Interesting readings

Ila
Patnaik in the Indian Express on the role of the
Ministry of Finance in India's
growth. Pratap
Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express on India's cabinet
reshuffle. Anil
Padmanabhan in the Mint about how things have changed
at MoF after Chidambaram got back.





Bibek
Debroy on a major problem that afflicts India today: Human
capital obsolescence. Now that I'm safely past that age, I know
the right answer for leadership positions: the right age is
40.





Theodore
Dalrymple in the Wall Street Journal likes India's
Olympian detachment from the Olympics.





Trampling on the individual in
India: Jayalalithaa
vs. India Today. Also
see Gopu
Mohan in the Indian Express who shines the light on the
systematic use of litigation.







Russell
Green in Mint on the problems of priority sector lending.



Pramit Bhattacharya in Mint on Kaushik Basu's tenure as CEA.



Mythili
Bhusnurmath in the Economic Times on the difficulties
of bank solvency that India now faces. The article refers
to this
RBI report on restructuring of bad debt.



The
ghost of Abraham's letter by N. Sundaresha Subramanian in the
Business Standard.



Amol
Sharma and Megha Bahree in the Wall Street Journal about
Mukesh Ambani's 4G plans. In it: "On one page there was a complex
mathematical calculation of how fast each cell tower could carry
data."



Odd
SDP data for Maharashtra, by Dilasha Seth in the Business
Standard. Also
see.







The
man who saved capitalism by Stephen Moore in the Wall
Street Journal.