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Premvir Das: What the Shangri-La conundrum bodes
Cementing relations with a rising China and yet ensuring that Asia's foremost military power remains within acceptable boundaries are among India's major strategic challenges
Vinayak Chatterjee: PuPuP - public-public partnership
In this phase of public expenditure-driven infra investments, PuPuP has replaced public-private partnership as the dominant model
Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly: Has global trade lost its mojo?
If indeed it has, that would have major ramifications for economic recovery
R Krishna Das: Tribal rumblings could topple the BJP's apple cart
The party cannot ignore the issue of inadequate tribal representation in the state government and its departments
Shekhar Gupta: Stink-tank strategies
In stinking new politics, thieves get away, as mud-slinging and dirty tricks become weapons of mass self-destruction
T N Ninan: Look beyond GDP
While raising a cheer on account of faster growth, the govt should be conscious that much more needs to be done on a broader front
Aditi Phadnis: Handing over, taking over
As the Congress prepares for a change of guard, Sonia's management, Rahul's leadership and Priyanka's endurance will decide if the party legacy will survive
Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng: Moving from debt to equity in China
China has the savings to deal with its debt burden, but it needs to start dealing with it soon
Leonid Bershidsky: Big data is still only a little helpful
The noisy, imprecise data collected by internet giants clearly contain a lot of jewels if one knows how to sift for them. Yet it's not easy to see how the sifting can be much more useful than traditio
Eric Newcomer & Olivia Zaleski: Uber Xchange: A new lease of life or a bad deal?
The car aggregator's $1-bn programme to put more drivers on the road through short-term leases requires dipping into the vast pool of people with bad or no credit. Some critics see it as a move to pro
A V Rajwade: The 'illusion' of bank capital
As long as a bank can liquidate its assets and get its value back, along with that of the depositor, all is well. Once that confidence is shattered, all bets are off
Shyam Ponappa: The epiphany in power reforms
If this is real, get Digital India moving by extending this epiphany
Kanika Datta: Public sector's sustainable 'advantage'
The roots of the Indian public sector's structural deficiencies are deeply embedded within the political economy
Soumya Kanti Ghosh: India's rating upgrade an uphill climb
With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that the agencies adopt different criteria while evaluating different countries as is evident from the changes in ratings of developed and developing countries
 "Soumya Kanti Ghosh: India's rating upgrade an uphill climb")
Storm over Mint Road
Time for everybody to show greater restraint
Ajit Balakrishnan: Is the internet all that it's cracked up to be?
Dissenting voices appear over the perception of the internet as a driver of productivity growth