Hindustan Times
What a week! Handling one important event is big enough. But the week that just passed saw four. Standing ovation to my team of excellent business journalists who diligently followed the nuances and didn’t allow even one story to get off our radar. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 7:04 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Budget week, business journalists, Development Council, direct tax code, disinvestment, economic symphony, environment, Financial Stability, financial substance, fiscal roadmap, goods and services tax, local bodies, Mamata Banerjee, politics, Pranab Mukherjee, Railway Budget, Unique Identification Authority, UPA government, Vijay Kelkar
Managing guerrilla warfare in scattered pockets is one thing. Coming to terms with it as mass movement, in security preparedness, is quite another. The sad and absolutely unwarranted deaths of 24 Eastern Frontier Rifles, in their camp, in broad daylight, at Sidla in the Midnapore district of West Bengal last week is a tragedy that goes beyond the 15 minute operation. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Carlos Marighella, Che Guevara, Counterinsurgency Redux, David Kilcullen, Eastern Frontier Rifles, Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare, Guerrilla Warfare: an introduction to the art of revolution, Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy, Maoist, Midnapore district, Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, Steven Metz, The online green anarchy archive, urban guerrilla
With lawbreakers, thugs, violence-inciters and traders in narrow, parochial nativism — according political and economic favours to inhabitants of an area over immigrants — taking charge of the commercial capital of India, it saddens me to see why no action is being taken against Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray or his son Uddhav for unleashing their crude cynical violence against us. Here, then, are 10 questions that we the citizens of must ask the government. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, lawbreakers, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Mumbaikars, Nitin Gadkari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, thugs, violence-inciters
Misguided purists, like myself, who thought that a rise in international trade and global finance would brings nations closer politically need to rethink purity. For, economic policy has a new partner — foreign policy. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Gautam Chikermane on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Filed under Research · Tagged alliances, demographics, economic policy, global finance, International trade, NATO, sanctions, US foreign policy, wars, World Trade Organisation
