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Ashok Mitra

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Business Commentary:
• Private sector is no angel, so govt has business to be in business
• Four forces and an axis that ripped WTO asunder
• Second time unlucky
• Stop the caretaker Planning Commission's mischief!
• Income disparities in India
• Roadblock to social and economic advance
• Liberalisation as the acid that eats away at the moral fibre
• Open market in one pan, political and social costs in the other
• The P N Haksar story
• Onion crisis may be precursor of a 'grand' future
• The bear-eat-bull world
• States' reckless borrowing from international FIs is laden with risk
• Integrity Inc
• Vajpayee's economic advisory council: Not a conclave of economists
• Kashmir is as good as gone from the Republic of India
• Justice denied
• India, a vassal state?
• Dial 356 for murder
• BJP will kneel before World Bank, and tout it as swadeshi
• When the rupee bombs
• Indian patriotism is now judged by the extent of one's expressed abhorrence for the LTTE
• Can the PM keep his word?
• National integrity can be ensured only by coming to terms with a permanent state of dishevelment
• If we do not have the courage to praise Iraq, we should at least have shame at our cowardly behaviour
• 'An economically weak nation cannot but cut a sorry figure if it presumes to take charge of the affairs of the world'
• We can still escape the fate that has struck the erstwhile Asian Tigers
• The choice of members for the Prasar Bharati board betrays sectarianism of the worst order, as if New Delhi is India and India is New Delhi
• Indian polity is in deep trouble
• To hell with reforms!
• 'The fight against the RSS is an ethical confrontation; to invoke Article 356 for the purpose would have been scandalous and depressing'
• A commission, before it proceeded to draw up criminal proceedings against others, must recommend Indira Gandhi's posthumous prosecution
• Where some people seem to be extra-special
• The United Front of Confusion
• Govt's fiscal plan means give more to the rich,
   squeeze the deprived
• The PM cannot shun criminals because his survival
   depends on them
• False gods of cricket: reflection of India's plight
• It is class bias which accepts the Gandhis and not the Yadavs
• Indian leaders have a stake in the confusion that prevails
• Protests against malfeasance and criminal misconduct grow
   fainter and fainter every day
• The FM has a plea: the West should despatch a 1,000
   reincarnations of the East India Company to enslave India
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