Sanjaya
Baru in the Business Standard on India's relationship
with Taiwan.
I added Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D. Kaplan to my suggested
India
bookshelf. It is a truly fabulous book.
Sanjay
Banerji in Business World on how socialism went wrong
in Bengal.
Minxin Pei has an
excellent note on the CASI website titled Dangerous misperceptions:
Chinese views of India's rise.
On 16 May, I had written a collection of links titled href="http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-low-for-indian-economic-policy.html">A
new low for Indian economic policy. This story has evolved
badly.
Today, the Economic Times has reported a set of accusations by K. M. Abraham.
SEBI's autonomy is under attack by Mobis Philipose in
Mint.
Mahua Venkatesh in the Hindustan Times.
Editorial, titled India's wobbly regulators in the Mint.
Govt
influencing selection of UTI AMC head, alleges T Rowe
by Shaji Vikraman and Sangita Mehta in the Economic Times and
Why North Block can't do without Omita Paul by Sruthijith KK, in the Economic Times.
A troubling upheaval in SEBI is in the works. After the departure
of C. B. Bhave, we are now facing the href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/SEBI-chief-Sinha-scouting-for-A-team/Article1-707650.aspx">departure
of K. M. Abraham, M. Sahoo, J. N. Gupta, K. N. Vaidyanathan,
J. Ranganayakulu and Pradnya Saravade. These individuals were of
essence to SEBI's remarkable performance in recent years, and will
be very hard to replace.
The Economic Times, the Hindustan Times and
the Mint are clearly winning on this story.
href="http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2007-03-03/news/27682983_1_new-piano-piano-world-piano-classes">Striking
the right keys by Vikram Doctor and Kalyan Parbat, in the
Economic Times.
`Coke Studio' is an impressive concept in innovative music that's
run by the American corporation, Coca Cola, in Pakistan. A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_Studio_(Pakistan)">precis
on Wikipedia, and here's their
web page. This is an interesting future for music: All the music
is freely downloadable. And now, href="http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Coke-Studioat-the-rateMTV-debuts-In-India/5149027268">they
are bringing this to India.
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110526-704605.html">Google
street view will now come to India.
The uncommon experience of reading high quality thinking on Indian macro in
the press: Keerthik Sasidharan.
For all of us interested
in Satyam,
here's a fascinating story about
the fraud
at Longtop Financial Technologies, a Chinese firm, which was
similar to Satyam in many ways.
I did an interview for IFMR Blog on India's financial
architecture. Here is
the interview
in text
and the
audio.
Siddhartha
Deb has a fascinating profile of IIPM and Arindam Chaudhuri
in Caravan magazine.
href="http://www.financialexpress.com/news/where-have-all-the-investments-gone/784715/0">Mahesh
Vyas analyses the href="http://www.business-beacon.com/kommon/bin/sr.php?kall=winv">CMIE
Capex database for insights about emerging trends in investment
(in the Financial Express).
Martin
Feldstein evaluates the scary things that Greece has to now
pull off.
Tina
Rosenberg, in New York magazine, tells the story of the
world's first person who had AIDS and was cured.
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