Columns: August 2020
27th August, 2020
In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Global, Jobs, India politics, Inclusive growth
22nd August, 2020
In the run up to the 2012 presidential elections in the United States, the Guardian newspaper... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, China-India, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
22nd August, 2020
More than a 100 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi exhorted us not to be mesmerised by modernity. The COVID-... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
19th August, 2020
The Indian Supreme Court to hold that the two tweets of Prashant Bhushan have brought that... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Global, India politics
17th August, 2020
In his latest stint Urjit Patel spent five years at the Reserve Bank of India, three as a Deputy to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, GST
15th August, 2020
Acharya’s propositions strongly reflect the tumultuous period (2017 to 2019) for the Indian... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
11th August, 2020
Death happens to everyone; but except in about 10% people where death comes suddenly, it happens... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
8th August, 2020
The monetary policy and associated statements and documents announced on Thursday (Aug. 06) unfold... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
7th August, 2020
Despite some notable contrarian opinions in this regard, a majority of the analysts and market... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
6th August, 2020
A 22-kilogram silver brick marks the symbolic laying of the foundations of what we are promised... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
6th August, 2020
This past week saw the near simultaneous publication of two books by senior former Central bankers... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
3rd August, 2020
Viral Acharya argues that fiscal dominance provides the basis for a “theory of everything” that... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, India politics, Indian economy
2nd August, 2020
The New Education Policy announced after 34 years claims to make way for large scale... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth