India’s FDI problem: Why the Model BIT needs a rethink
Readers will know that my constant preoccupation regarding economic policy is with the following fact: We know, and have known, what the right policy is to follow. Yet, we don’t…
Readers will know that my constant preoccupation regarding economic policy is with the following fact: We know, and have known, what the right policy is to follow. Yet, we don’t…
4 min readOct 2, 2026 06:21 AM IST First published on: Oct 2, 2026 at 06:21 AM IST Against the backdrop of the raging SIR controversy, Gandhi Jayanti is an…
2 min readOct 2, 2026 07:19 AM IST First published on: Oct 2, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST The Mayor of New York has declined to unveil the eight-foot-high statue…
For the first time in history, technology is not one factor among many driving economic growth. It is the foundation on which all other progress is being built. India’s semiconductor…
3 min readSep 21, 2026 07:12 AM IST First published on: Sep 21, 2026 at 06:15 AM IST Punjab’s drug menace has outlived a dozen crackdowns and three governments. It…
A straightforward proposition at the heart of public economics is that in an electoral democracy, citizen preferences should influence the nature and quality of public good provision. Politicians seek votes;…
4 min readSep 21, 2026 07:11 AM IST First published on: Sep 21, 2026 at 06:16 AM IST A recent column, “Dear Editor, I Disagree: Dialogue at BRICS is a…
5 min readSep 21, 2026 06:21 AM IST First published on: Sep 21, 2026 at 06:21 AM IST Disaster geography is now an important sub-discipline of its mother discipline. But…
2 min readSep 21, 2026 06:42 AM IST First published on: Sep 21, 2026 at 06:40 AM IST Ministers from more than 70 nations meeting at Punta Del Este have…
The country’s democratic institutions – the two Houses of Parliament and the state assemblies – have become virtually dysfunctional and are now just caricatures of what they used to be…