A K Bhattacharya
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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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A K Bhattacharya: The IAS strikes back
Under attack from the investigative agencies, the civil service is asserting its right to be heard
A K Bhattacharya: How Mr Mitra fixed Bengal's finances
Amit Mitra may have stopped talking about relaxing rules for foreign investment in India, but there is no dilution of his commitment to the cause of fiscal consolidation in West Bengal
A K Bhattacharya: Code of conduct conundrum
Could the Election Commission have allowed govts to take decisions but curbed them from publicising their steps for electoral benefits?
A K Bhattacharya: Prudent states, profligate Centre
Had the states not fulfilled their commitment on fiscal consolidation, the overall fiscal deficit would have widened
Governance at right angles
A former cabinet secretary's take on what ails governance in India is neither path-breaking nor particularly insightful
A K Bhattacharya: The other side of an outlay cut
If the government has to take its public expenditure reform plan to its logical conclusion, the next step should be to reduce the headcount of ministries that have seen a cut in their central Plan out
What they don't want us to read
What is there in Wendy Doniger's book that has raised the hackles of the Hindu right wing
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A K Bhattacharya: Terms and conditions
The extension granted to U K Sinha shows that the govt has ensured its financial regulators are in place before the nation enters election mode
A K Bhattacharya: A three-point test for UPA I & II
It seems the UPA's 10 years saw little tax reform, a clear deviation from the path of fiscal discipline and no clear strategy to prudently manage the government's expenditure
A K Bhattacharya: Participative democracy pangs
Kejriwal's brand of decentralised decision-making and committed bureaucracy means that civil servants are in for a rough ride
A K Bhattacharya: The spectre of CAG
Impending audits of telecom service providers and Delhi's power suppliers point to the failure of sector regulators to address consumer concerns and governance issues
A K Bhattacharya: AAP's good politics, bad economics
It is time Arvind Kejriwal drew a connection between the economic needs of the common man whose cause he proposes to champion and the kind of economic policies that he has proposed so far
A K Bhattacharya: The art of forward defence
Heightened judicial and CBI scrutiny saw bureaucrats adroitly devise ways to avoid sole responsibility for decision-making in 2013
A K Bhattacharya: What Mr Kejriwal can learn from V P Singh
The AAP chief should mull the implications of making poll promises and the lessons to be learned from V P Singh's failure to punish guilty in the Bofors case
A K Bhattacharya: Let's get down to business, please
It's time Indian parliamentarians learnt to view global economic frameworks without the narrow prism of domestic politics
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