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The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

In February 2022 Nirmala Sitharaman had stepped forward to salvage the situation by giving up a key mantra of what economists refer to as neo-liberalism . (File Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The State in the economy and state of the economy

Returning to the 7.0 to 8.0 per cent growth path is the only way in which the next decade can hope to be dubbed as ...

6 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2023: Capital strike subdues the animal spirits'

It has become a habit for most governments to make the annual Budget speech a statement of past achievements and grand...

23 Jan 2023 12:28 AM IST

Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next decade. (Representational image: PTI File)

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Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It's like riding a roller coaster

The US has so many diasporas from nations that it has poor relations with.

9 Jan 2023 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the G20 Extraordinary Summit on Afghanistan, via video conferencing, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The Big Powers and the Global South in 2023

If 2022 was all about Big Power conflict, 2023 should be used to turn global attention to issues that concern developing...

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST

The economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 on account of impact of COVID pandemic. (Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The world economy and us: Are we decoupled?

It is time the Union government offered an honest, realistic and objective assessment of where the economy is headed.

12 Dec 2022 1:35 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Global South can make G-20 much less of a G-2

India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries

28 Nov 2022 1:47 AM IST

Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan during the press conference at Raj bhavan on Wednesday. (K. Durga Rao/AA)

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Sanjaya Baru | Are Raj Bhavans a sinecure or a political waiting room?

Three non-BJP govts in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are at loggerheads with their governors

14 Nov 2022 12:29 AM IST

Apple had started manufacturing iPhones in India in 2017 with iPhone SE. (Photo: AFP)

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Sanjaya Baru | Building brands: Tata & Satya top of India's list

The Tatas entered the top 100 list for the first time in 2020 and in 2022 are placed at 78th place

30 Oct 2022 11:01 PM IST

Forcing the use of Hindi in non-Hindi regions by the Central government and Central public sector enterprises, including the nationalised banks, is causing avoidable resentment (Image credit: Facebook)

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Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India's unity in diversity

If Hindi enthusiasts are hurting the cause of their language, so are other such language enthusiasts in other parts of...

16 Oct 2022 10:56 PM IST

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge (ANI)

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Sanjaya Baru | Organisation Man' takes on the Non-Organisation Man'

Mr Kharge as Congress president will play the same role that Manmohan Singh played as Prime Minister, writes Sanjaya...

3 Oct 2022 1:13 AM IST

Britains Queen Elizabeth II walks past Commonwealth flags displayed in St Georges Hall at Windsor Castle, Windsor, southeast England on March 5, 2021, to mark Commonwealth Day which is to be celebrated on March 8, 2021. (Steve Parsons / POOL / AFP)

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Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties

Indians' attitude to the English language and to Britain is, without doubt, schizophrenic

19 Sept 2022 7:18 AM IST

Senior military officials of India and China held talks in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday, focusing on maintaining security and stability in the region. (AFP file photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | India and China: Keeping an unstable equilibrium

The competition between Asia's two giants will continue in a world that is in search of a new equilibrium in power...

5 Sept 2022 1:09 AM IST