A brilliant array of economic insights

Most research on stocks look the same (90% of them suggest ‘buy’). Most fund managers buy the same large-cap stocks. Most ‘strategists’ spew out the same macro ‘stories’ on India, China and the West. In effect, most ideas and concepts showcased in business newspapers, magazines and television are hackneyed. If you want fresh thinking, you have to...

A new, non-academic English language biography of Tagore portraying him as a lonely human who struggled to handle the conflicts of his ‘inner life’ is not of value to someone who knows little about him

This book (by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya; Penguin; 306 pages; Rs499) claims to be an “intellectual biography of Tagore, perhaps the first of its kind which portrays him as deeply sceptical,...

Problems happen all the time and history repeats itself. There is no evidence that Americans would not be able to overcome their current problems

Nowadays, it is fashionable to talk about America’s steady downfall from greatness, from the world’s most powerful country, to one that is struggling to create growth and employment. Its decline is supposed to be a result of overconfidence,...