Monday 23 October '06
It’s Lakshmi’s spirit that mattersThursday 19 October '06
Security and Exchange Board of India’s next board meeting on November 2 should see mutual fund CEOs, Chief Investment Officers...Friday
6 October '06Since equities hugely outperform government bonds — gilts — as investment options, the Left’s pension reform plan kills the best choicesTuesday
3 October '06From the 10th floor of the ICICI Bank building in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, the bank’s managing director and chief executive officer K.V. Kamath can a large expanse of urban India the target set for the bank to borrow from and lend to.Tuesday
3 October '06At around $600 billion or Rs 27,46,200 crore, the total banking assets in India are about the same as the world’s 25th largest bank, the Rabobank Group.Monday
2 October '06It’s not his non-violence. It’s not his vegetarianism or abstinence. It’s not even his Satyagraha. And while not undermining their strength and success, I find all these mere outer ramifications of the man’s inner actions.Friday
15 September '06Three weeks after 9/11, journalists from eight countries came together to study the aftermath. Over the next one month these 11 Jefferson Fellows moved from their worldview to the World Trade Center rubble and back. Five years later...Monday
11 September '06It’s not easy, but try it. As you read this column, give your complete and undiluted attention to it.Tuesday
5 September '06The Sensex has outperformed all major and minor country indicesMonday
4 September '06The interference of religious leaders in softer and short-term issues like who should sing the Vande Mataram...Sunday
3 September '06If there is one word that can synopsise King of Ayodhya, it is “but”. The first of this six-part series began well—fresh, energetic, imaginative.Monday
28 August '06I’M sure the final number will be a multiple of this number, but at this minute I’m aware of 619 kinds of fear.Tuesday
22 August '06Narayana Murthy represents the new, liberalised spirit of Indian enterpriseMonday
21 August '06Written all over our lives, these mantras run deepFriday
4 August '06The government has no business being in business, the IRDA’s mandate is not to control PSUs but to regulate all insurance companies equallyMonday
24 July '06Are some religions friendlier to economic growth than others? Do religions influence our economic thoughts and attitudes?...Friday
21 July '06Tracking Lalu Prasad is not an easy task you have to struggle through crowds, through security, through long queues of favour-seekers to get to him...Friday
21 July '06A Rs 54,700 crore giant can’t rise up and compete, get customer focussed, generate record-breaking surpluses.Friday
21 July '06It’s difficult to even imagine, leave alone believe, that the Indian Railways, a Rs 54,700 crore giant, lumbering since 1996, has turned around over the past two years.Thursday
13 July '06Sensex, which rose on Wednesday after Tuesday’s Mumbai blasts, shows no clear trend in relation to terror strikes. But one important question emerges: do markets reflect the fact that human life is ‘cheap’ in India?Monday
10 July '06What is harder — to create wealth or to give it away? The desire for wealth is really a desire to get into the flow of what Sri Aurobindo defined as the Money Force.Monday
3 July '06To speak with even an iota of conviction that Lord Ayyappa’s temple, Sabarimala, has lost some of its divinity because a woman entered its premises...Thursday
29 June '06Buffett could well have passed on his wealth to his children. But the conviction of capitalism, of equal opportunity and no more, came in the way: “The idea that you get a lifetime supply of food stamps based on coming out of the right womb strikes at my idea of fairness.”Monday
26 June '06Why do countries have a state religion? The answer perhaps lies with Adam Smith who, keeping market dynamics in mind...Tuesday
20 June '06It’s a clause buried deep in the home loan agreement. But it may rise and become a cause for concern if property prices fall long enough
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