Playing The Growth Card

Constrained by economic circumstances, the finance minister had made the best of a poor hand

Playing The Growth Card

"If the budget assumptions are validated, and the revenue and expenditure targets hold, fiscal policy will be back on the path of consolidation, while also helping to revive growth."

-The Times of India, March 17, 2012 

Digging Up The Ghost of Non-Alignment

Digging Up The Ghost of Non-Alignment

Centre for Policy Research had recently released a study on India's foreign policy options. Nayan Chanda presents a commentary on the study, and notes that their label Non-Alignment 2.0 maybe outdated and negative.

-The Times of India, March 17, 2012

Timid Knock

Budget 2012-13 is no tonic for a slowdown-hit economy

Timid Knock

With a metaphor to cricket, the editorial goes into the various nuances of the budget in considerable detail, and says, "it plays too safe, having the feel of a tail-ender's knock in the UPA's innings."

-The Times of India, March 17, 2012