Archive for April, 2009

Reforms during the time of crisis

Reforms during the time of crisis

Mukul G Asher & V Anantha Nageswaran THE GOVERNMENT to be formed after the coming general elections in India will face serious economic challenges, which if...

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Start by burying Lord Ismay

Start by burying Lord Ismay

Nitin Pai TO FIGURE out what it needs to do with regard to national security, the new central government only has to call for the Kargil Review Committee (KRC)...

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Liberalise education

Liberalise education

Atanu Dey NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING economist Douglass North observed that “economic history is overwhelmingly a story of economies that failed to produce a set of...

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Vote!

Vote!

Barun Mitra IN THE aftermath of the terrorist strike in Mumbai in November 2008, many people expressed their anger and frustration at the political leadership....

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Institutions and votebanks

Institutions and votebanks

Changing policy needs new institutions Aadisht THE PERCY Mistry report and Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists both mention the importance of institutional or...

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Reconnecting with Iran

Reconnecting with Iran

Rohan Joshi INDIA-IRAN RELATIONS have come a long way since they were forged at the Asian Relations Conference in New Delhi in 1947. Since then, the relationship...

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Fourteen centuries later

Fourteen centuries later

Mishi Saran IF IT hadn’t been for the vagaries of a wandering life, Mishi Saran tells us at the outset of Chasing the Monk’s Shadow, she would not have written...

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