T N Ninan: High-speed folly

The rupee has stabilised and gained ground marginally in recent weeks, like some other emerging market currencies. The trade deficit has shrunk, and along with it the current account deficit. International confidence in the Indian economy has grown ...

Brazil got downgraded last week by Standard & Poor's - the fate that India escaped last summer. Russia has seen $40-50 billion flow out of the country in the first quarter of this year, on top of $60 billion in 2013. India, in contrast, has seen ...

Apropos T N Ninan's column "Hope or hype" (Weekend Ruminations, March 29), with next to no growth expected in the developed world and China showing clear signs of slowing down, global financial investors, manufacturing and trading companies have no ...

Clothes make the man, wrote Shakespeare, whereas Henry Higgins believed that it was your English accent that told everyone where you came from. Higgins had a point: people from Tamil Nadu and Punjab will never speak the Queen's language in the same ...

It is remarkable how quickly the defence narrative has changed, from that of a country busy re-equipping its armed forces - and getting the moniker of being the world's largest arms importer - to one whose navy operates with death-trap submarines, ...

The difference between domestic and international opinion on India is too stark to be missed

's Leftist phase (1969-73) have a longish list of the legislation that she left behind as a problematic legacy. This includes restrictive and rigid labour laws and the nationalisation of major banks. The first has arguably come in the way of expanding ...

If P Chidambaram's Budget speech was an hour-long attempt at presenting his government's and his own record in a good light - as he is perfectly entitled to do - such a "marketing" effort invites the recounting of an alternative retelling of the ...

The question in Maruti's relationship with its parent company, Suzuki, is whether the Japanese company intends to treat its minority Indian shareholders fairly. There is no corporate barrier to unfair treatment because Suzuki has majority ownership ...