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General in a labyrinth
Resignation is the honourable course for the army chief
V S Mahesh: Step-mothering services
An emphasis on manufacturing is all very well, but India cannot ignore the promotion of service industries
A K Bhattacharya: Regulating the regulators
Nominating two ministry bureaucrats on the RBI board could give credence to the govt's penchant for playing Big Brother
Shyam Saran: Changing climates of governance
Understanding real-world complexity and anticipating change are the key to global and local governance in the 21st century
Subir Roy: Creating affordable urban capacity
Redeveloping slums can change the quality of life for the majority of metropolitan Indians living in slums
M J Antony: Reluctant respondents
PILs drag on owing to government's non-cooperation and apathy
Code breaker
Minister's undermining of EC should have consequences
Green cover-up
Why has India's forest cover declined?
Indicus Analytics: Distant learning
The rural-urban literacy gap has narrowed but not enough to achieve universal literacy
An open shame
Moving forward on sanitation will require big ideas
Clearing the runways
Govt action has stopped India's airports from becoming hubs
Nitin Desai: The end of crony capitalism?
There are alternatives to auctions that also reduce discretion
T S Vishwanath: Trade compulsions
Emerging nations have limited policy space available to protect their resources since they have to meet their international trade obligations
Telecom's fresh start
New telecom policy is a step forward for the sector
Sonalde Desai: Sons of the soil
The data show that rural families simply cannot subsist on farm incomes alone
Bhupesh Bhandari: A spectrum of disagreement
Price wars that followed the entry of new players saw the profits of the incumbents plunge, so there was every reason for them to see the new players out