Columns: July 2021

Sustainability
Taxes
China-India
Global
A break-in that shames and endangers India
by Jagdish Rattanani
31st July, 2021
The argument that the data from this act of illegal snooping was available not to the Israeli... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Urban co-op banks in ICU, post- Covid
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28th July, 2021
The Cooperative Credit Structure (CCS) in India is broadly made up of urban cooperatives and rural... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth, GST
The Covid crisis we don’t see
by Lekha Rattanani
28th July, 2021
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
The flip-side to building forex reserves
by Ranjit K Pattnaik
26th July, 2021
The build-up in foreign exchange reserves to US$ 610.01 billion as on July 02, 2021, an increase of... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, GST
The two-child law is coercive
by Ajit Ranade
20th July, 2021
India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Financing agriculture: Need for clear thinking
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20th July, 2021
Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth, GST
UP's anti-people law on population
by Jagdish Rattanani
17th July, 2021
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
A lot else died with Father Stan Swamy
by Jagdish Rattanani
10th July, 2021
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Global, India politics
A blueprint for making PSBs Atmanirbhar
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6th July, 2021
The dictionary meaning of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) is “reliance on one's own powers and... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
Survey finds unity and harmony of religions in India
by Ajit Ranade
6th July, 2021
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
How not to write off a loan
by Jagdish Rattanani
3rd July, 2021
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth, GST