The Risks Of Declaring Victory Too Soon

India has much to be proud of and celebrate. But there is also much that is wrong, much that looks dangerous.Employment, current account deficit, rural distress, agricultural productivity are all......

Herd immunity difficult to achieve: AIIMS Director

Herd immunity is "very difficult" to achieve and one should not think of it in "practical terms" in India, especially in the times of "variant strains" of COVID-19 and "waning immunity", claimed......

Pinarayi Aims For The Stars

Pinarayi is exploring the potentials of 'socialism with Indian characteristics'.The next five years under Pinarayi's watch will be a transformative period for Kerala's development, observes M K......

Rising inequality can lead to conflict

Democracies avoid serious political turbulence only so long as they ensure that the relative level of inequality between the rich and the poor does not become excessively large, says Vice President......

Budget 2013 speech gets modern on quotes; Stiglitz finds mention

In a marked shift from quoting words of ancient Indian economist Kautilya and Shakespeare by earlier Finance Ministers, P Chidambaram chose to quote from the contemporary economist Joseph Stiglitz......

Joseph Stiglitz raps US, free trade policies

When it comes to criticising his country's policies on capital flows or world trade negotiations, US Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz minces no words. As markets in the developing world keep looking......

Stiglitz not in favour of biz houses owning banks

Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has expressed discomfort at the idea of allowing corporate houses to own banks, saying this amounted to conflict of interest.Stiglitz's statement comes at a......

The chakravyuh of the RBI governor's job

The friction with the political class is not only about interest rates and monetary policy.While the government often spoke freely about its discomfiture, the RBI had to be careful even in its......