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T N Ninan: Chinese bearing gifts

China's $24-bn loan to Bangladesh has more of a strategic than economic intent

T N Ninan: TCS vs Garment exporters

Success of TCS and Infosys is killing exporters of garments and other manufactured products

T N Ninan: Banks that don't lend

Nationalised banks' credit growth was just 1.4% in the first half of 2016, compared with 25.9% in private sector banks

T N Ninan: TV anchors go to war

Following the attack on an army camp in Uri, reporting has given way to posturing, intelligent commentary to absurd warmongering

T N Ninan: A few stray comments

Observations and questions about key developments, such as Reliance Jio's escapade & AAP minister's sexcapade

T N Ninan: The discipline of global rules

We suffer from lack of accountability but new pressure points are being created by the fact of India becoming a more integrated part of the world economy and global systems.

T N Ninan: The danger within

While India's long-term crisis has to do with water and institutional atrophy, the more pressing issue is the lack of jobs

T N Ninan: Not a good 'idea', sirji

Investors suspect that the proposed Grasim-Nuvo merger is to ensure the Idea telecom business gets the money to take on RJio

T N Ninan: Arvind Kejriwal has much to meditate on

Arvind Kejriwal would do well to consider some moderation before another rap on the knuckles by a court, or a political setback, knocks the wind out of him

T N Ninan: The fathers of success

In a replay of the Rashomon sequence, each of the men from Hindustan looks at the elephant from his particular angle, ignoring or not fully aware of what else was cooking

T N Ninan: Of crises - visible and invisible

This government will be at its half-way mark soon; even assuming better-than-usual execution, the Modi package is underwhelming

T N Ninan: Subbarao tells all

The former RBI governor has chosen to be frank about his run-ins with finance ministers and comes when governor's term is about to end in the midst of controversy

T N Ninan: Low risk, low return

The low-risk approach to economic issues and reform will therefore remain one that seeks to bring change without pain, create winners without having losers

T N Ninan: Modi's ministers

Apart from a handful of ministers, rest of the cabinet ministers seem steeped in a stasis

T N Ninan: Clean up, or fudge?

RBI governor has forced the banks to start cleaning up their books, but there is still more dirt under the carpet

T N Ninan: Rhetoric and reality

Mr Modi has not admonished members of his team who have stepped out of line with the promptness or conviction that he has moved on other issues

T N Ninan: Look beyond GDP

While raising a cheer on account of faster growth, the govt should be conscious that much more needs to be done on a broader front

T N Ninan: Garments...at last!

After more than a decade of lost opportunities in the textile and garments business, the sector has at last got the attention it needs and deserves.

T N Ninan: Oh, for a crisis!

Prime Minister Modi seems to have turned his face away from the business of introducing serious reform

T N Ninan: Re-inventing the Congress

The party's response to what has become an existential crisis seems to be to turn to Priyanka Gandhi-as though the solution to dynastic incompetence is more dynasty, not less