I have followed the European Debt Crisis in detail for over a year now and I have been intending to write about it for a while. However the European situation is so dynamic that successive drafts have graced the dustbin. I wanted that the piece I finally publish should be insightful, I was not content...

The European Sovereign Debt Crisis has centered around 5 nations – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain giving this grouping of economies an unfortunate but somewhat deserving acronym – PIIGS. Greece and Italy are the two economies from this group that have attracted the  largest amount of...

We met at Victoria Terminus, (I shall persist in using the British name, they built it after all) Ankit, Praveen and I. We were to catch the 7:10 p.m. Vidharba Express from platform 18. The train actually turned out to be rather royal despite the name having connotations of farmer suicides. We walked...

IMF’s Director – India must support Christine Lagarde After Dominique Strauss Kahn’s ignominious exit from the top post at IMF, analysts and policy makers across the globe have debated and speculated on the successor to the top post. Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister has emerged as...

Manan Vyas explains in lay-man’s language the factors that led Greece to accumulate a government debt burden that surpasses the GDP of more than 170 nations ($467 billion) while deconstructing the political, economic, regulatory and enforcement failures of the government of Greece and the European...

The military intervention by the Western nations in Libya has raised several important questions. Here I seek to give my opinion on the issues being raised. The Jasmine revolution originating in the nation of Tunisia was followed with great interest by the international community. It was the first of...

After the thoroughly exhausting marathon Ankit and I collapsed on the bed and had a rather largish nap. We still had 3 days of free time before we caught a train from Kathgodam to Delhi and we were not about to spend 3 days in a small trekking village. We considered various hill stations in the region...