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A K Bhattacharya

A K Bhattacharya

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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Updated On : 06 Aug 2013 | 10:00 PM IST

Are we headed to the IMF?

A rapidly deteriorating balance of payments may warrant that but the political climate is too risky

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Updated On : 28 Jul 2013 | 10:59 PM IST
Updated On : 23 Jul 2013 | 10:02 PM IST

The next RBI governor

If the past is any guide, Arvind Mayaram is the front runner among the three reported candidates for central bank governorship

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Updated On : 14 Jul 2013 | 10:36 PM IST
Updated On : 09 Jul 2013 | 11:03 PM IST

No comments, please

Tackling the daily movement of the rupee is a task better left to Mint Road rather than North Block

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Updated On : 30 Jun 2013 | 11:00 PM IST
Updated On : 25 Jun 2013 | 9:46 PM IST

Manto eternal outsider

Historian Ayesha Jalal's biography of the writer captures the angst of a sensitive man forced to make choices that left him disillusioned

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Updated On : 21 Jun 2013 | 11:14 AM IST

Reshuffle, smartly

A Cabinet reshuffle aimed at streamlining the central ministries could help speed up long-overdue administrative reform

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Updated On : 16 Jun 2013 | 10:40 PM IST

No end to the BJP's woes

Rarely have the fortunes of a political party been so inversely related to the future of a few of its key leaders

No end to the BJP's woes
Updated On : 12 Jun 2013 | 12:55 PM IST

Deficit miracles

The finance minister has achieved some impressive fiscal consolidation. Maybe he should raise the bar for next year

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Updated On : 02 Jun 2013 | 10:18 PM IST
Updated On : 29 May 2013 | 6:41 PM IST

Not a dual power centre

The removal of the law and railway ministers could have been a display of the prime minister's ultimate sign of authority. But this was presented by the Congress as part of a joint decision taken by D

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Updated On : 22 May 2013 | 2:06 PM IST

Corrupting the PPP model

Outsourcing government services to the private sector will work only if the system is monitored properly

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Updated On : 19 May 2013 | 9:56 PM IST

Badal's business case

The era of governance by committees and low-priced resources is over, says the Punjab deputy chief minister

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Updated On : 05 May 2013 | 10:43 PM IST

The Opposition mess

In the UPA's second tenure, the conduct of the Opposition, which should have offered an alternative, has been no less disquieting

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Updated On : 30 Apr 2013 | 11:42 PM IST

Not so parliamentary

The Joint Parliamentary Committees cannot be expected to serve their intended purpose unless national interests are put above partisan politics

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Updated On : 21 Apr 2013 | 10:36 PM IST

Evolution of a Sanskritist

Unrestrained by the need to address a foreign audience, Wendy Doniger seeks to answer all the questions Hindus might have about their religion in an impressive collection of essays

Evolution of a Sanskritist
Updated On : 18 Apr 2013 | 1:08 PM IST
Updated On : 16 Apr 2013 | 10:04 PM IST

Central parsimony

Financially strapped, the Centre is increasingly leaning on the states to pick up a larger share of welfare schemes

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Updated On : 07 Apr 2013 | 10:48 PM IST