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Decide in Delhi, bind in Bihar

India, Nov. 17 -- The dust is finally settling down. The Bihar assembly elections are over. The pundits are reluctantly getting down from their lofty perches, having spouted wisdom for unending hours ... Read More


Fifty shades of Indian poverty

India, Nov. 14 -- Back in the 1980s when I was a post-graduate student pursuing economics at the Gokhale Institute in Pune, we were perhaps the last of the batch to listen to guest lectures by the lat... Read More


Ballyhoo about Bali Jatra

India, Nov. 13 -- Mahendra Pallava, whose reign lasted for decades in the first half of the seventh century, was the third monarch of the great Pallava Dynasty, which ruled much of South India until t... Read More


Should India cope or cop-out?

India, Nov. 12 -- Most people say that Belem, which hosts COP30 multilateral meet, is a spectacularly beautiful place in Brazil. The event marks the 30th edition of a global alliance, which wants to m... Read More


Bihar beyond electoral equations

India, Nov. 10 -- Since the evening of November 6, after the first phase in the Bihar assembly election ended, analysts, pundits, and assorted experts went into a tizzy. The single point of discussion... Read More


Please tighten your seatbelts

India, Nov. 8 -- It sounds both mysterious, and mystifying. Here is a company that controls more than 60 per cent of the domestic market share. There are agonised postings on social media of how it ch... Read More


Hostilities go beyond tariffs

India, Nov. 5 -- Ever since I started reading newspapers, and getting interested in domestic and world events in the 1970s, political commentators have regularly laced their views on the US with invec... Read More


Kerala's poor and wealth lure

India, Nov. 4 -- Kerala's Chief Minister, and CPM's Pinnati Vijayan has defied electoral and political history in the state. Against all odds, he won a consecutive mandate for the Left Alliance in the... Read More


Government scales GST test

India, Nov. 3 -- A few days after GST 2.0 was unleashed on September 22 this year, I wrote a cautionary column asking experts not to go overboard with a frenzied speculation about how a sustained cons... Read More


Need an aspirational price index

India, Nov. 1 -- SC Garg, the secretary of ministry of statistics and programme implementation, made a significant announcement during a recent interview in a daily newspaper. He said that the Governm... Read More