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Street Food: When the prime minister fires you

Something more interesting saved everyone from the self-indulgent nostalgia

Street Food: Ties of a 100 years

There are not many public accounts of the ties between the families in subsequent years

T N C Rajagopalan::Demonetisation cloud on export growth

Short-term disruption due to demonetisation can hurt productivity and export growth in the next few months

T N C Rajagopalan: Donald Trump impact on trade deals

Shinzo Abe, prime minister of Japan, warned that the TPP would be meaningless without US participation

Mitali Saran: Demonetisation PTSD

I dimly remember the days when my money was mine

J Jagannath: Horror of horrors

Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow is a supremely scary movie set in the 1980s when the Iran-Iraq war was at its raging best

Alok Chandra: South African safari

Few people know that South African wines are today the fourth-largest selling overseas wines in India after Australian, French and Italian wines

Indrajit Gupta: No endgame in sight

Having served as chairman for four years-and a director at Tata Sons for a decade - Cyrus Mistry is a quintessential insider

Popularity contest

App-based survey on demonetisation wasn't a good idea

Don't cut corners

Use the current delay to remove imperfections in GST

Demonetisation: What UPI can learn from Paytm to become WhatsApp for payments

The mobile platform for real-time transfer of money could do with better positioning and user experience

Demonetisation hits the status of rupee as a storehouse of value

The fear of appropriation by the government could force savers to move away from rupee to gold, real estate and dollar assets

A question of independence

Tatas should have treated independent directors better

Ashish Sharma: Ancient internet

GooGoo is a popular search engine today, but many do not know that it has been in business since 1880

Itu Chaudhuri:The currency of design

Currency note must be durable and easy to handle especially by ATMs, says DOPE

Kishore Singh: Hindi Chini bhai bhai

China is the world's art powerhouse but Chinese interest in Indian art has been negligible so far

Jacob Bernstein: Coppola revisits a classic

For me, the memory of The Godfather brings great unhappiness, says Francis Ford Coppola

Vikram Johri: Lessons from a scandal

This is the first time in recent memory that a group of the Tatas's stature is in the middle of an ethical storm

MSP of pulses should be realistically fixed if Centre wants to double farmer's income

Centre declared MSP of Rs 4,000 per quintal or Rs 40 per kg for chana in the 2016-17 crop

Demonetisation: Can India go cashless?

There may still be some time before India is ready to do a large part of its transactions in plastic money; demonetisation seems to ignore that