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Kejriwal's questions and a layman's musings

My experience in Gujarat says some of the questions raised by Kerjriwal were baseless

Arvind Singhal: The 'e' challenge to physical retail

Five reasons mall and brand owners should co-opt 'e-tailers' rather than oppose them

Devangshu Datta: Robots and us

Unless the legal and ethical issues of using artificial intelligence are understood, making robots a part of everyday life could be tricky

Jamal Mecklai: Be careful with horses

Companies need to build in an increased risk of default as an additional cost of doing business in China

When the state behaves like a teenager in love

Charges of sedition for cheering the Pak team will only get laughed at

Rahul Jacob: Fact, fiction and Narendra Modi

Barun Roy: A sequel to Hong Kong?

Recent efforts to promote trade and tourism between China and Taiwan show the latter's risk factor as a flashpoint is no longer acute

Shyam Ponappa: Extractive charges on spectrum and petroleum

The author examines whether government levies on these critical inputs are beneficial or detrimental

A decision on GM trials

But beef up safeguards for genetically modified crop trials

A long hot spring

Notes on a lengthy election season

Arvind Panagariya: Some myths about education

Investment in human capital is likely to fail to translate into effective growth if incentives for entrepreneurs are missing

Arvind Panagariya: India must call the US' bluff on patents

The recent US-India friction over trade is being driven by Big Pharma

Will the Modi momentum last?

NaMo's becoming bigger than the party he respresents will pose huge problems for the BJP going forward

Prepare for volatility around and after the election time

A K Bhattacharya: Mr Modi's governance pain

Sreenivasan Jain: The 'real' cost of spin

Where do the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party get their publicity and advertising monies from? The current norm of self-declaration of finances by political parties is not providing answers

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Home truths for the home minister

Forced transparency in media ownership alone can create greater accountability

Old price, new terms

How government can solve the natural gas pricing problem

Ukraine crisis, a powder keg for markets

Markets are pricing in a Russian intervention, much like its intervention in Georgia in mid-2008.

Musings about Crimea

The current unfolding crisis in the peninsula brought back some happy childhood memories