The Indian mutual fund industry has evolved greatly in the last few years and the regulator has pushed it to become more transparent and investor-friendly.
Any attempt by the Indian authorities to protest against extensive surveillance on Indians by the US will be hamstrung by what the authorities themselves are up to, notes Subir Roy.
There is an inevitable good fallout from the government's recent proposal to limit the interest rate levied by large microfinance institutions getting priority sector loans from banks.
The AAP does not promise and try to bring about a social revolution by attacking deep-rooted social prejudices.
Five years after the 2008 global financial crisis plunged the world into the Great Recession, there is a ray of hope that may lead the world into quicker recovery than what has happened till now.
Cash transfer is targeted at the poor, but Aadhaar which will be at the core of the direct transfer process -- has no role in identifying the poor.
What sets Bandhan apart is the roots it has in the world of the rural poor.
By all accounts, India's poor, mostly in rural areas, can look back to a 10-year period when their lot clearly improved.
Chandigarh remains the only new independent city of any consequence built in independent India.
Since public sector banks are unlikely to be privatised soon, the aim has to be to make as many of them perform as is possible.
The slide in India's growth rate over the last five quarters, with the figure for the current year (2012-13) now projected to touch a 10-year low of five per cent, has thrown those who used the gross domestic product benchmark in the past to claim exceptional performance into a tizzy.
If diesel subsidy can be confined to the running of public transport vehicles and agricultural pump sets, then it will stop benefiting private car owners and sundry other unintended recipients.
Today, the telecommunications revolution, the Internet, a concern for global warming and a desire for a healthy lifestyle are redefining urban living.
Policy focus should shift to targeting modestly good growth and using its fruits to improve lives.
The city's experience offers a lesson to all major urban centres in the country, which will come to grief if they do not follow the right policies.
The superfast double-decker train running between Delhi and Jaipur is new and posh, says a friend who has just been on it, up and down.
The work and management culture in the Railways needs to be severely shaken up, but the conventional political leadership of the country is unable to do it.
India's cities are in poor shape and it is axiomatic that unless you have proper systems of governance in place working through the right kind of institutions, there is no hope for their uplift.
The embattled Left Front has done one more volte face by deciding to regularise hawkers in Kolkata's busiest streets.
There is a big hole in India's electronics manufacturing capabilities, one that does not fit in well with the notion of a large economy with matching technology muscles, says Subir Roy.
Even if the government starts issuing vouchers which can be sold, a fairly early sunset will be written into them because of new technology clearly on the horizon , says Subir Roy.
There can be no forgetting the Margaret Thatcher principle of leaving something on the table for the small investor.
'I often wondered while watching the film/trilogy, what if Durga had lived. What if Ray made The Durga Trilogy.' Sandip Roy looks back at Pather Panchali's Durga and the woman who brought her alive, Uma Dasgupta.
India's cities are heading for a crisis that can derail all hopes of remaining on a high-growth path.
The gap between promise and achievement in JNNURM is enormous.
Dun and Bradstreet forecasts that overall inflation will touch 6 per cent by the end of the current fiscal, fuelled by, among others, current high food prices and the impact of the drought. The 20 per cent deficit in the monsoon is slated to bring down kharif output by 15-20 per cent. The news couldn't get worse.
What is really needed is a tenure track where higher pay goes with accountability, not peer review which tends to favour the upward drift of the incumbent mediocrity.
Korean hardware prowess and Indian software prowess can result in a formidable partnership
State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation is eyeing oil blocks in African countries, its Chairman and Managing Director, Subir Roy Choudhari said on Friday.
All machines will go the way of all flesh - and the more modern the machine, the sooner it will do so.
N R Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor of Infosys Technologies, is considered to have set new benchmarks in corporate governance through the firm he founded. Last fortnight, he was chosen to head Nasscom's sub-committee on corporate governance.
There is no reason to assume that a collection of powerful regional leaders will be bereft of vision and responsibility, says Subir Roy
The climate accord secured for India a place at the high table in recognition of its importance for the rest of the world, says Subir Roy.
The greatest plus of the Duronto is the service of the outsourced catering staff.
India's battle for a better lot for its people is barely half done.
Pranab Mukherjee's likely clear and impressive victory in the presidential poll will in no way reverse the perceptible decline of the Congress, says Subir Roy.
The challenge for India is to write a new chapter in low-cost urban development.
A third of urban India and half of some metros live in slums.
Looking inward, innovating for the Indian market, and IT-led innovation to make possible no-frills accounts and microfinance loans will be key elements of the medium-term strategy for corporate India.
San Francisco and Bangalore have a lot in common but there is a lot more that is different.Bangalore needs to imbibe the spirit of San Francisco.
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