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The incompetent authorities

Shovon Chowdhury illuminates how the ineptitude of the Indian state borders on the ridiculous

Mihir S Sharma: Exchange-rate optimism

Thanks to rupee depreciation, India has a chance to fundamentally rework its stifled manufacturing sector

Two defences

A pointless panic

Regardless of what you're told, this is not a 'home-grown crisis' - it is a pan-emerging market problem

6 questions you really wanted answered about today's bloodbath in the markets

Reasons for the bloodbath in the markets and how it affects you

Debating Modi

Modi does not want a debate to increase his stature; he wants one because he hasn't the slightest idea how wrong he is about half the things he says. Surely his political opponents would want to explo

5 ways Raghuram Rajan could save the Indian economy

And the 3 ways he could kill it

'Republic of Sentiments' holds governance to ransom

Bhagwati versus Sen: What's going on?

7 things you should know in the Bhagwati vs Sen slugfest

Shipping Theseus

Ship of Theseus is an extraordinary departure from anything else Mumbai has made

There is nothing to panic about growth: Amartya Sen

Interview with Economist and Nobel laureate

BJP's time machine

Amit Shah declared the party would build a 'grand temple' in Ayodhya. The gazillion new voters born after December 6, 1992, Googled 'Ayodhya temple' and decided that the BJP is the party of the future

Thank God for the UPA

The government induces so much righteous anger that India's deeper structural problems go unexamined

No Stars

The Sen syndrome

Beyond the buzzwords

Narendra Modi isn't quite the reformer his advocates try to sell him as being

The Babu Raj

Trading charges

A failure to sign the India-EU free-trade agreement soon will be a final betrayal of the principles of 1991

Not so frank after all

China makes things, we mine things. They lend us money, we buy the things they dump on us. Complementary indeed, and not something the Chinese will change out of the goodness of their hearts

The Great and Reluctant Adaptations

The Great Gatsby and The Reluctant Fundamentalist are two attempts to make moralising novels into spectacular movies. The author on why the first succeeds and the other fails