Page 11 - Weekend Ruminations

T N Ninan: The discipline of global rules

We suffer from lack of accountability but new pressure points are being created by the fact of India becoming a more integrated part of the world economy and global systems.

T N Ninan: The danger within

While India's long-term crisis has to do with water and institutional atrophy, the more pressing issue is the lack of jobs

T N Ninan: Not a good 'idea', sirji

Investors suspect that the proposed Grasim-Nuvo merger is to ensure the Idea telecom business gets the money to take on RJio

T N Ninan: Arvind Kejriwal has much to meditate on

Arvind Kejriwal would do well to consider some moderation before another rap on the knuckles by a court, or a political setback, knocks the wind out of him

T N Ninan: The fathers of success

In a replay of the Rashomon sequence, each of the men from Hindustan looks at the elephant from his particular angle, ignoring or not fully aware of what else was cooking

T N Ninan: Of crises - visible and invisible

This government will be at its half-way mark soon; even assuming better-than-usual execution, the Modi package is underwhelming

T N Ninan: Low risk, low return

The low-risk approach to economic issues and reform will therefore remain one that seeks to bring change without pain, create winners without having losers

T N Ninan: Modi's ministers

Apart from a handful of ministers, rest of the cabinet ministers seem steeped in a stasis

T N Ninan: Clean up, or fudge?

RBI governor has forced the banks to start cleaning up their books, but there is still more dirt under the carpet

T N Ninan: Rhetoric and reality

Mr Modi has not admonished members of his team who have stepped out of line with the promptness or conviction that he has moved on other issues

T N Ninan: Look beyond GDP

While raising a cheer on account of faster growth, the govt should be conscious that much more needs to be done on a broader front

T N Ninan: Garments...at last!

After more than a decade of lost opportunities in the textile and garments business, the sector has at last got the attention it needs and deserves.

T N Ninan: Oh, for a crisis!

Prime Minister Modi seems to have turned his face away from the business of introducing serious reform

T N Ninan: Re-inventing the Congress

The party's response to what has become an existential crisis seems to be to turn to Priyanka Gandhi-as though the solution to dynastic incompetence is more dynasty, not less

T N Ninan: Bofors redux?

Whether it was the Bofors gun in 1986 or Italian helicopters in 2012, a leak or disclosure at the source overseas is like dynamite, and usually impossible to refute

T N Ninan: Action vs planning

The Modi government has just launched an interesting exercise: how to plan for rapid economic growth without… well, a plan

T N Ninan: Maritime failures

Colombo can handle more container traffic than all of India's ports put together