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Not yet an upslope
Concerns emerge over manufacturing, capital use efficiency
Devangshu Datta: Great expectations before the Budget
The Budget will be expected to deliver on not only FDI regulations, retrospective taxes and GST, but also on job creation
A K Bhattacharya: Miracles in March
A sharp jump in revenues and an expenditure squeeze in the last month of every financial year point to an urgent need to devise a better system
Is Katra Sadatganj UP's version of Clanton, Mississippi?
There are many eerie (and savage) parallels between the tiny Badaun village and John Grisham's fictional southern US town
Samar Jha: Healing Indian Railways
Indian Railways should aim for a quantum growth in traffic. This will require investments in new infra costing about Rs 35,000 cr
Michael Pinto: Taking Indian ports global
There is a need to set up a strong Indian company to invest in port projects abroad
End of the road
The tragedy of the Ambassador
Sunanda K Datta-Ray: An Italian job
How young men from Bangladesh are making a living in Venice, facing hurdles in an increasingly racist society
Devangshu Datta: The man who could have been dictator
Jawaharlal Nehru outlived both Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and B R Ambedkar by many years and his political stature was unchallenged, even after 1962. He could have crossed over to the dark side any time
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay: The real way to end poverty
Prime Minister Narendra Modi must ensure the government stops acting as a barrier to the aspirations of the poor
 "The third wave (of wine, of course)")
Absolutely no politics, please
I bet you're thinking that if one more stupid newspaper columnist says one more stupid thing about the stupid elections, you're going to just go ahead and burn the stupid newspaper. Well, don't be has
 "Absolutely no politics, please")
Whispers in the corridors of power
Baru says Dayanidhi Maran, as the Union telecom minister, began to use his portfolio to favour the media business of his brother, Kalanidhi
Storming the snobby bastions
The best thing about Maya Angelou was her courage to break down all sorts of barriers
Tryst with the new PM
There's so much celebration that good days have to be here, as if by compulsion, if not by fate
Rajiv Shastri: Transforming policy from good to great
The new government is showing encouraging signs of fresh thinking in economic policy but it is innovation that will make the difference
Zorawar Daulet Singh: Realism versus realpolitik
Modi's real challenge is to craft a regional policy and role that can shape the geopolitical and developmental pattern for the subcontinent
Andrew Sheng: Kermit's bankers
Global finance must start accounting for climate change
A European tsunami?
Europe begins to turn towards the populist right-wing