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My Friend the Fanatic Sadanand Dhume Tranquebar Pages: 271 Rs 395Monday 12 October '09
The Nobel has succeeded in making Obama a target for mockery. That must worry him....Wednesday
9 September '09When, years from now, the errors and follies of the economics profession are disdainfully listed, the object of greatest derision...Saturday
22 August '09Read this if you always objected to the world economics is creating, but weren’t sure whyTuesday
18 August '09The powerlessness of standing in an immigration queue....Tuesday
21 July '09Deducing anything about India from the publicity arranged for a reality show called “Sach ka Saamna” is probably a bad idea.Saturday
18 July '09Why have 57 historians signed a petition calling for the “renewal” of the Nehru Memorial....Friday
17 July '09For historians, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi has been an institution of unique importance....Saturday
16 May '09As you read this, EVMs are being stacked up, returning officers are nervously double-checking numbers, and candidates are laughing nervously at jokes that are a little too loud, a little too stale.Friday
24 April '09There’s an air of panic about Mayawati. Is that all about caste?Thursday
2 April '09Markets are not moral. But morality can affect marketsTuesday
24 February '09‘Slumdog Millionaire’ will be with us forever in some avatarSunday
4 January '09A timely tale of financial folliesFriday
2 January '09In the new year, expect new ideas, but also new ways they’re producedWednesday
17 December '08Mihir S. Sharma deconstructs the cover image of the Report of the Committee to Inquire Into the Complaint...Wednesday
10 December '08India’s going through a demographic transition that is unprecedented: no other country has undergone it when it’s also had universal suffrage.Wednesday
3 December '08BBC says it has not banned t-word, insiders say debate rages on in newsroomSunday
23 November '08Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is a man of many parts. An “accidental entrepreneur”, a determined philanthropist, and, as is clear in his new book Imagining India...Friday
21 November '08One of the central questions that interests political scientists, economists, legal theoreticians and public policy-makers is the exact manner in which existing “institutions” — things like rules, customs, and traditions, both formal and informal — affect growth and development.Thursday
20 November '08The overstrained establishment is expected to move with speed and agility, while keeping vital balls in the air: efforts to maintain energy security, its new responsibilities at the FSF (and soon, hopefully, the IMF and World Bank), new trade talksFriday
7 November '08For once the West needs us. We’re going to be the engine they expect will pull them out of their recession. They won’t need us for long, but, if we’re quick, they will for at least the time that it takes to negotiate new systemsFriday
17 October '08The financial crisis has overturned old intuitions. One in particular: that policy-making is too centralisedTuesday
14 October '08At the second annual Penguin Lecture on Monday, the last British Governor of Hong Kong and former chairman...Friday
3 October '08The smoking ban might make us give up smoking. Maybe one day we will be gratefulWednesday
1 October '08Mihir S. Sharma compares how India and the US pass legislation.
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