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This article of mine appeared, in a slightly abridged form, in The Times of India recently. I cannot find the link:
Sexual morality is very big in India. The entire establishment is sexually straitlaced. A couple kissing on the dance floor led to the police closing down a Chennai hotel. Mumbai’s dance bars were shut down […]

My column, “Antidote”, which ran in The Economic Times from 1998-2002 is back, this time as a monthly offering on The New Indian Express on Sunday. This time, the topic of discussion is imports, and why “import-promotion” is a very good idea! Enjoy the difference!

Sir John Cowptherwaite was the man responsible for the spectacular rise of Hong Kong, post WW II. He achieved this by refusing to intervene in the economy and doing only those things that a government should - nay, must - do. This great colonial civil servant, of the kind that came to India with […]

Prime minister Manmohan has hinted at a new pay commission that will significantly raise the salaries of our ‘misproductive’ babus. Which rational Maharaja would jeopardize the health of his treasury by recruiting millions and paying them wages higher than market rates?
Those who worry about the fiscal problems that will surely follow may note that William […]

The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival starts today. And will go on till next weekend. Do come along if you’re in Bombay. And if you can’t, hop over to the spanking new Kala Ghoda Gazette where I’m blogging on the festival along with an illustrous set of co-bloggers with some lofty aims. Join us.

It seems prime minister Manmohan Singh’s honeymoon with the media is finally over. Thank heavens! Here is Sandipan Deb’s hardhitting column on the sheer nonsense that Singh’s press conference was all about. The Indian Express also warns us, in an editorial, that all is not well with Singh’s much-trumpeted ‘rural employment guarantee scheme.