Category Archives: economy

Is the Wolf Near?

Posted on May 3, 2008 by indra

Is slowdown a bogey created by media or by crazy economists? On a fine morning, the printed media report all the good news. Indians are shelling out more for entertainment. India’s IT, ITeS revenue is estimated to climb up to … Continue reading →

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Nitish Kumar and Bihar

Posted on May 2, 2008 by indra

Nitish Kumar under the banyan tree where Lalu tied up a ghost to trouble Nitish. Saba Naqvi Bhaumik in latest issue of ‘Outlook’ has written pretty highly about Nitish Kumar. Unfortunately, she has compared Nitish’s performance with one who damaged … Continue reading →

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India’s Middle Class

Posted on April 29, 2008 by indra

Vir Sanghvi has come out with some realistic and revealing findings in his weekly column in Hindustan Times on April 27, based on his exposures to the interviews of the participants for audition of Shahrukh Khan’s latest quiz programme ‘Kya … Continue reading →

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Inflation- Traders Laughing, Consumers Perplexed

Posted on April 25, 2008 by indra

Inflation is really affecting us, particularly the retired persons. I am sure it must be affecting most of the salaried employees too, as it happened with us in late sixties, when the inflation suddenly rose very drastically. I wonder who … Continue reading →

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Innovating India

Posted on April 20, 2008 by indra

It may be a coincidence that while ‘Business Today’ issue has published ‘India’s most innovative companies ‘, Business Week has special coverage of ‘The World’s Most Innovative Companies’. As very appropriately said, “the most innovative companies don’t do different things, … Continue reading →

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Surprisingly Exhilarating India

Posted on April 17, 2008 by indra

India’s GDP may grow 9.5% in 2008-09, if we believe the forecast of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy CMIE. The capacity additions will drive the surge in growth. Is it also a sycophancy of a sort, as projections by … Continue reading →

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Prospective IITians- An Appeal

Posted on April 10, 2008 by indra

It is yet another year for IIT-JEE aspirants. TV news channels are full with advisory programmes for those appearing for examinations. Special programmes have sponsorships from the mills at Kota that has become a town known to successfully provide the … Continue reading →

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Watch ‘Chitrahaar’, Learn Language

Posted on April 8, 2008 by indra

It is an interesting discovery, particularly for India where literacy is low and craze for film songs is high. One can speed up learning of a language using a subtitle in the language for the film songs in popular TV … Continue reading →

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Are Indians Really That Poor?

Posted on April 2, 2008 by indra

Time and again, the politicians and columnists are emphatically quoting the report of an economist saying 77% of our population, 836 million, lives under less than Rs 20 a day. I feel some thing is messy somewhere. Yamuna pays Rs … Continue reading →

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Should India Celebrate?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by indra

The wealth of Indian billionaires is more than 3.5 times the wealth of Chinese billionaires. With 19 newcomers, India has 53 billionaires with a combined wealth of $340.9 billion, according to the Forbes list of world’s billionaires. India also holds … Continue reading →

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