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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
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