DEI tussle: Goldman Sachs’ tryst with diversity shows that talk is cheap
On Goldman Sachs Group chief executive officer (CEO) David Solomon’s second day on the job in 2018, I listened to him address a conference audience made up of some of…
The liquidity dry-up of banks in India was partly RBI’s own doing
The chickens are coming home to roost. That might seem an inappropriate statement to make in the context of a central bank. But it may uncannily be true of the…
India needs a way to hold autonomous regulators accountable
Two former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) have, over the last four months, called for studying the impact of regulation, so that it can be…
Diplomacy plus: India needs a strategic reset of its relations with China
It has been said that it takes only a minute to rupture ties, but needs years to repair them. The recent meeting between career diplomats from India and China achieved…
Can Donald Trump really weaken the dollar to enhance US trade competitiveness?
On the question of whether Trump could weaken the dollar, the answer is clearly ‘yes.’ But whether doing so would enhance the competitiveness of American exports and strengthen America’s trade…
Why we must celebrate the three new warships joining India’s naval fleet
INS Surat is the fourth and final Visakhapatnam-class destroyer built under Project 15B; INS Nilgiri is the lead ship of Project 17A, a class of seven multi-role frigates; and INS…