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'Business Today has put down several markers in our quest to spot trends'

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Nov 6, 2013

Rates have been raised twice as Raghuram Rajan stands, somewhat like the mythical Dutch boy who stands with his finger in the dike, between his townspeople and the terrifying seawater beyond. Sen...

India badly needs second-generation reforms and a drastic overhaul of its institutions

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Nov 6, 2013

Without second-generation reforms and a drastic overhaul of its institutions, India is condemned to mediocre income and growth, says Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag.

Why India really needs to dig itself out of a mineral hole

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Oct 23, 2013

India sits on some of the world's biggest deposits of iron ore, coal and bauxite, but look at how disastrous our mineral-exploitation policies have been.

Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag

The 2013 rankings of India's top 500 companies throw up surprises

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Oct 23, 2013

Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag shares how the rankings of India's top 500 companies have thrown up more than their share of surprises this year.

Hindalco Industries' Managing Director Debu Bhattacharya

Challenged, questioned, vilified with no coal mined: Hindalco MD

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Oct 17, 2013

Hindalco Industries' Managing Director Debu Bhattacharya says if he had known how complex and fraught the process would be to set up an alumina plant and a smelter in Orissa, he would have never put i...

PM Manmoahn Singh

Congress-led UPA will be remembered as most corrupt in our history: Chaitanya Kalbag

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Oct 11, 2013

Business Today Editor Chaitanya Kalbag says the ADB thinks GDP will grow by 5.7 per cent in 2014/15, but it is not as if the tendencies in the Indian economy will go away magically after the elections...

Chaitanya Kalbag

'India is never short of good-news stories'

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Sep 28, 2013

This fortnight we launch the first BT-YES Bank Emerging Companies Survey. It promises to set a new benchmark, just as many of our other surveys have over the years.

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'Policy makers don't view inflation as a problem or growth as fragile'

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Sep 12, 2013

The trouble is that our policy dinosaurs don't view inflation as a problem or growth as fragile. The result is that investors, both domestic and foreign, who have to deal with the real economy, ha...

'Rajiv Bajaj is not an easy man to write about'

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Sep 11, 2013

Rajiv Bajaj is not an easy man to write about. He is both rounded and angular, rooted in his yoga and homeopathy while he is ever willing to poke a sharp elbow in the ribs of his competitors.

The government's tone has turned from confident to querulous'

by Chaitanya Kalbag |Aug 30, 2013

The "dog days of summer" in July and August are commonly identified with stagnation. No better term can be found for our situation, with our politicians in denial about its gravity.