Economy
Govt puzzled over roles of public, private sectors
The Narendra Modi government seems thoroughly confused about public and private sectors. On the one hand, there is dim-witted reluctance...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 09 Sep 2016, 09:30Jaitley should learn from Ireland
The European Commission’s decision that Apple should pay $14.5 billion of corporate income taxes to Ireland as reimbursement of illegal...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 07 Sep 2016, 11:55Modi should condemn unions
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi is really serious about “rapid transformation,” as he recently said, he has to take on...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 03 Sep 2016, 01:11Anti-poverty schemes are charlatanry
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Chief Ministers of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states to chalk out an agenda for...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 Aug 2016, 11:32India needs action, not ideas, Mr. Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stresses a lot on ideas. But the question is: does he need any ideas, apart from...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 Aug 2016, 11:58Reforms@25: From big bang to incremental whimper
It is striking that nobody from the political class is celebrating the silver jubilee of economic reforms. Not the Narendra...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 Aug 2016, 02:21GST is not panacea
The propensity to hype anything that politicians, big businessmen, and thought leaders deem important is growing by the day. Brexit,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 06 Aug 2016, 04:01The wonder that is Air India
All men are equal, but some are more equal than others. Politicians, especially those from the ruling dispensation, are certainly...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 30 Jun 2016, 12:52Arvind Subramanian should go
Everybody who is somebody in Lutyens’ Delhi wants something to be done to ‘rein in’ and ‘discipline’ Rajya Sabha member...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 23 Jun 2016, 12:36Of FDI, reforms, and brothel-keepers
The announcement regarding major liberalization in the foreign direct investment (FDI) regime is arguably the biggest economic reform the Narendra...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jun 2016, 10:22