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ECONOMY: It’s over for US-style capitalism
After attaining freedom, India began imitating the socialist Soviet republic from the 1950s and continued it till the Soviet sunset in the 1990s. Afterwards, like most others , it began copying the US, which emerged as the icon of ...

GENDER: Muslim women — ‘culture trumps faith’
Many educated and empowered Muslim women have disputed the comparatively lower status given to women by their community, which often cites religious scriptures to justify unfair treatment. But for the first time, a financial initiative that ...

EDITORIAL: Combating spurious drugs
The Union Health Minister Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad’s proposal of a whistle-blower scheme to punish fake-drug makers is another attempt to get at the root of a pernicious issue. Despite the severity of the problem, the issue, first raised by ...

BOOKS: Growth, employment and economic disparity
A high growth rate doesn’t always mean inclusive growth. Especially in a developing economy, economic growth doesn’t necessarily trickle down to the lowest segments of society. For example, the final report by the ...

EDUCATION: Right to education, at last
The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949. Article 37, forming a part of the section (Part IV) containing the Directive Principles of State Policy, states that “the provisions contained in this ...

AIRLINES: How many airlines do we need?
On July 31, the private airlines decided to take a day off on August 18, a decision that has been subsequently put on hold. A few days earlier, Mr Vijay Mallya, Chairman of Kingfisher Airlines, plaintively asked during a TV chat , ...

LETTERS: Airline turmoil
The editorial “airline turbulence” (Business Line, August 3) is timely and lists the many issues that airlines must address. As the article “Will India’s airlines recover from the tailspin?” ...

LETTERS: Long and short of it
The article “The long and short of it” (Business Line, August 2) is well-written for stock pickers. But if you take the case of mutual fund investors, a buy and hold strategy has worked for more than a ...


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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