Low Cost Rules

You won’t get the lounges with pile carpeting, deep sofas, canapĂ©s and laptop docks. You don’t have the noise and to-do of Mamatadi’s Duronto non-stop…

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Hollowing Out

Governments cynically scoop out value from their own companies Privatisation will work only when the government sells more than 50 per cent of a state-owned…

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Sell Sell Sell

The government must take courage and embrace privatisation Two numbers speak eloquently about our schizophrenia over privatisation: the Rs 2.11 trillion ($32.5 billion) package announced…

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KILLING ME SOFTLY

He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odour nor perfume—just strange,…

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APOCALYPSE NOW

Kanpur, Faridabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Patna, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Muzaffarpur. Nine of the world’s ten most polluted cities listed by the World Health Organization are in…

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THE AIR IS THICK

The Good news is that both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress seem to have finally woken up to the looming catastrophe of air pollution…

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