Reforms do happen and one example is Odisha which has taken steps to create a dedicated municipal cadre.
The whole point about this is not who eventually wins or loses but how, in just a few years, technology has so changed our lives, says Subir Roy.
One can expect significant changes at India's banks in ensuing months.
At Rs 140 crore per km, an elevated corridor will cost about the same as Delhi Metro's Rs 160 crore.
Less than half of rural households are engaged in agriculture.
India's cities are bursting at the seams because poor people are migrating to them in search of work.
The pre-dawn signals are on the balance negative.
Senior judges have developed a cushy arrangement among themselves: you back the appointment of so-and-so advocate's junior, and I will back so-and-so judge's nephew, says Subir Roy
'He was asked to do the KYC again because the earlier exercise would not do as they were 'computerising.' 'Getting the records transferred to the reluctant computer would take time and so he was advised to come a few weeks later.' 'My only prayer is that post offices will survive the modernisation process with at least some customer base intact,' says Subir Roy.
Businessmen love low import duties on their inputs and high duties on their outputs. And the Bharatiya Janata Party has a keen ear for business sentiment.
A new leadership is needed to replace the present culture of indifference.
Expenditure on health in India is at a global low of 1.2% of GDP.
'In Tadoba many of them have names -- Sonam, Shivaji, Maya and Tara.' 'Their territories are precisely demarcated on the map, and it is to the waterhole that we all troupe, to stay put till the lord or her ladyship deign to put in an appearance.' Subir Roy on a visit to the the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.
An enormous amount of black money flows in and out of the banking system and still remains black.
Issuance of new bank licences proves that the apex bank wants the financial sector to flourish.
The idea is to make unexceptionable broad promises so as to have the maximum freedom to devise policies if and when the opportunity arises, says Subir Roy.
Ever since India became a force to reckon with in software services, doing for clients what they want done, the big void that has been constantly talked about is its absence from the space of software products - those over which you own intellectual property rights.
The initial misadventure of an individual AAP leader highlights how the party not only has to bone up on tactics but should also constantly look within to root out ingrained and inherited prejudices, says Subir Roy.
The BJP had not filed till May the expenses statement for the Karnataka Assembly elections held last year in July.
If the Ganga manages a rebirth, so will the country.Roy
There are two major takeaways from the by-election results. One, a majority or Indians and Hindus have reasserted their secular credentials. The second, equally momentous, is the sure-footedness and quick response time of the Indian electorate, says Subir Roy.
The government is looking at building by-laws and floor area ratio so that you can build up instead of out, thus requiring less land.
To address a crescendo of complaints, the state government recently created a new category of taxis that have a self-explanatory 'no refusal' blazoned on them and come in the by-now-ubiquitous blue and white colours of the Trinamool Congress.
Design thinking is not designing as traditionally understood.
As concern about the unfolding economic crisis has risen in India, many experts have assured us that 2013 is not 1991.
The Goa Foundation started filing writ petitions before the Bombay High Court from 1992 onwards against several mining companies.
They say new rules that make over-billing by private hospitals a criminal offence will hurt their ability to treat patients properly, says Subir Roy.
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