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Busting the myth about RBI interventions

The widespre ad misconception that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) “intervention” (selling dollars), in India’s inter-bank “foreign exchange” (forex) market, by itself, depletes India’s dollar reserves, needs to be cleared.

Pakistan plays to its internal audience

Speaking as the co-chair at the Arria-formula meeting of the Security Council on ‘Bridging the Implementation Gap: Security Council Resolutions and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,’ Pakistan’s permanent member to the UN, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, raised Kashmir as expected.

Sacred Trust

The controversy surrounding alleged irregularities in donations to the Ram Janmabhoomi temple is no longer merely about missing cash or precious metals.

Beyond Rescue

The devastation caused by Venezuela’s twin earthquakes will ultimately be measured not only by the number of lives lost, but by what the disaster reveals about the strength ~ or weakness ~ of the institutions expected to protect citizens when catastrophe strikes.

Can Bengal lead again?

In May 1826, a seventeen-year-old youth, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, joined the ten-year-old Hindu College as a teacher and revolutionised the character of the institution.

Why don’t American politicians walk away?

When former President Bill Clinton showed up at the White House in early 2023, he was there to join President Joe Biden to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Economic tight-rope

India’s economic story has always been a complex tapestry of growth and inflation. Recent reports of a moderation in consumer price inflation to a four-month low of 4.8 per cent in October come as a breath of fresh air for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Centre.

Swim? Sink?

Dose the Seine, in Paris, stink? Well, an unambiguous answer to that is that it can be odoriferous, intermittently but unmistakably.

Black and White

These days the news is messy. Having an opinion on the same can be messier, but expressing it is the messiest experience of all.

Could Bollywood make the impossible possible again?

The evergreen Bollywood movie “Amar Akbar Anthony” (AAA) from 1977 was remade in Tamil as “Shankar Salim Simon” (1978), Telugu as “Ram Robert Rahim” (1980), and Malayalam as “John Jaffer Janardhanan” (1982).