Sunil Jain (1963-2021) was Managing Editor of The Financial Express. He passed away on May 15 due to post Covid-19 complications. Known for his insightful and unsparing commentary on business and economy, Jain was often a lightning rod for many an intellectual and policy debate. A graduate of Delhi School of Economics, he wrote extensively on issues like regulatory capture, highlighting details of faulty decisions by the telecom as well as various electricity regulators. Jain started his journalistic career as a reporter in India Today in 1991, and then moved on to heading all business and economy coverage for The Indian Express. After working for six years in the Express, he worked with Business Standard for eight years, and then joined The Financial Express. Jain wrote two books based on the results of NCAER’s annual household survey and was the co-author of ‘Caste in a Different Mould’ on the role of education and location and occupation in social and income mobility across caste groups.

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One clearly doesn't know what will finally come of it, but a lawyer friend is in the midst of filing a lawsuit against the Airport Authori...
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January 05, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4: In a major revenue-raising exercise, several States have quietly hiked sales taxes by whopping amounts, while others...
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January 05, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4: In a major revenue-raising exercise, several States have quietly hiked sales taxes by whopping amounts, while others...
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January 01, 2000 00:00 IST
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December 25, 1999 00:00 IST
Contradictory smoke signalsCigarette smoking is bad for you. It causes cancer. Apart from what that does to your life, for society as a wh...
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December 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 19: While global oil prices continue to shoot up they touched $26.5 a barrel yesterday ONGC is expected to record a shortag...
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December 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Don't reward SEBI chairman D.R. Mehta by making him the chief of the new Disinvestment Commission after his retirement in February, runs o...
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December 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14: The ministry of finance is likely to remove all restrictions on how funds raised from the European Commercial Borr...
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December 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DEC 14: With his tenure as the head of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) coming to an end in February, the gove...
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December 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 14: The ministry of finance is likely to remove all restrictions on how funds raised from the European Commercial Borr...
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December 11, 1999 00:00 IST
WEF, CII and other talking shopsWhile the Confederation of Ind-ian Industry's (CII) chief Rahul Bajaj hogged the headlines with his statem...
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December 10, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, December 9: In what is perhaps the biggest indictment of the way things are run in the country, seven years after it first emba...
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December 04, 1999 00:00 IST
Waking up to the new millenniumFor those of us used to the Ambanis' might and their undisputed status as the country's number one corporat...
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November 27, 1999 00:00 IST
Playing games with G.V. RamakrishnaIt must be awful to be in G.V. Ramakrishna's shoes. Two days before the termof the Disinvestment Commi...
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November 24, 1999 00:00 IST
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NEW DELHI, NOV 23: Five weeks after three of the four members, including the chairman, of the Disinvestment Commission submitted their re...
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November 20, 1999 00:00 IST
The mother of all cross-holdingsWhen the BJP and its allies were first voted back, this newspaper was so enthused by all their talk of ra...
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NEW DELHI, NOV 19: Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has set off a virtual sugarcane war with his decision last week to hike the...
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November 14, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 13: Power is the life of industry, Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala began rather promisingly. And considering th...
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November 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Disinvest the core group firstUnlike some of the opposition parties, it's difficult for anyone who has ever invested money on the stock e...
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NEW DELHI, NOV 12: Power is the life of industry, Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala began rather promisingly. And considering th...
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November 12, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Nov 11: If you're a collector of extinct items, it's time to begin your search. Less than 8 weeks into the next millenium, and...
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November 11, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 10: The Department of Company Affairs (DCA) is planning to move legislation in the winter session of Parliament, which wil...
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NEW DELHI, NOV 10: With the Committee of Secretaries putting its seal of approval on the recommendations of the Nitish Sengupta panel for...
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