Preparing for an attention deficit audience
BY AMIT KHANNA A surfeit of choices and too many alternate options of engagement are gradually eating into the time spent before the box. Although Indians still spend nearly four hours a day watching TV,…
Commentary
Security for all – the mission of democratic governance
BY D.C. PATHAK In a democratic dispensation the first duties of the elected political executive governing the nation are to bring about development of all and ensure protection of citizens from internal and external threats….
Filmmaking: From studios to locations to VFX Suites
BY VINOD MIRANI It is not only the technology that has proved a great boon for filmmaking but there is another aspect that has changed over the period. This aspect, broadly speaking, is the available…
Is liberal democracy under threat?
By Amit Kapoor Every century has its own defining moment. For the nineteenth century, it was the juxtaposition of imperialism with the industrial revolution while for the twentieth century it was the World Wars and…
Indian cricket comes back home
By Yajurvindra Singh India has over time become the hub and spokesperson for world cricket. The interest, fan following and hype that one encounters at every corner of the country, of matches in India and…
The subtle art of credit price discovery
By Taponeel Mukherjee As India grapples with credit issues, one of the primary factors that needs analysis is the broken transmission mechanism that relays credit quality to market participants. In common parlance, the transmission mechanism…
Data will determine economic growth; 10 principles to ensure it
By K. Yatish Rajawat A global undercurrent is shaping products, companies and whole swathe of markets. It’s happening at a rapid pace and needs a rethink by the government, business and civil society. Its not…
The Little Winner
By Deepa Gahlot Marathi film Naal (Umbilical Chord) has won for Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti this years Indira Gandhi National Award for best debut film of a director, and for Shrinivas Pokale, the best child actor…
Markets outlook — equity and debt
By Viraj Kulkarni and Anurag Mittal Equity Market Outlook: Safe haven assets such as gold, long-dated US treasuries and Japanese Yen were the best performing asset classes last month. In contrast, risk assets such as…
Three positive possibilities to look forward to
BY ARUN KEJRIWAL The week gone by had a trading holiday on Monday in India and the US, and began trading on Tuesday on an extremely weak note. The merger of PSU banks probably did…
A time-bound delivery in Kashmir
BY D.C. PATHAK A month down the line since the state of Jammu and Kashmir, excluding Ladakh, was turned into a Union Territory for the purpose of administering it better and put in its entirety…
Is Ladakh part of Buddhist ring encircling China?
BY SAEED NAQVI Hardline Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have celebrated the creation of a new Buddhist entity in Ladakh. It is an optical illusion that Jammu and Kashmir has been neatly divided into Jammu,…
Stardom: The North-South Barrier
BY VINOD MIRANI The Indian film industry may be the biggest in the world and the South film industry, combined in itself, outnumbers the Hindi films produced. The South has four main languages in which…
The dynamics of India’s growth recession
BY AMIT KAPOOR The crisis brewing within the Indian economy has gained unanimous acceptance by now. Even the latest annual report of the RBI for the fiscal year 2018-19 (or FY19) confirmed that the Indian…
All that glitters is not gold
By Taponeel Mukherjee Recent financial news headlines have seen some concern with India’s gold imports and the fact that a significant component of domestic savings is “exported” abroad, which could probably be utilised to spur…
Quick ways out of slowdown: 10 things government can do
By K Yatish Rajawat Growth has momentum and slowdown has inertia. The Indian GDP growth has fallen to 5 per cent in the April-June quarter, from 8 per cent. This slowdown can only be reversed…
A good mourning
BY ADITTI AHLUWALIA All my life I have been told that laughter is the best medicine, deeply rooted in hope and optimism. So by that logic, anything that helps me deal with my struggles is…
Stars turn investment savvy
BY VINOD MIRANI No more living for the present. A bungalow in Bandra and Juhu in Mumbai, a horde of friends every evening to enjoy the flow of free Scotch and to think that this…
A dangerous spin to the Kashmir narrative
BY D.C. PATHAK The abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A by the two Houses of Parliament of India with a two-third majority, led to sharp criticism from the principal domestic opposition in India, a predictable…
Climate change: How it led to an unequal world
BY AMIT KAPOOR When a 16-year-old girl who has avowed air travel has to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered race boat to speak at a conference on climate change while the Amazon rainforests are…