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16th January, 2020
In last year’s Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken about investing 100... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
14th January, 2020
“The time has come,” said the Walrus to the Carpenter in Lewis Carrol’s poem, “to talk of many... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
14th January, 2020
The internet has become an inextricable part of life. The recent shutdown of the internet in... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Global, India politics
11th January, 2020
President Donald Trump’s speech to the nation on January 8 morning American time turned out to be a... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Global
8th January, 2020
Violence of an unprecedented kind flared up at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Jobs, India politics, Inclusive growth
5th January, 2020
It sounds progressive and high-minded but is, in reality, turning a necessity into a virtue. It is... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
4th January, 2020
Well intentioned boards and “promoters” of companies look for a variety of attributes in their... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Global, India politics, Indian economy
3rd January, 2020
We are living through one of the darkest periods of independent India. The Emergency was bad. This... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
1st January, 2020
There is growing awareness of the connection between health and climate change, leading nations to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics
26th December, 2019
The former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has said that the current economic slowdown in... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, China-India, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, GST
26th December, 2019
“No Indian citizen should fear the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.” Well said Amitbhai! My sisters... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
25th December, 2019
Boards of corporations are supposed to comprise of sage individuals of a higher order than homo... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
24th December, 2019
The Indian economy is going through a significant slump. Industrial output contracted 3.8 per cent... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
17th December, 2019
The nation is in a sorry state. Parts of the sensitive North East are in flames. The fire is... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
12th December, 2019
The Union government in India led by Modi has passed in the Lok Sabha the Citizenship (Amendment)... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
11th December, 2019
It is a great irony of history that the Hyderabad encounter killing by the police of the four... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, India politics, Inclusive growth
6th December, 2019
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its resolution on December 05 2019 kept the policy repo rate... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, India politics, Indian economy
6th December, 2019
It was one of those rare events where the ex ante probability of the actual outcome was close to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, India politics, Indian economy
4th December, 2019
Even the continuous blare of a Trump-et cannot divert attention from the existential risk posed to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
4th December, 2019
It has been several weeks since the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth