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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
Arvind Panagariya: MSMEs - separating wheat from chaff
Do not look for easy interventions to help small-scale enterprises - carry out the reforms that will let them grow big
Bidding adieu to 2070
A year that saw animal spirits revive
Beware of fiscal complacency
Other challenges for India's deficit besides oil subsidies
Praveen Chakravarty: The mathematics of Maharashtra
A summary of Amit Shah's master strategy that helped the BJP emerge victorious in the recent Assembly elections
 "Praveen Chakravarty: The mathematics of Maharashtra")
Anjuli Bhargava: Stop passing the buck
If the government is so keen to provide connectivity to remote places in India, why doesn't it consider Air India for the job rather than the low-cost airlines?
Nitin Desai: Children first
Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel Prize is a reminder that we must focus on child labour and education
Misplaced euphoria: Why diesel deregulation won't change Rajan's mind on rate cuts
The change from wholesale to retail inflation as an anchor means that the weightage of diesel in inflation has decreased
 "Misplaced euphoria: Why diesel deregulation won't change Rajan's mind on rate cuts")
Mihir S Sharma: Why Congress must sack Rahul Gandhi
Government's reforms are too half-hearted - but Rahul Gandhi's Congress is too amateurish and inept to hold it to account
All the Queen's gold
Though Jayalalithaa was convicted mainly for land grabbing, it was the images of 30 kg of gold that remained in public memory
Half-baked energy reforms
Reform for LPG, but coal order ignores need for regulation
Andrew Ross Sorkin: The truth hidden by IBM's buybacks
The company's success in recent years has been tied more to financial engineering than actual performance
Bharat Bhushan: Regional parties down but not out
Despite the flood of BJP victories, it is difficult to see how regional parties will disappear. These parties not only have the same development goals as the national parties but also promise good gov
Subir Roy: The Chinese road to development
It remains to be seen how Narendra Modi will take diverse state governments along with him, persuading and building a consensus, when it is in his nature to rule with a strong hand and brook no opposi
Banks or farmers?
Worrying implications of a judgment on sugar
'Good Karma' Nadella's big payday offers cold comfort
The Microsoft CEO may face criticism over his pay package, given his recent comments on women's compensation but it may be time to cut him some slack
 "'Good Karma' Nadella's big payday offers cold comfort")
Modi needs to do a Swacch Regulation programme in the energy sector
Integrating environmental concerns in to coal block distribution is a tough call by all measures
 "Modi needs to do a Swacch Regulation programme in the energy sector")