The enchanting humanity of Japanese fast foodJAPAN is the true fast-food nation, and Tokyo's food-on-the-run is vast and diverse: at its best a thing of genius, while at its worst it can out-affront anything the United States has to offer.

The fear that the recent rise in the inflation rate will scupper their chances of re-election has led the United Progressive Alliance government to blame the usual suspects: hoarders, monopolists, and of course, foreigners. So bring back discredited policies: raid

B-schools should try and add skills in their students through some practical experiences and lessons in superior execution and in establishing methodologies on identifying ideas that can provide value to customers and hence make a business successful.

Inflation is far too important a problem to have to rely on an inadequate and, ultimately, unreliable database for solutions.

The Economic Survey 2007-08 has some interesting insights for infrastructure aficionados.

Terror targets cannot be protected by machines or manual security programmes alone. However, they can be countered to a great extent by enhancing cooperation among security agencies and timely intelligence sharing; strengthening political will; and most importantly public support.'

The most important safety valve as far as food supply is concerned is the short production cycle.

This is the last of B Ramn's three-part series on his impressions of China.