In reverse mode
Despite lower forecasts for GDP growth from the Reserve Bank of India and the independent Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy based on the first quarter's performance, Yashwant Sinha remains upbeat. He thinks a growth rate of 7% can be achieved in the full year.



Soul of dissent
French writer Jean Paul Sartre once said that it was the fundamental duty of a prisoner to escape from prison. Defending this tradition of fierce freedom, one could argue, it is the fundamental duty of a writer to rebel against authority, mock it, escape if he has to, and then write about its excesses.



Where there's a will ...
Where there's a will, there's a, well, highway, is the tongue-in-cheek manner in which finance minister Yashwant Sinha chose to describe the behind-the-scenes manoeuvering that went behind ensuring the success of the PM's much-hyped 7,300 kms of highway criss-crossing the country.



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