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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: Delayed reaction
The bigger crisis that faces the economy today is not so much about its macro-economic numbers, but the government's failure to act
A K Bhattacharya: UPA without Pranab
UPA's new managers are beginning to realise that running the alliance without Pranab Mukherjee may not be very difficult
A K Bhattacharya: The rise of 'animal spirits'
Experts arguing for policy change and a proactive FM transformed UPA
A K Bhattacharya: Getting captive mining wrong
If Coal India failed to meet coal demand & privatisation of coal industry was not an option, why did nobody think of setting up another state-owned company?
A K Bhattacharya: UPA - Waiting to inhale
Instead of perennially waiting for the right time to implement grand policy ideas, the government must take small remedial steps
A K Bhattacharya: Are these reforms?
To describe the diesel price increase or disinvestment of government equity in PSUs as reform is to misunderstand the idea of reform
A K Bhattacharya: Civil servants as policy signal
By shifting Mr Gujral out of the revenue dept, new FinMin sends out a clear signal that a new era in govt's approach to tax policy is to begin
High five
The fifth volume of Bibek Debroy's translation of The Mahabharata covers the heart of the epic but it's a sub-plot that carries the most thought-provoking message
A K Bhattacharya: Whose money is it, anyway?
Corporate donations to political parties are to be welcomed only if they are subject to full disclosure
A K Bhattacharya: Falling between two stools
Beni Prasad Verma is wrong. Food inflation hurts more than 70% of Indian farmers
A K Bhattacharya: Air India's political baggage
State ownership of the national carrier has undermined the commercial principles that should drive its operation
A K Bhattacharya: Dr Singh takes charge
It may not have been just caution that triggered the PMO's clarification on the draft GAAR last Friday
A K Bhattacharya: A matter of contract
The government should lose no time in enforcing a contract among all stakeholders in PPP-based mega transport projects
A K Bhattacharya: The 'Vivekananda formula'
The government should create a new, more powerful service to contain the growing dominance of the IAS
A K Bhattacharya: A tale of two Metros
The Bangalore and Delhi experiences have lessons to offer metro projects in other Indian cities
A K Bhattacharya: Why metros go off-track
The Railways has proved an obstructive regulator
A K Bhattacharya: Signs of a new order
There appears to be closer interaction among senior officials of the PMO and the finance ministry
A K Bhattacharya: UPA gets another shot
Will Pranab Mukherjee's candidature for the presidential post change the way in which the PM and his office function?
A K Bhattacharya: A tale of two terms
How will Pranab Mukherjee be remembered as a finance minister? Be it 1982-84 or 2009-12
A K Bhattacharya: UPA's anniversary issues
A crucial week for UPA-II, as the market waits for a decision on oil prices