All that talk about talking: Islamabad, and its 2004 commitment
By Yashwant Sinha Some of my friends seemed surprised when I spoke against the move of my own government to recently resume dialogue with Pakistan. They had no reason to. My view that there is...
View ArticleCustomers as investors
By Robert Merton Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public sector guarantors of institutions, expect an...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi has been the best RSS success story in independent India
By Pranab Dhal Samanta The description of the relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his patron organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), seems to be either of capitulation or...
View ArticleIs protection of individual privacy more important than the protection of...
By Anahita Mathai & Bedavyasa Mohanty In the age of 24-hour news cycles and continuous online updates, we are bombarded with information, much of which is swept aside when the next big story comes...
View ArticleLearning processes
By Christopher Myers Learning from the experience of others has long been recognised as critical for individual and organisational success. Using others’ successful and failed experiences to help avoid...
View ArticleManaging model risks
By Jeffrey Brown Et Al An important innovation since the financial crisis has been the development of supervisory models, in other words, models developed by regulators, using detailed proprietary bank...
View ArticlePM Narendra Modi-India Inc meet: So what about our PSUs?
By Mohan Guruswamy The prime minister and his economic management team met the captains of India’s private sector, trade bodies and a few others to discuss the current economic situation and the...
View ArticleStringent visa systems and immigration laws are 20th century anachronism that...
By Sanjaya Baru For a person escaping from persecution or poverty, borders are lines on a paper. How long can nation states deny people the right to free movement across our planet? Even the Universal...
View ArticleOn his 143rd birth anniversary, here’s looking at Ranjitsinhji, Indian...
By: Boria Majumdar Ranjitsinhji, ruler of Nawanagar between 1907-1933, had a disputed succession. Born in 1872 to a Jadeja family of Sarodar, Ranji had no legal claim to the throne. The Jam, Vibhaji,...
View ArticleFinancial excesses
By John Kay Modern societies need finance. The first stages of industrialisation and the growth of global trade coincided with the development of finance in countries such as Britain and the...
View ArticleShelter from the Storm: Nurturing domestic demand can provide a sanctuary in...
By Saumitra Chaudhuri Last month, I had dwelt on weak growth conditions worldwide, its rarity in the West, its confinement to Asia and idiosyncratic problems in China and India. It is not pleasant to...
View ArticlePM Modi’s visit to UK may firm up trade and investment between two countries
By Sajid Javid Being the MP for Bromsgrove in the English West Midlands has many advantages. It’s a beautiful part of the world, home to some of the nicest people you could ever hope to...
View ArticleRevisiting Vedic management
By Devdutt Pattanaik Were the Vedas concerned with management? Or were they concerned with some esoteric exotic doctrine that cannot be contaminated by mundane concerns like management? It depends on...
View ArticleOn faith and reason
By Jonathan Sacks Abraham himself, the man revered by 2.4 billion Christians, 1.6 billion Muslims and 13 million Jews, ruled no empire, commanded no army, conquered no territory, performed no miracles...
View ArticleOn finance and politics
By Martin Wolf The ideal of a liberal democracy derives from the marriage of two ideas: freedom and citizenship. It’s based on the belief that we are not only individuals with rights to choose for...
View ArticleMajor non-market events distract investors from strong sentiment-carrying...
By Ashok Banerjee & Kamran Quddus It was April 5, 2011, and Anna Hazare was on a hunger strike as part of the Jan Lokpal Bill agitation. The entire nation’s attention was on Hazare and...
View ArticleIndia’s already in a football World Cup: The 2015 Homeless World Cup in...
By Indranath Mukherjee I was one among the lucky 5,154,386 people who attended the Fifa Fan Fests in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup. It reaffirmed my belief as to why the World Cup is...
View ArticleWhat happened when the two Atleticos met on Saturday night — in the presence...
By Boria Majumdar It was packed at the Estadio Vicente Calderon. And why shouldn’t have been? Barcelona, with their trinity of Messi, Neymar and Suarez, were taking on local favourites Atletico de...
View ArticleSyria – Peeling layers of consciousness
By Megha Chopra A picture speaks a thousand words… I was waiting for the feeling to pass. I was hoping for that grim ocular image to never converge with my consciousness. But it did, and...
View ArticleGo ahead with central GST, states can follow
By Yashwant Sinha The GST is not the product of the Congress’ imagination. It was conceived during the NDA 1 regime. While all the basic work relating to the replacement of the state sales tax...
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