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Hemant Krishan Singh & Aman Raj Khanna: India's IPR regime - Moving beyond the myths of US pharma

It is time for the Indian government to address the growing trust deficit with foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers on the question of IPRs and improve the enforcement of patent protection

R Gopalakrishnan: Emotion and innovation

Young leaders must not just throw up ideas, they must develop them

Jamal Mecklai: Snakes and ladders

The real shutdown problem

Dysfunctional US politics may set off another crisis

Double jeopardy

Government adds to its arbitrariness on gas pricing

Ashwani Kumar: Has Bihar been betrayed?

While the rest of India marches towards the promised destiny of 'progress', Bihar - the heart of India- is doomed to poverty and the injustices of a caste-based society

Anders Aslund: Actually, voters reward austerity

Shyam Ponappa: Bullet-proofing balance sheets

It's worth keeping in mind, when it comes to rate cuts, that a strong balance sheet needs reasonable profits

The UID Crisis: Don't waste it

The next catastrophe to hit UID will be on breach of privacy, which will happen sooner than later

NSEL Saga -The making of a bollywood thriller

The NSEL saga has the making of a second grade Bollywood flick

Laveesh Bhandari: The numbers game - Points and averages

The Congress may not have messed up initially but in the UPA-II phase it has to be assigned complete responsibility for slowing growth

A K Bhattacharya: A long winter

Lopping off a little over ten per cent of the time voters give an elected government to perform, and that too in the name of pre-election preparations, is always questionable

Abheek Barua: Dump the textbooks

Now that the link between growth and headline inflation has been cut, the RBI needs to retain some discretion to boost growth

A fresh warning

Climate change report calls for action

Privatising airports

Government needs to learn lessons from the earlier round

None of the above

Discussion on politics has been reduced to MCQs

The mega road bailout - Rewarding corporate greed?

Across the infrastructure arena, defaulting PPP developers have remained relatively unscathed despite glaring contract breaches

Is more competition good in politics as it is in economics?

The theory and evidence about competition in politics are mixed

Rajeev Malik: Decoding Governor Rajan

Raghuram Rajan's signal of a neutral stance is at odds with concerns about inflation and markets' revised expectation of more increases in the repo rate

Shreekant Sambrani: Gandhi's truth - Then and now

We suffered worse political degradation during the Emergency. But we emerged resurgent and vigorous because the spirit was not broken. This time around, we face an imminent threat to it