The Financial Express -- Expressions

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Sunday, May 4 1997

Letters to the Editor

Cash values of Indian politics

That old obsession, value-based politics, is still current. Perhaps it will be so eternally in India. This time round it is Rajesh Pilot who has given a boring call for return to value-based politics.

Infrastructure Bond Issue

Much of public sector should be up for sale

Public sector undertakings have always been in the news. In the heyday of socialism they were said to be occupying the commanding heights of the economy. They were there almost everywhere, from the manufacture of atta, bread and biscuits to zippers! All with a social objective gone topsy-turvy!

The checks and balances that have failed

What is wrong with the Indian economic system is that checks and balances never seemed to have quite worked at any point of time. This despite the fact that the country is viewed by both domestic and foreign investors as one of the most cumbersome places to make investments and feel safe about.

Business banter -- Trash for keeping

It's summer, power must trip!