Democracy the prize at Ayodhya

The courts cannot settle the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute,only politics can.And this is not a question of striking some compromise between rival litigants in the title suits over the piece of land on which.. Read full story

Very elitist, Ms Usha Thorat

RBI deputy governor in charge of financial inclusion Usha Thorat told ET that banking correspondents are the only means to financial inclusion (ET, Aug 12). This deliberately leaves out some enti.. Read full story

Indigenous telecom equipment Time for a new PSU

Even as the government goes ahead with disinvestment in a number of public enterprises, it needs to seriously think about setting up a new stateowned enterprise (SOE), to make telecom network equipmen.. Read full story

For a single financial regulator

What the spat between insurance regulator Irda and the markets regulator Sebi shows is that we need a completely new regulatory regime, and not another layer of coordination at the top.
There co.. Read full story

Goodbye, microfinance

Microfinance is slated to join the ranks of flintstones, the crossbow, gas lamps, the pigeon post and the floppy disk — all excellent in their own time but rendered obsolete by the march of tech.. Read full story

For both IPR & access to medicines

Incidentally, Merck is known in India, and most parts of the world, as MSD. In India, the name Merck is reserved for the original German parent of the American offshoot that has now grown to g.. Read full story

Get political on infrastructure

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address at the Toronto meet of the leaders of the group of 20 most significant economies (G20) was well received and several of his ideas find reflection in the f.. Read full story

Why fake encounters kill growth

Fake encounters are anti-growth, and strike at the roots of the institutions that enable individual creativity to flourish and economies to prosper. Industry and its representatives cannot afford to t.. Read full story

Food security not by food alone

Politics runs the risk of being reduced to the art of the passable — it has to be approved by the legislature, by the omniscient television anchors, by sulking editorial writers forced to ced.. Read full story

Dissent is democracy, not its enemy

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