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OPINION

ECONOMY: Why Keynes will fail in India
On October 14, in an article titled ‘Tweaking John’ I had pointed out how, globally, governments were distorting Keynes. Instead of helping the real sector, which is what Keynes had in mind, they were doling out tons of cash to ...

INTERVIEW: `We will see stabilisation only in 2010'
One of the biggest problems we face now is finance for infrastructure, as access to foreign capital is drying up. To get that kind of long-term finance we need to start developing a bond market, for which institutional investors such as pension ...

AGRICULTURE: The food procurement muddle
Once again, the UPA Government has proved its insensitivity to the real issue of hunger among the poor. And this at a time when the Washington-based International Food Policy Research (IFPRI) has shown India in very poor light — giving it ...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: ICAI should tread warily
If in your understanding of accounts, two plus two make four, with no scope for two opinions about it, think again. Legerdemain with ledgers and financial finagling have been perfected to the status of a fine art. In its new incarnation, it goes ...

EDITORIAL: The long haul for J&K
Whatever its detractors may say, the Assembly elections in Kashmir have confirmed the faith that the people of that troubled State have reposed in the democratic process and, as the Prime Minster expressed it, in “national ...

MANAGEMENT: The value of discipline
Discipline in management parlance does not mean coercion or punishment. Good companies believe in establishing norms, systems, and procedures. They expect every employee to abide by them — and this is organisational discipline. ...

FOREX: Clearing the forest of zeros
The half-page multicolour advertisement stood out in the regional print media even in the cacophony of the electoral campaign of Assembly elections in five States. The advertisement was issued by the Government of India and flashed a ...

LETTERS: Rising above
The article “Rise up and come together” (Business Line, December 29) made interesting reading, particularly the welcome suggestion that it was time to form a truly national government to enable a return to ...

LETTERS: Halting the downslide
This is with reference to the editorial “Key to revival” (Business Line, December 29). It rightly said that an air of unreality pervades the government’s attempts to tackle the economy’s downslide. ...


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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