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Sunday , 23 November '08

The silver lining to the economic cloud

It might seem perverse to claim that the current economic crisis in the country, and also in the rest of the world, has a good side to it.
Sunday , 23 November '08

Shaky fundamentals

Last week I had the choice of attending the World Economic Forum’s India Summit in New Delhi or going off to look at the election in Rajasthan.
Sunday , 23 November '08

Meltdown politics

The financial meltdown is having a strange effect on politics around the world.
Sunday , 23 November '08

Analysing terrorism

The recent trend of people accused of terrorist bomb blasts wishing to turn approvers and to cooperate with the police raises interesting questions.
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Sunday , 23 November '08

Also moonstruck

In a departure from convention, President Pratibha Patil gave a late night telephone interview to a TV channel on India’s moon-landing without the knowledge of most of her staff.
Saturday , 22 November '08

IIM all yours

After the emasculation of the IIMs through two-tier board control and a careful process of selection of the “right” board members, comes the bit about the “coordination” that the pan-IIM super board will do amongst the IIMs, bringing them all down to the lowest common denominator.
Saturday , 22 November '08

The body in pain

Pragya Thakur’s allegation that she was tortured was seconded by the leader of the Opposition. Denial came from no less than the prime minister.
Saturday , 22 November '08

Printline Pakistan

After the Wall Street Journal created an uproar quoting President Asif Ali Zardari calling Kashmiri insurgents “terrorists”, it is now The Washington Post’s turn to make news in Pakistan.
Friday , 21 November '08

The great leap backwards

The report of the IIM Review Committee is finally out. If this were a student report it would get an A on “describing the current problems”, a C on all the sections they call “our analysis” - a C and not a D because some of the arguments made in the analysis are brilliantly tautological.
Friday , 21 November '08

From The Urdu PRESS

Discussions on several aspects of Barack Obama’s election continue - his racial background as well as his statements.
Friday , 21 November '08

The exception that is India

One 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.
Friday , 21 November '08

Extract

One hypothesis (the ‘adaptability’ claim) concerns the way in which new rules are produced. Civilian systems are characterised by wide-ranging codification of legal rules, whereas common law systems are distinguished by their reliance on incremental change through the accumulation of judicial precedent.
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