My recent visit to New Delhi coincided with the annual NCAER-Brookings India Policy Forum conference, now in its ninth year. In addition to the usual working sessions, the conference each year features a public lecture before an invited audience. This year the speaker was Dr Y V Reddy, formerly governor of the Reserve Bank of India and now at the University of Hyderabad. His topic was &ldquo;India: New Strategies for Economic Development&rdquo;.

Suman Bery: Navigating choppy waters

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As this column appears in print, the so-called &ldquo;make or break&rdquo; summit of European Union leaders (the European Council) will be entering its second day in Brussels.&nbsp;Past meetings have typically not met the exaggerated expectations that preceded them; this time is unlikely to be different. The key document to be discussed is a paper produced by the President of the Council, Herman Van Rompuy.

Suman Bery: The IMF and the euro

The English Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm is revered by generations of students for his masterful trilogy on England&rsquo;s economic and social history in the &ldquo;long nineteenth century&rdquo;. The books describe how capitalism first became firmly entrenched in Europe and was then exported to the rest of the world. They go by the titles The Age of Revolution (which covers the period 1789-1848), The Age of Capital (1848-1875) and The Age of Empire (1875-1914).

Suman Bery: The energy balance

Last month marked a new beginning for this column, as a commentary primarily focused on India&rsquo;s progress in an increasingly chaotic international order (&ldquo;At home abroad&rdquo;, March 13). I argued there that, despite its pressing short-term domestic preoccupations, India&rsquo;s long-run prospects depend crucially on the global economic order evolving in a benign direction, something that can no longer be taken for granted.

Suman Bery: BRICS and mortar

For my entire time in the United States, from 1970 till 2000, Anthony Lewis was a columnist for The New York Times, and was a proud emblem of East Coast liberal thinking. At the beginning of the period, he was the Times&rsquo; bureau chief in London; while there, he titled his column &ldquo;At home abroad&rdquo;.

Suman Bery: At home abroad

India&rsquo;s quick recovery from the post-Lehman slump of late 2008 is usually attributed to the relatively low global exposure of the country&rsquo;s economy. On the basis of subsequent research and analysis, this is an incomplete and perhaps misleading interpretation of what actually happened.

Suman Bery