Will the Budget solve all woes of farmers? Certainly not. Reforms and structural changes are a continuous process and more…
Rudrangshu Mukherjee does not deal with all alternatives to liberalism in his book, yet it is worth reading and rereading.…
From a Ricardian comparative advantage perspective, it makes sense for us to outsource these data centres to countries that can…
Having been active in businesses in at least a dozen countries across three continents, I must confess that the maximum…
Budget 2018: When a pro-business dispensation starts taking some steps, we worry. Remember that in 1966 Indira was also right-of-centre…
Even our reactionary bureaucracy cannot halt the power of an idea whose time has arrived
The lower-level bureaucracy will no longer be able to disregard awards that call upon the government to make payments for…
Most of the coverage of Hindi film Haider—released in 2014—focused on the portrayal of Kashmir and its tortured politics.
The previous government gave in to Luddite, anti-development NGOs and deferred the introduction of GM food crops in our country.
The tax treaty overhaul has been done by sensible agreement with clarity in the rules
By sticking to fiscal targets, Jaitley demonstrated faith in Indian economic growth based on sound factors
Retrospective taxation hurts not just foreign investment, it discourages domestic investment too
If one takes a journey through the by-lanes of the last 69 years of our history, several interesting facts come…
Taxation, in a large measure, defines the relationship between the state and the citizen.
With the Place of Effective Management rules, we are devising a new Permit-Licence Discretionary Raj that will successfully drive away…
An open letter decrying Indian policymakers’ penchant for piling on regulation instead of fulfilling citizens’ needs
An open letter to the prime minister on the need to get industry involved in recycle/re-use through CSR
Policies that “prevent misuse” and “plug loopholes” must be reviewed for whether they choke business
