The PM’s speech in Toronto contained the analogy that while India and Canada growing separately would be a2 + b2, when joined together in friendship they would be (a+b)2 which equals a2 +2ab+b2, with the synergy giving an extra 2ab.
Articles by Manas Chakravarty
A sitting duck country
You won’t believe it took the Chief Sitting Ducks twelve long hours to get their crack commandos in place for an assault. That’s great news for us, because we can go around killing a lot of people, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Nov 29, 2008 10:48 PM IST
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TV guide for the week
Realising the impatience with which you have been waiting for your beloved soaps, we offer you some sneak previews of the next episodes. For copyright reasons, the names of the serials and the characters have not been disclosed.
Updated on Nov 22, 2008 10:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Loose canon | Manas Chakravarty
Waiting for Obama’s call
I think there’s something seriously wrong with this Obama guy. Doesn’t he know how we Indians rooted for him? Hasn’t anyone told him how practically all of us have relatives in US? Manas Chakravarty writes.
Updated on Nov 17, 2008 12:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
Dubya’s last speech
I always thought that Indians were the guys who ran around with tomahawks and scalped people but my good friend Manmohan Singh, the PM of Indonesia, says he’s never scalped anyone in his life, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Nov 08, 2008 10:56 PM IST
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Crash ke side effects
As the stock market plummets, the government is sparing no effort to boost economic growth, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Nov 02, 2008 12:57 AM IST
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Ratan Tata’s open letters
Narendra Modi to Mamata Bannerjee: ‘I suggest that your next target be ITC. Even Chowringhee was once a farmland and deserves to be given back to the farmers’.
Updated on Oct 25, 2008 10:14 PM IST
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Shtop thish, Ramadosh
Anbumani Ramadoss, you have your work cut out for you. Rather than try and curb wholesome drinking, it’s high time you banned peanuts instead, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Oct 18, 2008 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
Teotwawki: the movie
I would definitely give Teotwawki (The End Of The World As We Know It) a five-star rating. It has a plot with twists and turns guaranteed to make your hair stand on end, fast action, nail-biting suspense, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Oct 11, 2008 11:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
A free market for religions
If you think religion cannot be analysed in economic terms, consider how our godmen have carved out the spiritual consolation market between them, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Sep 27, 2008 10:05 PM IST
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Seven days that shook Amerika
Economists say these measures are essential to keep intact America’s god-given function in the global economy as consumer of last resort, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 11:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
Big Bang blues
As we wait with bated breath for the first collision of speeding protons in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it’s time to ask the professors some tough questions, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Sep 13, 2008 11:49 PM IST
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Open letter to ‘Super’ Subba
Always remember that the RBI governor never walks, he perambulates. He never changes anything, he modulates. And he never says anything, he articulates, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Sep 06, 2008 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
My brush with rural service
The stand-off in Singur and the debate whether fertile land should be used for industrialisation has rekindled old memories, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Aug 30, 2008 11:01 PM IST
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The Political Bigg Boss show
Politics will never be the same again. The burning desire of politicians to be on reality TV show Bigg Boss is set to herald a dramatic change in the country’s politics, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Aug 23, 2008 11:50 PM IST
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My work-life balance
I thought, put up my feet, read some books, and recuperate. But my family had other ideas. This work-life balance is too much like hard work, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Aug 16, 2008 11:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Loose canon | Manas Chakravarty
A Western view of the Olympics
I couldn't watch any of the events today because I spent all day trying to find the secret microphones the Chinese secret service must have planted in my room... But I couldn't find anything. They are fiendishly clever, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Aug 09, 2008 11:01 PM IST
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The madness in matrimonials
Almost all the ads these days are prefaced with ‘SM for…’. I initially thought it stood for sado-masochist, although it was odd that a family would advertise ‘Bride Wanted: Sado-Masochist for South-Delhi based, Punjabi boy…’. Manas Chakravarty examines.
Updated on Jul 26, 2008 10:17 PM IST
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The nuclear fallout
UPA sources hotly dispute the rumour that they have been scouring the country’s jails on the chance of discovering forgotten MPs who can be induced to vote for the deal, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Jul 19, 2008 07:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Manas Chakravarty
‘Love the US, not Americans’
While 65 pc of Indians believe that the US Govt respects the personal freedoms of its people, 59 pc believe so does the Iranian Govt, while 49 pc have the same opinion about the Chinese Govt, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Jun 28, 2008 11:20 PM IST
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The Great Austerity Drive
These are purportedly the minutes of a meeting held to consider the government's austerity measures, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Jun 14, 2008 10:28 PM IST
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Economics lecture, 3008
The government started special bonds as compensation to producers. The economy was soon flooded with oil bonds, fertiliser bonds, egg bonds, coconut bonds and so on, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on May 31, 2008 11:42 PM IST
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What’s in a name?
The big question that has every political activist in Mumbai on tenterhooks is whether Uddhav Thackeray’s new strategy of targeting establishments that still have “Bombay” in their names, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on May 17, 2008 10:40 PM IST
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In the name of saving the world
Celebrities have been quick to show that they too have done their bit to support worthy causes, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on May 03, 2008 11:09 PM IST
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Our grand Tibetan strategy
How on earth is the Indian Govt to know what’s going on? On one side are the claims of the Dalai Lama and on the other we have the testimony of the Chinese Govt. Manas Chakravarty examines...
Updated on Apr 05, 2008 11:13 PM IST
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Loose Canon | The fall-out from the Budget
The reverberations from the finance minister’s revolutionary Budget will be felt in our hearts and wallets for years. But how exactly did the idea of such a brilliant Budget occur to him? Manas Chakravarty tells us...
Updated on Mar 09, 2008 02:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Loose Canon | Manas Chakravarty
Crores for cricket
Economists, who have been raving about the auction as another triumph of the free market, have suggested that the system should be used for selecting CEOs, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Feb 23, 2008 09:09 PM IST
None | Loose canon | Manas Chakravarty
Mayhem in Mumbai
Incidentally, the Mumbai economy has been given a big boost by the ongoing agitation. Shops have opened all over the city selling pictures of Amitabh Bachchan, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Feb 09, 2008 09:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Loose canon| Manas Chakravarty
What made the stockmarket crash
I ’ve been trying to find out how bad loans by banks in the US led to a crash in our stock markets, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Jan 26, 2008 10:56 PM IST
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New Year resolutions 2008
Among political parties, the CPM’s big New Year’s resolution is to rename Nandigram. Manas Chakravarty tells us more.
Updated on Dec 29, 2007 11:33 PM IST
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Terror funds in stock markets
The Supreme Leader of the Taliban confirmed that their women were all addicted to online trading, writes Manas Chakravarty.
Updated on Dec 15, 2007 10:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Loose Canon | Manas Chakravarty