The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 21, 2009

OPINION

POLITICS: Winning Tamil votes with Eelam
It is election time and the chieftains of the two most important Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu have been quick to embrace the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils. Military offensives launched on the LTTE by the Sri Lankan government have always ...

FOODGRAINS: Food crises in the developing world
Around the middle of 2008, when international recognition of the global food crisis was its height and had not yet been displaced from the public radar by the financial crisis, there were actually visible signs of the crisis that went beyond ...

NON-PERFORMING ASSETS: Grey areas in debt recovery proceedings
The Madras High Court judgement in the Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd vs Axis Bank Ltd case raises interesting questions on certain provisions of the DRT Act, 1993 (Act). Can a borrower approach a court independent of a ...

EDITORIAL: Laundering votes
Whatever the outcome of the elections, the BJP will be remembered in history books as the first party to discover an issue to galvanise opinion not just across caste and community lines but also globally. Mr L. K. Advani’s call for ...

LETTERS: Buyers market
With the home loan rates going southward and the recent cuts effected in prices, the property market has again become buyer-friendly. In such a situation, developers shifting their focus to creating volumes at affordable price points are ...

LETTERS: Economics and physics
Economics is certainly not physics (Business Line, April 15). However, economics is to the social sciences what physics is to natural ...

LETTERS: Mutual fund assets
Overseas funds have not played a major role in India in recent times. Their performance, in fact, has almost always received more attention than it ...

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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