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Dilip Thakore
• Air-India: Illusory privatisation proposal
• Drought: Urgent need to corporatise rural India
• Demolishing the poor, sparing the rich
• A business-as-usual Budget
• Go for the old economic guard's jugular, Mr FM
• Bollywood needs to become business literate
• Big law puts rogue companies' small print under microscope
• Dirty tricks, power jinx, Cogentrix
• Seattle is history, prepare for the next round, now!
• The painful M&A fever will improve Corporate India's health
• Economy's overlords bungle in cyclone-hit Orissa
• It's check-out time for five-star hotels
• How to attract foreign investment: a few tips for the new government
• New govt must try to catch up with economic superpower China
• How to sustain the stockmarket boom
• Vote the lesser evil for economic growth
• Recession is the time to build corporate and brand reputations
• White collar criminals wreak havoc on money markets
• Foreign investors salivate over consensus on economic liberalism
• Financial recast isn't enough, IA needs autonomy
• Indian entrepreneurs hit big time in Britain
• Consensus on the Budget is a good omen
• Budget brings bread and butter issues into sharp focus
• Caught in a steel trap
• Last chance for Sinha to right economic blunders
• Corporate India becomes price sensitive
• Hidden costs of doing business in a land of million rackets
• A learning time in the year of hard knocks
• National interest demands foreign investment in insurance
• Licence-language lords kill corporate initiatives in education sector
• Auction PSUs, invest in children and education
• Income tax department: petrified by sharks, fishing for minnows
• Wanted: A Second Green Revolution
• Amartya Sen's Nobel: unwarranted Left euphoria
• Emerging government-industry partnership is a good omen for economy
• Something is rotten in India's financial system
• The importance of being Chandrababu Naidu
• A maharajah's sorry plight
• The hidden virtues of the Indian economy
• India may land in chaos if it ignores Indonesia's experience
• Crumbling law and order situation hits economic growth
• The case for deregulating the insurance sector
• Government needs to get off the back of India's farmers
• Stock exchanges need to clean up their act
• Sinha has done nothing to keep his promises
• Transforming major problems into opportunities
• Bechtel, Mitsubishi must storm India
• India's hire-purchase and credit boom could sputter out prematurely
• The prohibitive cost of prohibition
• Aversion to potato chips contradicts BJP's agriculture thrust
• Politicians must stay off M&A deals
• Economists and their advice
• Why the Congress economic agenda is better than the BJP's
• Two silver linings during dark days
• India needs a presidential system
• The Chinese PLA as role model for Indian armed forces
• The Indian consumer is king, finally
• 1997 was not an annus horriblis
• Thank God for the election! Maruti might be saved
• India must learn from the Korean crisis
• If the rupee had been convertible, it would have dropped like a stone in an abyss
• People may have to choose between democracy and prosperity
• Nehru had a brahmanical disdain for business
• Left-wing environmentalists a hurdle to progress
• Bureaucratic banks ill-suited for India's economic growth
• Tata Tea managers did little wrong
• Excessive adulation a reason for corrupt middle-class politicians
• Planning's cruel blow to agriculture
• Taxes and the citizen: Brittle social contract
• Law and order shadow over the economy
• Politicians, bureaucrats have done little for Maruti's success
• Supine government, greedy staff
• The best tribute to Mother Teresa is to wipe out poverty
• Corporate India needs better boardroom manners
• Govt's non-recognition of Bollywood forced the mafia embrace
• A determined national effort must make the next half century an era of economic freedom for the Indian people
• Strong judiciary provides hope for Indian democracy
• Politicians, bureaucrats treat Air-India as their property
• Privatisation is the urgent need of the hour
• Governments must do a few things only, and do them well
• 100 signatures, no infrastructure: the exporter's nightmare
• India, Pak should pay out the peace dividend now
• Slimy characters, shabby institutions and scams
• Transparency essential for power projects
• Marshall Plan's success should be a lesson to India
• Promoting India abroad isn't easy
• No entrepreneur is looking at the sure-fire formula for success
• Stop subsidies and save the economy
• Resolve Kashmir, and focus on development
• An area of creeping darkness
• Previous Columns
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