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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: India - The new global favourite?
A recent Unctad listing and a new profitability index bring into sharp focus India's improved performance on the foreign investment front in the last few years
A K Bhattacharya: How fit is India's food regulator?
Recent data on the FSSAI show its commendable performance. But there is an urgent need to address certain issues related to the way it functions and its infrastructure
A K Bhattacharya: How little things have changed
Why should the finance ministry issue circulars on refreshment budgets for ministries? It would perhaps be more gainfully employed if it were to just allocate each of the central ministries a hospital
A K Bhattacharya: Why Modi must keep the Opposition closer
Despite its impressive list of policy initiatives in the first year, the Modi government's performance has failed to make a positive impact because it underestimated the importance of managing the Opp
A K Bhattacharya: A new challenge from committees
BJP leaders should ask if they failed to have their say in the deliberations of the parliamentary committees, whose reports have criticised many govt policies
A K Bhattacharya: A mix of old and new
The NITI Aayog will surely continue to both formulate plans and engage with the states
A K Bhattacharya: The finance ministry's magic act
Squeezing spending or ramping up revenue collections hugely in the last month of the financial year does not suggest a fiscally prudent path for any government
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy: A pale shadow
While exploiting the popularity of the Byomkesh Bakshi films made earlier by Satyajit Ray and Anjan Dutt, Dibakar Banerjee takes a gamble by trying to recreate the main character
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A K Bhattacharya: Some standout governance
In sharp contrast to the UPA govt in its final months, the Bharatiya Janata Party top leadership has performed well to overcome the legislative logjam
Life lessons from the Mahabharata
The last two volumes of Bibek Debroy's 10-volume translation of the Mahabharata show how the story equips you to come to terms with life
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A K Bhattacharya: Playing with numbers
The CSO's economic growth numbers are based on value addition and they now capture value addition in a more comprehensive way
A K Bhattacharya: Managing the 'state' of affairs
The Centre must ensure that its vision of cooperative federalism does not result in a rapid rise in social and economic inequality among states