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Rajan the thinking central banker: photo credit: bloomberg.com Raghuram Rajan, India’s central banking czar, will be history by September 2016. He enjoys unprecedented popularity and near cult status as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Some of this has to do with his youthful looks and fresh demeanor — unusual in a profession peopled […]
Read More Rexit technical brilliance, enter political economy expertiseRutba, an urdu word, means status or honour. In sarkari parlance it equates to the “shock and awe” evoked by a single determined officer. Some of this is larger than life, the stuff that legends are made of- like a single Sikh soldier equaling 1.25 lakh opponents in battle or a Gurkha mowing down dozens […]
Read More The death of “rutba”June 3, 2016 things reach a head in Mathura, a pilgrim town two hours by road from Delhi towards Agra. Lord Krishan’s Temple Mathura. photo credit: easydestinations.net The hot spot is a 200 acre plus public park, occupied in 2014 by a set of criminals and land grabbers, masquerading as social revivalist and curiously, political anarchist associations […]
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