May 30, 2023 India, with its incredible religious and cultural diversity, could benefit from a Uniform Civil Code. How urgent is our need for the same?
Feb 09, 2022 A more important role the government has in the matter of job creation is that of building an ecosystem conducive to creation of jobs
Sep 26, 2019 A slew of measures taken by the government will help achieve a 6.5 per cent growth in 2020-21, writes Bibek Deb Roy, the chairman of the economic advisory council to PM Modi
Aug 21, 2019 The government wishes to improve the business environment, and institutional cleansing is a part of that. It’s surely not gloom and doom.
May 15, 2019 Disdaining failure, the wise Bhalla sticks his neck out and predicts the poll results. But less of economics, and sharper focus, would have helped us.
Jan 30, 2019 Subramanian should have stuck to GST, demonetisation, agriculture.... In his zest for divulging tasty bits, he hasn’t done the CEA’s office a good turn
Nov 21, 2018 Within its slim girth, this book charts out reforms to set right our ailing polity and administration to extirpate corruption and poor governance
Oct 06, 2017 A new economic history of Asia springs forth on several daring proposals. Annual visitors to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine will be most pleased, though.
Jun 29, 2017 Can an age-old phenomenon like globalisation ever be whittled down to ten lives? Garten’s brave sally has excellent sketches, but is a partial account.
May 18, 2017 This engaging history of the RBI—rich in events and tales of conflict over policy—effectively ends in 1981. What brings up the rear is biased, tepid stuff.
Sep 29, 2016 An up-to-date history shows how the idea of a beneficial Raj is a sham
Dec 11, 1999 Who gains from a stronger World Trade Organisation? It's time to set the record straight.
Dec 11, 1999 Who gains from a stronger World Trade Organisation? It’s time to set the record straight.
Jun 16, 2001 No, the myth of the foreign takeover hides the element of competition they bring in
Aug 14, 2004 It wouldn't have made us a developed country by now. But from refusing-to-develop country (RDC) we would have moved to the willing-to-develop country (WDC) category.
Mar 25, 2006 WTO is but a convenient scapegoat, what agriculture needs is domestic reform
May 09, 2014 Quraishi’s information-packed book lays bare the EC’s workings, but skips lightly on the electoral reforms issue
Nov 06, 2015 Ninan’s book, in reading the future, takes into account manufacturing and corruption, but ignores health and agriculture