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Buying at home

With less money to buy arms, indigenisation is now imperative

Snoopgate - Modi the orator goes silent

Narendra Modi's silence is more deafening than his noisy rhetoric

Guilty until 'tweeted' innocent: Trial by social media

Twitter has become the courtroom; Twitterati, the judges; while Tejpal is a new undertrial

T N Ninan: Reinvent state-owned banks

A Seshan: Would foreign banks prefer subsidiaries to branches?

The answer could partly lie in the issue of reciprocity but this route may not help the monetary authority

Vivek Dehejia: The 'what if' question

The 'counterfactual' scenario is central to reasoning in the sciences and social sciences, yet it remains poorly understood outside these disciplines

Ajai Shukla: Get the military a media plan

The military knows very little about the world of journalism and has no plan in place to learn more

T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan: Faking it

Indira Rajaraman: Voting for governance

Candidates in the current state elections must be made to offer specific promises against which their performance can be measured

A landmark agreement

Iran deal has important implications for the region

Many modes, many places

The blogger travels by road, rail and air to find that each offers a different experience

Assembly elections: Which way will the tide turn?

Notwithstanding opinion polls that give BJP the edge, current assembly elections are the hardest to predict

Kunal Kumar Kundu: Cornered by inflation

Food inflation has assumed structural proportions and there is no fiscal space left to prop up our sagging economy

Sunita Narain: Reinvent growth without pollution

In middle-class environmentalism, there is no appetite for changing lifestyles to minimise waste and pollution

Martin Feldstein: Obamacare's fatal flaw

The US healthcare plan is unravelling precisely because of the feature its supporters most praise

The Holy Grail

Public sector enterprises are still denied autonomy

The VAT lesson

It's time to move fast on GST

Media's hidden skeletons

Charges of sexual assault against Tarun Tejpal bring to light how such cases are not isolated in nature

Sreelatha Menon: The daughter's share

Despite the amended Hindu Succession Act, poor implementation has denied women farmland rights

'Business and money know no boundaries'