NREG, which has just completed four years in existence, was universally hailed as making a difference to the remnants of…

I accepted the invitation to write on the subject of deemed universities hesitantly, for I have great sympathy with the…

The distinct turnaround in the manufacturing sector is the road to glory in the mid-term appraisal of the Eleventh Plan.

We are now writing prologues to the mid-term review of the 11th Plan. This piece is on agriculture where there…

After a period of two decades we finally dominated a global meet. This column has advocated that India play a…

The second quarter numbers on agricultural growth (0.9%) are now known. What do they mean for agriculture? This column has…

Whenever I go somewhere I have a bad habit of going to a village. I must be the only FE…

I was told last month that we are reforming the sugar industry, and our description of the sugar cobweb in…

One of the lessons from Keynes is that a lot of small changes can mean more in aggregate than a…

The plea that private think tanks should be involved in energy futures is correct. The idea that only private think…

There were outliers like Arvind Virmani and your columnist who have been arguing from the mid-nineties that India has been…

Slowly but surely, the elephant is catching on. We have to do this right for land is being gobbled up…

I was in Europe last week and in the headquarters of the OECD, the rich man?s club. Once a year…

The whole debate on austerity is trivialising an important issue, namely, the importance of savings and policies relating to them…

It is an interesting idea to have a public-civil society-private initiative on preparing development policy and a plan for a…

Among eminent Indians who have raised real security issues in a simple and direct manner this decade, Admiral Sureesh Mehta…

At one level, there is the obvious effect of rainfall failure, at another level, there is political jockeying. As P…