Letters: Business as usual

Going by evidence, one can say that owning media does not do that much for the allegedly non-serious entities Sevanti Ninan A file photo of Saradha group chairman Sudipta Sen. Also Read Is the indignation over the increasingly variegated and ...

Bill Clinton's address had lessons for both Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, says T N Ninan The media, if not the country, has been saturated with coverage of the speeches by Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi over the past couple of weeks. NaMo vs RaGa, to use the print media's shorthand (less damning than 'Pappu vs Feku' of cyberland), has supposedly set the stage for the coming "big fight". Privileged but callow youth vs tried and tested administrat#8744 or well-intentioned idealist vs ...

'Food security' will, unfortunately, become a giant boondoggle, says T N Ninan.  Tucked away in a long Budget speech by Amit Mitra, West Bengal's finance minister, is a little nugget of information: more than seven million bogus ration cards were cancelled in the state last year. So even if all 18 million families in the state had on paper been given cards, 40 per cent of the cards were fake. This when the government hopes that Parliament will pass a law to distribute some 50 million ...

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Most people don't know that India is an agricultural power in world markets, says T N Ninan. Most people are only dimly aware that there is a new revolution taking place in Indian agriculture. Think agriculture and you are likely to think of farmer suicides, loan write-offs by the government, endless subsidies and widespread malnutrition. All those are relevant images, but there is also a lot of good news, which as in the way of such things tends to get ignored. The government's latest ...

Until China frees its financial markets, it will continue to suffer from corruption and rent-seeking Nitish plays the markets Aditi Phadnis The Bihar chief minister keeps his options open and tries to preserve his political capital Fishing in troubled waters ...

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