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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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A K Bhattacharya: Bihar and beyond
It is a fact that the BJP lost the Bihar Assembly polls mainly because it failed to forge a winnable alliance - something which it had in 2005 and in 2010
A K Bhattacharya: Fiscal gains no reason to celebrate yet
The challenge of achieving fiscal deficit targets for the next two years seems daunting
A K Bhattacharya: Making Indian Railways more competitive
It must opt for a dynamic fare-fixing system and improve its management and marketing techniques
A K Bhattacharya: Winds of change
The NDA government has ushered in two big changes. The first relates to the manner of appointing key bureaucrats in important central ministries and the second relates to the accountability of top civ
A K Bhattacharya: An 80 per cent drop
The government must assess the implications of dramatic changes in India Inc's investments abroad
A K Bhattacharya: A forgotten promise?
Post the Budget, the idea of strategic disinvestment seems to have been dropped by the government
A K Bhattacharya: Structured procrastination?
The government appears wary of taking decisions that might have an adverse political reaction
A K Bhattacharya: Why Air India won't be privatised
A mutually beneficial relationship between the airline and the govt is the reason for its continued funding
A K Bhattacharya: No time for complacency
Whenever broad economic numbers look good, the political system loses the drive to reform and fix policy problems. Will it be any different this time?
Right turn for pluralism
Twenty lucidly argued essays emphasise that only a healthy culture of public discourse can counter the growing threats to India's pluralist democracy from the Hindu Right
 "Right turn for pluralism")
A K Bhattacharya: AAP's broken promises, but better governance
Kejriwal has shown once again that a political party once mandated to ensure governance cannot act the same way it did before assuming power
A K Bhattacharya: A road map for the future
The successful campaign to persuade customers of subsidised cooking gas to give up their subsidy and the introduction of Suvidha trains to scrap all fare concessions may have lessons for economic refo