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Overview

The Last Slot Game

PC puts a candy in every hand. Is it a shallow diet for India?

Mar 10, 2008

| Sunit Arora
Opinion

That Fine Balance

The economics of political credibility is the tone of the budget

Mar 10, 2008

| Ashima Goyal
corporate reaction

India Inclusive? So Be It

Corporate honchos tend to see opportunities missed, but the positi ves grow on them

Mar 10, 2008

| Arindam Mukherjee Nivedita Mukherjee
- We, The Forgotten
- Snakes & Ladders
Opinion

Farm Fresh Eggs

Here are seeds of an agricultural revival. Plough the fields well.

Mar 10, 2008

| M.S. Swaminathan
Opinion

Money Is Just Paper

Cosmetic welfarism will do little to ease rural distress

Mar 10, 2008

| N.C. Saxena
personal finance

Budget & You

Will you as taxpayer or consumer pay for the FM's largesse? No.

Mar 10, 2008

| Monika Halan
taxes

Feels Like A Million Bucks

Higher thresholds and slabs will keep the middle class happy. Seniors, it's your year.

Mar 10, 2008

| Swami Saran Sharma
- You Can't Be Cut Up
opinion

Owed To The People

Certainly progress in tax reform, in line with BRIC nations

Mar 10, 2008

| Viren H. Mehta
investments

One More To Bingo

The investor can breathe easy. The election season budget pops no big irritants for him.

Mar 10, 2008

| Udayan Ray
- The Budget and Your Investments
Opinion

Happy Tithe Cometh

Pushing incomes to higher brackets, the budget pleases a wide swathe

Mar 10, 2008

| Nilesh Shah
Opinion

Law Of The Jingle

With the revised tax slabs, it's an enriching experience

Mar 10, 2008

| Ranjeet S. Mudholkar
consumer goods

The Choice Is Yours

The days of the state manipulating consumer behaviour are over

Mar 10, 2008

| Abhijit Mitra Urmila Rao
opinion

Slalom Down The Hill

The slope careens dangerously from here. PC didn't see it coming.

Mar 10, 2008

| Prem Shankar Jha

army: scams

Ask No Questions

A Command chief is booted for cracking down on corruption

Mar 10, 2008

| Saikat Datta

US-India: arms sales

Partly Loaded

How about snacks...while the N-deal cooks

Mar 10, 2008

| Seema Sirohi
pakistan: new government

Ghost At The Banquet

The delay in government formation is mired in complex issues of coalition politics

Mar 10, 2008

| Mariana Baabar
Opinion

The Confucian Lesson

Why China sees the Arunachal negotiation as a deal gone sour

Mar 10, 2008

| Prem Shankar Jha

spotlight: vapi

A City On The Styx

The factory waste is choking the life out of Vapi. Worse disasters seem impending.

Mar 10, 2008

| Shuchi Srivastava
tamil nadu: society

Party Politics

How large is your cutout? TN leaders believe their own hype on birthdays.

Mar 10, 2008

| Pushpa Iyengar
policy: heritage

Enter The Neopolis

Heritage needn't be age-old, it could be new architecture, says the culture ministry

Mar 10, 2008

| Anuradha Raman
terrorism: deoband

The Peace Edict

Terror is sin, says Deoband. And that includes state terror.

Mar 10, 2008

| Saba Naqvi
tradition: camel corps

Dune Troopers

Star of every R-Day parade, the grime of toil crowns BSF's camel contingent on border duty

Mar 10, 2008

| Shruti Ravindran

profile

No Slips In Place

A subtler M.S. Dhoni lays siege to the castle offering cricketing glory

Mar 10, 2008

| Rohit Mahajan
- 'Sledging Is An Art'

Review

Gobbledygook

Why do corporate types assume the tedious details of selling confectionery or detergent are as deeply fascinating to readers as it is to them?

Mar 10, 2008

| Hari Menon
Review

Li'l Charmers

Such is the dexterity with which Basu writes that the 12 separate stories meld together to become a book of evocation.

Mar 10, 2008

| Anita Nair
Review

Chapter, Verse & Watercolour

One with pictures, the other with conversations, two Dilliwalis map the changed and changing face of Delhi

Mar 10, 2008

| Narayani Gupta

Ten Questions

Aparna Sen

On her next film The Japanese Wife, based on a short story by Kunal Basu

Mar 10, 2008

| Arnab Banerjee
film: Jodhaa akbar

Modern History

A politically correct Bollywood historical that raises issues relevant to our times

Mar 10, 2008

| Namrata Joshi

Delhi Diary

The Rape of Cricket

Mar 10, 2008

| Vinod Mehta

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

Gossip

Bibliofile

Nair Say Never, Fests Are Forever and why Qurratulain Hyder was luckier than Ghalib...

Mar 10, 2008

|
Column

Bull's Eye

For half a century, China has bullied India. To respond gainfully to China, what is required is a counterpunch.

Mar 10, 2008

| Rajinder Puri
Mumbai Restaurant

Thank you, Ashaben

If Mumbai equals Manhattan, Swati is probably its equivalent of a Jewish deli restaurant

Mar 10, 2008

| Anvar Alikhan
Movie Review

There Will Be Blood

Presenting what would possibly be one of the best examples of method acting in recent times...

Mar 10, 2008

| Namrata Joshi