Thursday, Feb 27, 2020 | Last Update : 06:48 AM IST
Sanjeev Ahluwalia
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
Tax reform in driblets keeps the party going
Readers will recall the short history of corporate tax reductions under Modi 1.0.
23 Sep 2019 1:09 AM
Tinkering isn’t enough: Time for basic reforms
An interest burden growing faster than GDP growth by 2.5 percentage points is not a comforting signal for fiscal stability.
14 Sep 2019 7:04 AM
100 days of Modi 2.0: It’s time to get going
The truth is out already that India is slowing down along with the rest of the world.
09 Sep 2019 5:05 AM
Kashmir’s still waters run deep
Doing so, he feels, would create the positivity needed to allow the new arrangements to reflect the spirit of the people of Kashmir.
08 Sep 2019 2:36 AM
RBI plays white knight to cash-strapped govt
The FD target for FY 2019-20 is an unreachable 2.85 per cent of GDP.
31 Aug 2019 12:06 AM
India’s economy is now riding a roller-coaster
The problem is that no political economy sensitive plan to implement these reforms has emerged.
24 Aug 2019 12:00 AM
An opportunity called Independence: Use it
English is being steadily eroded by attrition as individual states focus on developing their own languages — there are as many as 22.
15 Aug 2019 12:37 AM
Can Modi 2.0 reinvent the Kashmiri dream?
The average Kashmiri thinks of ‘azadi’ as freedom, not from India but from police raj — the underbelly of elite, non-meritocratic rule.
11 Aug 2019 6:05 AM
Columns
The latter condition could pose immediate problems, and not just because of the antipathy between the two sides.
The “farmer” image, Mr Palanisamy hopes, would help in the 2021 Assembly elections.
Today, political, economic and social pillars are badly cracked as social, political and economic problems pile up.
It’s not necessary to talk in alarmist tones about the breakdown in law and order.