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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
- Snakes & Ladders
- We, The Forgotten
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

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'

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