The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, February 04, 2009

OPINION

POLITICS: Lessons for today’s CEO from Barack Obama
Almost all organisations go through turbulent periods, during which their core capabilities are severely tested. The turbulence may be caused by factors such as significant events in the market-place, economic upheavals, dramatic inflection ...

ECONOMICS: The crisis in macroeconomics
Last week, this column had pointed out that economics was babbling itself into irrelevance. After all, if you can’t agree on the basics, as other disciplines do, if you can’t predict outcomes with any degree of certainty, if you ...

POLITICS: No shoes, please
Very soon we will be arriving at a situation where, to attend a Press conference or perhaps even a lecture or something of the sort, one will be asked to take off one’s shoes and leave it at the entrance. This is the futuristic message of ...

POLITICS: Bonding with words
The Obama phenomenon, or Obamania, as it has come to be called, now sweeping the world is largely attributable to the magic of words being effectively put to use as an integral part of exercise of inspirational leadership. Words are ...

EDITORIAL: States enter the act
The decision of the Union Cabinet to permit States to borrow an additional Rs 30,000 crore from the market makes eminent sense if one has just emerged from a seminar on Keynesian economics in the groves of academe. At a time when investment ...

INTERVIEW: Scent of a man
The regal Madras Club, on the banks of the river Adyar, is a tranquil place to be, and here I am one afternoon taking in the verdant surroundings under the huge canopy of a great banyan tree. There was just the hint of a wintry sun, or at ...

LETTERS: CEC issue
The Chief Election Commissioner, Mr N. Gopalaswamy, has written to the President of India seeking removal of his colleague, Election Commissioner Navin Chawla, for the latter’s alleged partisan attitude. The Law Minister, Mr H. ...

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 • S Venkitaramanan

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