COVER STORY: Sri Lanka's worsening crisis Roots of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis R. RAMAKUMAR Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis is rooted in its long dalliance with IMF-imposed ...
Union Budget The Union Budget is marked by an overall compression of expenditures for agriculture R. Ramakumar The Budget shows no commitment to agricultural growth or farmers’ welfare. Against the ...
NYAY NYAY: No bridge between two Indias R. Ramakumar A closer look at the Congress party’s proposed income transfer scheme.
Nothing for Farmers Crumbs for farmers R. RAMAKUMAR Hidden in the Modi government’s Budget promises to India’s farmers, who are in distress, ...
Citizen freedoms Tracing the struggle R. Ramakumar The verdict in the Aadhaar case is just one more milestone in the battle to secure citizen ...
Cover Story Freedom in peril R. RAMAKUMAR The government’s passage of the Aadhaar Bill in complete disregard of even basic ...
Agriculture Seeds of distress R. RAMAKUMAR Arun Jaitley’s latest budget, which refuses to address issues such as the crisis of ...
Policy Issues Mirage of inclusion R. Ramakumar The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the Narendra Modi government’s attempt at financial ...
Cash evangelism R. RAMAKUMAR The dogmatic insistence on wholesale substitution of existing schemes by direct ...
Hardly a model R. RAMAKUMAR In the U.S. and Europe, private health insurance has weakened public sector ...
A tale of errors R. RAMAKUMAR Contrary to the claims of the UIDAI, fingerprints are a highly inappropriate tool ...
Identity concerns R. RAMAKUMAR The Unique Identification number, symbolic of the new and modern India, is of ...
PDS in peril R. RAMAKUMAR The promotion of the PDS as an Aadhaar application would fundamentally alter its ...
Why it failed in U.K. R. RAMAKUMAR Interview with Dr Edgar Whitley, research coordinator of the London School of ...
In farmer's name R. RAMAKUMAR The policy is to promote specific high-value segments within agriculture, where ...