The share of services in India\’s GDP has shot up to 46.6 per cent, leaving the share of industry far behind at 27 per cent. Is this healthy or unhealthy? Optimists feel India has successfully leapfrogged over the conventional transition […]

Open economies are highly vulnerable, so put up your shutters to flows of global capital. That was the lesson drawn by most people from the East Asian crisis. They noted how China and India, which had capital controls, with stood

Many of us are horrified by the burning of Christians and their churches. But not the RSS. You, its most cogent spokesman, say the Church is well known as a semi-political and semi-commercial organisation that use money and fraudulent claims

It will lead to market manipulation by businessmen in league with politicians, warns Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar. SHOULD the government-run Employee\’s Provident Fund invest part of its money in the stock market? This suggestion, made repeatedly at budget time, has

It will lead to market manipulation by businessmen in league with politicians, warns Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar. SHOULD the government-run Employee\’s Provident Fund invest part of its money in the stock market? This suggestion, made repeatedly at budget time, has

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