There is a welcome focus on Make in India, on Vocal for Local, on self-reliance. Global anti-China sentiment also results in the rhetoric on large manufacturing plants getting shifted to India. How can India work on these? Our labour laws over decades have proved to be anti-employment. This is reflected in the
Is it a Package? A Stimulus? Or a Reform?
It is for the government to jump-start the economy, through massive spending. Only government spending will have scale and size. The reform directive should focus on industries of the future, like space and aviation, electronics manufacture and telecom. It could start with funding research in vaccine development, 5G technologies, manufacture
Reassuring re-start
Fighting for survival is not new to the industries of Tamil Nadu. The state and its entrepreneurs are known for their resilience. DEBATES MAY CONTINUE over the right and wrong of extending the lockdown. The country faces an unprecedented crisis: factories, offices, wholesalers, retailers and service providers have all been shut
Focus on high speed trains
High speed trains? For the rich? Our Rahuls and Jairams will cry hoarse. Remember such opposition when the Congress stepped up expenditure on space exploration? Today India excels in rocket science and so profitably! The ripple effect of fast travel, as demonstrated by China, can be humongous. THE GREAT DEPRESSION of
Guindy Railway Station – Community effort to spruce up
Will raging inflation wreak Indian economy?
Risk of raging inflation The Chennai International Centre (CIC) presented BJP MP from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, Jayant Sinha through a webinar programme. Sinha had earlier been a minister in Modi’s NDA II government, handling finance and civil aviation. He is the Chairperson for Standing Committee on Finance. Sinha graduated from IIT, Delhi,
Sridhar Vembu – Cover Story – IE May 2020
Sridhar Vembu, Founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation is an illustrious example of a successful start-up entrepreneur. This product of Princeton University acknowledges the inspiration he derives from S Gurumurthy, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch ideologue and attributes to him his yen for swadeshi self-reliance and de-centralised rural cluster development. We
India can be a hub for safe, fast breeder reactors
Dr Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, visited the Economist House on 10 March. He graciously mentioned: “your TerraPower article (IE March issue) attracted and made me come here.” Dr Kakodkar referred to the father of nuclear energy in India, Dr Homi Bhabha, envisioning the prospects for the use of
Manager of the century…
Big use of Big Data Analytics
Information in the form of data has become invaluable for making informed business decisions and for formulating future strategies. Known as Big Data Analytics, it has a huge potential in bringing about qualitative improvements. Ever since the advent of computers, the word ‘data’ has been irrevocably linked to these. With the
