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FINANCIAL MARKETS: Banking on creditable lines
The Report on the Trend and Progress of Banking in India for 2007-08 has presented a credible and commendable story of improvement in banking indicators in the country. In the context of various international developments in which the banking ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Satyam: When form overrides substance
Has Satyam’s board committed a major governance faux pas? Yes and No. On form — no. The board complied with the written letter of the law — the promoters left the room during the debate by the ...

LIFESTYLE: India – past and present
In the 1930s, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote The Discovery of India. In itself, it was worthy of wonder because the author was nurtured in Western tenets and traditions, a Fabian socialist and an agnostic who was just a whisker away from ...

EDITORIAL: Key to revival
An air of unreality pervades the government’s attempts to grapple with the economy’s inexorable slide. The Finance Ministry urges, in its mid-year review, patience while the slew of fiscal and monetary measures take effect. But do not ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Rise up and come together
In Srimad Bhagavatam, the greatest of all Puranas which is in relation to the Supreme Truth, learned Vyasadeva begins and ends this vedic literature with the verse: “Satyam Param ...

EVENTS: I buy, you read
You may not judge a book by its cover, but can you judge a man by the books he reads? Most people would say yes, you can, but there are exceptions. The other day our colleague stopped by at a well-known south Delhi bookshop and found a ...

LETTERS: Manager performance
The article “MBAs, MBAs everywhere” (Business Line, December 26) made incisive reading. It has become a fad to profess to be an MBA. However, the quality of MBAs churned out by various institutes leaves much to ...

LETTERS: Power for Konkan
It is shameful that no power generation project has been set up in Konkan in the past 50 years. The effects of Enron project, which got embroiled in political controversy, can be witnessed with not only the Konkan region but whole of ...


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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