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Below The Line
Hotel IndiaRoE, or return on equity in business parlance, can take a different meaning when applied to the real estate sector in the country. It refers to ‘return on ego,’ according to Anuj... »
S. S. TARAPORE
Let the rupee slide, and fast
The rupee is overvalued. The RBI should allow it to fall rapidly to about 70 to the dollar, as an effective solution to the current account deficit. »
B. S. RAGHAVAN
Leadership crisis in India Inc
India’s IT giants face the risk of falling by the wayside if they cling to borrowed Western models, which merely subsist on the linear extrapolation of services ... »
ASHIMA GOYAL
Missing the wood for the trees
The financial sector legislative reforms commission’s (FSLRC) recent report is notable for following a principles-based approach with the laudable objective of simplifying India’s financial laws a... »
ASHOAK UPADHYAY
The illusion of cheap money
Just before the Reserve Bank of India’s mid-quarter review of monetary policy, the State Bank of India Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri revived the argument that the central bank should pay interest on th... »
A. SESHAN
RBI did well to do nothing
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has taken the right view that there is no need for any change in its monetary policy. The factors that led to its hardening stance have hardly cha... »
G. Chandrashekhar
Global gold prices set to fall further
The latest OECD composite leading indicators (CLIs) have pointed to only moderate improvements in growth in most major economies; and if any evidence was required to reinforce this, global... »
A. SESHAN
A refreshing contrarian
Once again, it is time for the markets to speculate on what the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is going to announce on June 17. The economic problems facing the nation are no different from what they... »
Shashi Baliga
The agony of stardom
It was the ecstasy and the agony. A privileged young actor hitting a new high in his already successful career. A beautiful young actress descending into tragic depths. On Monday night, while Ranb... »
Ranabir Ray Choudhury
Can the lotus bloom?
The BJP has just taken the plunge with Narendra Modi being made chief of its election campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. L.K. Advani’s opposition to the move firmly indicates that Mo... »
Rasheeda Bhagat
Peace index: Muslim nations at the bottom
With so much of strife and violence dominating our world, and the aftermath of the Arab Spring, its violent protests and repressive regimes adding their bit, it is not surprising that world peacef... »
B. S. Raghavan
Infosys needs a strategic shake-up
This columnist is in the unhappy position of having made a gloomy forecast, in his commentary carried by this paper on May 2, 2011, following the handing over of the chairmanship of Infosys by N.R... »
Mohan Murti
Our lady of Europe
“To get it right, you have to do it right from the very beginning. If you get things wrong at the start, they'll never come right, no matter what happens in the interim.” I was o... »
Now, Modi polarises his own party
Commodity market awaits US Fed decision on tapering asset purchases
Gold: Bearish trend intact
Palm oil may test resistance
Govt may be forced to restore some curbs in sugar sector
Smelly, dank cinema paradiso
Time to up capital controls
For an eco-friendly industry
B. S. Raghavan
A brother’s tribute to a brother
Closely following the career of my brother, B. Raman, “analyst and commentator extraordinaire”, as Siddharth Varadarajan described him in his tweet, I knew the impressive niche he had carved ou... »
BHASKAR BALAKRISHNAN
Let’s mend fences with Denmark
India’s relations with Denmark have been frozen since 2011 following the Danish High Court ruling against the extradition of Kim Davies in connection with the Purulia arms drop incident of 1995. I... »
GNANASEKAAR T.
Gold to test resistance, slide
Comex gold futures ended higher on Friday, as market participants waited for US data that might provide hints before next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. The Fed’s bond buying is tantamount to pri... »
THOMAS K. THOMAS
For your eyes only? Hardly!
In 2010, when telephonic conversations of lobbyist Niira Radia were leaked in the media, it drew a lot of attention to the nexus between senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses. But... »
Ramesh Narayan
Sounding the election bugle
Manish Tiwari can call it what he wants, but the Bharat Nirman blitzkrieg that has been launched by the Government is really the first sounding of the election bugle. In the months to come, other... »
Rasheeda Bhagat
Vintage all the way
At 23, he is heir to a whopping Rs 23,000-crore business empire, employing 50,000. But Shashwat Goenka, the only son of Sanjiv Goenka, Chairman of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, displays no sign of s... »
HARISH DAMODARAN
Why Advani is right about Modi
I have never believed that the Babri Masjid’s demolition on December 6, 1992 was the “saddest day” in L. K. Advani’s life.Nor do I see him as the face of ‘moderate Hindutva’ — an oxymoron mu... »
S. MURLIDHARAN
No RTI please, we are political parties
What’s in a definition? Plenty.
The term ‘income’ has not been defined exhaustively in the income-tax law. Indeed, that is neither feasible nor desirable, given the myriad ways income can... »
ASHOAK UPADHYAY
Things fall apart
In the 24 hours between the morning of Sunday (June 9) and Monday, the city of Mumbai that had been wilting under sweltering heat the day before was pelted by an average of 70 mm of rain, with its... »
C. P. CHANDRASEKHAR, JAYATI GHOSH
Banking as the new frontier
As the July 1 deadline for applications for new licences in the post-liberalisation third call for private entry into commercial banking approaches, speculation is rife on how many applications wil... »
US on the boil over government snooping
Karzai gets to keep the cash
Naxal elephant in the drawing room
The banker who left Wall Street
Fiscal deficit, a black hole
Assertive China, Apologetic India
Regulating the unregulatable?
