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Top jobs in companies are still reserved for family scions while it is difficult to get a senior position in government unless you have climbed the civil service ladder
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The Indian government should not be lenient on the growing Maoist menace rather it should go on a full-scale offensive and crush the rebellion
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The mirror neuron research manages to bring together neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and sociology
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The entertainment business is having a boom time despite the economic slowdown, thanks to the brisk selling of imaginary mayhem on a massive global scale
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Even as developing nations like India and China are under intense pressure to follow climate change policies unsuitable to their growth, it is actually the duty of US to lead by example as the greatest polluter
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Most economic reforms of the big push kind are politically difficult, but there is still ample scope for smaller but useful steps
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The US-China imbalance story is a major factor behind last year’s financial panic, as also a major solution to the world’s ills. It now forms the backdrop to US President Barack Obama’s visit to China this week
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Raj Thackeray’s politics invites either passionate defence or condemnation. It is time to clinically take apart the MNS’ pernicious agenda by drawing people to the centre
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Unlike the American consumers, Asian consumers are a mixed lot behaving in a multitude of patterns and may not always fit into the theories and experiments of economic pundits
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A Pakistan sans its nuclear deterrent will be no match for India. The US will not let that happen
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The race to build ever cheaper cars shows that India could potentially redefine the economics of many key industries by clever engineering and radical redesign
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The concern that oil may have hit its “peak”, leading to higher prices, stares India on one front. On the other, the government insists on tightly regulating oil prices
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By letting Delhi airport’s private developer off the hook, the new airports regulator is inviting danger that government inefficiency may be traded for crony behaviour
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In India, the climate change debate continues to be mostly focused on emission cuts. It is time our policymakers looked at the fallout on security, if glaciers melt or refugees pour in
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We don’t share some of the grand beliefs of the gold bugs. But if central banks continue to print money, we won’t be surprised if gold prices continue to rise beyond this week’s record
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has done well to bring financial sector reform back on the agenda in a speech on Sunday. But the tricky part of financial sector reform is sequencing
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Warren Buffett has built his reputation as the modern world’s greatest investor as much for what he hasn’t done as for what he has, as his latest buys in railways
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The world has come a long way since the fall of Berlin Wall two decades ago; communism collapsed, the Soviet empire imploded, the World Trade Center was destroyed by Islamic terrorists and India, China and Russia gained economic significance
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India would prefer to stick to a tight monetary regime and arrests all the bubbles building up in the stock market and in real estate
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The US Federal Reserve’s policies of keeping interest rates low may again become a problem for emerging economies, as capital flows pick up
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