In May 2020, barely two months after the lockdown began, I wrote in a column published by a Malayalam daily that India would enter a prosperous time after the pandemic. The following quarter saw an expectedly significant contraction in India’s ...
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How does it work? Cheetah may regulate the overgrowing herbivores in its enclosure and save the vegetation to a limited extent. Global warming and climate change have already endangered many herbivores and reptiles. Cheetah alone cannot balance t...
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Loss is endemic in the obtuse “IPO” market The initial grey market price of over Rs 1000 for Life Insurance Corporation of India’s (LIC) stock went miserably wrong. The grey market realised the patches late. Bulls retreated from the grey market e...
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Hunt the hiding big-cats behind Chitra and the miserable Himalayan Yogi The funny Himalayan Yogi talks linked with the NSE collocation scam in the media are apparent attempts to cover up one of the looting macabre in India after 2009. The media i...
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The immortal Nightingale of India The Nightingale of India finally left for her heavenly abode leaving thousands of her songs in over 36 languages behind her everlasting legacy. No one knows exactly how many songs she had sung. The Guinness Book ...
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Unusual, setting modern India on track Jargons and clichés are out. Budget 2022-23 is a vision document with actions for future India. Giving no space for an election year appeasement, Nirmala Sitharaman enviably presented the Union budget 2022-2...
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We learn English unwisely and randomly the way most grammar books and English lessons present. I find it a reflection of legacy. As much as 80 per cent of English words came from as many as 350 languages. For that reason, standardisation of the gram...
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There are many misconceptions about asset monetisation. The term is misconstrued as a sell-off and disinvestment. The flooding trolls and ridiculous comments on asset monetisation emerge from people who have never read the 88-page MNP prepared by NI...
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The announcement of Tata taking over the heavily debt-ridden loss-making Air India may coincide with the 90th anniversary of JRD Tata flying airmail from Karachi to Juhu on 15th October 1932. That later became Air India. In 1953 it was nationalised....
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India’s 30-year journey on the reform highway has been an impressive haul. Though the potholes and gutters on the highway slowed the progress, India is now moving faster, whatever may be the counter-argument. In Indian history, no government di...
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