While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
As a foreigner doing business in India I agree. I think the ease of doing business focus is the right direction. India doesn’t need foreigners (you don’t need me). India needs exports. Indians selling to Indians makes some Indians wealthy BUT the country gets wealthy when Indians sell to foreigners. Rt. Hon. Modi Ji seems to understand this. Now the question is what does this foreign market place want and how cab we help get it there. 🙂
Very good article, which not against foreigners, but advocates equal treatment to all. It also justifies emigration by Indians to other countries by those who are looking for better quality of life and opportunities. Let us not engage in vilification of this segment of our population, the diaspora, who have chosen to live outside India. In this era of globalisation this is inevitable. I am not at all against reasonable reservations. But now we have stretched this too far with more than 70 per cent of jobs and educational space going under reservation category. This has also encouraged exodus out of India.
I have really lots of thing to said all this about indian democracy . But i always feel that i didn’t get proper words to explain it. Can i get any help from anyone who help me to take out everything with proper words that i have in my mind.
Et tu, Ninan? Jumping on the anti-foreigner bandwagon? Sure your arguments are valid: why special rules for foreigners? But your very first example of prohibition is silly to say the least.
So why do we need foreigners and their money, even offering special conditions to get them? Well, they not only bring dollars, but critically they bring know-how. This is how the whole of East and South East Asia developed. And of course China, which building on that know how, is now challenging the West.
Ninan of all the people talking like the RSS-BJP swadeshi brigade is very worrying.
1) Who brought the know-how to the foreigners? Aliens?
2) And why do you think that a particular way of development, especially that of East Asia, is the right path for India? Just because it is a tried-and-tested path? Doesn’t it bring us on a path of follow and catch-up? And if we do have to catch-up, why not follow the hard but rewarding path of creating the know-how rather than copying it? And of all the East Asian countries, why would you cite the example of China over Japan, Rajiv?
3) And why would you discredit a person’s opinion by tagging it to a specific ideology? Filling the dots, are we? Projecting our biases, are we? Revealing ourselves by judging others, are we?
I really liked the article , we do too much keeping the white skinned in mind ; whether that is because of our history or because of economic reasons ., I do not know .But one of the plausible reasons that I surmise is, our population , there are just too many of us. The reason for our leaving is also , it is too cramped in here ,even at the top . As far as the question goes , whose country is this ? , of course all the 1.25 billion of us , at least those of us who do not want to immigrate (if there are any like that ).
More than fifty years ago, an excess of reservations in Tamil Nadu drove the TamBrahms out, some to the United States. As all of India goes on an affirmative action binge, now closing in on 75%, expect this pressure to intensify. A citizen is valued not because she is highly educated, productive,, can make her way anywhere in the world, but because she belongs to a powerful voting bloc. This too is a distortion of the idea of India that was meant to be. 2. Coming to the substance of the column, my slightly impressionistic takeaway from this year’s Budget – as much from watching various worthies being interviewed as from its provisions, such as they are – is that the markets, market forces, that includes Wall Street and Dalal Street, are not really the government’s focus or natural constituency. If it was not for the little matter of our being fiscally broke, needing ATF from whoever, wherever some can write out a check for a billion dollars, they could all go take a hike. 3. We are day dreaming if someone believes the rest of the world is waiting to buy all the sovereign bonds we can issue. Former CEA / Governor RBI’s column in ToI should be read by all.
As a foreigner doing business in India I agree. I think the ease of doing business focus is the right direction. India doesn’t need foreigners (you don’t need me). India needs exports. Indians selling to Indians makes some Indians wealthy BUT the country gets wealthy when Indians sell to foreigners. Rt. Hon. Modi Ji seems to understand this. Now the question is what does this foreign market place want and how cab we help get it there. 🙂
Very good article, which not against foreigners, but advocates equal treatment to all. It also justifies emigration by Indians to other countries by those who are looking for better quality of life and opportunities. Let us not engage in vilification of this segment of our population, the diaspora, who have chosen to live outside India. In this era of globalisation this is inevitable. I am not at all against reasonable reservations. But now we have stretched this too far with more than 70 per cent of jobs and educational space going under reservation category. This has also encouraged exodus out of India.
I have really lots of thing to said all this about indian democracy . But i always feel that i didn’t get proper words to explain it. Can i get any help from anyone who help me to take out everything with proper words that i have in my mind.
On the money
Et tu, Ninan? Jumping on the anti-foreigner bandwagon? Sure your arguments are valid: why special rules for foreigners? But your very first example of prohibition is silly to say the least.
So why do we need foreigners and their money, even offering special conditions to get them? Well, they not only bring dollars, but critically they bring know-how. This is how the whole of East and South East Asia developed. And of course China, which building on that know how, is now challenging the West.
Ninan of all the people talking like the RSS-BJP swadeshi brigade is very worrying.
1) Who brought the know-how to the foreigners? Aliens?
2) And why do you think that a particular way of development, especially that of East Asia, is the right path for India? Just because it is a tried-and-tested path? Doesn’t it bring us on a path of follow and catch-up? And if we do have to catch-up, why not follow the hard but rewarding path of creating the know-how rather than copying it? And of all the East Asian countries, why would you cite the example of China over Japan, Rajiv?
3) And why would you discredit a person’s opinion by tagging it to a specific ideology? Filling the dots, are we? Projecting our biases, are we? Revealing ourselves by judging others, are we?
I really liked the article , we do too much keeping the white skinned in mind ; whether that is because of our history or because of economic reasons ., I do not know .But one of the plausible reasons that I surmise is, our population , there are just too many of us. The reason for our leaving is also , it is too cramped in here ,even at the top . As far as the question goes , whose country is this ? , of course all the 1.25 billion of us , at least those of us who do not want to immigrate (if there are any like that ).
More than fifty years ago, an excess of reservations in Tamil Nadu drove the TamBrahms out, some to the United States. As all of India goes on an affirmative action binge, now closing in on 75%, expect this pressure to intensify. A citizen is valued not because she is highly educated, productive,, can make her way anywhere in the world, but because she belongs to a powerful voting bloc. This too is a distortion of the idea of India that was meant to be. 2. Coming to the substance of the column, my slightly impressionistic takeaway from this year’s Budget – as much from watching various worthies being interviewed as from its provisions, such as they are – is that the markets, market forces, that includes Wall Street and Dalal Street, are not really the government’s focus or natural constituency. If it was not for the little matter of our being fiscally broke, needing ATF from whoever, wherever some can write out a check for a billion dollars, they could all go take a hike. 3. We are day dreaming if someone believes the rest of the world is waiting to buy all the sovereign bonds we can issue. Former CEA / Governor RBI’s column in ToI should be read by all.