For several months now, we have been somewhat gripped by the feud between the Ambani brothers. Since the core of the recent feud has been related to gas, which belongs to the nation as a whole, much of the debate has been centered on the question: Is the war between the brothers hurting the nation? ... [More]

In a recent blog, I posed the question: Is the PM losing control over his Cabinet? That was in the context of recent bouts of mild defiance, if you will, by ministers such as Shashi Tharoor on the use of Twitter, and Jairam Ramesh over climate change policy. What has emerged is a lot worse. If ... [More]

The one thing India, or the other G-77 developing nations, didn’t need ahead of a key climate change summit in Copenhagen later this year is the flip flop by Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh. If he did propose that India abandon the Kyoto protocol, that would mea... [More]

Regardless of what Company Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed might say, executive compensation is a non-issue in this country. Straight off, anybody can tell you most CEOs and other executives in this country make much less than their global counterparts, even if you applied the purchasing power par... [More]