The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, December 25, 2008

OPINION

TERRORISM: Pakistan stalls, obfuscates and erases evidence
In the five years I lived in Pakistan, a constant feature was the ever-present ISI minders who followed me wherever I went. Their surveillance was crude. On one occasion they seated themselves next to a table at which I was hosting Maleeha ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Mutual back scratching
A bargain hunter wouldn’t do a second transaction at the same shop because conventional wisdom says the shopkeeper would get his back on the customer in the second outing. Many housewives are excellent shoppers and they keep this ...

INTERVIEW: IFRS transition should be in a phased manner
A common myth about IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) is that transition is swift and painless, observes Mr N. Venkatram, IFRS Country Leader, India, and Partner in Deloitte Haskins & Sells, ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Invest in people during crises
Dealing with crises requires special skills, more so when they are of the magnitude we are facing today. To properly identify the required skill-sets, we should have good understanding of the root cause of the ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Alerting auditors on fraud
Abraham Lincoln once remarked “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” The quote seems so relevant in these times when there is only ...

BOOKS: Job enrichment vs monetary motivators
One of the common myths of motivation is that wage increases do the trick. “Some medievalists still can be heard to say that a good depression will get employees moving. They feel that if rising wages don’t or won’t do the ...

EDITORIAL: Another knock
For India’s fourth largest IT-services company, Satyam Computer Services, the news of the World Bank not renewing its five year contract and barring it from further business for eight years could not have come at a worse time. Faced ...

LETTERS: Y. V. Reddy’s role
The article “How India avoided a crisis” (Business Line, December 23) is appropriately timed. The role of Dr Y. V. Reddy needs wholehearted appreciation during this time. Joseph Stiglitz, in a recent ...

LETTERS: Look before you leap
This refers to the article “Antulay’s shenanigans” (Business Line, December 24). The Union Minority Affairs Minister, Mr A. R. Antulay’s linking the killing of Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh

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