Interesting readings

Anil
Padmanabhan in the Mint on Indo-Pakistan relations.



Jeff
Glekin on Reuters Breakingviews about who could succeed Pranab
Mukherjee as FM,
and Kaveree
Bamzai in the India Today about what could come next if
he
leaves. Who
will be the President? This time, it matters by Satarupa
Bhattacharjya of Reuters in Mint.



The
delicate technology of creating excellence by Pradip
Ghosh in
the Telegraph. Also
see.



Garima
Jain in Tehelka magazine about guns in Punjab. It's
remarkable how much our side of the Punjab is like, when compared
with the other side.



The Wanderer's Eye
is a remarkable blog being written out of India by Aniruddha H. D..







On the problem of the hollowing out of the Indian financial system,
read Shaji
Vikraman and Ram Sahgal in the Economic Times.



Ravi
Jagannathan on Firstpost, on the Sahara vs. SEBI case at the
Supreme Court.



Dhiraj
Nayyar in India Today on the woes of the Indian
oligarchs.



Sajjid
Chinoy in the Business Standard on what is going wrong
with investment.



A. K. Bhattacharya
in the Business Standard on how tax authorities in India have
gone astray.



Dinesh
Unnikrishnan in Mint about the unique problems of
public sector banks.





Sean
O'Hagan, writing the Guardian about Robert Capa and
Gerda Taro, reminds us that we're stuck in a pastel coloured
world.





Paul Krugman has a nice old article on comprehending comparative
advantage: Ricardo's
difficult idea. He ends with advice which could well be
applied to all economic policy debates in India: (i) Take ignorance
seriously; they actually do not know. (ii) Adopt the stance of
rebel. (iii) Don't take simple things for granted. (iv) Justify
modeling.



Jon
Lackman in Wired magazine, on what is uber-cool in Paris
today.