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T N Ninan: The urge to control

It is a pity that the Modi government's initial reformist impulses have given way to interventionist ones

T N Ninan: Bofors redux?

Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute

T N Ninan: Action vs planning

T N Ninan: Cheerful ads

Government ads often present a picture that has been put together by using selectively highlighted claims

T N Ninan: Ready for a slowdown?

The unhappy truth is that we may be worse off at the end of 2015 than at the start

T N Ninan: Now corporate paralysis?

Public investment financed by the government's own or borrowed resources do not provide an adequate answer to the problem of relatively low investment

T N Ninan: India's Cinderella syndrome

Kejriwal's last-minute desperation to clear Delhi's air before people choke to death shows India's tendency to not act until the last minute

T N Ninan: The sun gets brighter

It is possible that an important stress-point for the economy - oil prices - has become less of a risk than at any other time since 1970

T N Ninan: Narendra Modi's eighteen months

While it is reasonable to expect that the over-all tempo will pick up in 2016, not enough "structural and institutional" change-claimed by Mr Modi-is on display to justify the boast of a "take-off sta

T N Ninan: The tax puzzle

If the surge in tax collections is sustainable, the finance minister has the elbow room to shoot for a fiscal deficit that is significantly lower than the Budget's 3.9 per cent of GDP, or to bump up

T N Ninan: A conference in Harare

India was to hand over NAM chairmanship to Zimbabwe, which had gained independence a few years earlier

T N Ninan: Mr Modi and Dr Singh

There must be a way of combining sensible policy, based on a certain worldview and an agenda, with a bias for action

T N Ninan: Mr Modi and Mrs Gandhi

Narendra Modi is the first PM after Indira Gandhi with the power and possibly the intention to change the Indian system

T N Ninan: Will India slip into China's shadow?

The world wants India to be a counterweight to China, but so far India has not measured up

T N Ninan: The new dread-word

As the world slows down, the International Monetary Fund has been steadily reducing its growth forecasts

T N Ninan: Now for the reality play

What the government needs to do, perhaps, is to spell out an action agenda for the next four months, in the run-up to the 2016 Budget

T N Ninan: Surviving in Bihar

What do young people do in the state? Basically, they try to get away

T N Ninan: Seventh, after seven

T N Ninan: Steel's a steal

Higher import duties on steel improve the bottom lines of steel-makers, but depress those of downstream users of steel

T N Ninan: Street Politics

There is substance to the argument that place names are part of a city's sense of itself and of its history, and therefore that changes should not be made lightly