Was Manmohan Singh focused too much on getting policy right, while Narendra Modi is focused essentially on getting projects moving?

The really disturbing numbers relate to inequality.

Of all the markets in which politicians interfere with prices, the land market is probably the last that will be reformed, says T N Ninan.

China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch, says T N Ninan.

The crushing of this tiny entity by demanding creditors should be a lesson for all countries, warns T N Ninan.

Politicians have continued taking people for granted and managed to stay above the law, says T N Ninan

The flow of economic news suggests that "good days" are not here as yet.

In India the routine cruelty is at a more basic level - the state of our abattoirs, and the animal trauma caused there.

Call for balance in assessing the first year of the PM -- and less prickliness on the part of the BJP

The PM needs to tap into his latent support base among the aspirational classes, while keeping the loony fringe at bay to stop or reverse the change in the political atmosphere

When there is an enormous shortage of public hospitals, when state expenditure on health care is abysmally low by any international yardstick, tax money should be used to set up public hospitals, says T N Ninan.

Congress campaign seeking to paint the ruling party as anti-poor and anti-farmer seems to have unnerved the BJP, feels T N Ninan.

Water scarcity is often a factor in conflicts, but is India ready to cope with limited water resources?

Biggest culprit behind India's eroding tax base is excise

Business houses don't think twice about blacklisting a newspaper.

Most encouraging thing is savings and investment rates are high.

o attitudes or interpretations of the law on free speech change, depending on which religion is involved?

The retail prices of petroleum products have moved broadly in line with, or somewhat more than, the rupee cost of oil imports.

The inflow of cheap capital has also kept the rupee at a high level, making exports uncompetitive and broadening the current account deficit despite falling oil prices.

Like its predecessors, the 2014 report (released two days ago) allows one to compare India's performance with other countries.