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India’s economy is booming; its leaders proudly proclaim it is the world’s largest democracy. To promote this unqualified positive vision of modern India, however, is to ignore the many negative aspects of development that tell a less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been...

Author: By Komala Ramachandra | Title: India’s Silent Spaces | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

It has not gone unnoticed that Ickes, after a generation of maneuvering behind the scenes for insurgent candidates, is working for the Establishment contender this time, in exactly the kind of stodgy corporate campaign he once took a special pleasure in trying to destroy. But as Obama surged and Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. In politics and in marriage, the old lesson applies. And this provocative new book makes a compelling case that financial infidelity--lying to your partner about how much you spend, secretly playing the stock market or piling up debts--can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books. | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

"It's probably not all that fair to employers, but it's become the rule," Guichard acknowledges. Meanwhile, with the Paris stock market booming and France's leading companies posting enviable profits, Guichard feels little sympathy for bosses complaining that pont weekends are picking their pockets. "How can companies complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cruelty of May | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

Sure enough, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer limited himself to calling the results a "competitive set of earnings." And he was quick to point out that "Shell has the largest capital spending program in our industry today, to ... play our part in ensuring that energy markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BP and Shell Downplay Record Profits | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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