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A BSNL worker repairing the disconnected landline cables in Bengaluru.

BSNL rescue package is too little, too late

The rescue package for BSNL and MTNL, the fall guys of the Indian mobile telephony boom, hides more than it reveals.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo during a press conference at MIT on October 14.

A Nobel-winning prescription for symptoms

As the euphoria over India’s latest Nobel Prize win subsides, it is time to question the validity of randomised control trials advocated by the prize

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Finance Minister announces tax sops for big business

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman continued her series of sops to big business on September 20 by announcing a scaling down of taxes and other

At the RBI headquarters in Mumbai.

Bank of last resort

The RBI’s transfer of a huge surplus to the Union government does not augur well for it from an institutional standpoint and in the context of managem

At a Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd factory in Chakan, Maharashtra. A file photograph.

Signs of a crisis in the automobile industry

The Narendra Modi government’s response to the Indian automobile industry’s worst slump in two decades reflects an inability to recognise the slowdown

Chief Economic Adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian at a news conference on the Economic Survey 2018, in New Delhi on July 4.

Economic Survey 2018-19: Vacuous exercise

The Economic Survey waxes eloquent on the standout economic problems of our times, without offering solutions or a road map to nudge the country on th

Arvind Subramanian, former Chief Economic Adviser.

Growth story in shreds

A former senior adviser to the government on economic matters delivers another blow to the credibility of India’s growth rate, but the methodology of

BJP supporters celebrating outside the party office in Bengaluru on May 23.

Ground regained

The BJP’s massive win destroys the Congress-JD(S)’ “Karnataka model” of political alternative and poses a threat to the very survival of the coalitio

V. Sridhar,Rishikesh Bahadur Desai ,Ravi Sharma

Striking finding

This book is a must-read for all those with an interest in the defining Indian problem of the day, mass unemployment.

The Modi years

The book is a comprehensive audit of the Narendra Modi regime’s five-year tenure and reveals an all-round failure that is unprecedented in scope and e

The Planning Commission building in New Delhi. The Centre replaced the Commission with the NITI Aayog.

Executive steamroller

Institutions of the Indian state faced their worst challenge during the Narendra Modi years. The Planning Commission has been replaced with the NITI A

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Shredded demonetised notes found near Puzhal in Chennai on November 26, 2018.

A terror strike

Narendra Modi’s demonetisation, unprecedented in global economic history, is likely to have fundamentally altered Indians’ expectation of stability of