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July 2009
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Union Budget 2009-10: Growth with a Conscience
27 July 2009, by Pulin B. NayakFinance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget for 2009-10 seems to have received mixed responses. It is clear that the corporate sector is not very pleased with it. We are also told that it has nothing for the urban sector, and that it is too (...) -
Union Budget 2009-10: In Tune with the Thinking of the National Movement
27 July 2009, by Girish MishraUndoubtedly, the Union Budget 2009-10, presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to the Lok Sabha on July 6, has disappointed certain sections here and abroad that had been expecting India to go in for the Washington Consensus-based (...) -
Why Rs 1417030000000 won’t Save Us
27 July 2009, by T J S GeorgeOne followed by seven zeroes, a crore, is easy to conceptualise. It’s the unit in which politicians count their money. But one followed by twelve zeroes? It takes an Indian Budget to think in those terms—Rs 1417030000000 being the allocation for (...) -
Union Budget 2009-10: Quality of Fiscal Deficit
27 July 2009, by Bharat JhunjhunwalaFinance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has relied on increase in fiscal deficit to break the recession. The fiscal deficit was about 3 per cent of our national income two years ago. It increased to 6.2 per cent in the last year, 2008-09. Now Pranab (...) -
How Lakhs of Livelihoods can be Protected and Promoted in Handlooms and Khadi
27 July 2009, by Bharat DograIn recent years most reports about handloom weavers have spoken of decline and decay, debts and distress. Yet it is possible to envisage steps and solutions which can not only protect lakhs of skilled livelihoods in handlooms and khadi, in (...) -
Pope looking for Third Economic Alternative
27 July 2009, by D G BokareThe present Pope Benedict XVI has released his recent Encyclical letter on July 7, 2009 to express his opinions and also showing his frustration on the present-day capitalism. He also has spelled out his vision of a new economic model for the (...) -
Issue of Higher Education in India
27 July 2009, by P R DubhashiThoughts are expressed from time to time regarding various facets and issues relating to higher education in India. Not all of them are necessarily consistent with each other. They are even mutually contradictory and can prove misleading as (...) -
Wanted: A Holistic Approach
18 July 2009, by SCThe accident that took place at a major Metro construction site in the Capital in the wee hours of July 12 with the collapse of a pillar killing six people was indeed horrific. But that it was followed by the toppling of three cranes and a (...) -
Abolish Capital Punishment
18 July 2009COMMUNICATION
Death penulty is both cruel and irreversible. There are rare instances in which irrefutable proof of a man‘s innocence appeared long after his execution. Instances of execution after travesty of trial are galore. In the year one of (...) -
Of RIC, BRIC and BRICSA
18 July 2009, by Ash Narain RoyStrategic triads, quads and a plethora of new global groupings have steadily gained ground in the past few years. Call them strategic alliances or simply bargaining chips, the mushrooming new formations of the 21st century are like a (...)