Other than reiterating policy issues and listing operational constraints within the Railways, the primary value addition of the NRP is…
There is an issue of de-seasonalising prices of agricultural commodities, often subject to cycles. But ECA doesn’t solve that problem.…
Pre-pack incorporates the benefits of both informal and formal insolvency proceedings. In many jurisdictions, there exists a codified framework for…
As a consumer, when you buy multi-flora honey, you probably pay Rs 400 per kg or more. But the beekeeper’s…
The unnecessary ‘latinisation’ of legal concepts also needs to be avoided
Reforms are about choice, competition and efficiency, and those haven’t touched agriculture.
The real issue is amnesia about our history, roots, culture, legacy and language, and production of interpreters and clerks. That…
The trigger for these articles was Isher Judge Ahluwalia, who was then working on her 1991 book on productivity and…
The NEP 2020 has done away with Mphil. it was considered an essential filter for pursuing A PhD. However, it…
By any yardstick, the trade agreement was one-sided, in favour of China. Today, any negotiator who agreed to this would…
Anything built into legislation has to be formally repealed. Consequently, an anachronism like Section 4(1)(2) remains. The ordinance should have…
But Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson (published 1812) are also a metaphor for something else, that of self-reliance,…
Risk has a known probability distribution. For uncertainty, the probability distribution is unknown. Covid-19 makes us confront uncertainty, not risk
The seventh schedule lists health as a state subject, and different states have provisions that aren’t necessarily uniform and harmonised.
Two billion people eat insects today, but for many, they are not part of mainstream diet. With global population soaring,…
Distorted balance of India’s population pyramid: Ageing population creates pressing economic concern
With declining birth and death rates having distorted the balance of the population pyramid, social security for senior citizens has…
The newly minted Indian Railways Management service can break down the silos that plague the Railways. But this will not…
Departmentalism plagued the management of the railways, the railway board reform addresses this
