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T N Ninan
T N Ninan
T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard.
T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard.
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T N Ninan: Low risk, low return
The low-risk approach to economic issues and reform will therefore remain one that seeks to bring change without pain, create winners without having losers
T N Ninan: Modi's ministers
Apart from a handful of ministers, rest of the cabinet ministers seem steeped in a stasis
T N Ninan: Clean up, or fudge?
RBI governor has forced the banks to start cleaning up their books, but there is still more dirt under the carpet
T N Ninan: Rhetoric and reality
Mr Modi has not admonished members of his team who have stepped out of line with the promptness or conviction that he has moved on other issues
T N Ninan: Look beyond GDP
While raising a cheer on account of faster growth, the govt should be conscious that much more needs to be done on a broader front
T N Ninan: Garments...at last!
After more than a decade of lost opportunities in the textile and garments business, the sector has at last got the attention it needs and deserves.
T N Ninan: Oh, for a crisis!
Prime Minister Modi seems to have turned his face away from the business of introducing serious reform
T N Ninan: Re-inventing the Congress
The party's response to what has become an existential crisis seems to be to turn to Priyanka Gandhi-as though the solution to dynastic incompetence is more dynasty, not less
T N Ninan: The urge to control
It is a pity that the Modi government's initial reformist impulses have given way to interventionist ones
T N Ninan: Bofors redux?
Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute
T N Ninan: Cheerful ads
Government ads often present a picture that has been put together by using selectively highlighted claims
T N Ninan: Ready for a slowdown?
The unhappy truth is that we may be worse off at the end of 2015 than at the start
T N Ninan: Now corporate paralysis?
Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment
T N Ninan: India's Cinderella syndrome
Kejriwal's last-minute desperation to clear Delhi's air before people choke to death shows India's tendency to not act until the last minute
T N Ninan: The sun gets brighter
It is possible that an important stress-point for the economy - oil prices - has become less of a risk than at any other time since 1970
T N Ninan: Narendra Modi's eighteen months
While it is reasonable to expect that the over-all tempo will pick up in 2016, not enough "structural and institutional" change-claimed by Mr Modi-is on display to justify the boast of a "take-off sta
T N Ninan: The tax puzzle
If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump up
T N Ninan: A conference in Harare
India was to hand over NAM chairmanship to Zimbabwe, which had gained independence a few years earlier
T N Ninan: Mr Modi and Dr Singh
There must be a way of combining sensible policy, based on a certain worldview and an agenda, with a bias for action