sujit bhar

By Sujit Bhar The Ame...

The Covid-19 pandemic will feel like a mild shiver down the spine of the world’s financial markets if China’s second largest real estate developer Evergrande defaults. This will be comparable to the subprime disaster of 2007-08.

The big talk about huge loans being given to this sector is no more than just that, big talk. It seems India has patience only for multi-billion dollar organisations and not for those who provide sustenance for most of the workforce of the country.

Here are some sobering bits of information. Afghanistan has now endured two decades of horrifying war and brutality under the Taliban, followed by another two decades of American “occupation”, purportedly to the benefit of the common man, and to help set up a legitimate government. Yet, the country now descends into god knows how many years of complete chaos under the Taliban, again.

By Sujit Bhar The leg...

The fallout from the revelations about the Pegasus spyware allegedly being used to snoop on Indian political leaders continues to create waves around the world. What are the implications for India?

The imposition of a global tax rate of at least 15 percent on multinationals by G20 finance ministers recently is a positive effort to deter tax dodging and end tax havens. But it remains to be seen how the contemplated tax structure will be implemented.

Betting on teams in the IPL is illegal. But what happens when the franchises become public companies? Will speculating on their shares impact the players or the game? If this speculation, in the stock market, is legitimate, how is betting on the teams not?

The word has been coined for acts that defy environmental norms. Activists and legal experts have drawn up its definition along with a draft law aimed at empowering the International Criminal Court.

Whatever the impact of the strange and laughable dialogues by the actor on the paying audience at the time of the release of the movies, these utterances from a podium from where an election speech was to be made did not sound convincing from a visibly ill and tottering actor.