Is the Stock Market Overvalued?
There are various metrics to measure the value of a stock market. The most common or popular is Earning per share, or EPS, for short. That one metric gives...
Will the Indo-Israel Bilateral Engagements Create New Avenues in International Relations?
As India and Israel faced each other in impeccable, vaunted acknowledgement, it has become possible if not easier to find intersections of interest; such intersections in the process of...
Bitcoin: Every New Bubble is the Same Old Story
Bitcoin is a virtual currency, which is generated through a mathematical formula by a computer software at regular time intervals. By 2040, 21 million bitcoins would be generated, explains...
Will the Union Budget Respond to the Demand of the Civil Society for a Universal Pension Scheme?
The letter written on behalf of the Pension Parishad, a network of 100 civil society organisations in it, is in response to recent reports indicating that the Centre was...
India-ASEAN Economic Ties for the Future
In September 2009 India had signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the ASEAN to promote economic ties. It was seen as a major foray into a formidable regional...
How Reliable Are the Indian Banks?
Will the FRDI Bill become a law with enhanced investor protection, as per the assurance of the finance ministry? Tarun examines the debate on the said Bill, in the...
Should the Government be a Pied Piper for Vote Politics or Would Economic Gains Reach the Common Man in 2018?
A good growth trajectory includes not just greater growth numbers but a good ‘quality of life’ index for its citizens, too. The big question is, are there more jobs...
Fissure in the US-Pak Relations and the Changing Dunes of Geopolitics in South Asia
Can we draw linkages between the announcement by Trump and the subsequent announcement by Pakistan’s central bank the State Bank of Pakistan that all arrangements for using Chinese yuan...
Out of the Box Ideas to Kick-start the Economy
Tarun offers a few out of the box ideas to kick-start the Indian economy, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different Truths. The economy is going well, right? After...
The Year is Seventeen, Going onto Eighteen!
Tarun takes a stock of the business and economy, in the past year, in his write-up, as part of the Special Feature, exclusively for Different Truths. Writing a year-end...