The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 17, 2007

EDITORIAL
Yarn and reality
The Maharashtra government must initiate rapid action to prove the State is no less aggressive than its neighbour in pushing cotton production. More

ECONOMY
Making goods affordable for poor
In India, many people are so poor that they cannot enjoy many services unless they get it free. The ideal way of giving the poor what they need at a price they can afford is to convert that need into a public good, and make the facility or product av ailable through capital-intensive production, says P. V. INDIRESAN. More

POLITICS
From party politics to people politics
How to restore the country back to its sovereign masters, “We, the people”, away from the clutches of the political class, is the most pressing question facing the polity today. For, without such an effort, attention to systems and ... More

Religious delusion
Inspired by the picture of the planet earth taken from four billion miles away in space by the Voyager spacecraft, Carl Sagan, wrote with poetic awe and exhilaration in Pale Blue Dot, about the infinitesimally small size of our planet against ... More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
Fed rate cut: A fait accompli?
Its charter mandates the US Federal Reserve to hold at least eight meetings of its rate setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) every calendar year. Likewise, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) is required by ... More

ROADWAYS
Behavioral angle to traffic management
The big gap in our response to traffic management is ignoring behavioral issues. We need to recognise that knowing how to drive a vehicle is not the same as being aware of how to drive on a road. More

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