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BJP's confident despite infighting Aditi Phadnis

Sniping at the senior leadership of the party has reached a new high in the BJP in Karnataka. For the moment, there is a truce, but the party knows the damage it could do ahead of the polls

The contested terrains of lit fests Chintan Girish Modi

Literature festivals aren't truly inclusive, but even so, they offer significant opportunities for networking that people can't afford to lose out on

The UK or Korea: What is the ideal benchmark for the size of India's govts? T N Ninan

There must be a warning in the fact that some of the most problem-ridden middle-income economies have big govts, big deficits, high levels of debt and large-scale corruption, writes T N Ninan

Bailouts and balances: Tough choices ahead for Sri Lanka Harsh V Pant & Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy

Sri Lanka's IMF rescue plan has geopolitical repercussions. The Island nation has entered a difficult terrain with China's expansionist interests and India and Japan's security concerns

Arvind Kejriwal's radical transformation Vir Sanghvi

Kejriwal may have shrewdly given up his secular positions, but he is no Hindutva hero. He has simply been able to sense which way the wind is blowing

Rishi Sunak's real challenge as PM is not economic or political but social T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan

Sunak has to govern a fractious and self-indulgent mob, which has resulted from a near-total breakdown of authority of all sorts

CCP Meet: Big Hu, Small Hu and the who's who Anurag Viswanath

Here's what we have learnt about China's emerging trajectory and ideology under Xi Jinping from observing the events before and after the Party Congress

The overvalued rupee: Managing exchange rate volatility and forex reserves Jaimini Bhagwati

Since the 1950s, a cocktail of partisan domestic interests has resulted in the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian government favouring an overvalued rupee

Not a pre-election Budget, please! A K Bhattacharya

The forthcoming Budget should plan a faster fiscal deficit reduction, instead of embarking on a spending spree

Back to the 1950s: State to lead investment and higher taxes to fund it T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan

The reason for higher taxation is the inability of the private sector to invest on the scale required to satisfy the minimum thresholds of political and social needs. We are back to the 1950s

Rajasthan's Shehri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana Mahesh Vyas

Rajasthan has a high unemployment rate of around 25%. In September 2022, the unemployment rate was 23.8%

Magazines: On a comeback trail? Indrajit Gupta

As a genre, magazine brands may have been given up for dead. Yet the chances of a revival aren't exactly far-fetched

Bear market patterns: What investors should know about trend reversal Akash Prakash

Stock markets will turn, even with all the economic news still being negative, except in two scenarios

Sorry, Mr Guterres, no one is listening Bharat Bhushan

With the nation in perpetual election mode, perhaps the Opposition, too, is convinced that reacting to criticism like that of Guterres will not get them a single extra vote

RBI optimistic on the state of economy TNC Rajagopalan

Bank credit is increasing by double digits and the sustained surge in goods and service tax collections is signalling growing formalisation of the economy