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In Defense of Mamata Banerjee: Destination Resurgent Bengal

Take a state. Subject it to misrule for more than three long decades, systematically purging it of all industrial activities with a committed agenda of destroying its institutions by infiltrating the ranks with loyalists and forcing out the deserving. Add to this fiscal profligacy leading to a state where the exchequer is empty with the …

Think before you tweet

Even while the news about the two girls getting booked for facebook-ing their dissent hogs the headlines, here comes another piece that urges restraint. A UK based politician is suing 10,000 tweeters who helped spread a salacious bit of news alleging that he was involved in a sex related scandal. While BBC which had originally …

Are You A Successful Speculator ? Umesh Shanmugam

If you never trade, can you be a successful speculator? If you cost average, and are disciplined, are you a successful speculator? If you compound at 50% per year for 10 years, and then lose everything in an afternoon, are you a successful speculator? If you lose everything in an afternoon, and then learn from …

Wither to social media? – Chawm Ganguly

Even as we write this piece Earth shattering events are taking place in the social media space. Events that have the potential of changing how we search, communicate, market and advertise in the future – events that are no less than game changers, events that are forcing a paradigm shift, no less. For one, people …

Enabling Economic Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa – David Lipton, IMF First Deputy Managing Director

London School of Economics, Tuesday November 13, 2012 Introduction I am delighted to be here at the London School of Economics, with its vibrant tradition of marrying up the study of economics and other social sciences, including politics, law, and sociology. LSE was set up to improve society and to “understand the causes of things,” …

Khallas – Sense, Sex and Sensex – the Lingo of the Mumbai bourse :Chawm Ganguly

Mumbai – land of Dawood, Bollywood and the Stockwood. While phone calls to builders and diamond merchants who finance block-busters with alleged links to the underworld make routine news, the underworld’s infiltration into the stock market hardly ever attracts attention. “Ivy League MBA’s with their plum FII postings hobnobbing with the seamy underbelly of society? …

Pearls in the Sensex – Dheer Kothari

In the current year till date (from Jan 2, 2012 to November 9, 2012) the BSE Sensex gained 20.4 per cent while the BSE Midcap did even better with a gain of 29.8 per cent. During the same period, the top five Sensex stocks which outperformed the Sensex by a huge margin are all top …

How to sell social media to your boss – Chawm Ganguly

“How does one overcome the generation gap in Social Media” asked Animesh, a stud of a marketing youngster. “Convinced as I am about the efficacies of social media marketing, I just cannot convince my boss to allot me a budget to create our company’s presence in the social space. He seems to have a closed …

Advantages of Mauritius for hedge funds – Umesh Shanmugam

Global business in Mauritius is active mainly in the area of investment in India, Africa and China. Mauritius is a leading provider of foreign direct investment in India due to favourable treatment under the double taxation agreement between the two countries. Since the signing of the agreement, many investment and hedge funds have been (and …