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Why BMW's focus on the deep-pocketed customer makes sense

The luxury carmaker is cutting back on volumes and focusing on high-end models to preserve its brand exclusivity

Sunil Sethi: Five questions for Arvind Kejriwal

Five questions to avoid the pitfalls that ended his ignominious earlier tenure as chief minister exactly a year ago

Aditi Phadnis: What next for the Aam Aadmi Party?

From elections in Punjab to those in Bengaluru, there's ground just waiting to be captured. But the party will need organisation, preparation, funding and ideological clarity

T N Ninan: The forgotten party

Congress's vote share has fallen to a pathetic 10% in a city that the party has ruled for 15 of the last 16 years

Money passes the screen test

Money. It's been a bad word in Indian cinema for a long, long time. And moneyed businessmen? Worse

Let art define your wealth

Only a few billionaires collect art with understanding, or passion. But it is only a matter of time before mediocrity of opinion in art is replaced by informed opinion

Who wants to be a billionaire?

Can India's e-commerce sector deliver the goods?

The success of the industry will hinge on the penetration of data-enabled smartphones, as the examples of Korea and China show

Test for decontrol

Government must now let fuel prices rise

Bhupesh Bhandari: It's in Delhi's DNA

Farhad Manjoo: Google, mighty now, but not forever

Its strength today - an endless reservoir of ads next to search results - may turn out to be its weakness tomorrow

Daniel Gros: The Greek austerity myth

The country's new government's argument about unreasonableness of austerity targets simply fails to withstand scrutiny

AAP, the latest start-up in news

There are striking similarities between a hotshot startup and the new political party

Shyam Saran: The perils of China's slowing economy

Chinese leaders may well respond to domestic challenges with heightened rhetoric externally

Mark Milian: Tim Cook and the real law of large numbers

The theory analysts use to justify concerns over Apple's growth potential doesn't really exist

Kanika Datta: One step back?

Shankar Acharya: Priorities for Budget 2015-16

The four areas that the Narendra Modi government should focus on in its 'first real Budget'

China's challenges

Declining growth, rising debt and higher risks

Picking winners

How to efficiently recapitalise public sector banks

Can Nitish Kumar do a Kejriwal in the Bihar Assembly elections?

The former Bihar CM can take lessons from AAP's win in Delhi, but he only has a small window of opportunity