A V Rajwade, in an op-ed in the Business Standard complains that the economy’s changing, but leaders aren’t. He covers many of the things we’ve discussed here on IEB — among them, the re-emergence of manufacturing & the (somewhat) increased interest in agriculture. However, to me the most interesting portion was this tidbit […]
Whenever I surf the desi TV channels (which isn’t too often, given my lack of interest in TV time), there’s always a filmi-awards show on. Talk about self-adulation…
The blogistan seems to be free from this awards hyper-inflation….so far. Thanfully. The only ones I know of are the Indibloggies. […]
Anyone who has tried to provide a plan to a minister for implementing reform (market-based ones) in the public sector will soon run into the thorny issue of labour unions. It is a tough nut to crack! Ironically, West Bengal seems to have have found a way, and that too by making somebody else pay […]
As a firm believer in the idea that - inside or outside the home, child or adult - you should always clean up your own mess, I have only one response to offer in the face of this news: send it back!
An asbestos-laden French warship en route for an Indian scrapyard will continue its journey […]
IEB’s posted earlier about the woeful state of education in India. On that note, Sebastian Mallaby has an interesting column in the Washington Post about changes afoot in India’s educational system, courtesy the private sector…
..the Indian school system…has experienced a huge growth in private provision. Since the early 1990s the percentage of 6-to-14-year-olds attending […]
“What’s good for General Motors is good for America” said the the auto-makers’ executives during its heyday, in the 1960s. Not necessarily true — then, and now.
However, is it possible that what’s good for India is good for the US?
Charles Wheelan, in his Naked Economist column on Yahoo, thinks so and cites […]
Michael Higgins compares the India he saw in 2005 to the India of his previous visit, back in 1995
In 1995, there were signs that India was at the cusp of some development. My wife went on and on about all of the changes she saw. Now in 2005, I could see some changes first hand. […]
Pakistan and Sri Lanka develop cold feet
It remained on the back burner since it was first mooted in 1995. And then suddenly two years ago, subcontinental summiteers announced that they too, like everyone else in the alphabet soup business, would form a free trade zone. And within two years. That is a blistering pace for […]