COVER STORY: Sri Lanka's worsening crisis Roots of Sri Lanka’s economic crisisR. RAMAKUMARSri Lanka’s current economic crisis is rooted in its long dalliance with IMF-imposed conditionalities and has been aggravated by the Rajapakse gover
Union Budget The Union Budget is marked by an overall compression of expenditures for agricultureR. RamakumarThe Budget shows no commitment to agricultural growth or farmers’ welfare. Against the background of the raging farmers’ agitation, this is only l
NYAY NYAY: No bridge between two Indias R. RamakumarA closer look at the Congress party’s proposed income transfer scheme.
Nothing for Farmers Crumbs for farmersR. RAMAKUMARHidden in the Modi government’s Budget promises to India’s farmers, who are in distress, is the admission: we have failed you.
Citizen freedoms Tracing the struggleR. RamakumarThe verdict in the Aadhaar case is just one more milestone in the battle to secure citizen freedoms.
Cover Story Freedom in perilR. RAMAKUMARThe government’s passage of the Aadhaar Bill in complete disregard of even basic parliamentary procedures and in subversion of an ongoing judicial p
Agriculture Seeds of distressR. RAMAKUMARArun Jaitley’s latest budget, which refuses to address issues such as the crisis of profitability or paucity of state credit, fails to make any effo
Policy Issues Mirage of inclusionR. RamakumarThe Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the Narendra Modi government’s attempt at financial inclusion of the poor, is unlikely to prove effective becaus
Cash evangelismR. RAMAKUMARThe dogmatic insistence on wholesale substitution of existing schemes by direct cash transfers will limit the states role in the provision of essentia
Hardly a modelR. RAMAKUMARIn the U.S. and Europe, private health insurance has weakened public sector insurance, excluded millions from insurance cover, raised premiums, and le
A tale of errorsR. RAMAKUMARContrary to the claims of the UIDAI, fingerprints are a highly inappropriate tool to uniquely identify individuals.
Freebie phobia: The BJP’s concerted attack on redistributive transfers Although the BJP is against ‘freebies’ in principle, in practice it has been forced to use a version of concessions and transfers to counter the o
SlideshowLiving on the edgeThey are river people, whose lives ebb and flow with the waters of the Brahmaputra in a timeless rhythm. But now, hydroelectric projects and homogenis
