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Decoding Table 13.3 in the drawing room
The data in the draft 12th Five Year Plan indicate bad news on employment. Here's what some elite analysts have to say...
From now, it's going to be speed
Quickness in delivery will make or break an e-commerce retailer
Atheist on the throne
Will the new Karnataka CM undo years of damage done to the state's infrastructure and whatever else?
The quadricycle tangle
Opposition to the RE60 on safety grounds is disingenuous
Can Germany afford bailouts?
Its line on any fiscal help is getting harder in the run-up to the elections
Europe's lost Keynesians
Temporary demand-boosting measures may help short-run growth, but they will not solve problems in the long run
Appointing regulators
Why not involve the Opposition as a matter of course?
India has a problem with inequality, and it won't be solved easily
Why government policy and jobless growth have let inequality worsen in recent times
 "India has a problem with inequality, and it won't be solved easily")
M-learning solutions
The MILLEE project and MGurujee mark the arrival of mobile phones as learning devices for the poor
Ranbaxy a wake-up call for Indian pharma
The industry must take strong collective action to protect the reputation it enjoys in global markets
Different sins
Karan Johar's segment in Bombay Talkies is a lot of sound and fury, in contrast to Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On, which is a quiet look at gay life and its anxieties and pleasures
Do famous books make great movies?
The power of the novels The Great Gatsby and The Reluctant Fundamentalist is in their brevity, but what is unsaid - left to the reader's imagination - is possibly what attracts film makers to them
The great Indian academic anomaly
It appears authorities in the education system strive hard to stifle its growth instead of nurturing it
An irrelevant austerity debate
It isn't domestic debt that should worry Europe's policy makers, it's external debt
 "An irrelevant austerity debate")
Scaling the great wall of symbolism
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India showed the impact of patient and persuasive diplomacy on both sides - but it's the outcome that will matter