T N Ninan
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T N Ninan
T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard, as well as former executive editor of India Today. He has been president of the Editors Guild of India, chairman of Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication, and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the B D Goenka award for excellence in journalism.
T N Ninan is former editor and chairman of Business Standard, as well as former executive editor of India Today. He has been president of the Editors Guild of India, chairman of Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication, and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the B D Goenka award for excellence in journalism.
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T N Ninan: Political penalties
When it comes to politics, there seems to be no pattern to the period that must pass before sufficient penance is considered to have been done
T N Ninan: UPA-II(a)?
Challenge before the govt is to administer the bitter medicine that is associated with structural adjustment while simultaneously boosting consumer as well as investor sentiment
T N Ninan: Kaushik had better idea
The government would be better off adopting the former chief economic advisor's stance of protecting bribe-givers as an effective way to tackle corruption
T N Ninan: What price a Lok Pal?
Does the Lok Pal offer a sensible solution? Would it, in the first instance, have provided protection to those who feel wrongly targeted?
T N Ninan: Dr Faustus's price
Not to put too fine a point on it, we are running a kleptocracy, one where the majesty of the law is used repeatedly to favour the growing tribe of crony capitalists, until a crisis erupts and all bets come off
T N Ninan: Premature celebration
It is not just in sport that wish becomes father of fact. In other fields, too, we mistake promise for achievement, and are prone to premature celebration
T N Ninan: Dead ringer
The way to save the once-dynamic mobile industry is to take a leaf out of the airline industry ¿ let excess capacity go out of the market, and allow remaining players to jack up tariffs
T N Ninan: Our feudal democracy
Parallels between feudal England five hundred years ago and contemporary India are obvious when we see that our 'nobles' today are the state satraps
T N Ninan: The corruption test
If Congress does not back its Mahaashtra CM, who is trying to clean up a very corrupt administration, it will be clinching evidence that it sees corruption as an alienable part of governance
T N Ninan: Double, or half?
To get a better statistical sense of how much Indians spend, one has to use the NSS findings and fitting them into the National Accounts numbers
T N Ninan: New FM, new taxes?
Mr Chidambaram would like to increase taxes on the rich, and favours higher taxation on luxury consumption and an inheritance tax
T N Ninan: Stretching credibility
It is hard to take at face value some of the upbeat projections that Manmohan Singh offered on Independence Day
T N Ninan: Those other airports
As in so many other infrastructure projects, a proper balance between private sector incentive and state revenue needs has not been worked out
T N Ninan: The old mindset
The decision-makers in the Indian political class are still stuck in the mental framework of the 1970s, which is when they were blooded in politics
T N Ninan: Some silver linings
To see them, we have to stop looking in the rear-view mirror at all the accumulated problems and negative trends, and focus on current trends
T N Ninan: Some silver linings - II
While it is true that a witless government that may get pensioned off before it can approve a pension Bill has brought the house down on itself, let us not make the mistake of thinking that it is all falling apart, because it isn't
T N Ninan: Should she be complaining?
The single factor that can help West Bengal is private investment, which Mamata Banerjee has driven away
T N Ninan: The 'Talwar amendment'
An important vignette about the Emergency days has come out, in a booklet written by N Vaghul to honour the memory of R K Talwar
T N Ninan: PM as FM
Does Manmohan Singh see himself as a strictly interim finance minister, or will he keep the portfolio till 2014 and take direct charge of economic management?