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| T N Ninan: Think the future |
21-NOV-09 |
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The time may have come for India to stop thinking of five-year plans, and to focus instead on 10- and 20-year scenarios. |
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| Ashok K Lahiri: Has China moved to the centre? |
21-NOV-09 |
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A rising China has not only inched closer to the US, it has also developed backward linkages - through the ‘disassembly line’ - with a host of other countries, including developed ones. |
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| Sunanda K Datta-Ray: It's payback time |
21-NOV-09 |
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Londoners were regaled recently with the spectacle of their former deputy mayor cleaning out a public lavatory wearing a bright fluorescent orange jacket emblazoned with the words “Community Payback”. |
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| Arvind Singhal: A silent revolution in the making |
19-NOV-09 |
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As India goes through an extraordinary demographic shift in an environment which is also seeing an extraordinary economic change, there are many interesting implications for the country and society and, of course, businesses and would-be-entrepreneurs. |
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| Nitin Desai: A new global oligarchy |
19-NOV-09 |
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At the Pittsburgh Summit on September 24-25, 2009, the leaders determined that the G-20 will replace the G-8 as the “permanent council for international economic cooperation”. |
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| Barun Roy: For Tagore's sake |
19-NOV-09 |
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I don’t wish to get into the question of who’s right and who’s wrong, but the recent turmoil at Visva-Bharati, in Santiniketan, West Bengal, is highly disturbing and it diminishes its sanctity as an institution founded by Rabindranath Tagore. |
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| K Subrahmanyam: Partnering with the US: Yes we can! |
18-NOV-09 |
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A large number of commentators on Indo-US relations seem to think that when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President Barack Obama next week in Washington DC, the latter will not be able to match his predecessor George Bush’s enthusiasm for India. |
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| Surinder Sud: Zeroing in on tillage |
17-NOV-09 |
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The specialised zero-tillage seed drill, which could sow seeds in fields without ploughing it, was introduced by the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Pakistan much before it was brought into India. |
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| Ajai Shukla: No thanks, you're blacklisted! |
17-NOV-09 |
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Over this last decade, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has “blacklisted” so many foreign arms corporations that the military’s modernisation plan has virtually stalled. |
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