Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

Analysing the analysis: Government shouldn’t abandon fiscal consolidation but sell SUUTI holdings

The Mid-Year Economic Analysis of the finance ministry, prepared by chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian, is controversial. It asks whether

Mixing morality and taxation typically produces hypocrisy. The Subramanian Committee on the goods and services tax has proposed an ultra-high

The era of superpower hegemony is over, and that of non-state actors has arrived. Fourteen years after 9/11, the US

Earlier this year, I expressed worries that India was galloping ahead with solar power when experts predicted that solar panel

I am amazed when people ask me why food prices, notably that of dal, have gone up. India has just

Should some industries get tax breaks that others don’t? In general, no. The finance ministry has come out with proposals,

There is much in common between those who hit Paris last week and Mumbai on 26/11. Let nobody pretend, like

Narendra Modi said in London that “India will not tolerate intolerance”. Secular critics jeered, since the BJP had raised the

Narendra Modi wants to create millions of jobs. India’s biggest job creator is construction, creating over 20 million jobs in