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	Indrani Bagchi	Download
	Should We Be With Him, Or...? -- 21-Jan-25 There is a new boss in town. If, in 2016, the Trump victory felt like a bit of a fluke, this time, it’s deadly serious.

	Srinath Sridharan	Download
	India-US Spark Stands Defused? -- 21-Jan-25 Last week, outgoing president Joe Biden’s administration released ‘Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion’, which aims to establish export and security regulations for the global AI market.

	Ashok Malik	Download
	Wake Up & Smell the Covfefe -- 20-Jan-25 Trump is a product of, not cause for, a return to an era of spheres of influence

	Devendra Fadnavis	Download
	Maha.Platform@Davos -- 20-Jan-25 The 55th annual World Economic Forum meet that kicks off today is an ideal platform to amplify Maharashtra’s success story among global stakeholders, attract transformative new partnerships and usher in an exciting new phase of industrialisation.

	Dhiraj Nayyar	Download
	How to Ride the Rs Slide -- 17-Jan-25 Why does India catch a cold every time the rupee sneezes? There is a notion of national pride tied to a strong currency.

	Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee	Download
	Why facts Held Meta Back -- 16-Jan-25 By letting it drop fact-checking, the US gov has further insulated Meta from culpability and liability

	Sanjay Sanghvi	Download
	Faceless Tax Appeal Needs a Facelift -- 16-Jan-25 In 2020, GoI launched the Faceless Appeal Scheme (FAS) for appeals pending at the I-T commissioners (appeal) level (CIT(A)), with an aim to introduce automation in tax administration.

	Kaushik Das	Download
	Interest Rate, Forex, Keep ’Em Apart -- 16-Jan-25 India’s growth momentum has eased materially during 2024, and there are plenty of risks in 2025 and beyond. Real GDP growth should average about 6.5% y-o-y in FY25 and FY26 — below the potential growth rate of 7-7.5%.

	Abheek Barua	Download
	Speak, Mr Governor, Speak! -- 15-Jan-25 RBI must communicate to signal it’s in charge of things on the currency front

	Sanjay Nayar, Arvind Gupta & Aakash Guglani	Download
	STARTUP NATION -- 15-Jan-25 It’s been nine years since GoI’s Startup India programme commenced.

	Anjana Menon	Download
	When Will You Make Them Accountable? -- 14-Jan-25 Elections provide a real reckoning of the state of our democracy. It’s when skeletons are wrenched out from tightly shut closets and dirty laundry is aired.

	Aditya Sinha	Download
	Where Laws Go to Die -- 13-Jan-25 In Melbourne, vacuuming after 10 p.m. could technically make you a noise polluter. In Switzerland, flushing a toilet late at night might breach housing norms ensuring ‘quiet hours’.

	Lubna Kably	Download
	WELCOME TO ELON-DON* * conditions apply -- 10-Jan-25 How Trump’n’Musk could flesh out their ‘Welcome, high-skilled! Stay away, illegals!’ H-1B plan

	Arnie Guha	Download
	Maple Syrup Under the Bridge -- 09-Jan-25 Post-Trudeau Indo-Canada strategic relations await a total reset through trade, defence and tech

	T V Narendran	Download
	Dig Deeper for a Viksit Bharat -- 09-Jan-25 Recent developments in the mining sector have made headlines. On the one hand, GoI reiterated its intent to establish a national mission to secure critical and strategic minerals.

	Sandeep Parekh	Download
	Cut All That Flab from Reg Laws -- 09-Jan-25 Regulators think of introducing new regulations from two lenses: one, errors: whether the law will harm innocents or let the guilty get away; two, cost-benefit analyses: every law has a cost on the market.

	Harsh Pant & Vivek Mishra	Download
	Tech It, Don’t Leave It -- 08-Jan-25 In US NSA Jake Sullivan’s final visit to India this week before Donald Trump is sworn in, he met his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval and the Indian leadership.

	Vivek Wadhwa	Download
	Return of Prodigious Talent -- 07-Jan-25 Returnee entrepreneurs are reshaping India’s future, but barriers must be removed to reap rewards

	Dev Bajpai	Download
	Keep Data Safe, But Keep It Easy -- 07-Jan-25 Last week, GoI released the much-awaited draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules 2025, which are essential provisions of Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023.

	Aparajita Bharti & Sidharth Deb	Download
	Ban Kids from Social Media? Nah -- 07-Jan-25 In an unprecedented move, Australia amended its Online Safety Act to prohibit access to social media platforms for those under 16.

	Mythili Bhusnurmath	Download
	How Much is Too Much? -- 06-Jan-25 2025 will test an article of faith long held by RBI—relentless accumulation of forex reserves

	M Muneer	Download
	Martech, Being Human -- 06-Jan-25 By 2030, global martech—marketing technology—is slated to cross $1 tn from today’s $350 bn. An ET survey stated that 90% of CMOs in leading organisations have embraced marketing automation in a big way. CMOs believe that it improves efficiency, scalability and access to new markets.

	Sanjay Chamria	Download
	SAARE JAHAN SE ACHHA? -- 03-Dec-25 More and more wealthy Indians are moving out of the country for a better quality of life — let’s fix it

	Somnath Mukherjee	Download
	Re$ Do Their Own Dance -- 03-Dec-25 Success has many fathers, failure an orphan. The cliché is most radically broken in popular economic commentary deciphering growth cycles. Explaining growth slowdowns — or upticks — via quick attributions is a favourite with the economic commentariat.

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	Looming War of Intelligence -- 02-Jan-25 This year will see the US and China compete for AI supremacy — where India can play a role

	Alok Tiwari	Download
	Chipping In to Fix Market Missteps -- 02-Jan-25 Industrial policy is once again gaining favour worldwide.

	Arjun Chowdhry	Download
	The Future Lies in Easy Spending -- 02-Jan-25 The global payments industry is rapidly transforming, thanks to IoT, Big Data and AI. India has been leading this digital revolution, experiencing a paradigm shift in its payments landscape.

	Indrajit Hazra	Download
	CSR as Corporate Penance -- 01-Jan-25 RED HERRING Sinful consequences of profit-making can be assuaged by strategic goodness

	Ateesh Tankha	Download
	Pardon, In This Lib Dem -- 01-Jan-25 A functioning democracy implies a nation of laws that are upheld conscientiously, applied equally and imposed liberally.

	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Download
	India’s Bio Data Looks Impressive -- 31-Dec-24 India’s biopharma sector achieved significant milestones in 2024, reinforcing its position as a global leader

	Mahesh Nandurkar	Download
	Get Ready for Lower Returns -- 31-Dec-24 Over the last three years, Nifty has delivered 12.5% compounded return, including dividends.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	MAGA at War, Over Indians -- 30-Dec-24 The ‘Groyper Army’ is going bonkers over the H-1B system being usurped by ‘Indian invaders’

	Anna M M Vetticad	Download
	Feminist Clarity Begins at Home -- 30-Dec-24 Gloria Steinem often recounts an encounter with Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay in the 1970s that had a lifelong impact on her.

	Arvind Panagariya	Download
	Scholar, Patriot, Perseverer, PM -- 30-Dec-24 Intellectual brilliance, humility, patriotism, personal integrity and perseverance — these five characteristics arguably lifted Manmohan Singh

	Ashok Malik	Download
	Hair of the DOGE Remedy? -- 27-Dec-24 CHAPATI Post facto clean-up is no substitute for institutionalised, built-in correctives

	Amit Kapoor	Download
	Outcomes of an Income Gap -- 27-Dec-24 Labour markets play a critical role in shaping economic opportunities and resource allocation.

	Rajesh Shukla	Download
	The Trilemma Of Inequalities -- 27-Dec-24 India’s economic transformation over the past two decades has lifted millions out of poverty.

	Anil Padmanabhan	Download
	POP! Goes the Economics -- 26-Dec-24 The public face-offs on GST decisions point to flaws in the tax’s architecture and implementation

	Amitabh Kant	Download
	Va Va EVroom Evroom -- 26-Dec-24 November marked Delhi’s worst air quality in eight years, with the Capital failing to record a single ‘good air’ day in the year.

	Jai Arjun Singh	Download
	Not Just 'Parallel', But Also Playful -- 25-Dec-24 In the aftermath of Shyam Benegal's passing, much will be said about the social relevance of his work

	Neeraj Kaushal	Download
	Get Ready for TAXmas Eve -- 24-Dec-24 India must aim to benefit from expected US tariffs on China & Vietnam

	Arunabha Ghosh & Dhruba Purkayastha	Download
	RBI, Get a Green Thumb -- 24-Dec-24 The 90-yr-old RBI has a new governor. It has its task cut out: to enable accelerated economic growth while keeping inflation in check

	Rathin Roy	Download
	Easy on Rah-Rah Rupeeing -- 23-Dec-24 Monetary policy is best crafted with analytical clarity, not muscular nationalism or simple binaries

	Rohit K Singh	Download
	Stop Device Divisiveness -- 23-Dec-24 Imagine this : two friends, side by side, use the same app to book a ride.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	It's Halloween Out There -- 31-Oct-24 As a toxic campaign nears its end, Don 'Trump-eone' gains ground, while Citizen Kamala hangs on.

	R R Rashmi	Download
	Baku's $1 Tn Question -- 31-Oct-24 There is an expectation that COP29 will have climate finance as its main business.

	Aditya Sinha	Download
	One Nation, One Check -- 30-Oct-24 Debate between centralisation and decentralisation often positions the former as a pariah, criticised for suppressing local autonomy.

	Chetan Ahya	Download
	Consumption Is Confucian -- 29-Oct-24 China must boost consumption to escape debt-deflation loop and better nominal GDP growth

	KM Chandrasekhar	Download
	Vizhinjam, a Model Port of Call -- 29-Oct-24 More than 50 years ago, Vizhinjam, located near Thiruvananthapuram, was a sleepy fishing village.

	Anil Trigunayat & Kaviraj Singh	Download
	Climate Picture Abhi Baku Hai -- 29-Oct-24 As the world gears up for COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, India finds itself at a crucial juncture in its climate diplomacy and sustainability journey.

	Ajit Pai	Download
	No Sweat Over Interest Rates -- 28-Oct-24 High CDR at Indian banks signals tighter credit growth, unfetter foreign banks to bridge the gap

	Sadaf Sayeed	Download
	Microfinance Isn’t Small, It’s Mighty -- 28-Oct-24 India’s microfinance industry plays a key role in financial inclusion, fostering women’s entrepreneurship, rural development and digital engagement.

	Anirudh Gotety	Download
	India, Get Ahead of Crypto Curve -- 28-Oct-24 During his first term in office, Donald Trump opposed crypto because he believed it undermined the dollar’s hegemony.

	Anuvinda Pulickal & Sujoy Chakravarty	Download
	Break the Classroom Divide -- 25-Oct-24 Social contact between different socioeconomic groups reduces prejudice, leverages untapped talent

	Subimal Bhattacharjee	Download
	Ride the AI, Energy Saddlebacked -- 25-Oct-24 This week, two AI stalwarts — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun — are in India.

	Dhiraj Nayyar	Download
	Why We’ve Hit a Gold, Silver Streak -- 25-Oct-24 There is a shine to both gold and silver this festive season, touching record high prices.

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	Hear What He Said, Xi Said -- 24-Oct-24 China needed India at the table in Kazan to deal with its own problems that include US pushback

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Can KH KO Teflon Don? -- 24-Oct-24 Old Man Donald ‘worked’ at a McDonald’s, E-I-E-I-O.

	Nicola Beer	Download
	Agra’s on the Move, Safely, Cleanly -- 23-Oct-24 Luxembourg : By 2030, more than 40% of India’s population is expected to live in cities due to rural-urban migration and natural population growth in urban areas.

	Ateesh Tankha & Ganga Narayan Rath	Download
	Is It Time to Dump eRs.? -- 22-Oct-24 Every enterprise depends on luck for its success.

	Ashok Malik	Download
	Not Another BRICS in the Wall -- 21-Oct-24 India’s role is to ensure the grouping doesn’t get a distortionary ideological edgeCHAPATI

	Neeraj Kaushal	Download
	Roses are Blue, Violets are Red -- 18-Oct-24 Party lines are blurring in the US, as Republicans & Democrats swap traits

	Amitabh Kant	Download
	Make AI While the Sun Shines -- 18-Oct-24 Post-pandemic, we’ve seen a transformative revolution in tech: the rise of useful, universal and unlimited AI.

	Aditya Puri	Download
	Plug’n’Play to Get the Job Done -- 18-Oct-24 India with its burgeoning population faces a critical challenge of creating jobs.

	Poonam K Sidhu	Download
	Philanthrocrats vs Philanderers? -- 17-Oct-24 There's no one way of giving back — it can well extend beyond the confines of cheques and charity

	T V Ramachandran	Download
	Satellites Aren't Earthly -- 17-Oct-24 In 'Imagine', John Lennon not only painted a world with no boundaries, but also a world where 'above us, there's only sky'.

	Harsh V Pant	Download
	Clutch the India Straw -- 16-Oct-24 Cairo : For two nations — India and Canada — that have been long-standing partners and don't seem to have strategic divergence, these are unprecedented times.

	Shivaji Dasgupta	Download
	WeCom to MeCom to PreCom -- 15-Oct-24 Festive shopping via ecommerce may be changing both consumer and societal behaviour

	Shahan Sud	Download
	Get Picky with Startups -- 15-Oct-24 India is a land of contrasts. On the one hand, there's 'Shining India'.

	Ashok Malik	Download
	Re-Generative ChatBJP -- 14-Oct-24 CHAPATI Its appeal isn't that it always wins, but its capacity for constant self-correction

	KumKum Dasgupta	Download
	Tech+Touch, Natural JV -- 14-Oct-24 India isn't for beginners, as a cheeky meme suggests.

	Omkar Goswami	Download
	The Titan Who Rebuilt Tata -- 11-Oct-24 RNT was as much about cleaning up the group as he was about taking it to new scales

	Bachi Karkaria	Download
	MILLENNIAL DUMBLEDORE -- 11-Oct-24 If someone said 'Millennial Dumbledore', would you, in your funkiest moment, think of Ratan Tata?

	Gurcharan Das	Download
	Conscience-Keeper of India Inc -- 11-Oct-24 When I was on the board of one of the Tata companies, at a meeting in Bombay House, Freddie Mehta, head of the company, invited a young man named Ratan to join us.

	GAUTAM ADANI	Download
	Tata, The Perfect Renaissance Man -- 11-Oct-24 An entire nation of 1.4 billion is now mourning the passing of Ratan Tata.

	Thomas Mathew	Download
	An Aam Aadmi at Heart -- 11-Oct-24 JRD's pick to lead the group faced opposition from satraps unwilling to give up their fiefdoms.

	KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA	Download
	A Man of Conviction with the Art of Placing Unconventional Bets -- 11-Oct-24 Shortly after I lost my father, I received a telephone call. It was from Ratan Tata.

	Avinash Mohananey	Download
	Any Manipulation Via Nominated Members will Raise Doubts -- 10-Oct-24 People of J&K have given a split verdict — Kashmir valley and Muslim-dominated areas of Jammu region on one side and the remaining Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu region on the other.

	Kaushik Mukherjee & Narayan Kedia	Download
	Faster Rights Issue, But Careful Now -- 10-Oct-24 Sebi recently approved norms to enable faster rights issue, which is timeconsuming.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Cooperate, Consolidate, Continue -- 10-Oct-24 In a world beset with multiple crises, wars and disruptions, India and the US have managed to keep their focus on the future.

	Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay	Download
	Do Verdict Ka Dhamaka -- 09-Oct-24 POLLS If Haryana was a Cong own goal, J&K could be an albatross around NC-Cong's neck.

	Prasenjit K Basu	Download
	Lower the Drawbridge Today, RBI -- 09-Oct-24 Headline inflation as measured by CPI has been below the RBI target of 4% y-o-y during July-August 2024. As an inflation-targeting central bank, RBI should, therefore, cut its policy rate by 25 bps after its MPC meeting today.

	Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee	Download
	AI Leading Us Up the Garden Path? -- 08-Oct-24 Humans may be essentially well intentioned. Certainly, technology mavens view themselves in this way.

	Mythili Bhusnurmath	Download
	Sitting on the Cutting Edge -- 07-Oct-24 RBI guv's given enough signals he's not cutting rate — which markets have chosen to ignore.

	Amitabh Kant	Download
	Take Indore Activity All Over -- 07-Oct-24 Cities are key drivers of growth, and with ambitious targets, more than half of India's population is projected to live in urban areas.

	Poonam Khaira Sidhu	Download
	What You're Here, Not Everywhere -- 07-Oct-24 Last month, Delhi High Court upheld the plea of authorities to tax the permanent establishment (PE) of Hyatt International in India even if the global company incurs losses.

	Samidha Sharma	Download
	Clean Up Those Startup Corners -- 04-Oct-24 This week marked the end of a longdrawn legal battle between BharatPe, aonce-rising fintech star valued at $2.7 bn (at its peak), and its cofounder Ashneer Grover.

	Arun Singh	Download
	Anxiety Over Next Phase of Israel-Iran Escalation -- 04-Oct-24 Potential implications on energy, fertiliser prices, shipping, even US presidential polls.

	Anil Nair	Download
	A Diet for Power-Hungry AI -- 04-Oct-24 Limiting energy consumption in AI is vital — look to the frugal human brain for pathways.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	When No. 2s Outshine No. 1s -- 04-Oct-24 Truth be told, the vice-presidential candidates performed better in their debate than their bosses did in the presidential one.

	Kingshuk Chatterjee	Download
	Crossing The Red Line -- 03-Oct-24 ISRAEL-IRAN Brinkmanship by both sides has left the region confronting grave uncertainties

	Maryam Aslany	Download
	Oust the Islamic Republic for Peace -- 03-Oct-24 Iran's attacks on Israel remind the world, once again, of the great danger posed by the mullahs' regime.

	Vivek Aggrawal & Balasubramanian K	Download
	India, a StAR FinCrimefighter -- 03-Oct-24 Public institutions' capacity to design, implement and enforce policies is key to a country's development.

	Manish Banthia	Download
	Non-ferrous Metals Poised to Outshine Gold, Signals Show -- 03-Oct-24 US Yields, Chinese Stimulus Hint At Rebound

	Mudar Patherya	Download
	The Great Stock'n'Awe Show -- 06-Sep-24 Is it the best of times, or the worst of times, or a bit of both, for India's enthused marketwalas?

	Amitabh Kant	Download
	City City Bang Bang & Future-Ready -- 06-Sep-24 Urbanisation and manufacturing have gone hand in hand. In post-World War 2 Japan, Tokyo and Osaka became centres of industrial production.

	Subimal Bhattacharjee	Download
	National Security, Privacy Limited? -- 06-Sep-24 Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's recent arrest in France has reignited the debate on balancing user privacy with national security concerns in encrypted messaging platforms.

	Srinivasan Varadarajan	Download
	Tuck Away, Depositors -- 31-Jul-24 It's the season for blockbuster deposit schemes as banks rush to shore up their deposit base to sustain a higher credit growth trajectory.

	Gautam Adani	Download
	Yellow Brick Road of India's Infra -- 30-Jul-24 Budget 2024 reflects a maturing economy on the rise.

	Anil Nair	Download
	Shed Light on Darkness Visible -- 30-Jul-24 Dark patterns, or deceptive patterns, are design tricks that make you do...

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Kamala Bloom into POTUS? -- 29-Jul-24 Unlike Biden, Harris is feared by Republicans - and clicking the Democrat machine into motion.

	Rohit K Singh	Download
	Singularity Not Dur Ast -- 29-Jul-24 Futurist Ray Kurzweil's latest book, The Singularity is Nearer:

	Parthasarathi Shome	Download
	Hail-a-Tax to Catch a Ride -- 26-Jul-24 Budget introduces many tweaks and reforms, but misses a chance for comprehensive overhaul.

	Purvi Mehta	Download
	Cultivating a Smarter Approach -- 26-Jul-24 Over 77 years of independent India's existence and across a series of budgets,one factor has remained constant;

	Anjana Menon	Download
	(Carefully) Walk the Talk on Infra -- 26-Jul-24 When Bengaluru airport's Terminal 2 opened in late 2022, it shut those up who believed India could never deliver world-class infrastructure.

	Abheek Barua	Download
	Keep Kaam & Carry On -- 25-Jul-24 The budget summons jobs as growth warrior, but rival inflation will need to be overwhelmed.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	DC Back to Its Old India Ways? -- 25-Jul-24 Much water has flowed down the potomac since the hug between Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin.

	Kaushik Shaparia	Download
	Fuelling India's Ride to Developed Economy Stop -- 25-Jul-24 The budget underscores the government's steadfast commitment to growth without compromising oon fiscal discipline.

	S Naren	Download
	Building on Reforms to Keep India on a Clear Growth Path -- 24-Jul-24 India growth story intact, but rational yet conservative approach must.

	Nilesh Shah	Download
	Fiscal Prudence can Help Bring Down the Cost of Capital -- 24-Jul-24 Taming exuberance key to system stability; FM didn't hesitate to act.

	Rajeev Thakkar	Download
	No Gains, No Tax. Markets to Take Tax Hikes in Stride -- 24-Jul-24 Budget doesn't change fundamentals; caution is required.

	Sanjeev Prasad	Download
	Rural Spending Push, Tax Cuts to Spur Consumption -- 24-Jul-24 The govt may pursue further rationalisation in cap gains structure.

	Ashok Gulati & Reena Singh	Download
	Take Rice Off the Buffet Menu -- 22-Jul-24 Repurpose subsidies and offer MSP for other crops to wean Punjab & Haryana from paddy.

	Somnath Mukherjee	Download
	Let's Go Down Agnipath -- 22-Jul-24 Deaths of 18 'Agniveers' in less than a year have reignited the debate on the usefulness of the Agnipath scheme...

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	Why India Comes Up Trump -- 18-Jul-24 If America sees regime change, it may go easy on Russia and take a more hostile stance on China.

	Ateesh Tankha	Download
	Holding a Gun to America's Head? -- 18-Jul-24 'Sic semper tyrannis' - 'Thus always to tyrants' - shouted John Wilkes Booth after fatally shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington DC on April 14, 1865.

	Madan Sabnavis	Download
	Disinvest, But With Right interest -- 18-Jul-24 To disinvest or not to disinvest is a Hamletian conundrum all governments face when drafting a budget.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Resurrection of Son of a Gun -- 16-Jul-24 Fist clenched and blood dripping down his cheek, Donald Trump is now a martyr for the 'cause', no longer an ordinary candidate against Joe Biden.

	Ramnath Krishnan	Download
	2024 Must Show the Way to 2030 -- 16-Jul-24 India is in a sweet macroeconomic spot. Growth rates are higher than all large economics, notwithstanding the conflicting GDP-vs-GVA metrics signals.

	Soumya Kanti Ghosh	Download
	Time to Get Aggro on Agri -- 15-Jul-24 Budget presents an opportunity to usher key policy changes to unshackle our agriculture sector.

	Yashraj Erande	Download
	Debt Collection Just Got Easier -- 15-Jul-24 AI and digital are revolutionising nearly every aspect of our lives.

	Dhiraj Nayyar	Download
	Make Gold, Copper Great Again -- 15-Jul-24 Gold and copper are two of the oldest metals known to humans. They have now acquired a new sheen.

	Amit Kapoor	Download
	Mind the Gap, Then Fix It -- 12-Jul-24 India's LFPR is rising, but there's a mismatch between workforce skills and job market demands.

	Rachana Baid	Download
	How to Avoid MF Mishaps -- 12-Jul-24 Sebi recently launched a probe into Quant Mutual Fund for suspected front-running, an illgegal practice where fund managers place their own orders before executing large trades to profit from the anticipated price movement.

	Ateesh Tankha	Download
	Make Deposits Great Again -- 11-Jul-24 Rather than constrain credit growth through regulatory diktats, the budget should revitalise deposits.

	Sudhir Sitapati	Download
	Have Revadi, Eat It Too -- 11-Jul-24 The economy is doing well, with world beating GDP growth, macroeconomic stability and a steady inflow of foreign capital.

	Sanjeev Choudhary	Download
	Untether the Fuel Nozzle -- 10-Jul-24 When Narendra Modi took the prime ministerial office for the first time in 2014, he set clear goals for the oil and gas sector.

	Neelkanth Mishra	Download
	Chinese Takeaway Plus One -- 08-Jul-24 Take advantage of global pushback, inefficiencies due to Beijing's over-investment.

	Anil Padmanabhan	Download
	Will It Be a 'Congress' Budget, GoI? -- 08-Jul-24 In June, Congress-ruled Telangana announced a farm loan waiver of Rs.31k cr, fulfilling a key poll promise made before the assembly elections last year.

	Maryam Aslany	Download
	Reform Your 'Reformist Iran' Opinion -- 08-Jul-24 On July 6, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected the new president of Iran. Most newspapers reported that a reformist has triumphed.

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	Reincarnate the Tibet Card? -- 04-Jul-24 The Dalai Lama may soon reveal his succession plan, and it'll have geopolitical ramifications.

	Rajesh Shukla	Download
	Agriculture -- 04-Jul-24 On the first day of assuming office for the third time last month, PM Narendra Modi released the 17th instalment of PM-Kisan SAamman Nidhi.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Them Dems Look Lost -- 03-Jul-24 There are times when politics demands radical thinking and a change of tactics, cumbersome and painful as they might be.

	Avinash Mohananey	Download
	Pak, China Op Against TTP Brings Afghan Taliban in Play -- 01-Jul-24 Will Chinese interests in Pakistan henceforth be more secure or insecure?; Afghan Taliban and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan are joined at the hip.

	Boria Majumdar	Download
	ANATOMY OF A CATCH -- 01-Jul-24 Suryakumar Yadav's boundary dismissal of David Miller is a genius moment of sporting history.

	Anand Vasu	Download
	The Boom That Won India the Cup -- 01-Jul-24 Dress it up any way you want. Put lipstick on the most beautiful pigs that you want.

	Agustín Carstens	Download
	Don't Obsess on Inflation Targets -- 01-Jul-24 Central banks have shown they can take forceful action to head off the most dramatic increase in inflation in a generation.

	Shivaji Dasgupta	Download
	It's About Can, Not Cannes -- 28-Jun-24 Advertising must focus on ways to make business and society grow, not just win clubbie awards.

	Rachana Baid & V Shunmugam	Download
	For Our Mutual Benefit -- 28-Jun-24 Asset management behemoth BlackRock's departure from the Indian MF market in 2018 sent shock waves through the financial world.

	Rajeev Kumar	Download
	Pen'n'Paper Just Won't Pass -- 27-Jun-24 Exams like NET and NEET need to stick to the tried-and-tested computer-based test format.

	Dhanendra Kumar	Download
	Dig In Smartly to Grow -- 27-Jun-24 India's natural resources sector - mining, metals, minerals and hydrocarbons -serves as the backbone for manufacturing and infrastructure sectors.

	Nitin Paranjpe	Download
	Zap Our Human Capital to Shape -- 26-Jun-24 It took 60 years since its independence for India to become a $1 tn economy. The next trillion came in seven years, and the third trillion in five.

	Boria Majumdar	Download
	Kite-Runners Between Wickets -- 26-Jun-24 The president of Afghanistan calls me every match day to check on me. The whole country watches IPL religiously because Afghan players are playing in it.

	Kiran Karnik	Download
	For Exams to Pass the Test -- 24-Jun-24 Some suggestions for systemic improvements to minimise, or stop, future NEET-NET-type leaks.

	GR Gopinath	Download
	On GST, KISS and Tell -- 24-Jun-24 Making things simple isn't that simple. In December 2018, as FM, Arun Jaitley had announced that the sun would soon set on the 28% GST slab, except for luxury items.

	Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha	Download
	Off With the Headaches -- 21-Jun-24 By eliminating exemptions in direct taxes, complexities and litigation costs can be removed.

	Amit Kapoor	Download
	Get on the Job of Jobs -- 21-Jun-24 India has a problem that has been baffling economists: its GDP is growing, but without a corresponding increase in employment.

	Nikhil Pahwa	Download
	Stand Up to Breaking News -- 20-Jun-24 AI summaries like Perplexity's pose serious concerns for society and publishers.

	Deepak Mishra	Download
	Make (Indices) in India -- 20-Jun-24 Disconnect between India's rising economy and its falling ranking in global indices is hard to ignore. In the World Economic Forum's latest Global Gender Gap index, for instance, India slipped two spots to rank at 129 out of 146 nations.

	Subimal Bhattacharjee	Download
	iCET On the Right Path -- 19-Jun-24 US NSA Jake Sullivan's two-day visit to Delhi, the first official visit from Washington since the new NDA government took office, has turned out to be a productive one.

	Somnath Mukherjee	Download
	A Manufactured Straw Man -- 17-Jun-24 Manufacturing isn't about jobs but key to balancing trade deficits securing geopolitical security.

	Atul Tiwari	Download
	Time to Reskill the Skilling Plan -- 17-Jun-24 Countries with advanced skilling eco-systems integrate national priorities and industry initiatives through a collaborative framework.

	Rahul Pandita	Download
	We Don't Need 'Israel-Type Solution' -- 17-Jun-24 You must have seen it on TV or on social media - a group of school girls visibly in distress, hyperventilating and crying.

	Samidha Sharma	Download
	Bets Spread Beyond Tech -- 14-Jun-24 A big trend in venture investing is emerging, something that's been simmering for a few years now in the post-Covid era.

	Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee	Download
	Don't Sleep with the Fishes -- 14-Jun-24 Strong ex ante laws can prevent Big Tech dominance, protect privacy and ensure fair competition

	Chetan Ahya	Download
	Big Plate of Supply-Side Up -- 13-Jun-24 Economies can't redistribute their way to prosperity, only growth will lift people out of poverty

	Sanjeev Krishan	Download
	Now, Here's an India Plan -- 13-Jun-24 With a 7%-plus GDP growth rate for the third consecutive year in FY24, India sits on the cusp of advancement while facing several challenges.

	Rajeev Kher & Anshuman Gupta	Download
	Global Standards with FTAs -- 12-Jun-24 India recently concluded a trade and economic partnership agreement (TEPA) with European Free Trade Association (EFTA), a group comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.

	Anand Vasu	Download
	Run, USA, Run, Between The Wickets -- 11-Jun-24 A change of process is needed for Americans beyond expats and PIOs to actually take to cricket.

	Nupur Garg	Download
	PE-VC Sector's Laapataa Ladies -- 11-Jun-24 A heartwarming narrative nestled in India's hinterlands, the underlying message of Kiran Rao's latest film Laapataa Ladies that's been grabbing national attention is the significance of a woman's self-realisation and selfidentity subtly setting in.

	Aditya Sinha	Download
	Miss the Hows, Whys for the Whats? -- 11-Jun-24 AI is increasingly enhancing the speed and scope of discoveries by helping in hypothesis generation, experimental design and analysis of large datasets.

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	The World's Now Oysterer -- 10-Jun-24 A coalition gov representing wider political opinion will add to India's geopolitical heft, not reduce it.

	Neeraj Kaushals	Download
	Less Disliked Will Win -- 07-Jun-24 Americans are saddled with two inglorious presidential candidates: Joe Biden and Donald Trump

	Indrajit Hazra	Download
	Not Just Chaukas & Chhakkas -- 06-Jun-24 After two Lok Sabha iterations, multiplayer politics on the national level gets its mojo back

	Somnath Mukherjee	Download
	New Gov, Up Demand -- 06-Jun-24 As a new government is formed, India's economic backdrop couldn't look better. 8.2% GDP estimates exceed most estimates.

	RAAMDEO AGARWAL	Download
	Politics may be Fluid, but Economics is Still Solid. Time to be Somewhat Greedy -- 05-Jun-24 Inequity investing, it's very important to cut out the noise. On Tuesday, after considering the election results, the Nifty tanked almost 6%.

	NILESH SHAH	Download
	Back to Basics in Uncertain Times; Quality to Outperform Momentum -- 05-Jun-24 The election outcome has come against the market and exit polls estimates.

	JAHANGIR AZIZ	Download
	Macro Policy Choices Unclear, But Work Cut Out on Reforms Agenda -- 05-Jun-24 Domestic competition another focus area for sustained growth

	SONAL VARMA	Download
	India Has Come a Long Way From Fragile 5 Days, Time to Race Ahead -- 05-Jun-24 Today's Indian economy has solid foundations. Balance sheets are clean; business confidence is high; supply-side reforms are progressing and fundamentals are in a good shape.

	Bharati Chaturvedi & Anshu Sharma	Download
	Listen to This Heat Speech -- 04-Jun-24 With not a word throughout the polls on tackling extreme heat, here are some 'campaign' suggestions.

	Jamas Hodivala & Chirag Naik	Download
	Trans-Europe Express -- 04-Jun-24 India's economic growth and expanding role in global trade, exemplified by its recent free trade deal with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), are significant opportunities for trade with the EU.

	Mythili Bhusnurmath	Download
	Now, Bat On a Great Wicket -- 03-Jun-24 Whichever way you cut it, the economy's booming and is a welcome gift for the incoming gov.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Pill for China Plus One -- 03-Jun-24 It's been four years since the pandemic hit and jolted awake the world to its over-dependence on China for all manner of things, most crucially, medical supplies.

	Kiran Karnik	Download
	HURRY, While We're Still Young! -- 30-May-24 India's producing far fewer kids — we need to quickly make the best use of our working-age population.

	Alok Kumar & Balaji Chandramouli	Download
	Overheating Electricity -- 30-May-24 With temperatures reaching record levels in many parts of India, GoI has instructed idling power plants to crank up operations to cope with the impending increase in electricity demand.

	S K Pathak	Download
	Raise a Glass to the Job Creators -- 29-May-24 In a recent interview, Narendra Modi reiterated the need to encourage business and not demonise it.

	Govind Bhattacharjee	Download
	Don't Eat the Rich, It'll Hurt the Rest -- 29-May-24 On May 24, Thomas Piketty's World Inequality Lab released a follow-up note to its earlier published paper, 'Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the BillionaireRaj'.

	Madan Sabnavis	Download
	More Gold for Their Buck -- 28-May-24 Central banks are moving over to the yellow metal to de-dollarise and tackle global uncertainty

	Anil Padmanabhan	Download
	XX Chromosome Factor -- 28-May-24 Regardless of what happens next Tuesday when votes are tallied, the standout trend in the still ongoing general election will be the role of women voters in influencing the outcome.

	Ashok Malik	Download
	Viksit Elections, Bharat? -- 27-May-24 Onus is on EC, and incoming government, to make voting, polling, electioneering less harrowing

	Gopal Srinivasan	Download
	C'mon, You Can Get Your AIF Cert! -- 27-May-24 In a May 13 circular, Sebi mandated that 'at least one key personnel' on the investment team of the 'manager of an alternative investment fund (AIF)' should have NISM (National Institute of Securities Market) certification by passing the NISM Series-XIX-C exam.

	Subhrakant Panda	Download
	Your First 100 Days To-Do List, Gov -- 27-May-24 The 18th Lok Sabha polls are almost done and dusted. A new government will be in place once results are declared on June 4.

	Ateesh Tankha & Syagnik Banerjee	Download
	Enable With Our Own Cable -- 24-May-24 India must loosen the cords tying it too tightly to the pervasive influence of global Big Tech.

	Rohit Kumar Singh	Download
	Protection from AI's Echo Chamber -- 24-May-24 The news of Scarlett Johansson suing OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT-4o, for allegedly replicating her voice without consent, has amplified a growing global concern: who owns our voices in the age of AI?

	Soumya Kanti Ghosh	Download
	Ladies at the Head of the Lines -- 24-May-24 The first five phases of the 7-phase voting in the 18th Lok Sabha elections are done, with the 6th phase tomorrow.

	Anil Nair	Download
	A Techtronic Shift's Coming -- 23-May-24 India's electronic manufacturing service industry is humming - now to stick to the fight path.

	Nirmal Jain	Download
	Another Feather in India's Mcap -- 23-May-24 India has achieved a significant milestone, with its market capitalisation crossing the $5 tn mark on Tuesday, tripling in a decade of robust reforms and economic progress.

	Lubna Kably	Download
	Making Independence Count -- 23-May-24 Sebi recently fined two independent directors (IDs) — a retired air vice marshal and a physical therapist — ?10 lakh each for failing to fulfil their statutory duties as members of their companies' audit committee, and for not safeguarding interests of shareholders.

	Siddharth Shah & Deep Shah	Download
	Fund Pool, More AIFs Than Buts -- 22-May-24 The year is 2015 and the budget speech has just concluded. There is jubilation on Dalal Street.

	Seema Sirohi	Download
	Of More Import Than Just a Port -- 22-May-24 Connectivity is key to meeting, and potentially beating, the competition in a contested world. Countries are doing what they must to create new corridors for commerce.

	Manish Sabharwal & Kartik Narayan	Download
	No Quota, Reform Salary -- 21-May-24 Indira Gandhi would have been amused by Rahul Gandhi's recent comment at an election rally that Congress will use legislation to breach the 50% quota cap if it's voted into office.

	Saibal Dasgupta	Download
	Get Bullish in a China Shop -- 20-May-24 India will have to find ways to reduce India Inc's over-reliance on a belligerent neighbour.

	Karthik Kondepudi	Download
	Stop Cos Stretching the Truth -- 20-May-24 Recently, Patanjali found itself under the scanner of regulatory bodies and Supreme Court in the context of dodgy advertising practices.

	Akshay Rout	Download
	Turnout's Turning Out All Right -- 20-May-24 In the 17 Lok Sabha elections starting from 1951, turnout went past 60% only on seven occasions, of which the 65% mark was crossed only in 2014 and 2019.

	Amit Kapoor	Download
	Not Just a One-Horse Town -- 17-May-24 Empower the opposition to become active political participants.

	Pradeep S Mehta & Amit Dasgupta	Download
	Oz One Out for Students -- 17-May-24 On May 11, Australia announced that it plans to introduce legislation to set an allocation for the maximum number of new international student enrolments education providers can offer.

	Ashok Malik	Download
	The Last Old-Style Election? -- 16-May-24 Digitalisation of society and political communication suggests another future for how India votes.

	Jaspreet Bindra	Download
	Google's Distributing AI Pixie Dust -- 16-May-24 In the good old days, when Microsoft was The Enemy, it had an EEE strategy — embrace, extend and extinguish.

	Harsh V Pant & Prithvi Gupta	Download
	Chabahar, Port of a Smart Call -- 16-May-24 Earlier this week, India and Iran signed a 10-year development and operation contract for Chabahar Port in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman.

	Amitabh Kant & Ajit Pai	Download
	Urbanisation = Growth -- 15-May-24 Since 1947, India has reluctantly traversed the path of urbanisation, largely due to its predominantly agriculturedependent rural population.

	Madhavan Narayanan	Download
	Our Malls Need to Be Melas -- 14-May-24 With online retail increasingly the default option, offline shopping needs to be far more experiential