If Home Minister P Chidambaram is to win acceptability for the top job, he needs to demonstrate that he can establish working relations with people of different political persuasions, says TN Ninan......
The poor level of corporate as well as individual accountability needs to be addressed, says TN Ninan This has been a season for corporate scandal. There is Barclays, which (along with other......
It goes without saying that the best performers are in the private sector, says TN Ninan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com With stock market indices at or near their all-time highs, it is......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi might find it fruitful to spare some time to look for ideas in the world of books, suggests TN Ninan The prime minister has spent New Year's Eve asking his senior-most......
Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment, notes TN Ninan. A porter pulls a handcart......
If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump......