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T C A Srinivasa Raghavan

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Is It Time For 5 Regional RBIs?
Rediff.com7 Feb 2023

Despite its admirable competence and proven track record, the RBI doesn't have the...

India Needs To Shift To Modern Economics
Rediff.com17 Oct 2022

Old ideas contained in the heads of old economists still dominate. That's not good,...

Absolutely No Need To Go After All Things Muslim
Rediff.com8 Jun 2022

To equate the Hindu propensity not to persecute non-Hindus is a sign of mature...

Time For Modi To Redesign The IAS
Rediff.com6 May 2022

Narendra Modi's real legacy will be if he can redesign the IAS and the concept of an...

The Cricketers Ravi Shastri Rates Highly
Rediff.com16 Sep 2021

'All selectors must be sufficiently thick-skinned and prepared to take criticism.' T C...

Why Bob Dylan's music mattered to India
Rediff.com24 Jul 2021

The unconventional music of the Nobel Laureate might have nothing connecting Indians to...

Why do politicians keep their health secret?
Rediff.com25 Apr 2020

'It is not the country's interests alone that lead to all this secrecy.' 'More usually,...

Why you must visit New Zealand
Rediff.com8 Feb 2020

'After living in a country with hazy skies and a billion people, it is breathtaking...

Modiji, enough of politics, focus on economy now!
Rediff.com7 Jan 2020

'With the big political job done, the time has come to pay attention to the economy,...

How to get out of the Great Indian Slump
Rediff.com6 Nov 2019

'Should the most important part of economic reform not comprise the way we look at the...

What Kashmir and Tamil Nadu have in common
Rediff.com25 Oct 2019

'In both places the minority was disproportionately powerful.' 'Few people acknowledge...

Time for a states income tax?
Rediff.com17 Oct 2019

States could then stop complaining about the Centre and fashion their own economic...

Indian economy is like a man with aggravated hydrocele
Rediff.com19 Sep 2019

'The Indian economy has become like a car that has the appropriate wheels on one side...

Amendment to Article 370 no more than a systems upgrade
Rediff.com26 Aug 2019

'Whether it is a good upgrade or not is something the judges will decide on the...

BJP's Big Problem: No economic thinkers
Rediff.com26 Jul 2019

'How do you deliver wealth when you don't have the slightest idea about it?' asks T C A...

We've no idea what we are going to do in the next decade
Rediff.com6 Jul 2019

'An era of fiscal pessimism is setting in, which, if not countered intellectually, is...

How Modi can rescue the economy
Rediff.com26 Jun 2019

''I have been saying for the last 25 years, to no avail naturally, that the only...

How will Modi deal with India's liberals?
Rediff.com15 Jun 2019

'He can at least invite them for tea in small groups once a month on Sundays.' 'If...

What Modi needs to do
Rediff.com31 May 2019

'The time has come to ask the extent of coercive power the State must arrogate to...

Modi2 must focus on the economy!
Rediff.com17 May 2019

'If he were to ask me, I would tell Mr Modi that the real Congress legacy he has to...