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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | A bottom-up view of the annual Budget
Despite the hoopla around the Union government’s Budget, for citizens, allocations in their state budgets matter more
14 Feb 2021 4:35 AM
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God’s world: ‘Growth’ has a high price
It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back construction of dams
10 Feb 2021 7:14 AM
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | C-virus funk? Relax, and respect the kids
There are so many moving parts, any of which could pitch the game against the parent or the child
10 Jan 2021 7:32 AM
2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters
The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions.
31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Keeping Big Biz out of banks not a good idea
Increasing the number of well- capitalised private banks will induce competition and dilute the concentration of economic power
04 Dec 2020 7:35 AM
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings
The ongoing pandemic’s most telling debris — other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia — are the ubiquitous masks
29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM
Lockdowns are overkill, and won’t tame the virus
The silence of economic graveyards can be very expensive for struggling economies like ours
24 Mar 2020 7:49 PM
The C-virus impact on the lives of urban Indians
Globalisation benefited urban India the most, so it is urban India that is now affected the most
16 Mar 2020 11:49 AM
Treating Trump better may be good for India; but let’s not forget China
Look no further than enjoying at Ahmedabad a grander version of the Narendra Modi-Donald Trump event in Houston last year in September.
22 Feb 2020 3:18 AM
Seismic changes haunt BJP after Delhi shock
To be sure the city of Delhi — a cossetted child of emperors starting with the Great Mughals — is spoilt silly.
15 Feb 2020 3:07 AM
New thinking is needed, Band-Aids won’t suffice
The government has been firefighting since FY 2019 using mostly Band-Aids of the cheapest kinds.
29 Jan 2020 2:26 AM
Modi legacy: What the future holds for India
The man is full of energy, strong in the saddle and is likely to be around till 2030.
07 Jan 2020 1:29 AM
Stoke ‘animal spirits’ to let India breathe again
The economic downturn has cannibalised the participation of women in the workforce -- down to 26 per cent from 37 per cent in FY 2005.
25 Dec 2019 2:13 AM
Can govt let private sector take lead on growth?
Bringing the private sector centre-stage requires a sea change in the manner of its participation and its role in nation-building.
02 Dec 2019 12:00 AM
India dodges RCEP, but can’t avoid Reforms 2.0
Exports to China account for just around 15 per cent, while another 11 per cent go to other destinations in East Asia.
08 Nov 2019 2:31 AM
Saving the world from the bottom upwards
All three apply the experimental method of randomised control trials (RCT) from the physical sciences to social science.
03 Nov 2019 2:04 AM
‘Hybrid’ export growth models: Hope for India
Government advisory committees come with implicit constraints to stay within the limits of what is politically doable.
02 Nov 2019 12:05 AM
Leave growth to pundits, let’s end poverty instead
But the surprise is that so has newly created Telengana! Dividing states seems to do wonders for reducing inequality.
23 Oct 2019 1:56 AM
Are these early shoots of a ‘reforms’ revival?
Encouraging individual ministers to become visible while laying out their strategy to deal with the slowdown is in.
15 Oct 2019 1:07 AM
Stoke demand to stop India slowing down
Even this is optimistic and we could as well be seeing sub 5 per cent growth.
05 Oct 2019 1:46 AM
Columns
This year, the expo covers the use of ganja (cannabis) and ganchong (hemp) in various industries, including textiles, food and cosmetics
It is a known fact that India’s foreign service is woefully understaffed, with most Indian missions abroad having too few diplomats
So, like Shakespeare’s tragic heroes, she may well ask if the price she paid for achieving her ambition was worth it?
Surely the world’s only superpower claims a higher moral role than just organising the distribution of weapons and pocketing the profits