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Here's why Vijay Mallya is 'frustrated'
It's not Monaco & Baku alone; the industrialist has to let go of life's many luxuries for quite some time
 "Here's why Vijay Mallya is 'frustrated'")
Chandrajit Banerjee: A new trajectory for Indian textiles
India is uniquely positioned to capitalise on global trends in textiles. We have the complete ecosystem from fibre to fashion, both in cotton and synthetics, and an ample workforce. We are also a lead
Premvir Das: The military needs a better deal
The continuing diminution of the armed forces in terms of parity of status with the civil services and the erosion in their pay and allowances may fuel resentment among the men in uniform
Wine consumers
It would be interesting to see how habits and attitudes towards wine change over the next five to ten years
Kishore Singh: Centre of the food universe
Once ridiculed for its cuisine that salvaged its reputation with a passable Anglo-Indian mish-mash, Britain is now quite the gourmet and foodie haven
Mitali Saran: Gorillas in the mist
Tracking mountain gorillas in Rwanda is worth every nettle sting
Nitin Desai: After Rajan
The govt should choose a successor who has domain knowledge and professional acumen rather than a Sangh Parivar loyalist
Ajay Shah: Great institutions, not great men
India must make sure that capabilities lie in institutions and not in one person
Leave RBI alone
CAG audit will not help banks run better
Needless subsidy
Use funds with Airports Authority of India for regional air links
Six books that you should have read already
Books that do what great literature promises - keep you engrossed and make you think
Is it time for a break in the Indian equities rally?
The Indian bull market should pace itself out, instead of tiring early
Shyam Ponappa: Make by India
Make in India needs policy support for access to markets and much else
Mr Javadekar's agenda
New HRD minister's priority should be less friction, more work
Shyam Saran: Is internationalisation of RMB stalling?
The dollar will continue to reign as China is unlikely to accept the volatility that full capital convertibility is likely to bring
A major expansion
Portfolio reshuffle more significant than induction of ministers
Commodities rally: Which one will sustain
If global growth slows down and there is another round of competitive currency devaluation, gold, bitcoin and maybe silver may uptrend
A K Bhattacharya: Twenty-five years ago…
The remarkable feature of those reforms unveiled in 1991 is that none of those decisions has been disowned by subsequent governments in the last 25 years
John Markoff: Tesla, Google take separate roads to self-driving car
While Tesla is already selling cars with some basic self-driving functions, Google is still in experimental mode
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Digital journalism to the rescue?
Online news start-ups are not above the challenges journalism in general faces in India, says a new report