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: The cost of caprice
How much damage has been done internationally to the country's standing and goodwill, because Mr Raja was allowed to get away with his antics while the prime minister and finance minister fiddled?
T N Ninan: Saving Mumbai
What Mumbai needs as a starting point is a city administration that is accountable to the city's residents, and a directly elected mayor, as in all great cities of the world
T N Ninan: A fully taxed nation
India's tax-to-GDP ratio is higher than other Asian countries
T N Ninan: Made to IAS order
The time has come to take a hard look at how the experiment with 'independent' market regulators has worked
T N Ninan: Success story, not crisis
Agricultural growth has been about 3% - short of the target of 4%, but close to double the current population growth rate
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
T N Ninan: Welcome the fall
The rupee needed to fall, because there was no way to narrow the massive trade deficit other than by changing currency-induced price signals for importers and exporters
T N Ninan: The view, outside in
China's ascendancy has reached a point where India will have to play a delicate game of exercising autonomy in its pursuit of national objectives without provoking conflict
T N Ninan: Limits of arbitrariness
The exercise of sovereign power is limited only by what you can get away with
T N Ninan: 'Change is possible'
At the launch of the new edition of a festschrift in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh¿s honour, T N Ninan asserted that reform is possible despite dissonant politics - the key lies in ¿small doses¿
T N Ninan: So what's new?
Nothing that Lindstrom says now is new, yet there is much simulated anger on all sides
T N Ninan: Not the remembered country
The food security Bill's focus ignores changes in agriculture and eating habits
T N Ninan: Boo's 'under-city'
What do we learn from Annawadi, the Mumbai slum, about the face of the Indian state that the poor see, and how the poor try to game a corrupt system?
T N Ninan: Penance time
The time has come for the govt to make up for its sins of the past three years. The Budget must be judged on whether it shows that the govt is in the mood to recognise its follies, and in a position to undo the damage
T N Ninan: Parliamentary chutzpah
Not for the first time, voluble critics have condemned the poverty line as divorced from reality. The govt's redefinition is a good thing, but the danger is it won't go far enough
T N Ninan: Make-believe solutions
The government has to deliver solutions that work, not indulge in action for the sake of demonstrating lack of paralysis
T N Ninan: Why growth falters
It would be useful to look at the factors that could help or hinder growth, and figure out how to deal with them