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Deepak Lal: Caste, gene and history wars
Now there's genetic evidence that the present-day caste system has its origins in ancient India.
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The South Indian dilemma
At Ficci Chennai, it was clear that the rest of India wants to do business with the South.
M J Antony: Punishing the farmer
Those who choose to challenge land acquisitions legally have to scale the pyramid of courts to get justice
Talking up the dollar
The PM is right to stay invested in the US
Offsets take off
Time to go from banking to trading
Arvind Subramanian: Coordinate capital controls
The G-20 should oversee actions on capital flows and the Chinese currency
Latha Jishnu: The WIPO knife edge
Officials are working at cross purposes in the apex patent body and undermining India¿s position on critical issues
Crisis and opportunity
Lessons of 26/11 have not yet been learnt
A bitter harvest
Government has messed up sugarcane pricing issue
Pranab Bardhan: Our corruption, their corruption
Unlike India, corruption in authoritarian East Asian regimes is less damaging to the economy
Somik Raha: Ignorance is really bliss
Indian banks didn't have the expertise to use the tools of statistics and finance, which misled US investment banks into making bad decisions
Partners, not allies
India and US still in search of a relationship
Greening statistics
Get it right in black and white before green
Akash Prakash: State of play
Going forward, growth may take hold, forcing policy-makers to move on liquidity and rates
Jamal Mecklai: Has RBI been diversifying out of dollars?
RBI kept on adding non-SDR currencies over the next couple of years till they reached about 7.5% of reserves, which is the level they continue to hold
Subir Roy: An affordable ride
Kolkata¿s buses and auto-rickshaws are not pretty but they serve the purpose
Aditi Phadnis: Bulldozer's tracks
The dangers that Karzai and Pakistanis see in Holbrooke