A key benchmark for judging regulatory standards will be the balance struck between the interests of the various stakeholders in the financial industry in question. The most important aspect of...
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There is in law a recognised tort of 'misfeasance in public offices which could be used to file charges against those who were in office at the time of the Gujarat riots.
The financial model of the typical development finance institution has become obsolete, but the need that it fulfilled, i e, getting new enterprises across the broad swathe of industrial and service...
Arrival in the US was never an unmixed pleasure, especially for people from the poorer countries travelling to the 'west'. Things have become worse since September 11, 2001 and the inauguration of...
As early as the 1950s, H T Parekh, a doyen of the world of financial institutions, had argued for public-private partnership in such institutions as well as in oil exploration and other sectors, and...
Both, India and Pakistan have adhered to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects. But neither has signed...
Is the making of a national identity a clear-cut, well-defined task that happens once and for all? In seeking to understand the complex genealogy of 'America', one has to consider how amazingly...
The TINA - 'there is no alternative' - argument first developed by the Congress in its heyday is being used emphatically by the BJP today. A similar notion prevailed in the US over the forthcoming...
There is a way in which hostile attitudes towards the poor and towards women and minorities translate into a tolerance of organised collective violence against them even on a frightening scale in...
The dialectics of ensuring home employment vis-à-vis outsourcing for higher profits is very much joined. Outsourcing is bad for the working class at both ends of the spectrum - in the developed as...
The Indian oligarchs have taken care of themselves. They are already integrated nationally. The next milestone is transit to international integration. But while our elites integrate with the rest of...
The Supreme Court's sharp comments on custodial violence, torture and abuse of police power delivered some months ago demand serious attention. But clearly, they appear to have had little effect...
The United States is a trapped elephant; it evokes, with every day, a little less fear and a little more contempt. Its capacity to dispense favours is markedly getting depleted.
Irrespective of whether one applies the criterion of parliamentary or extra-parliamentary influence, Marxists and not revanchists of the Togadia-Singhal brand reflect the overwhelming vox populi in...
As economic circumstances worsen, ordinary people come under intense pressure. They have to ventilate their ire and anguish, they have no alternative but to march and organise meetings. They must...
