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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
 "The Great and Reluctant Adaptations")
The argumentative economists
The new book by the prolific pair of Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya puts the word debunking in its subtitle and doesn't look back
Once was king
Into his tenth year, Manmohan Singh is struggling to retrieve his legacy - thanks to bad luck, a bad situation and at least two very bad calls
 "Once was king")
The wrong song
Truthfully, if anything is a real national symbol, it is Parliament, representing in its diversity, ours; and in its debate, constitutional liberalism. Barq should not be asked to prove his loyalty to
Damned if you do
If the PM had just chosen to behave as if there wasn't anything wrong or manipulable about existing systems, he wouldn't have been in such trouble today
Tales of two riots
Of all the many arguments in Indian politics that are stupid, hypocritical and wrong - and there are many - the one exculpating Modi because of 1984 is the most dangerous
Two scary steps forward
The technological innovations that are going to disempower business and government - and for which they are unprepared
 "Two scary steps forward")
Lunch with BS: Surjit Bhalla
The angry optimist
 "Lunch with BS: Surjit Bhalla")
Monumental blindness
In New Delhi's squat, ugly colonies stand the graceful tombs of forgotten courtiers; and our rulers stalk the halls that Lutyens built
A less perfect Union
New Delhi is unprepared for new power of regional leaders, and challenges to 'apolitical' decisions on transfers to states or foreign policy
 "A less perfect Union")
Modi's real missing speech
What sets Modi apart from the BJP's other successful CMs is that a whiff of the smoke of 2002 still clings to his clothing
Mihir S Sharma: PC's no upgrade
Where the UPA tolerates inefficiency, Chidambaram seeks effectiveness
 "Banter-free Budget")
Mihir S Sharma: The China mimics
Indian companies and New Delhi's policy elite seem to imagine no other way to engage the world than Beijing's ruthless amorality
Mihir S Sharma: The patrons of Jaipur
There's something to be deduced from how JLF, India's most visible globalised cultural event, has weathered the storms that have buffeted this country's economy
Mihir S Sharma: SRK, HM
That is not the sort of country many of us are happy to live in but we never gave another sort of country a chance
Mihir S Sharma: Peacemakers' courage
Recent achievements towards interdependence with Pakistan are too significant to be abandoned because of moments of public outrage
