As I have remarked before, it was Jawaharlal Nehru who drafted and piloted the First Amendment in May 1951, 15…
As I have remarked before, it was Jawaharlal Nehru who drafted and piloted the First Amendment in May 1951, 15…
Deaths per case is 0.05 for the US, 0.025 for India, 0.04 for Brazil, while it stands at 0.15 for…
Nehru ordered the Army to throw the Chinese out. India was humiliated. No NAM nation came to help India; only…
An unanticipated shock compelling physical distancing is a rare phenomenon, especially at a global scale. When it all ends, the…
Rich or poor, a 50% cut in income hurts. Governments around the world began to underplay the novelty of the…
This time, without chasing old shibboleths such as swadeshi and socialism, India must focus relentlessly on economic growth in an…
His critics expect Gandhi to have behaved like we would today, and combine the struggles of all oppressed groups against…
Just compare India with East Asia, which neither interpreted self-sufficiency as rejection of trade nor capitalism as an alien Western…
This time the China-India confrontation will not be an isolated affair with India friendless as in 1962. It will be…
Covid gives India the opportunity to remove a 70-year incubus and get growth without having to invest massively.
There may be skittish debates among the retired economists as to whether the latest package is really 10% of GDP…
When the corona crisis ends, a return to the old normal is likely. To aid economic recovery, economic policy gaps…
The need is for a temporary unemployment benefit scheme for up to 100 days a year similar to the MNREGS…
Idealist notions of the State overtaking the Market as the one in charge are unfounded.
MGNREGA extends the idea beyond famine conditions to relieve chronic rural underemployment by providing for 100 days of work for…
The recovery will be geographically uneven. It may follow the path of the virus’s spread.
Number of hospital beds per capita, number of qualified health professionals, availability of testing equipment are what counts rather than…
Countries breaking the rules of economic prudence to deal with coronavirus shatters the monetarist view that economic policy must be…