The GST Bills are far from perfect and several provisions could call for amendments over the coming two years or…
If all the states get together and say that we must extract more tax and the entire fitment is skewed…
Governments will come and governments will go. The people are concerned not so much with governments as they are with…
Senior officers spend many hours poring over the draft to satisfy themselves that the policy decisions taken earlier have been…
Our idea of human resource development is minus child development, minus child health and minus child nutrition. In fact, ‘human…
The five state elections (Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur) had a common feature: it was a vote against…
There is no doubt whatsoever that the victories in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Uttarakhand have re-confirmed that Mr Narendra Modi…
Whether the growth rate for the whole year turns out, finally, to be 6.5% or 7%, it would be a…
There is an unwritten law that one space on this earth must be inviolate. That is the space occupied by…
Demortuis nilnisi bonum. (Of the dead say nothing but the good). The best I can do is to say nothing…
When the new year dawned, some things were abundantly clear. Firstly, the external environment was no longer benign (rising oil…
Budget day has come and gone. Millions of words have been spoken and written since Wednesday. Not many will remember…
Every budget is determined by the context and the context is determined by the circumstances—economic, political and the year in…
It is the Budget season. The good, bad and ugly (ideas) will be on display. One idea that is in…
Since November 8, 2016, private consumption has taken a severe blow, thanks to demonetisation, he says.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was born under unusual circumstances. A need was felt to ‘regulate the issue of…
WE SHOULD be happy that the Indian economy, according to the government, grew at an average of 7.4% (new series)…
Every now and then a new word or phrase is introduced into the conversation. On November 8, 2016, it was…
