As calls to privatise India’s ‘national carrier’ reach a crescendo, spare a moment to pay some attention to the not-so-obvious economic implications of such a move
17 May 2012Not quite. Which explains both the strength and weakness of this ‘economic travelogue’ that tries to spot tomorrow’s winners
06 May 2012A government panel is keen on yanking people off their mobikes and out of their cars, and stuffing them instead into buses and metro tubes
15 April 2012India’s GDP is set to hit a big round figure of Rs 1 crore crore this new financial year. Here’s hoping it evokes reflection, not triumphalism
25 March 2012Keynes’ big idea was inspired by Indian attitudes towards money. Yet, as India Inc behaves stingy and the economy turns weak, it is dangerous to apply his policies blindly
18 March 2012How did the West suddenly get so much richer than the East about 350 years ago? Another book on business history, another explanation
16 March 2012Why did Honda’s car sales slide last year? Was it misfortune? Or did rivals get the better of it? Judge from its market moves
02 March 2012The rumour that Ratan Tata’s half brother Noel might head Tata Starbucks’ cafe venture has a truly compelling appeal
04 February 2012An engaging book by a Nobel laureate that could leave the discerning reader even more so
01 February 2012Vodafone has scored a legal victory over India’s tax authorities, but what’s worth asking is this: why do ‘capital gains’ bear a lighter tax burden than your salary?
26 January 2012CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
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Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm