How bond markets are evolving rapidly today
By Rashesh Shah Over the last few years, we have had many committees constituted in order to develop the corporate bond market in India. Now, partly due to market factors and partly due to regulatory...
View ArticleDigital strategy
By Karel Dörner Being digital requires being open to re-examining your entire way of doing business and understanding where the new frontiers of value are.… Unlocking value from emerging growth sectors...
View ArticleChina & stock meltdown: Central banks take the world for a bubble ride
By Anjana Menon This week, all eyes will be on China. It will have two things on display: its stock markets and swarms of men in uniform walking past Tiananmen Square to mark the 70th...
View ArticleWhy India needs to pull itself up by the bootstraps rather than waiting for...
By Ashok Malik What does China’s hard landing mean for India? Of all the major world economies, the Indian economy is perhaps the least linked to China’s. It is not part of the Chinese supply...
View ArticleWhy Chetan Sharma will forever be that last ball blunder
By Joy Bhattacharjya Anyone who followed Indian cricket in the early nineties will definitely remember Atul Bedade. Google the name, and in the extensions Google suggests, the first one is ‘six.’ Try...
View ArticleExtraneous issues in monetary transmission
By Soumya Kanti Ghosh The debate on monetary transmission refuses to die down (the Reserve Bank of India annual report again mentions this). Also, in the recent monetary policy statement, RBI for the...
View ArticleEnergy dynamics
By Scott Nyquist Oil is predominantly used for transport. Very little of it is used for power; oil accounts for less than 1% of power generation in the US and Canada, and not much more...
View ArticleIndia-US defence cooperation stuck in a Catch-22 situation until India...
By Seema Sirohi & Abhijit Iyer-Mitra As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the US draws near, excitement and anxiety are both rising on bridging the gap between promise and delivery....
View ArticleMaldives slides further into lawlessness
By: Ravi Joshi President Abdullah Yameen of Maldives has once again shown utter disregard for all norms of governance and rule of law by breaking a solemn promise he made to the largest Opposition...
View ArticleNumber theory
By Akshaya Mukul Gita Press’ opposition to artificial birth-control measures continued into the late 1960s. Kalyan now turned to K C Mishra, a medical practitioner who articulated a medico-religious...
View ArticleHow spectacular overhaul can defeat institutional drag, retain high growth
By Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar India’s economic slowdown three years ago has been followed by China’s. The reasons may look totally different, yet, some models predict slowing growth for both...
View ArticleFunny Business: Nifty expert full of bull
By Anuvab Pal There was murder in Mumbai. Bloodshed. Mayhem. And it was not related to the one we are seeing on TV. The Indian stock markets plunged, recovered, plunged again as China played poker...
View ArticleHow capitalist system lead to China’s fall
By Sreeram Chaulia Recent plunges in China’s stock markets, currency value and economic growth have triggered global fears. After a long spell of gravity defying rise, the sudden spectacle of China...
View ArticleWhy don’t startups have CHROs?
By Abhijit Bhaduri There had been a bomb threat and the airport was buzzing with security personnel. I marveled at the golden retriever who was sniffing passengers as they waited for their luggage to...
View ArticleIn South Africa, Virat Kohli’s young side are in for a tough test
By Shakya Mitra So India has recorded a thrilling series victory over Sri Lanka – their first over the islanders in 22 years in their own backyard – heralding the arrival of the Virat Kohli...
View ArticleRisks in currency
By Marc Goedhart Recent swings in global currencies have brought exchange rate risk back to the forefront for companies working with suppliers, production or customers in different currencies. Although...
View ArticleGlobal Volatility: Flow with the currencies
By Neelkanth Mishra Before one starts to find solutions, it is important to frame the problem well. The coverage of the recent market volatility has focused primarily on the slowdown in China. While...
View ArticleModerate taxation policy can make the ‘Make in India’ relevant for brewing...
By Shobhan Roy The brewing industry in India has, of late, turned flat. Foreign players such as Heineken and Budweiser are now strong leaders in the market. But the Indian beer industry has been...
View ArticleFertile Tradition
By Wendy Doniger Most people think the Kamasutra is a book about the positions (often improbable) in sexual intercourse, the erotic counterpart to the ascetic yoga asanas. Reviews of recent books...
View ArticleRSS-government meet an endorsement of Modi government, but carries complex...
By Rajesh Ramachandran The three-day RSS-government meet got over on Friday in Delhi with fulsome endorsement of the Narendra Modi government by RSS. But the message is more complex than a mere stamp...
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