If not IT, what is India's next growth engine?

When you are used to double-digit growth rates (ranging from 13 to 50 percent per annum), a growth forecast of 4 to 7 percent definitely comes as a surprise. At Chennai today, Nasscom (the trade body of Indian IT-BPO industry) announced that the industry is estimated to grow by 4..... Read more »

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Could this be the most critical budget for India?

For business journalists in India, budget time is excitement time. It's like sports journos covering the Olympics. As a newspaper correspondent, I too had my fill of budget-time excitement. But I often wondered why the government must play with the (fiscal) fate of 1 billion Indians every year.

Till today,..... Read more »

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Swati Prasad

Swati Prasad is a New Delhi-based freelance business journalist. Over the last 15 years, Swati has worked in both Delhi and Mumbai as a correspondent and editor for India’s leading publications, such as The Economic Times, Business Standard and Business Today. As a freelance journalist, she regularly writes on technology, economy and corporate issues.