Anirudha Dutta
Read biographyAnirudha Dutta is a financial analyst with a global investment bank and based in Mumbai. He loves to write on a variety of subjects and hopes to get his clients engaged in them, even though some of the topics would be at a reasonable distance from the stock markets. Like all good bongs he loves his phish and phoochka, but unlike them he is not passionate about phootball.
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Why ‘The Economist’s’ ‘Joy of Reading’ campaign matters
My maternal uncle started gifting me books whenever I did well in my school results. It then became a habit and he would give me books as a gift whenever he gave me anything. He was partly responsible for inculcating in me the habit of reading. When we moved to Calcutta #JustSaying #The Economist
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Decline of MMS, but who is rising?
It was sometime in 2011, most likely in August, when I realised that Manmohan Singh's reign as the PM was for all practical purposes over. I do not know what triggered the exact thought, it could have been the fiasco around the Anna movement, the CWG scam or a culmination #Anna Hazare #BJP #Congress #Manmohan Singh #Rajiv Gandhi #RSS #VHP #WhatNext
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The confused criticism of Narendra Modi
With Narendra Modi increasingly taking centre stage as BJPs possible Prime Ministerial candidate, the voice of Modi baiters is becoming shriller. Most critics have two sticks to beat him with - 2002 riots and malnourishment. Let's take a few recent articles in this genre: India, as dreamt up by Modi #Development #Gujarat #InMyOpinion #Markandey Katju #Modi #SRCC
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Rail Budget derailed: Don’t blame Mamata
Yesterday’s rail budget was hailed as bold, visionary etc by most media commentators as it should be for hiking passenger fares after nine long years and also for proposing to put an independent regulatory body to decide on fare changes. The latter, particularly, is a move in the right direction #All India Trinamool Congress #Dinesh Trivedi #Mamata Banerjee #RailwayBudget2012 #ToTheContrary
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‘Why can’t I refuse a skull cap and still be secular?’
It is interesting to see headlines that Narendra Modi has made during his Sadbhavna mission. Whatever be his motives for the Sadbhavna mission, many of the headlines have been about his refusing to accept a kaffiyeh offered by a Muslim. In September, he had also turned down a skull cap #Gujarat #Narendra Modi #Religion/Belief #Sadbhavna Mission