T N Ninan
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June 29, 2022, Wednesday
A worm's eye view of the media
Some of the material is tedious and one is not sure why reproducing the email exchanges leading up to his exit would interest ...
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June 24, 2022, Friday
Bureaucrats and diplomats: The divergence in their post-retirement writing
While IAS officers write primarily about their own exploits, IFS officers write more about the issues and context of their work, ...
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June 17, 2022, Friday
Does reputation no longer matter for today's companies and politicians?
In today's practical age, whether a country offends your religious sensibilities can be overlooked if it is a key customer for ...
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June 10, 2022, Friday
Stories during stagflation: How India fares on 'modified' misery index?
Misery is the highest in countries known for economic mismanagement: Turkey, Argentina, South Africa. Next come Russia, Brazil, ...
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June 03, 2022, Friday
Companies in clover, but there's something in the economy that's amiss
Today, far too many people earn far too little to support consumption growth of the kind the economy needs, notes T N Ninan
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May 27, 2022, Friday
For India, economic entropy presents both an opportunity and big challenge
Entropy, or the disorder in a system, is a concept not usually used to understand economic trends, but it best describes the ...
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May 20, 2022, Friday
The LIC way or the Air India way: A tale of two suboptimal paths
One path waits for the company to go bankrupt while the other continues to subject it to government whim, writes T N Ninan
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May 13, 2022, Friday
Reparations for colonialism and the complicated business of compensations
How does one calculate reparations? Who decides how the money will be spent? If it is to be distributed, who will get how much - ...
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May 06, 2022, Friday
What explains RBI's 'near-unanimous' inaction even as inflation was rising?
For the RBI, a correct reading of its mandate would have been that the inflation target is 4%, not 6%. And action to raise ...
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April 29, 2022, Friday
Why we must clearly define atmanirbharta and our reasons for chasing it
Employment deficit is a bigger problem for India than trade deficit. That and the feasibility question should not be lost in ...