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When economic reforms began 15 years ago, I expected a new division of labour, with the public sector and private sector each focusing on what it did best. The government, I believed, would focus on law and justice, a second […]

The Reserve Bank of India is worried about a bubble in real estate that may burst. Property prices have doubled or tripled in the last two years, although rents have risen only slowly. The slow rise of rents suggests that

For years I have argued that India needs police-judicial reform more urgently than further economic reform. Virtually nobody with resources is convicted beyond all appeals. When wrongs are not redressed and the guilty not penalised, basic human rights are violated.Adverse

The price of oil hit a record high of $ 76/barrel last week. The energy crunch looks like going from bad to worse in coming decades. The BRIC report of Goldman Sachs predicts that between 2000 and 2050, India\’s GDP

Anti-globalisers complain that multinationals are bigger than the GDP of some countries. Now, suddenly, non-profit foundations are becoming larger than many MNCs. Two of the richest men in the world, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway,

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote his seminal history, The Discovery of India, during the British Raj. But now we have a very different Discovery of India by the western media. Time magazine has a cover story on India in its US edition

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote his seminal history, The Discovery of India, during the British Raj. But now we have a very different Discovery of India by the western media. Time magazine has a cover story on India in its US edition