Page 10 - Weekend Ruminations
T N Ninan: Revisiting Notebandi
While people have paid the price for the disruption it caused, now is the time to reap its benefits
T N Ninan: Beyond the deceleration…
India seems incapable of delivering what a poorer Bangladesh has done on key development goals
T N Ninan: A broken model
Revamping Railways will need bold thinking, and lots of money & time. And all three may be scarce
Year-end thoughts
Those in India's public life need to stop hiding behind big numbers. Their honesty needs to be tried
T N Ninan: Fixing a crimped Tata halo
The real charge against Ratan Tata is that efforts to deal with his mistakes were stymied
T N Ninan: Another Mr Clean
A sure way to win politically in the country is to project yourself as someone untouched by corruption
T N Ninan: Twists on the road
Demonetisation, which was touted as the "biggest and boldest" attack on black money, has turned out to be nothing of the sort
T N Ninan: Four weeks later
The net benefit of demonetisation would be quite small when placed against the scale of disruption that has been caused
T N Ninan: Job-less manufacturing
The great wave of industrialisation that has swept across East Asia over the past 40 years is about to ebb
T N Ninan: Our post-truths
Mr Modi is a master in evoking the emotional reasoning that is the essence of post-truth - as indeed is Donald Trump
T N Ninan: Banyan or sequoia?
Conglomerates, cover wider area like the Banyan, but haven't done as well recently as stand-alone enterprises, the sequoias that are usually taller than the Qutb Minar
T N Ninan: Dealing with a legacy
Ratan Tata should know his legacy is secure, given where he took the group from what he had at the start
T N Ninan: The lack of jobs
World Bank says India stands to lose 69% of its jobs on account of automation
T N Ninan: Chinese bearing gifts
China's $24-bn loan to Bangladesh has more of a strategic than economic intent
T N Ninan: TCS vs Garment exporters
Success of TCS and Infosys is killing exporters of garments and other manufactured products
T N Ninan: Banks that don't lend
Nationalised banks' credit growth was just 1.4% in the first half of 2016, compared with 25.9% in private sector banks
T N Ninan: TV anchors go to war
Following the attack on an army camp in Uri, reporting has given way to posturing, intelligent commentary to absurd warmongering
T N Ninan: The minimum wage temptation
It is easy to imagine the danger to an employment-intensive industry like garments, which faces wage competition from Bangladesh
T N Ninan: Some surge!
The only way rail fare hikes can be pushed through is for Mr Prabhu to firmly commit to changing sub-human travel conditions and link price increase to some passenger benefit
T N Ninan: A few stray comments
Observations and questions about key developments, such as Reliance Jio's escapade & AAP minister's sexcapade
