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T N Ninan: Leaders all
Six men in the news, and in very different boats
Daniel Gros: How the euro sank emerging markets
Weak demand in Europe is the real reason why emerging markets' current accounts deteriorated
Sunil Sethi: River journeys and channel crossings
Imagine how dramatically India's interstate relations or ties with neighbours would improve if its languishing river journeys and channel crossings were revived instead of being allowed to perish
Kanika Datta: Out of tune
The audience at Srinagar's Shalimar Bagh clearly did not know that clapping in between movements of a piece of music seriously disrupts musicians' concentration
Shyamal Majumdar: Leading during crisis
Companies are looking for people who have the skills tailored to an environment of urgency, high stakes and uncertainty
Akash Prakash: No room for complacency
The turnaround in the markets will be short-term, absent major structural reform
Enter foreign universities
HRD ministry ignores parliamentary logjam
From clothes to machines
No broad-based recovery in industrial output
Akula deserves a second chance at SKS
A look at what went wrong in SKS and why Akula's comeback could mean good news for the sector
 "Akula deserves a second chance at SKS")
Kanika Datta: Women's rights? Who cares!
No political party explicitly makes women's issues, especially more stringent anti-rape laws, part of its governance agenda
Dharmakirti Joshi: What a hard landing for the manufacturing sector means
The sector's ability to absorb labour has eroded because of anaemic growth and cost-cutting pressures. If this slowdown continues for a protracted period, creating jobs will become an insurmountable t
Shankar Acharya: Recovery - this time will be harder
The strategy that helped speed up India's economic revival after the 1991 crisis won't work today
The pink slip flood
Failure to develop skills hurts workers, India Inc
Opinion: Environmental activism has become a 'nuisance' for the economy
The need for right balance between environmental regulation & industrialisation
 "Opinion: Environmental activism has become a 'nuisance' for the economy")
Alok Sheel: St Petersburg G20 Summit - Unintended consequences
This is the first G20 summit not dominated by economic issues. Is this an indication of how the G20 is likely to shape up in future as the global economy recovers?
 "Alok Sheel: St Petersburg G20 Summit - Unintended consequences")
M J Antony: Muddled draftsmanship
Certain words that are defined vaguely become a nightmare for judges
Shyam Saran: China's flawed rebalancing
China's economic problems are no longer the concern of just the Chinese