The Times of India

Welcome to the brave new world of telephone advertising. It could simultaneously cut the fiscal deficit, accelerate rural development and economic growth, kill small newspapers and magazines, and provide free telephone calls. The idea has been pioneered in the US […]

As Mr Yashwant Sinha prepares for his next budget, he must be crossing his fingers and hoping the global economy revives, expanding India’s export prices and volume in deep recession in East Asia is ending, and the US economy continues

If Russia reneges on debts incurred by the Soviet Union, can it claim Indian dues contracted in Soviet times, says Swaminathan S Aiyar. Russia has refused to pay its Soviet-era debts to the Paris Club of government creditors and London

Some enthusiasts like Muchhkund Dubey, former foreign secretary, are gung-ho about the Free Trade Areas (FTAs) India is negotiating with Sri Lanka and other neighbours in SAARC. Now, a well-designed FTA can be a boon, but a badly designed one

Dear Prime Minister, Politics in a democracy is about conflict resolution. The RSS does not seem to understand this very well, but you do. This is the main reason for the quarrel between the RSS and your liberal wing of

On returning to Delhi after some months abroad, the standard question everybody asked me was, \”What do Americans think of India?\” The answer is that Americans hardly think of India at all. The country is barely on their radar screen.

Nobody imagined when Atal Behari Vajpayee became Prime Minister that he and other liberals in the party would soon be openly battling the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on insurance. The issue proves how facile those

The biggest gap between rich and poor nations relates not to capital but knowledge, says Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar Indians generally think of globalisation as freeing flows of goods and investment. This is too narrow a notion. In fact, knowledge

The year 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. This is famous for pulling Europe out of the wreckage of World War II and propelling it to prosperity. But it was also the first great structural adjustment programme,

Pakistan has long been richer than India. On the 50th anniversary of independence, The Economist proclaimed India the greater political success, but Pakistan the better economic performer. That may finally have changed. The World Development Report, 1998, of the World