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Whatever the Outcome

Mar 20th

TAX – In the old days, every time a king wanted to wage one of his “just” wars or impress the neighbouring king’s wife by building another palace, he simply took a little bit more of his peasants’ grain, land, cattle or women.

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India’s tryst with NRIs

Mar 13th

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We Indians have a peculiar relationship with our NRI cousins. Sometimes we laugh with The Kumars at No 42, sometimes we laugh at them.
Yes, once we loved and lauded NRI achievers, particularly those who wrote withering novels about their identity crises, and those who achieved fame in glamourous fields like fashion, entertainment and sport. The More >

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India’s Rainy Day

Dec 13th

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The Greeks define tragedy as watching something terrible happen and not being able to do anything about it. But what’s the word for watching something terrible happen and not being interested in doing anything about it?
India’s economy has been wobbling for months.
Industrial production shrank 5.1% in October. The rupee has fallen 16% since September. Inflation More >

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The Coming Crisis

Nov 15th

Posted by Jehangir Pocha in Business

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India seems fatally disinterested in the unfolding global financial crisis.
Even as Europe totters and America seethes, Indian pundits and politicians are infected with an infallible faith in India’s GDP growth. Never mind that it is falling, as is the rupee. Those high on the belief that India’s sheer need for more infrastructure, consumer goods and More >

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