S Viswanathan

GLASS IS THE NEW CONCRETE

India’s connection to Napoleon Bonaparte’s land dates back to the second half of the 17th century when the French East India Company set foot...

The giant killer who Indianised the corporates

Today we do not have many politicians known outside the state of their origin or around Delhi. ‘National’ leaders have been thrown up rather...

His focus on productivity helped in exports

K Mahesh (1943-2019) The 100-plus your old TVS group boasts of being present in virtually every sector in the south. A metallurgy graduate from the famed...

No more palliatives

“Terms of trade are favouring the urban middle class at the cost of the farmers,” said former Finance Secretary Dr S Narayan. Speaking at the...

Hyundai forges ahead

The best endorsements for the attraction for investments in Tamil Nadu have come from several large companies. The Korean Hyundai Motors and the French...

We can do it by 2030…

It is exhilarating to hear Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala (AJ) of IIT-M that a paradigm shift to electric vehicles (EVs) is not just desirable but...

Welcome prudence in fiscal management

It was a refreshing contrast: the Tamil Nadu budget for 2019-20 broke away from the tradition set by Dravidian parties of announcing fresh sops...

Goodies for everybody! Nothing interim about it

In more ways than one, the Piyush Goyal budget was different. First, unlike previous finance ministers, many of them lawyers or career politicians, Goyal,...

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