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Price control problems

Get drug procurement right, boost domestic production

Have a trade strategy

But government should keep the China angle in mind

Is this a good time to buy DLF stock?

Buying into the real estate major could be a contrarian bet as there are signs that the markets may have overreacted to DLF's woes

Why FTIL-NSEL merger is not an injustice to minority investors

A look at the minority investors in FTIL and why they need no sympathy

Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly: Waiting for the Fed rate hike

Market signals point to an indefinite postponement but data from the US economy suggest the Fed will have to balance local trends and global factors

Sunita Narain: Green buildings aren't that green

Nitin Pai: China's economic horoscope

Though growth in China is unlikely to slow down soon, India should prepare to take advantage of a shifting of gears there

B Dasarath Reddy: Andhra yet to solve the land puzzle for new capital

Govt has invited bids to choose a consultant to develop the new capital but there's no clarity on the location and source of funds

Hemant Krishan Singh: Different kinds of partnership

The quality and bandwidth of India's strategic ties with Japan, the United States, and China are not the same

J Jagannath: Poetry and truth at the Mumbai Film Festival

The pitch-perfect casting, the lingering close-ups and the seamless narrative make Chaitanya Tamhane's Marathi movie Court one of the best movies of 2014

Mitali Saran: Protecting the right to watch or not to watch Haider

Sunil Sethi: The racket that is Diwali now

Rahul Jacob: The good, the bad & the festive

Kishore Singh: Happy Anonymous Diwali

Keya Sarkar: Puja and tribal rites of passage

Aditi Phadnis: Shiv Sena needs to go the 'rural' mile

If Uddhav Thackeray and the Shiv Sena want to hold on to their new base, they will have to listen to the voices coming from rural Maharashtra much more carefully

T N Ninan: Convenient 'truth-telling'

Rare treasures for the aam aadmi

Collectors are not averse to sharing their collections with people, and places of heavy traffic with adequate security, such as airports, would be ideal to showcase these

Breaking the wall

The most Brechtian film I have seen from that period is Ketan Mehta's debut feature, Bhavni Bhavai

The lost art of saying no

Golf sets, tennis racquets, squash shoes, all manner of branded stuff, mobile phones and strangely even cars are bought by parents for their children without a second thought