Aug22

Olympian questions

We did it! Three medals, including one gold at the Beijing Olympics. That’s a lot more than we have had in a while and a good deal greater than what we had come to expect. India’s hauls of medals, modest as it is in the overall rankings, is very significant indeed. It offers […]

Jul11

The prudence of a pauper

One of the characteristic features of the ‘development’ of an economy is the easy availability of credit. And ever since Manmohan paaji opened up the doors to India Inc., credit has been easy to come by. Regardless of one’s views on liberalisation and free-market economics, one has to concede that credit has never […]