No job cuts, but Tamil Nadu’s firecracker factories reduce production and slash wages of workers; allied industries like packaging and transport also hit.
The Narendra Modi government has invested too much time and capital to further its political conquest. Today's crisis shows it may be left with too little time in this term to refocus on governance.
Once famous for its leather business, Dharavi shops are badly hit by the 2015 Maharashtra govt order curbing supply of bullock hide as well as note ban and GST.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Wah! Well written. So funny and so true. As you rightly said, alas, the joke is on us.
” As an irrationality, it is serious, in fact. Except, the joke is on all of us.”
Your intellectual honesty is appreciated in that you admitted your earlier mistake. In the early days of DeMo, just like you many of us presumed that there was indeed some logic to the madness. In the end, it became all too clear – there was none!
I had a good laugh at this part –
“Starting out to kill black money, and ending up plugging Paytm, isn’t as funny as sending coins home by money order, but is equally too clever by half.”
Wah! Well written. So funny and so true. As you rightly said, alas, the joke is on us.
” As an irrationality, it is serious, in fact. Except, the joke is on all of us.”
Your intellectual honesty is appreciated in that you admitted your earlier mistake. In the early days of DeMo, just like you many of us presumed that there was indeed some logic to the madness. In the end, it became all too clear – there was none!
I had a good laugh at this part –
“Starting out to kill black money, and ending up plugging Paytm, isn’t as funny as sending coins home by money order, but is equally too clever by half.”
ShekharJi: It is a sad commentary that people even now trust Modi who fooled them, than great “Opinion Makers” like you.
Is it not time for you guys to INTROSPECT an act which you guys liberally advise to politicians.
Sadly, nothing has emerged in the last eleven months to prove the columnist wrong.