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There is a pronounced tendency to centralise now… Centralisation will not take the country forward, either socially or economically, he said

Pillai tells that the CCI could have done more to curb concentration, and social protection should have featured more prominently in the reforms

West Bengal finance minister calls for respecting relative differences of eastern states but acknowledging their commonality

Speciality Restaurants founder Anjan Chatterjee talks about his entrepreneurial journey, changing dining habits, food safety and his ambition to take Bengali cuisine global

Shankar Acharya says that structural constraints need to be addressed for India to become an advanced economy by 2047

Business leaders and economists called for competitive incentives, easier land acquisition and stronger industrial ecosystems to attract investment and help MSMEs scale up

Power sector reform, he reckoned, was a "low-hanging fruit", with an "Open Access" policy under consideration to help lower electricity prices in the state

A military strike is mistaken for strategy, even when no one has planned what comes next

India's retail sector has evolved from neighbourhood kiranas to organised retail, ecommerce and quick commerce, driven by liberalisation, technology and changing consumer habits

Numbers, brands and ideas may all signal progress, but it's systems, these pieces tell us, that actually decide the durability of progress

That swing has been made possible by a shift in forex management policy that was forged in the fire of the balance-of-payments crisis of 1991

As these pieces tell us, stability will not come from stockpiles, settlements, symbolic defences or inherited structures alone. It will come from the capacity to adapt when old buffers no longer hold

Nayyar speaks about the vulnerabilities in India's reform journey and what needs to be done to realise its demographic dividend and avoid the middle-income trap

Punjab and Maharashtra, among the top 5 states at the dawn of reforms, have since moved down the order

P Chidambaram recalls how Rao and Manmohan Singh shaped the 1991 reforms and argues India now needs greater competition, openness and a revived WTO

Family-owned companies accounted for 72 per cent of the combined revenues of listed firms in FY26, up from 50 per cent in FY01

Power needs limits, markets need protection, development needs ecological restraint, capital narratives need scrutiny, and technology needs human oversight

In the concluding part, Business Standard examines how listed Tata companies will fund expansion

Institutions build trust, these pieces show, not by doing more, but by making their actions add up

Three decades after liberalisation, telecom has evolved from a scarce state-run utility into the backbone of India's digital economy