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Sanjeev Ahluwalia

Firewalling Indian personal data is out of place with this strategy and plays to a jingoistic Chinese playbook, sans its economic and business heft. (Representatioanl Image)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Personal data is only ‘half protected’ by new data bill

It includes a bland provision for transfer of data outside India to countries notified by the govt on terms and conditions to be specified

25 Nov 2022 12:00 AM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Musk storms tweeter nest: Twitter to retain its sauce

Musk’s stance in favour of “free speech” seems as doomed as Custer’s last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

02 Nov 2022 12:05 AM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Great power rifts shatter India’s dream sequences

India subscribes to the Western model in form -- an outcome of a dream sequence which began at Independence and has continued since then

27 Oct 2022 12:05 AM

A cheetah after being released inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Cheetahs back: Will it take India into happier future?

This is not the first time that the introduction of big cats has been attempted in this region

22 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day at the Red Fort, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug 15, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Can India be a developed nation before it gets rich?

India, acting internationally as a pragmatic, non-preachy, middle power would be new for its citizens

18 Aug 2022 12:30 AM

One-fourth of India does not live where they were born, migrating after marriage, for advanced education or for jobs. (Representational image: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or blessing?

Managing population through heavy-handed top-down curbs on fertility is an inhuman and ineffective policy

21 Jul 2022 12:50 AM

A file photo of Indian army soldiers patrollingl near the Line of Control (LOC), in Akhnoor, about 65kms from Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Agnipath: Bringing the ‘gig’ economy to India’s military

The Union government is experimenting with applying these “start-up” human resources management principles to the military

20 Jun 2022 11:35 PM

Faced with an eleven-fold increase in gas prices, even the advanced economies are quietly reworking their energy strategies to keep coal as a fallback for volatile natural gas. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Summer blues: Navigating the future amid headwinds

The time of day and seasons no longer define anyone’s work schedules

25 Apr 2022 12:32 AM

The digital rupee will also use the blockchain, but not the decentralised ledger system used by commercial cryptocurrencies, which need a decentralised ledger to provide assurance about authenticity and security. (Representational Imagege/ File)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Will digital rupee take India higher, faster?

India possibly, fancies the enhanced monitoring and ecosystem advantages

11 Feb 2022 1:34 AM

Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman with Ministers of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary on her at Parliament for the presentation of the Union Budget 2022-23, in New Delhi. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Budget: Good intentions, but bit short on specifics

The expectation is that'growth' will come centre-stage from the next fiscal year as the pandemic becomes a bad memory

03 Feb 2022 7:09 AM

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 6th Pre-Budget consultation with the representatives of Services Sector including stakeholders from Health, Education, Rural Development and Water & Sanitation Sectors, in connection with the forthcoming Union Budget 2022-23. (PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Use Budget to offer relief, win back trust of farmers

Budgets in India, by and large, are mostly a grand occasion for initiating policy change

28 Jan 2022 2:45 AM

The Covid-19 pandemic which inspired the new normal of “work from home” also questions an individual-centric world. (DC file photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | As bells toll for 2021, an end is also a beginning

At present, for around 37 per cent of jobs in developed countries and 10 per cent in developing countries, working from home is possible

24 Dec 2021 12:43 AM

The absence of a central authority to define rules for sharing a depletable, common resource is the central problem behind global warming.Representational Image. (AP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Glasgow COP looming: Feel earth move under your feet

At the current rate of around thirty-four billion tons of CO2 emissions per year, we could exhaust our carbon budget in less than a decade

25 Oct 2021 1:10 AM

The richest countries, pledged to contribute or arrange $100 billion per year from 2015-20 but have confirmed just 18 per cent of that amount to the Green Climate Fund. (ANI Photo)

Glasgow COP is near: Fix rewards for aggressive mitigation of goal

The race to keep global climate stable seems irrevocably loaded against us, already

27 Aug 2021 1:08 AM

Taming regulatory excess in retail markets

Sadly, legislation, in democracies, is strongly influenced by political economy which dilutes technical good sense

18 Jul 2021 7:47 AM

The stock market is not a useful proxy for economic welfare. It tracks the well-being of an elitist minority in the formal sector, albeit with trickle down benefits. (By arrangement)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The morality of stock markets

Capital intensive competitive 'games' have a funneling effect where the biggest players benefit disproportionately

13 Jun 2021 7:14 AM

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

09 May 2021 12:00 AM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social, linguistic and cultural roots

11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the state governments. (Photo: PTI)

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

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)

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

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