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Geopolitics drives Xi's economic agenda

China's economic statecraft is in service of its geopolitical ambitions

The fiscal-monetary tango

The pandemic years called for policy reinforcement; the post-pandemic aftermath will call for policy prioritisation

India will lead the post-Covid digital world

Digital consumption related to block-chain, crypto and metaverse will be one of the most defining aspects of the coming years

Torture under 'transparent taxation'

Everyone had believed that faceless assessments would end corruption

Non-cooperation movement of Indian borrowers

Borrowers who stop cooperating hardly bother since there is no real threat and immediate penalty, and some banks are happy to give loans without insisting on ratings

Pakistan gets serious

Pakistan's National Security Policy shows it is hurting, looking inwards and desperately needs some breathing space. India should study it closely

Deciphering the Indus mystery

Professor Parpola's 1994 book, Deciphering the Indus Script, is built on his study of nearly 4,000 samples of the writing that survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets

Green is good

In her book, My Life in Full (2021), Ms Nooyi discusses her "Performance with Purpose" vision

Dirty War comes closer to home

India has always been exceptional, though it has endured Dirty Wars on a larger scale than most other places

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-12

History has repeatedly shown that, in academia as in the world of politics, doctrinal differences between the far-left and the social democrats can lead to irreversible damage

Propping up the property market

A credit guarantee can give housing a boost

A code for the committee of creditors

Several proceedings have witnessed a variety of contraventions of provisions of the insolvency law by market players

The human factor in retailing

Instead of focusing on livelihoods and consumers governments have been exercised over a non-issue: foreign capital

Origins of the species

The sustained and painstaking work of the Leakey family since the 1940s has changed our understanding of human evolution

Best of BS Opinion: Increasing interest rates, the GST boost, and more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

Can a professional CEO be entrepreneurial?

India Inc needs many more entrepreneurial and professional CEOs. It is not a 'this or that' framework

How real is the GST boost?

The share of GST collections in GDP has stagnated, even as IGST revenues from imports have gone up sharply

Deighton's many spies in the cold

Unlike le Carre, who developed quite a sentimental Left view of the world, Deighton remained faithful to his calling of entertainment

FMCG distribution system in a flux

Large companies that set up the complex distribution system in the country are today faced with the challenge of handling a many-headed monster

Consumer sentiments fell in December

The return to normalcy in December 2021 was celebrated by the rich and not by the rest