

Monday 17 March '08
We may be Muslims, saab, but we cannot cut this peepal tree. His name is Rahim and his band of workers sound Muslim too.Monday 10 March '08
How do you deal with a bad boss? That’s a question a 25-year-old asked me last week.Friday
7 March '08Meet Sameer Gehlaut, 34. Engineer from IIT-Delhi. Self-made entrepreneur who launched online brokerage Indiabulls...Friday
15 February '08When controversy convulses Mumbai and its social tensions are seen to be politically sharpened...Wednesday
13 February '08Four weeks into his new job as the watchdog for all government expenditure, Vinod Rai hopes to do away with the petty voucher raj this office has been notorious for and convert it into an organisation that audits the big bang government expenditure. Fresh from an inherited high-profile audit of the NREGS, Rai suggests this is perhaps only the first of such big picture pursuits for CAG auditors in the future. In his first interview to the media, Rai outlines his strategy to Gautam Chikermane. Excerpts:Monday
11 February '08TM, probably the first brand in matters beyond mind.Thursday
7 February '08Has Veerappa Moily lost his mind? Or, since he is only the chairman of All India Congress Committee’s media cell...Wednesday
30 January '08“If I aim for high growth and high inflation, I am sunk. I will not be politically in trouble if my growth rate slows down...Monday
28 January '08After five hectic days of going under the news and into the minds and acts of investors as they negotiated a 4,000 point fall...Tuesday
22 January '08The US subprime crisis won’t go away, but here’s why Indian investors don’t need to panic.Friday
11 January '08Global carmakers said it couldn’t be done. Ratan Tata did it.Monday
17 December '07If he hits you once, hit him twice. Hit him so hard he doesn’t get up. Hit to hurt.Wednesday
12 December '07Beyond markets, capital and labour; beyond history, culture and attitude; beyond politics, policies and regulation; for global investors to look at any country for doing business...Monday
29 October '07If capitalism has to work in developing economies, including India, it has to become more inclusive, it has to understand and deliver property rights to more people.Thursday
25 October '07Once the noise around participatory notes gets over, Securities and Exchange Board of India...Monday
22 October '07The 1,499 point, 7.9 per cent fall in the Sensex last week hid the even greater 1,744 point, 9.2 per cent intra-day fall on Volatile Wednesday.Thursday
18 October '07I have always maintained that in the short term, stock markets are irrational. But yesterday’s 1,744 point, 9 per cent...Tuesday
16 October '07From Robert C. Merton’s and Myron S. Scholes’ methods to determining the value of derivatives 10 years ago...Monday
15 October '07I didn’t meet any Sakett there. I didn’t hear the state’s anthem, John Denver’s inspiring Rocky Mountain High on any radio station either.Thursday
11 October '07Look at stock market’s important numbers. They symbolise deep national transformationMonday
24 September '07How do you get a $13 trillion economy interested in a $1 trillion economy?Monday
10 September '07I had been accumulating my share of sins for many months now, and it was about time they were washed clean...Monday
10 September '07A ghost called no-loads has been haunting the mutual funds industry. Things have reached a panic situation as the September 12, 2007, deadline , comes closer...Monday
3 September '07First it was the threat of large foreign retailers who would replace small Indian ones and so: No entry to foreign retailers like Wal-Mart.Monday
27 August '07The contradiction is telling. India’s youngest regulator in the financial services space, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority,born April 19, 2000, in the age of transparency has been and continues to encourage opacity.