T N Ninan
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T N Ninan
TN Ninan is a former editor and chairman of Business Standard and has held several influential positions in journalism and media.
TN Ninan is a former editor and chairman of Business Standard and has held several influential positions in journalism and media.
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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?
T N Ninan: The arbitrary state
We now have a state that creates new rules as it finds convenient, and then enforces them as arbitrarily as it wishes
