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T N Ninan: The 'Ugly Indian'?

Companies get into all manner of scrapes in the crony-capitalist business environment at home, but continue doing business, whereas the consequences in another country are quite different

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: Who next?

If Mr Gandhi opts out, and if Manmohan Singh is considered too old to continue, it is increasingly obvious that the Congress candidate will have to be Chidambaram

T N Ninan: The vital signs

The twin deficits and inflation level are stubbornly high despite the government's ministrations

T N Ninan: What about depositors?

It is time the deposit side of the equation got some attention when debating whether to drop lending rates

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: Needed - 'Club Fed'

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: 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