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April 29, 2006
The cost of road tragedies
It's debatable if life is really cheap in India. At any rate death is not. It might come easy as the old folksong goes but it isn't cheap if it comes before its time.

RIP: Reforms, ideology, politics
When economists are foxed, they resort to a well-known defence: everything depends on everything else, so one cannot identify what caused what; hence, one has an identification problem.

Now India's car success story
India has succeeded in services, and failed in manufacturing. So goes the popular wisdom. But that may be about to change.

April 28, 2006
7 myths about reservation
No one in India objected to SC/ST reservations because it was based on a patently moral principle. Everyone, except the OBCs, is objecting to OBC reservation because it is based on an equally obvious political consideration.

Business lessons for India & Pakistan
By developing trade with Pakistan, we can gain more because we have a much bigger and much more competitive manufacturing base.

India: A hotspot for micro finance
For the whole of last month all those connected with the micro finance industry have been very concerned about developments in Andhra Pradesh and how the state government and the RBI would respond to them.

April 27, 2006
The RBI is barking up the wrong tree
The share of housing loans is still very small, and the profile of borrowers shows the level of speculation is low.

April 26, 2006
Quota: A cure worse than the disease
Reservation is not an atonement of past sins and should not be used to compensate for the damage inflicted in the past.

4 great marketing strategies
A primer on effective rural marketing.

April 22, 2006
You can't wish away reservation
If reservation in education has helped to some degree, so can reservation of jobs in the private sector.

Job reservation: What India Inc should do
Corporate India needs to be careful about the position it takes on the issue of reserving jobs for people from the depressed castes.

Major changes await Indian banks
By the end of the decade, the share of government-owned banks will fall significantly, and such shifts need to be factored into policy.

April 21, 2006
Do economic boycotts work?
Economic boycotts do not affect nations or their rulers, they only make life miserable for the general and innocent populace.

What's there to reform in labour laws?
There is no single solution to the core issue of how to balance the particular with the general in labour law.

April 20, 2006
How to tap the leadership pool
The Tata Management Training Centre has tied up with a global institution to study leadership processes in Indian companies.

B-schools don't teach how to handle change
It doesn't matter if you hire the best talent, have inspiring vision orientation and bring in the best consultants.

April 19, 2006
How to build a successful brand
The Harley-Davidson example is proof that it's not the product, it's the process.

April 17, 2006
The SBI strike and banking autonomy
If there is a need for Delhi to loosen its control over PSU banks, there is also a case for improving governance.

Punting on the credit policy
If peer pressure is a factor in determining monetary policy, the odds are in favour of the RBI retaining its hawkish stance.

April 15, 2006
Education quotas are unfair
The one social group that needs affirmative action (not quotas) is the Muslims; but strangely, it is politically incorrect to talk about it.

Billionaire Club? A tough task ahead
It is a safe bet that in our Billionaire Club 10 years from now, the proportion of first- generation members will have come down from what it is today.

Rich, famous and boring Indians
Indian billionaires are, individually and collectively, devoted to their respective spouses and families.

April 12, 2006
Lessons I learnt from the Gita
The book teaches one to do one's duty without expecting anything in return.

April 11, 2006
B-schools just teach 'theory'
B-schools were not emphasising enough on the transition from "management education" to "business management".

Did you know you spend less on food now?
The share of expenses on food has fallen by more than a fifth in five years.

April 10, 2006
Mandal Redux
'Any deterioration in the quality of Indian college graduates can put India's nascent economic growth story at risk.'

Washington's unemployed
The IMF and the World Bank are discovering that their role in today's financial world is shrinking.

April 08, 2006
The cost of starting a business in India
Most small Indian businesses are actually real estate plays

Solution's in the mail
Post offices and their apathy

April 07, 2006
Indian media finally comes of age
We are moving into an age of multimedia consumption. FRAMES only strenghtens this view.

April 06, 2006
Gender inequality in boardrooms
Seventy years. That's what it will take for there to be as many women as men on company boards.

Govt must stop pampering the SBI
The best way to resolve the issue will be to raise the pension ceiling by factoring in the rise in inflation rates and not by raising the pensions to the level of other public sector banks.

India's locomotive for growth
Letting markets set prices in affluent countries is different from doing so in developing countries.

The education export market
If the envisaged private initiative in education delivers quality, we could wean away some of this market from the US.

April 05, 2006
'India will soon have an integrated energy policy'
It would be prudent for developing economies to start using new technologies for enhancing their energy security

How Bangalore scores over Mumbai
Bangalore has or will find all the solutions to its many infrastructure problems.

Biggest thing I learnt outside B-school
The universal Karmic law - "what you put into the universe will someday return to you" - applies to all aspects of life.

April 04, 2006
Of global brands & Asian consumers
Asian consumers look at brands from the West is different from the way the West looks at its own brands.

Why we need the IMF
With advanced emerging markets more engaged, perhaps industrial countries will see more value in the IMF as a forum for dialogue.

The rise of the Indian pharma cos
They are licensing in patented products so as to keep their facilities going, and addressing the growing Indian market.

April 03, 2006
Why a home office is best
There are other advantages to the home office. Top of the list is the absence of phone calls from PR agencies. My wardrobe consists of nothing, or a towel in summer, and tracksuits in winter.

April 01, 2006
Why real estate prices are so high
Even those who live in expensive homes can never forget that they dwell in a seriously malfunctioning system.

Kolkata gets a new US resident
A sign of growing US interest in eastern India is Amcham's latest chapter in the city.

Dabhol power won't be cheap!
With Dabhol costs at Rs 7 a unit or more, the old questions of the consumers' willingness to pay and inter-regional transmission links come up.

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