Companies are starved of credit because the government is borrowing too much of household savings to fund its social welfare agenda. They are thus forced to seek credit outside the country.

In the immediate priority areas of strategic interest to India — its own neighbourhood, the Gulf region, the US and China — the EU is almost irrelevant, writes Shashi Tharoor.

Sufi poet Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana wrote: “Rahiman dhaga prem ka mat todo chatkai; tute se fir na jude, jude gaanth par jai.” (Do not snap the tender thread of love; once snapped, it will not rejoin and even if the ends are tied, a knot would remain.)

If there is one thing that makes life worth living, it is love. On the physical plane, a juggernaut of forces and factors determine the balanced or compulsively imbalanced continuity of the goings-on in the cosmos. But isn’t it love that invigorates all creatures.

To me, my prayer is a modus of diverting my mind towards Him.

 The US is on the verge of an energy boom that can both re-energise the economy and solve global fiscal problems.

After his political success, Barack Obama now needs a remarkable policy success.

 The US is on the verge of an energy boom that can both re-energise the economy and solve global fiscal problems.

After his political success, Barack Obama now needs a remarkable policy success.

Losing a portfolio is disappointing for ministers. But losing a ministry with a glamorous brand ambassador is even more heart-breaking, as rural development Jairam Ramesh learnt after the recent Cabinet reshuffle.