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A Veteran’s Debut
Akshay Sawai
In Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls, Sanath Jayasuriya is the star candidate of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party while his former captain Arjuna Ranatunga is batting for General Fonseka.
Racist Recruit
Rajinder Singh is a retired school teacher who migrated to the UK in 1967 and ironically started supporting a party that demanded the forcible repatriation of all non-Europeans. Now, he is about to go down in history as the first non-White mascot of the British National Party.
At Last, a Credible Deterrent
With the successful test launch of Agni-V, India will acquire its first credible nuclear deterrent.
India This Week
BJP’s Politics Takes on Deeper Saffron Hue; Highway to Trouble; The Farce Called Rehabilitation; Spare Shibli College the Politics
In Praise of Polygamy
Unlike with choosing life partners, it’s best your money has many mates. Consorting with just that one asset class is pure idiocy.
A Fine Balance
Typical investor behaviour is at the two extremes of either doing nothing or trying too much. And it’s hard to avoid these extremes unless you know what constitutes just enough. A primer
Go, Get a Map!
Ad hoc investing is like travelling blind. You will still get somewhere, just not where you intended.
The Gravy Train Has Left the Station
Save yourself the last-minute scramble. There isn’t much joy left in tax-saving investments any more.
The Boys of Summer
What makes everyday terror, exemplified in the Pune blast, so much harder to fight? What makes an articulate, Anglicised software programmer turn into an Islamist radical? Questions with no easy answers.
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