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The missing spirit of enquiry

SWOT

Short-circuiting reforms

Real versus financial resources

Hindsight is more accurate than foresight, but essentially worthless

Outsourcing - The economic inevitability

Threat to BPO is likely from competing countries than US legislation

'The securities market is close to maturity'

Q&A/ G N Bajpai

Stock options vs stock grants

THE HUMAN FACTOR

The three new M's of urban cool

AL FRESCO

US and us

Indian stockmarket is closely linked to the US markets

The commodity crunch

MY WORD!

Wooing the electorate

BEATING THE STREET

The master negotiator

Winning a LS election is topmost on Pranab Mukherjee's political agenda

Bikaner da puttar

PEOPLE LIKE US

How to improve school education

Appoint school masters as education ministers and import textbooks

Before the taps run dry

SBI, IDFC and autonomy

Power hunger of neta-babus makes governments insecure about autonomy

The final frontier - once more

Committee on civil service reforms must design a machinery in tune with the times

A rising rupee

The real trouble with the IIMs

Vinod Rai: The calm beneath the storm

BACKSTAGE

The American way of life

RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS