Suveen Sinha was part of Hindustan Times’ nationwide network of correspondents that brings news, analysis and information to its readers. He no longer works with the Hindustan Times.
Articles by Suveen Sinha
The joke’s on Dhoni: Why his banter with journo is no laughing matter
At the press briefing on Thursday night after India’s loss to West Indies in the T20 World Cup semi-final, an Australian journalist asked the Indian captain about his retirement plans. Dhoni’s response was far from brief. He made an elaborate show of calling the journalist over to sit next to him and started a little Q&A of his own.
Updated on Apr 01, 2016 03:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
How the Winner’s Curse caught up with Tata Steel in UK
Tata Steel’s journey in the United Kingdom, as it draws to an end, reminds us of the Winner’s Curse, the financial theory that the winning participant in a frenzied auction will typically pay an overvalued price.
Updated on Apr 02, 2016 01:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
‘Make in India will have limited success unless it focusses on IT’
For the first time, an industry association has come forward to talk about a flaw that will limit the success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India campaign.
Updated on Mar 30, 2016 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
It’s more about Max, less Micro for Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma still feels bad that his father never bought him a motorcycle. He first asked for it in the 10th standard. Much later, the father got him a scooter, whose memory still makes Sharma scoff.
Updated on Mar 21, 2016 08:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha and Sunny Sen, New Delhi
Why Alok Nath is safer as brand ambassador than Maria Sharapova
The eternal bane of all advertising is that relies on brand ambassadors. Most brand ambassadors turn out to be human beings and human beings have very human failings.
Updated on Mar 18, 2016 11:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
On a broken leg: Political fable from Shaktiman, the horse
Of all the painful things my human masters have done to me, this one is right there on top
Updated on Mar 16, 2016 08:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
True account: How banks went from loving Mallya to hating him
CBI director Anil Sinha, speaking at a conference in Mumbai, blamed the banks for dragging their feet.
Updated on Mar 14, 2016 07:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
EPF tax row and rollback: Why politics always trumps economics in India
It doesn’t matter how many members of Parliament are on your wide, nor does the strength of the leader’s image.
Updated on Mar 08, 2016 03:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
From Nehru to Sanjay Dutt: How jails make authors out of prisoners
Romanian law shaves 30 days off a convict’s sentence for every book published while in prison. This has created a raft of prison literature there.
Updated on Mar 08, 2016 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
‘There was froth in the startup space. Things have cooled down with the hedge funds going out’
Amid the frenzied voices about a bubble in startup valuations in India, here is one that calms. Roopa Kudva, the head of Omidyar Network in India, says things have settled down. Excerpts from an interview with Suveen Sinha
Updated on Mar 08, 2016 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Why banks should have woken up earlier to worst kept secrets
In the end, it was left to a Bihari cop to blow away the veil of niceness over the mess in banking. CBI director Anil Sinha, speaking at a conference in Mumbai on Wednesday, blamed the banks for dragging their feet.
Updated on Mar 04, 2016 01:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
Kishor changes politics: It’s time politicians took to gardening
If politics has to be like any other trade, the employers in it must be like any other employer, devising ways to prevent their trade secrets from leaking out to rivals.
Updated on Mar 03, 2016 05:55 PM IST
Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Revenue secy says there will be no cesses under new regime of GST
Did you ever imagine that a delay in the goods and services tax (GST) is making you pay more for your services and cars
Published on Mar 03, 2016 01:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Timsy Jaipuria and Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
In defence of EPF tax: Govt not afraid of taking on moneybags
Union minister Arun Jaitley says there is a limit to which an economy can afford exemptions. It appears that under the current economic climate, if we Indians want the government to take care of roads, pollution, public transport, and other things, we have to be open to paying taxes.
Updated on Mar 02, 2016 01:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
The problem is that nobody wants to pay taxes: MoS Jayant Sinha
With ample help from his crisp kurta and Nehru jacket, Jayant Sinha looks like a politician. But the minister of state for finance speaks the language of an MBA from Harvard, which he is, and a consulting firm honcho, which he used to be. As the stock market zoomed on Tuesday, Sinha explained the uniqueness of the budget. Excerpts:
Updated on Mar 02, 2016 12:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha and Timsy Jaipuria, New Delhi
Middle class India’s wish: Let’s get a salaried finance minister
Two finance ministers have shown a disinterested approach towards the salary class.
Updated on Mar 01, 2016 12:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
There is a limit to which an economy can afford exemptions: Jaitley
For a finance minister who had presented the Union Budget in the morning, Arun Jaitley appeared remarkably relaxed on Monday evening at his office in New Delhi’s North Block, occasionally allowing for lighter moments. He had the look of a man who knew he had done what had to be done. You can see it in his answers; right from the first one, they are direct, to the pint, and pithy
Published on Feb 29, 2016 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Appu Esthose Suresh and Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
How the tables have turned: The Ratan Tata of today needs no Niira Radia
Radia was in the eye of a storm for leaked tapes in which she was heard lobbying with a range of people to influence the government’s work.
Updated on Feb 26, 2016 07:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
SUVs are the next big battleground for carmakers in India
After small cars, large hatchbacks and small sedans, SUVs are the next big battleground for carmakers. Curiously their weapon of choice is design.
Updated on Feb 15, 2016 01:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Middle class on his mind, Dharminder Nagar builds hospitals
By the time Dharminder Nagar crossed 30, his family had begun to think he was using studies as an excuse to avoid working. Nagar says this with one of his frequent guffaws, but his family had good reason to suspect his intentions.
Published on Feb 09, 2016 02:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Maruti is not just showing cars at Auto Expo, it’s making a statement
With due respect to the old, much larger Grand Vitara, which was fully imported and not meant to garner high volumes, the Brezza is Maruti’s first real shot at the SUV market, though of the smaller kind.
Updated on Feb 03, 2016 05:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
With one step at a time, brothers Ajay and Vikram Shriram got back on track
Ajay Shriram was 36 at the time, Vikram 32. Their father had retired five years earlier and lived in Kolkata. The third brother, Ajit, was young and needed his brothers to care for him. But they decided to pick up the gauntlet.
Updated on Jan 25, 2016 09:06 PM IST
How form triumphs over substance in Modi’s Start-Up India campaign
Perhaps the Prime Minister should have stuck to what he started his speech with. That the government should not meddle. In the real world, what matters more is what is happening to start-ups in the US and China.
Updated on Jan 21, 2016 10:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha
Odd-even formula will make car pooling mainstream: Tripda CEO
The co-founder and global CEO of Tripda, the Brazilian car pooling start-up, believes the odd-even formula being tried out in Delhi will make car pooling mainstream. India is already one of Tripda’s top three markets, along with Brazil and Columbia. So much so that Meduna chose to tell HT about Tripda’s biggest milestone yet before any other publication. Read on.
Updated on Jan 05, 2016 02:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Content is king in telcos’ 4G gambit
Brace up for a new digital marketplace. The foreign investment policy has made sure that the biggest e-commerce outfits in the country are online market places, platforms that do not sell anything of their own and just bring buyers and sellers together. Now, as the fourth generation (4G) of mobile telephony gathers speed with the launch of Reliance Jio on Sunday evening, only for its employees for now, digital market places for content are upon us.
Updated on Dec 28, 2015 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Artificial Intelligence rebooting key services
Those who think of artificial intelligence, or AI, as science fiction will be disappointed. In the end, a robot will not try to kill us all and rule the earth. Actually, AI can do a world of good; its earliest adopter in India is Manipal Hospitals, which will use it in oncology.
Published on Dec 20, 2015 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
One solution too many for India’s education issues
It started with a call for more public expenditure. It ended with a plea to build toilets. In between came everything from flipped classrooms to entrepreneurship.
Updated on Dec 18, 2015 11:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Running on diesel: How SC’s green order will impact auto sector
Supreme Court’s ban on diesel vehicles is not just about the Delhi-NCR region being a big market, it is also about how it might turn the sentiment against the fuel. It will be a legitimate wonder: it’s Delhi today, why can’t it be Mumbai or Bangalore tomorrow?
Updated on Dec 16, 2015 07:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
Car pooling services in Delhi count their odd-even blessings
As the residents of Delhi NCR wrack their brains over the odd-even car number rule slated to start from January 1, there is muted celebration among car pooling apps and websites.
Updated on Dec 29, 2015 05:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi
US encouraged charities by way of tax savings: Sunil Mittal
Bharti Foundation, which Sunil Mittal set up in 2000, also runs a network of schools and builds toilets in villages. Excerpts from an interview:
Updated on Dec 03, 2015 12:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Suveen Sinha, New Delhi