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People travel in an overcrowded train in Chennai on April 18, 2024. Critics say the government’s rail plan neglects mass comfort in favour of speed and luxury.

Indian Railways flip-flops between luxury facilities and mass travel needs

As the government brags about its superfast trains, millions of poor commuters squeeze into dirty, falling-apart coaches.
Ayaskant Das ,Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group. The Adani Group, India’s largest private importer of coal and private generator of electricity, is perceived to be closely associated with the ruling regime and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The other ‘Coal Scam’

Fresh evidence surfaces in the decade-long probe into “over-invoicing” of coal imports totalling over Rs. 35,000 crore by corporates including Adani.
Abir Dasgupta,Ravi Nair,Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Mundra Port, the flagship port of the Adani group, in Mundra, Gujarat.

Long on rhetoric, short on practice: Modi government battling corruption

The government over 10 years has shown no evidence that petty corruption has abated. On the other hand, big-ticket corruption has risen.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat during the “Samaj Shakti Sangam” event in Ahmedabad on April 14, 2023.

The totalitarian project behind the electoral bonds scheme

Beyond trade-offs and extortion, the scheme goes to the very heart of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term goal of an ideological dictatorship.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta,Abir Dasgupta
Subhash Garg, then Finance Secretary, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a pre-budget consultation meeting in New Delhi, on June 14, 2019.

A tell-all exposé on policy battles and power games in India’s economic corridors

For those interested in how policies on the Indian economy are made and unmade, this book is a treasure trove of information.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Ashoka Mody uses well-known Indian films such as Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi (a still from the film in photograph) to highight different facets of society.

Critical gaze: Review of ‘India is Broken’ by Ashoka Mody

Successive dispensations in independent India have failed to devise people-friendly economic regimes.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
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