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Returning to Anandamath

Lobbying the Hill, softly

How Indian IT sector must counter US immigration Bill

All's fare in airline pricing

The practice of charging for ancillary services on domestic flights is likely to grow as competition soars

The shift away from agriculture

But other sectors are yet to pick up the slack

Trust deficit affecting Sonia-Manmohan equation?

The Bansal-Ashwani row seems to have changed the equation between Gandhi and Singh

Leveraging for stability

India's forex reserves are so heavily dependant on external borrowing that any rating downgrade would demand higher interest rates

Thank god gold prices are falling

Losses due to fall in economic activity in the event of catastrophe would be more devastating than the fall in gold prices

Will the real inflation rate stand up please?

The RBI's idiosyncratic focus on wholesale price inflation at the expense of retail inflation is a serious policy error

Redesign dams, not rivers

Clothes make the IIP

Huge variations across sectors raise concerns about robustness

The thin cyber line

India needs new thinking to protect its e-frontiers

A good case for India to lose?

The Centre is trying to force domestic sourcing of solar-power equipment, which may be a mistake

'India and China are both partners and competitors'

China's new path

Judging by those chosen as Beijing's senior economic team, market-friendly reforms are on the way

The 'small' party showbiz

When puppets do the talking

Gang of eight's lose-lose proposition

The immigration Bill from a bipartisan group of US Senators will hurt US companies as much as Indian IT service providers

The professor and the player

There is something disturbing about the sort of restrictions that gay rights advocates seek to impose on speech

The point of it all

Men who tell stories