The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 04, 2009

OPINION

EDITORIAL: Food for thought
India’s bumper wheat crop and the consequential issues of procurement, storage, logistics and food subsidy have underscored the weaknesses in India’s foodgrain management system. Despite an impressive wheat procurement effort so ...

CHILDREN & PARENTING: Corporal punishment of children must end
I distinctly recall when I was in primary school in 1964, in a well-known convent in Kochi, my talkative bench mate, a seven year-old girl, was slapped across the face for chatting with me. And, I was struck across the upper thighs with a ...

ECONOMY: Assessing the external sector
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) document on macroeconomic and monetary developments in 2008-09, issued in conjunction with the annual credit policy statement, has always been a reservoir of information on important features of India’s ...

POWER: Koodankulam sets off chain reaction
Action is picking up in the Indian nuclear sector. With the opening of the new window of nuclear commerce with other countries, the first on the list of projects to come up in the country is at the Koodankulam site in Tamil Nadu. Two reactors ...

EVENTS: God is about to appear
Why has the sudden proposal to have a single regulator for all PPP projects cropped up from the Planning Commission? An official who claims credit for getting all the PPP projects in India in the last five years, and who has a powerful backer in ...

LETTERS: Short of expectations
The first 100 days of the US President, Mr Barrack Obama, have fallen short of expectations. On the economic front, Mr Obama is adopting a no-nonsense approach. He has introduced stimulus plans, bailed out automakers and banks and plans ...

LETTERS: Causality
“I complicate, therefore I am” (Business Line, April 29) states that economics cannot establish causality beyond reasonable doubt. But this is something economists find hard to digest. Economists may be better ...