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M Ramachandran: Managing city transport

London is a good example of how integrated and proactive decision making can ensure an organised transportation system in a large city

Taxis on the Yamuna

The idea is good, but fraught with risks

Blind assassin

Don't Breathe has so much craft it retroactively makes nearly every other recent studio horror movie look even lazier

Celebrating Chardonnay

Chablis is a medium-bodied wine with high acidity and mineral notes and is generally quite different from the full-bodied Chardonnays of Burgundy

Making myths from the mythical

Bali was a good king, only too powerful and ambitious. Ravana was a good king and devotee of Shiva, but he coveted another man's wife. They suffered for their character flaws

Mitali Saran: Row, row, row your boat

Because the crew isn't going to

Can the positive sentiment sustain amid weak data?

Poor manufacturing data is being seen as a positive: it might induce rate cuts when the new Monetary Policy Committee convenes in Oct

Jaimini Bhagwati: Central bank's autonomy and accountability

There should be greater transparency about a central bank's role in regulating banks in India and elsewhere

Burkini ban in France and women who have it all

The debate around headscarves and burkinis raises the question; what rights do women have over their own body and identity?

Surinder Sud: Handicaps in agri-research and education

Among them are inadequate funding, understaffing, gender issues, illogical curricula and inbreeding

Rahul Khullar & Abhijit Das: Separating myth from reality

Experts are critical of India's trade negotiating stance but many such analyses are inaccurate

Ajai Shukla: Spending a big defence budget

For the military, the central problem is that the government has multiple finance divisions that impede, rather than assist, each other

Where is the recovery?

Declining inflation softens an unexpectedly sharp fall in the IIP

Shishir Prashant: Court battles won, Rawat faces anti-incumbency woe

Reinstated as chief minister, he has to find a way to bring the Congress back to power in the Assembly elections in 2017

Ajay Srivastava: A rating system to transform governance

Policies with high ISR scores will radically improve the government's interface with the citizen, making it quick, transparent and free of corruption

Premvir Das: Much ado about nothing

The recently concluded India-US logistics agreement is neither sinister nor a strategic game changer

Let's play Real Life

Real Life is the longest-running virtual game, and the registration process here is different from other virtual games

Sunil Sethi: The unbearable uncertainty of bed-hopping

In London, long-standing British Indian Labour MP Keith Vaz has been forced to quit as head of a key parliamentary committee for his clandestine romp with male prostitutes

Aditi Phadnis: Correct historical wrongs or face the music

The Kopardi case grabbed headlines initially but the national media more or less forgot about it. Over time, it has become a defining political issue among Marathas in Maharashtra

Mitali Saran: The extempore has no clothes

But that's the least of our problems