT
The roses fearfully on thorns do stand
Khan was scanning the skies for consolidation in the air. Jogin was reading the fine-print on toothpaste tubes. Dakshinamoorthy was trying to assess the impact of expansion cut backs announced by Wal-Mart... All till Sridevi messaged them, ... More

EUROSCAPE
Artfully choreographing the G-8
On the issue of climate change, it appears to me that Germany and the US are moving farther away, rather than closer to each other. More

JOTTINGS
The quest for happiness
It is what we all seek, want and yet seldom know how to find. It is the ultimate goal of all humanity, according to the sages, ancient and modern. Happiness is now a formal subject of study, featured in a six-week documentary on BBC World that ... More

PEOPLE WISE
Organisations as wellsprings of talent
Industry can draw inspiration from companies that have created talent for all, rather than grabbing what was available. More

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