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SRK, superstar

Commanding heights return

A poorly run state sector inspires no confidence

Pranab Bardhan: Remembering KN Raj

The late economist inspired a generation to think big and to aim at understanding the larger political economy of India

Pallavi Aiyar: The missing P-word in global warming

Despite political difficulties, the problem of population will become a directly addressed part of any climate debate going forward

'The UPA govt had inherited a robust economy'

The soil for change

A sensible new policy for fertiliser pricing

Biotechnology regulation

Too many heads can spoil the policy

Sanjaya Baru: The Pranab Mukherjee Budget

Will the finance minister present a legacy-seeking Budget?

A V Rajwade: Democracies and deficits

If banks are supposed to build capital when times are good, should governments not be doing the same?

Mahesh Vyas: Its rise and fall, according to the CSO

The CSO needs to explain how its estimate of growth in investment changed from a rise of 8.3 per cent to a fall of 1.7 per cent

Gearing Ratio should be based on market values of debt, equity

A case for withdrawal of dividend distribution tax

Expectations from Budget for indirect tax

Fiscal reform likely to top the Budget agenda

simply tax

Surinder Sud: State of disrepair

Extension services are in a state of disarray and this is responsible for the deceleration in agricultural growth

Towards a working NDA

Wayward UPA needs a credible opposition

Task before Ms Banerjee

Be the change she wants to bring

Ajit Ranade: What Lies Beneath

The government must fix the mineral policy to enable vibrant growth of the mining industry

Ajai Shukla: The cost of Antony's halo

It is hard to determine what India pays to perpetuate AK Antony's reputation for honesty, but the monetary penalty alone is thousands of crores a year