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Opinion: India Bested, Beijing Is In The Driver's Seat In Colombo

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday October 30, 2018

Most people in the island nation of Sri Lanka and its Asian neighbors were stunned last week when President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe -- and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa, the populist strongman who had ruled Sri Lanka for a decade before the scrappy alliance between Sirisena and Wickremesinghe forced him out of power in ...

Opinion: The Growing Brawl Between RBI's Urjit Patel And Team Modi

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Monday October 29, 2018

If the standoff with the government gets any worse, a test of the central bank's dire warning could come soon.

Opinion: As Trump Attacks China On Currency Policy, India Largely Spared

David Fickling, Bloomberg | Monday October 22, 2018

What's more notable is what wasn't said in the report, which tends to reflect how geopolitical considerations end up trumping raw economics.

Opinion: Flipkart Vs Amazon Sales Are Like India Vs Pak Cricket

Saritha Rai, Bloomberg | Thursday October 18, 2018

The importance of the clash between the two just ahead of the biggest shopping seasons of Dussehra and Diwali is hard to overestimate.

Opinion: India's Mutual Fund Carnage Shows Peril Of Ignoring Liquidity

Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg Opinion | Friday October 12, 2018

Individual investors started returning to collective investment vehicles after the 2014 general elections, hoping for a reset to an economy held back by corruption scandals and policy paralysis. They doubled down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock November 2016 currency ban pulled 86 percent of people's cash into bank accounts.

Opinion: Government's Schizophrenic Approach To Fuel Hike, Rupee Fall

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg Opinion | Monday October 08, 2018

The RBI's steadiness on rates was born of its belief that inflation was close enough to the bank's target zone. Now, you might disagree with this belief -- as I do -- but there's no question that the central bank's monetary policy committee was doing its job as it saw it.

Opinion: With IL&FS Move, India Ducks Lehman Moment. Now The Test

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Wednesday October 03, 2018

Now that the government is backing its liabilities, IL&FS presumably can survive on a thinner layer of equity than it would have otherwise needed.

Opinion: Now Only Government Can Use Aadhaar Database, And That's A Problem

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Tuesday October 02, 2018

The world's biggest repository of citizen information, India's Aadhaar database, is now beyond the private sector's reach. That was the verdict last week by the country's top court, which refused to strike down the entire biometric-based system as unconstitutional. Now only the government can use it, and that's a problem.

Opinion: Crisis-Hit IL&FS Needs To Go Under The Knife, Very Soon

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Friday September 28, 2018

Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) Ltd. had 30 years to spawn an Indian clone of Macquarie Group: a powerhouse of finance, investments, asset ownership and risk management. Instead, Ravi Parthasarathy, the founder who stepped down recently as chairman, went on to build an unwieldy, debt-fueled empire that has now crumbled.