Ramblings Of An Upper-Class, Upper-Caste, Middle-Aged Mind

This column takes a break from this site along with its author who is moving to another organization. Before...

A Warm Winter Ahead

What goes up but doesn't come down? Well, prices of course. But there is no discernible lack of buyers. ...

Small Change

High rates, extortionary practices are the reality. But the big fish are moving into microfinance.

Catch Me If You Can

Consumers are ecstatic, the FM is beaming, the economy is soaring. So, what can spoil it all?

Is The Congress Nuts?

Can you believe it? Can you really, really believe it? The Congress has actually dug up and dusted out its...

Ain't Broke? Fix It!

Is a shackled rupee politically correct and economically incorrect?

Party Time Over

Instead of counting the number of Bills passed and growth records busted in the ten quarters that the UPA has...

Asit K. Biswas

The World Water Prize laureate has fostered a rethink on water resource management

All Wired, No Place To Go

The Hole In The Bucket

The issue is not the leak of the finance minister's letter to the planning commission deputy chairman. It is...

A Sip Of Healthy Scepticism

I doubt, therefore I am an aware customer. I fight with Delhi Jal Board officials on water quality. I also...

The Last Statistic: 127th In 177

Rabindranath Tagore was right: darkness usually intensifies under the lamp

Best Of Times, Worst Of Times

Two important reports confirm excellent growth prospects but there are warning signals beeping loud and...

No, It's Not As Dead As Doha

Emerging nations gaining voice means the US has to yield a bit. The trade talks are still alive.

M.S. Swaminathan

The grandpere of modern Indian agriculture and chairman of National Commission of Farmers was honoured with...

Save More Borrow Less

That's the mantra the RBI and the Fin Min are chanting as they don't want us to shop till we drop, freaking...

A Promise Belied

Is the suspension of divestments the beginning of the end of reforms?

Growing Up With AIDS

Next time you hear a cricketing icon exhort us all to freely talk about Hetch High Wee, perhaps it is time to...

The Plough Has No Share

Tomatoes Of Wrath

Wheat, rice, pulses, veggies, petrol, diesel, home loans are all up. Inflation will stay a while.