Page 158 - Opinion Specials

Laveesh Bhandari: The trouble with ranking India

To judge India's performance, we need to develop metrics that reflect our aspirations and priorities, not those of experts in other countries

Shyamal Majumdar: Driverless cars?

Despite leadership vacuum, state-run banks are slow in lateral recruitments

The bad bank debate

The specifics of the new plan to tackle NPAs will be interesting

Shyam Ponappa: A market structure for Digital India

In communications, if delivery is priced below the cost, the services will be unsustainable and ineffective

A V Rajwade: A banking crisis in the euro zone?

While banks are better capitalised than they were five years back, they could face a shortage of capital, and many have failed the stress tests standard

Sajjid Z Chinoy: Don't miss the forest for the trees

The last two years have witnessed a dramatic, durable disinflation and a remarkable transformation of the monetary policy regime

Mihir S Sharma: Elena Ferrante, Lionel Shriver, and 'identity'

A calculated gamble

The rate cut is the MPC's way of supporting domestic growth

India's competitive edge

WEF's index shows India has gained in perception

Don't think small

Larger PSUs should be privatised too

Devangshu Datta: A lot hinges on the Indo-Pak situation

Market trends for a while will depend on how the two countries negotiate ties. If that heads towards normal, Nifty might even hit 9,000

A K Bhattacharya: Inclusive decision-making

Now that the Railway Development Authority will be set up through an executive order, it would do well to take the Indian Railways management on board

Debashis Basu: Next, a surgical strike on poverty?

The OPEC surprise

New Delhi must anticipate effects of higher oil prices

The black money haul

Sustained efforts are needed to expand the tax net

N R Bhanumurthy: The inflation-fiscal deficit linkage

Having adopted flexible inflation targeting, macroeconomic consistency can be achieved through the adoption of flexible fiscal targets

Ishita Ayan Dutt: The Hills of West Bengal are not 'smiling'

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's divide and rule policy has worked in North Bengal. How will it affect its future?

Best of the best

I have a few reservations considering how documentaries don't find a mention and neither does a single Indian movie

Silky Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blancs generally do not lend themselves to oak ageing and are normally much less expensive than Chardonnays. They tend to go well with salads, seafood and some pasta dishes

Mitali Saran: Another boring, muggy weekend

What if they gave a nuclear war and nobody came?