Ease of doing business: India should view the World Bank's recrafted survey as a mirror, not a verdict

New Delhi, Sept. 2 -- The World Bank's Business Ready assessment, B-Ready, will publish its findings on 101-plus economies this September. For the first time since its predecessor, the Ease of Doing B... Read More

Women suffer collateral damage from the political battles of men-when will public discourse mature?

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- In today's politics, when opponents can't win on substance, they fall back on an old, ugly strategy: weaponizing the women connected to their targets. This dynamic rests on a pre... Read More

A students stir of 1990 may hold lessons for those who hit the streets to protest exam paper leaks

New Delhi, July 28 -- As the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) calls off its month-long agitation in Delhi following the education minister's resignation, a familiar narrative loop comes to a close. Yet, wa... Read More

Why it's absurd and unfair to drag Indian business-family culture into a case of murder

New Delhi, July 12 -- In the wake of the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal at Pune's Lohagad Fort, India finds itself trapped in a bizarrely predictable ritual. Before the law can even dissect the foren... Read More

Too few babies-so what? India should address its low productivity, not declining fertility rate

New Delhi, July 2 -- On a recent trip to Vienna in Austria, I found myself doing an odd calculation. Austria has a population of about nine million. Mumbai, the city I call home, houses more than 21 m... Read More