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‘We will use every provision in the Constitution to push reforms’

PR Ramesh

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley spoke to Open’s Managing Editor PR Ramesh and shared his ideas on reviving the Indian economy. Edited excerpts:

As India’s tiger economy stirs again

Aresh Shirali

A revival hinges on how Arun Jaitley addresses the Centre’s fiscal deficit

The inheritance of ruins

PR Ramesh

After ten years of the UPA regime’s fiscal recklessness and figure fudging, Arun Jaitley has his task cut out for him: take the economy to the next level of growth

The Rail Minister’s Target Audience

Jatin Gandhi

Clearly, Pawan Kumar Bansal will not jeopardise his political career for the Indian Railways

Rs 1 crore crore: a Lever Long Enough?

Aresh Shirali

India’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

To the Poor with Love

Shailendra Tyagi

The Government gets serious about subsidies in the form of direct cash transfers to the needy

Almost every big-budget movie is losing money in Bollywood. And yet, even if a small-budget movie makes thrice its cost, the industry does not count it as a blockbuster. Welcome to the warped economics of la-la-land