Gautam Chikermane
Since equities hugely outperform government bonds — gilts — as investment options, the Left’s pension reform plan kills the best choices
At 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 Grou
From 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.It’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 succes
Three weeks after 9/11, journalists from eight countries came together to study the aftermath. Over the next one month these 11 Jefferson Fellows move
It’s not easy, but try it. As you read this column, give your complete and undiluted attention to it.
The Sensex has outperformed all major and minor country indices
The interference of religious leaders in softer and short-term issues like who should sing the Vande Mataram...
I’M sure the final number will be a multiple of this number, but at this minute I’m aware of 619 kinds of fear.
Narayana Murthy represents the new, liberalised spirit of Indian enterprise
Written all over our lives, these mantras run deep
The government has no business being in business, the IRDA’s mandate is not to control PSUs but to regulate all insurance companies equally
Are some religions friendlier to economic growth than others? Do religions influence our economic thoughts and attitudes?...
It’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 t
A Rs 54,700 crore giant can’t rise up and compete, get customer focussed, generate record-breaking surpluses.
Tracking
Lalu Prasad is not an easy task you have to struggle through crowds, through security, through long queues of favour-seekers to get t
Sensex, which rose on Wednesday after Tuesday’s Mumbai blasts, shows no clear trend in relation to terror strikes. But one important question emerges:
What 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 t
To 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...
Buffett 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: “Th
Why do countries have a state religion? The answer perhaps lies with Adam Smith who, keeping market dynamics in mind...
It’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
The war of and over religions has spilled into cyberspace. The Internet hosts some 2.8 billion pages of “god”, 487 million pages of “religion”.
Underperformance is worrying: MFs have lagged the Sensex by 3.5 percentage points over a month to 8.7 percentage points over a year
The new tax form won’t catch the big tax evaders. The salaried will be harassed
