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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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Imperial vision
A well-researched and entertaining account of the creation of India?s capital is enhanced by exquisite sketches
A K Bhattacharya: Get the diagnosis right
It is unfair on the part of the govt to just blame a slowing economy for its tax revenue shortfall
A K Bhattacharya: Regulating the regulators
Nominating two ministry bureaucrats on the RBI board could give credence to the govt's penchant for playing Big Brother
A K Bhattacharya: The Budget week of March
The week beginning March 12 will unveil, one-by-one, new information and data that will have a bearing on Budget
A K Bhattacharya: PMO and the PM
There is doubt whether the rise of the Prime Minister's Office has also meant the rise of the prime minister
A K Bhattacharya: Public sector's unsung hero
M S Gujral, who died on May 4, showed that it is possible to overcome political interference and set new standards of efficiency in public sector
A K Bhattacharya: The rise of the taxman
Tax depts in finance ministry continue to enjoy a new-found power, aided by the support of the finance minister and his office
The business of governance
Finance ministers love to quote from Arthashastra in their budget speeches to justify their tax proposals. But this accessible translation of the ancient treatise shows that they haven¿t quite got the complexities of Kautilya¿s message
A K Bhattacharya: UPA's anniversary issues
A crucial week for UPA-II, as the market waits for a decision on oil prices
A K Bhattacharya: Moving away from coalitions?
Voters did not take too long to punish governments that failed to perform during five years of their tenure
A K Bhattacharya: Comptroller & Activist General?
The contention that the CAG has become more active than usual is false
A K Bhattacharya: Behind the positive surprise
A former RBI governor once said the effectiveness of the apex bank's policies often depended on how well it managed to spring positive surprises on the markets
A K Bhattacharya: The importance of being Basu
Has the experiment of appointing non-government economists worked?
A K Bhattacharya: A Budget of the eighties?
The finance minister's solutions to the growth-inflation fix may well remind us of the forgotten pre-reform era
A K Bhattacharya: Time for some pragmatism
The next 10 days will tell you whether the UPA has learnt the right lessons from its poor performance in Assembly polls
A K Bhattacharya: All the govt's people
Govt's manpower increased in the past year by 159,000, of which 62% were hired by home and finance ministries
A K Bhattacharya: Lost in transmission
In reacting with unprecedented speed to the leaked CAG report, the Prime Minister's Office may have raised many more questions
A K Bhattacharya: The decline of Davos?
India's big guns have stayed home this year. How can the WEF's annual meeting stay relevant?
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