HUNDREDS of newspaper articles have been written on child labour in the match industry of Sivakasi and neighbouring areas. Some say it is the exploitation of the poor by capitalists. Others say it is the exploitation of children by their […]

SINCE 1991, foreign investors automatically qualify for a 51 per cent equity stake in new investments in 34 priority industries. The government now proposes to increase the automaticity to 75 per cent, and increase the list of industries. It is

China has fared better in education than India because it gets more out of less. ECONOMIC reforms matter, but the human resources that take advantage of reforms matter too. China has become the latest miracle economy in Asia, growing at

DURING a recent visit to China, I was most impressed by Ms Yang Moqiou, principal of one of Shanghai\’s top government schools. She is a member of the Communist Party, and proud of it. But don\’t expect her to repeat

COMPETITION is a marvellous thing. In virtually all fields, from sports to business, it forces people to strive, innovate and attain new heights of excellence. It is particularly important in business, since excellence here also means a better deal for

MEDHA PATKAR has not been able to stop the Sardar Sarovar dam from being built, or tribal villages from being submerged. But her dogged agitation has led to Japan and the World Bank withdrawing from financing the dam. Indeed, she

Are Indian brand names, technologies and designs going to be crushed by economic liberalisation? Will Indian companies become appendages of global giants? So far, we have striven to develop our own technologies and brand names. For decades we \’sneeped at

SOME people ask me why, at a time when there are doubts whether the Prime Minister and h is economic policies will survive, I devoted last week\’s Swaminomics to Karl Marx. One reason is that I have little new to

TEN years ago, the finest brains in the world debated Karl Marx\’s ideas on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary. It is now his 175th birth anniversary, but he ignored as a 19th century fossil. With the collapse of

TEN years ago, the finest brains in the world debated Karl Marx\’s ideas on the occasion of his 19th death anniversary. It is now his 175th birth anniversary, but he ignored as a 19th century fossil. With the collapse of