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The business of borrowing and lending is an ageless one and may date back even to the times of Kubera, who reportedly lent an astronomical sum to the Lord, though one does

India is a country of intelligent individuals and foolish masses. Just try accosting a man on the road and he would offer you unsolicited enlightenment on the dos and don’ts in our daily life, but throw him into a crowd,

Next year, same day, we would have completed eighteen. Intelligent readers, I am sure, would have already calculated that we are today ending our seventeenth year of continuous publication and stepping into the final year of minor life

For a second it seemed as if we were treading the streets of LTTE held Jaffna. It is only with a sense of disturbing incredulity that one is forced to believe that the scene actually belonged closer home

Our yellow towel rationalists, being vintage trail blazes, are always a step ahead. Even as the entire business community is abuzz with the fate of the Insurance Regulatory Bill, our home grown

The cat which was in the baggage that the pope, sorry, Pope, brought along from the Vatican, is out, as was expected. The three day royal Papal ride was exactly that, not only for the over 40% ‘communal’

Fortunately, Mandate’99 has ensured that only one House could be held to ransom. But, unfortunately, when it comes to the crunch as regards the scores of crucial Bills awaiting clearance, the Upper House,

It went on and on. And the show resembled some sort of a mass employment programme and in a sense it was true, for what better way to keep our restless politicians occupied than allowing them to languish

Politicians are generally bad losers though there are honourable exceptions. The common refrain of those who have bitten the dust at the hustings is that the polls were rigged against their favour.