Indias growth story is still a work in progress on February 6, 2017The 2017-18 Union Budget that India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented on Wednesday must go down in history as one of the most stuttered and stammered efforts at making sense of political intentions and good business. Jaitley stumbled some 20 times in the first one hour of the speech, and then I lost count. The […]
Is Indian taxpayers’ money in safe hands? on September 11, 2016When I was editing dna, a newspaper based out of Bombay, a couple of years ago, we had broken several stories about the Indian liquor tycoon, Vijay Mallya. The cases against Mallya had been many, most of them to do with money laundering. This is one of the favourite crimes of the super rich of […]