It is 53 years since Edna O’Brien published her harrowing novel ‘August is a Wicked Month’ and I have borrowed the title several times over the years. As this month claims more and more casualties...
I think most people would agree that the Brexit process has not gone well so far. However, blaming Mrs May and her hapless ministers is perhaps too simple an explanation. After 45 years of integration...
The Trump Administration argues that other countries have been taking unfair advantage of the US on trade for years, and what many are calling a trade war is really only the US finally saying enough....
Savarna can mean an astrologer, or a son of a Brahmin man and a Kshatriya mother, or of the same colour, appearance, caste or tribe. That was in ancient Sanskrit; more recently it has come...
Silvio Berlusconi was famously derided for claiming in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis that all was well in Italy as the restaurants were as full and the beaches as crowded as usual. Subjective...
Right now, investing profitably is getting riskier and investors would do well to look out for developments that could cause major upsets. Avoiding them or limiting the damage to others from them might be called...
Blindheim – blind home – is a strange name; but that is the name of a village in Bavaria. Presumably it had a home for the blind some time in its history. But what made...
There is no correlation between countries and patriotism. Of the 60-odd countries I have visited, citizens of most – for instance, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada or Singapore – would hardly ever give a thought to patriotism....
The economic theories of Karl Marx, born 200 years ago, became unchallengeable doctrine in many countries for much of the 20th century. We take a look at which of his ideas were right — and...
On the domestic front, Mr Trump’s undoubted major achievement has been to push ‘yuge’ tax cuts though a Republican Congress without conceding savings on federal spending. This certainly boosted equity prices and it seems many...
Securities and Exchange Board of India is at a loss: it does not know how to rate shares. It would like the risk of investing in a share to be summed up in a single...
The President Macron visit to India background is the signing in 1998 of a “Strategic Partnership” between the two countries. The issues with such a giant are numerous and cannot be reduced to business deals....
