Figuring Things Out

  I guess it does not take much of marketing to sell a fish that evokes images of kisses, mountain streams and rainbows.  The rainbow trout,...

I am now in a South Kolkata state-of-mind.  It took me a couple of days to get used this, and it is so, so different from the mental framewo...

Ancient cities have a life of their own. We read stories about them and build a certain picture in our imagination. Ground realitie...

"When we were children we used to play here and drink water straight from the river - it was so clean!" The best years of Kabu...

According to a recent issue of the Economist, India's financial health is in trouble.  Rising international oil prices and a decline...

Recent newspaper headlines proclaimed that India is now poised to overtake Japan as the “second largest producer of steel in the worl...

Staying up-to-date is a quite a challenge these days. There is so much information floating around in the print media, and in cyberspace t...

This has been a long standing mystery: What is holding back the first major India-Japan defence hardware transaction - the sale of Shin...

A day before Brexit, there has been a sharp drop in the number of shrill op-ed's and commentaries on "Rexit" - the exit of R...

How did Finland become home to Nokia? On the face of it seems like an unlikely picture - a frigid, Nordic country as large as Thailand ...

In "The Idea of India", Sunil Khilnani notes that under Nehru’s rule: "...the state was enlarged, its ambitions inflated,...

All of us like to feel special. If you are in India and if you happen to one of the states in the union, being marked out as 'special...

By all accounts, India is sitting right now on a "once in a life-time" opportunity. For the next twenty years it will have the la...

H. Kuroda, the new governor of Bank of Japan made a dramatic announcement today. Instead of trying to keep the interest rates low, the ba...

India plants rice over an area of about 43 million ha and produces around 125 million tonnes of rice, which is over 43 percent of national ...

Over the past four days, both houses of the Indian Parliament have been debating the need to permit Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in mul...

One has heard of tea-tasters but it is hard to believe that at one time, there were also professional crude-oil tasters. In the 19th ...

In a recent article, M. Sabarwal pointed out that the recent surge of  worker-strikes in the Indian manufacturing industry (Orient Craft, ...

. An interesting article in the Economist drew my attention back to Small & Medium Enterprises and to the combination of factors that m...

The Indian Patent Office does not allow patenting of software-related inventions. Given the size of the Indian software industry, what is th...