New Business Families

“If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme…

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STC-Anatomy of A strike

Inscrutable are the ways of public-sector trade unions. The Federation of the State Trading Corporation Employees’ Unions (FSTCEU) lived up to this image when it…

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Spoil Of Sycophancy

For all those journalists who think they belong to a thankless and poorly-paid profession, there is hope on the horizon. It comes from the latest…

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Laldenga’s War-Dance

Events In Mizoram seems to be moving Inexorably towards a resumption of Insurgency The cease-fire agreement, which came into effect at midnight on July 31…

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Labour – Making a Point

Rarely had an event invited such determined and concerted action by Union Government: When the 24-hour national strike called by the National Campaign Committee (NCC)…

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The Wages of Wrath

On January 18 the strike by 2.5 lakh textile workers in Bombay’s 60 mills will complete a year; 25,000 of these workers in eight mills…

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ON COARSE

As we prepare to vote, lots of loose talk lies ahead If you believe in the theory of evolution, as I do, then you will…

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Too big to fail

Independence Day is a good excuse for some economic chest-thumping. We should be proud that lndia is a free-enterprise democracy. Imagine the world’s burden if…

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Jaat Kahan Ho

Some day extraterrestrials will thrill to Raag Bhairavi in outer space   Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill…

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