Special Report
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Shashi Tharoor: War For Peace
Throughout history, men have waged war for power, wealth, land and occasionally over women. But rarely, except in the past two or three centuries have they gone to war to bring peace. Is peace really the raison d’etre for the wars being fought in different parts of the world? Or are the real reasons the same as history has taught us?
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T.N. Ninan: India's Newspaper Business is Not Disappearing Just Yet
Inflated newsrooms and the Internet caused the news business model to break down in the West
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Raju Narisetti: News and World Wide Web
As the Internet provided a platform for sharing news faster and wider with negligible distribution costs, the newspaper business models that leaned heavily on advertisers for revenues and an elaborate production and distribution infrastructure began to crumble
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Satyajit Das: Double-edged Dollar
An integrated international financial system certainly reduces economic sovereignty of nations, as the European Union experiment has shown. The issue is compounded by complex derivative instruments that are now arriving in developing nations like India. What is the risk that foreign capital packaged in complex instruments bring to local economies?
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Jaggi Vasudev: Spirituality and Secularism
No country lives with so many religions as India does. The conflict in the world today is between one man’s belief and another’s. It is not good versus evil as it is often projected to be
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An App For Everything
For the first time now, Indian engineers have a big marketplace for developing and selling apps
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How Businesses Are Tapping Tablets
Three businesses and how they are tapping tablets to extend their reach and provide better services
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Prudent Asset Allocation
The prudent investor's balanced portfolio, with an eye not only on return, but also on cutting down risk
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Commodities: Back To Barter
Commodities have firmly entered the Indian investor’s psyche. And the flood of liquidity expected in 2011 will open up an unprecedented opportunity