Page 13 - Letter To Bs

Letter to BS: Banks face 'mismatch risk' between their assets, liabilities

There is a need to address the inherent compulsions that stop banks from passing on rate cut benefits to borrowers

Letter to BS: The average man will never ever catch up with the rich MPs

What will change is that the rich will become richer at a much faster rate than the poor

Letter to BS: Congress kept Muslims in fear of BJP to control the vote bank

The official figure of murders in West Bengal (under the Congress rule) in 1970 was 436, in 1971 it was 1,169

Letter to BS: Ninety crore voters concerned about future of Congress

Congress has reached its nadir because of the strategy adopted by Sonia Gandhi since 2004

PM Modi's Sabka sath-sabka vikas-sabka vishwas is nothing but shallow pitch

Ideally, Modi's life should be his message as it was in Mahatma Gandhi's case

Letter to BS: India needs to protect its 5G rollout amid global tension

The Indian government and companies will undoubtedly ask Huawei to address all concerns of security and dependability of equipment supplies

Letter to BS: India must include sustainability of culture in policy making

Is there anything wrong in this? Not really.

Letter to BS: No word of remorse from PM on drowning IAF Mi-17 helicopter

The incident, euphemistically called a 'friendly fire', killed seven IAF personnel and a civilian

Letter to BS: Non-NDA allies are teaming up to form a post-poll alliance

In a democracy, any party can form a government either through a majority or through coalition

Letter to BS: After exit polls, Opposition parties once again blaming EVMs

Opposition needs to dispassionately analyse the current political scenario

Letter to BS: Nationalism cannot be reduced to gross majoritarianism

Likewise, politics does have its genesis in confrontation

Letter to BS: Nothing wrong with vice president Naidu devaluing exit polls

The six main pollsters showed that for the second time, Modi's NDA will rule, winning anywhere between 287 and 336 seats

Letter to BS: Mostly exit polls predict exactly which way wind was blowing

If these predictions come true, Narendra Modi will be the prime minister for a second term

Letter to BS: Aadhaar-linked voting to improve voter turnout in elections

Apart from being cost effective and easy, this will bring many other tangible benefits to the entire electoral process

Letter to BS: In today's polarised politics, EC will always be in demand

Clearly, the EC is not mandated to oblige the political parties or to promote their political drama.

Letter to BS: The Sangh ethos has forced BJP to put all eggs in one basket

If it had earlier smarted under the Congress heyday of "India is Indira", it surely is as circumspect with "Modi is BJP", an amorphous approach that it has not been able to alter

Letter to BS: US-China trade war offers a great opportunity to India

India was indeed exporting a lot of these items to US before the Chinese juggernaut set in and made our goods relatively too expensive and our deliveries too undependable

Letter to BS: Salesforce eyes financial services market using AI

This refers to ?Salesforce eyes financial services market using AI? (May 13). Soon, we will have a customer asking, ?Alexa which is the best deposit rate in which bank?? He can ask the Google assistant about mutual funds consistently giving good returns or the updated value of his SIPs. This out of the world experience awaits the millennial. The artificial intelligence salesforce will be a set of globally competitive, foresighted heroes. It is going to be a step further from mobile banking where chat bots will be offering all kinds of counselling on all kinds of banking products and services on the app itself.A major churning is on the cards with banks and fin-techs leading from the front and customers can look forward to amazing customer service. Way back in late sixties, my retired father would go to a bank for pension in Bayana in Rajasthan where he had to stand in a queue with a token and wait for his pension payment amount which forced him to return only by the afternoon. We moved

Letter to BS: Is it not federalism if a single party wins across India?

This refers to "The Next Election" (May 13) by Nitin Desai. While I totally agree with his opinion on the quality and civility of the campaign in this election, I apportion the blame to all and sundry. There is no holy cow in this and there is plague in every house. But what I disagree with is the theory the article has tried to build up around a single party majority and the federal structure. In the bargain, the article almost accuses any political party of winning a majority. The article prays that no single party should get majority and the government at the Centre should be a coalition government making it a model of federalism. Better still if a stalemate throws up the government rather than a pre-election formation. I find this strange.First, any party that gets majority on its own needs to win seats in all four regions of India. Is it not federalism if a single party wins across India? When most of the states vote for a single party, be it the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata P

Letter to BS: Unfair that Supreme Court judges were denied justice

The arresting of the agitating women lawyers was not done by the order of the SC judges but by the usual police staff