Taxing Matters
By Kent Smetters The US corporate tax rate is very high, and the fact is that we don’t have this border adjustment that’s currently being debated in Washington. There’s all this distortion [that leads...
View ArticleIntensity of Faith
By T G L Iyer Adevotee asked Ramakrishna Parmahansa, “Sir, is God real and can I see Him?” Ramakrishna replied, “Yes, God is real. I see Him just as I see you or any other...
View ArticleNew institutions are changing the way GoI channelises financing resources...
By Jayant Sinha As part of Reforms 3.0, India has created institutions for long-term pools of capital across a range of sectors ranging from infrastructure to agriculture, from startups to education....
View ArticleNo more a standard operating procedure would work if the opposition wants to...
The 95th birth anniversary on May 1 of socialist leader Madhu Limaye brought together nine parties on a platform to create a ‘unity of progressive forces’ in Delhi. The Samajwadi Party (SP) was...
View ArticleKashmir politics: Not a stone’s throw away
By: Mohan Sahay Farooq Abdullah, elected to Lok Sabha last month, claimed during electioneering for the Kashmir Lok Sabha by-polls that he would come to Parliament riding on the shoulders of stone...
View ArticleMoney illusion
By: Adair Turner There are essentially two ways to achieve nominal demand growth: through government money creation or through private credit growth. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Each can be...
View ArticleThe sentient space & mind
By: Lata Khubchandani J Krishnamurti departed from this world 21Februarys ago. He was a philosopher deeply sceptical of the smokescreen that is the mind. Krishnamurti’s every realisation was the...
View ArticleBlame tech, not immigration, for unemployment
By Aditya Puri The convergence of telecom, media and computing is changing the way we work, play and live. An unbelievable quantum of information has become available to the masses. The unpredictable...
View ArticleBe content, to be happy
By Sukhvinder Singh Kabir highlighted the importance of santosha, or contentment, in our lives. Indian culture teaches us to be content in all situations. But, today, we are not happy with the grades...
View ArticleManaging by mingling
By Thomas Barta Most of the leadership advice aimed at senior functional managers is how to build, align, energise and guide a world-class team. This is a challenging task in its own right, but we...
View ArticleFor much-needed investment into the aviation sector, India needs to respect...
By Mitri Najjar & Emma Pond A prosperous country is a connected country, one in which people and goods can get to where they need to quickly and easily. With this in mind, the government is...
View ArticleThe history of the future
By Debkumar Mitra It is a BBC documentary yet to be broadcast. But we already have cold sweat streaming down our spine. In the documentary, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has done some...
View ArticleManaging strategy
By Dan Lovallo Behavioural economics teaches us that a host of universal human biases, such as over optimism about the likelihood of success, can affect strategic decisions. Such decisions are also...
View ArticleSoothing sufiana
By Syed Wajid Ali Sufism is a mystical dimension of Islam, transcending all religions. It is a way of experiencing truth and selfrealisation, and in the process takes the seeker on a path of serenity,...
View ArticlePresident Polls: Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Congress Way
In the 1977 presidential election, prime minister Morarji Desai, of the Janata Party, told danseuse Rukmani Devi Arundale: “I want to make you the President”. To which the animal rights activist...
View ArticleMind-Matter Divide
By Ranjit Nair The root formulation of Indian philosophy goes back to Dirghatamas, the Rig Vedic philosopher, who said, ‘ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti’, or the Real is one, though the wise speak of it...
View ArticleOn Better Governance
By Richard Dobbs Et Al Higher costs and rising demand have driven rapid increases in spending on core public services such as education, healthcare and transport…. Government expenditure amounts to...
View ArticlePM Modi is already delivering on many of the big promises made during the...
By Vikas Kaushal & Paul Laudicina Big, bold promises during an election campaign are usually trumped by political realities once elections are over. But in India’s case, three years into his...
View ArticleThere has been no Aadhaar ‘data leak’
By Ram Sewak Sharma There has been a concerted campaign in the last few weeks ‘exposing’ the Aadhaar ‘data leak’. The impression given in many sections of the media is that something very serious has...
View ArticleInvest in solar energy at a slower pace for cheaper, better technologies
By Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar When I argued recently that excessive speed in installing solar power threatened to bust coal based plants and banks that had financed them, critics said I had ignored...
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