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Mihir S Sharma: The kid's not all right
Politicians are supposed to get into the business to change the world around them. But it seems Gandhi got into the business to help keep a party running. Big difference
Aditi Phadnis: The travails of Kiran Kumar Reddy
The Andhra Pradesh chief minister has just witnessed his state's division and the idea of leaving the Congress to launch a regional party might leave him with nothing
Aabhas Sharma: Football's dark art
The beautiful game is being ruined by the ugly antics of a few players and the apathetic attitude of the few wise men running the game
Arvind Subramanian: Emerging markets and the world
The medium-term growth prospects of emerging markets have not been properly understood
The Milestone Man
Tendulkar's story would be more romantic had he retired on 99 international tons, just after winning the World Cup in 2011
Ajai Shukla: VVIP lessons - build arms, don't buy them
The only way out of the downward spiral of purchases, scams, cancellations and blacklistings is the systematic and relentless indigenisation of defence equipment
Missing the moment in Kashmir
The ongoing drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan highlights the need for structurally stabilising Delhi-Srinagar ties
MoD courts trouble
The defence ministry should accept the idea of a completely independent Armed Forces Tribunal and modify its internal processes to cut down litigation
How weakness buys strength
Not one defence minister has had the political courage to argue that Indian strategic interest demands that the military should equip itself primarily with Indian weaponry, accepting short-term weakne
Ajai Shukla: None so blind as those who will not see
Even jihadis infiltrating across the Line of Control into J&K have been found to have better night vision devices than the lavishly funded Indian Army
Infosys showing signs of a turnaround: Nirmal Jain, IIFL
Nirmal Jain, chairman, IIFL spoke to SmartInvestor's Aastha Agnihotri on the Q2 results of the IT heavyweight in an exclusive LIVE chat and also replied to investor's queries
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Crony capitulation
Government must not change road contracts ex post facto
Ishan Bhaskar: LNG - Pipe dreams vs reality
India and Japan's effort to form a multilateral group of liquefied natural gas buyers to avoid paying higher prices for the fuel is laudable as an objective but is unlikely to be effective immediately
Shyamal Majumdar: HR to the fore
A slowdown provides an opportunity to bring the human resources department into mainstream business decision-making