An urban employment guarantee scheme poses quite a few serious problems The government is reportedly considering an urban jobs scheme. Some economists hope this can be the start of an Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme, analogous to the Mahatma Gandhi Rural …
The government has announced a production-linked incentive (PLI) of 4-6% of sales, costing around Rs 200,000 crore (0.7% of GDP) over five years in 11 sectors for companies that commit to invest and increase production massively. This implies India is …
India isn’t China. Copying its industrial, trade policy could invite sanctions Read More »
Shashi Tharoor, Rhea Chakraborty and now Arnab Goswami. The social and electronic media are baying for their blood, accusing them of driving somebody — wife, lover, and creditor respectively — to suicide. As argued in earlier columns, this is moral …
Neither is suicide a crime, nor can one be driven to it Read More »
The future course of America — and the world — will be determined by past actions of the 46th US president Let Us Give the Donald His Due Many books on Donald Trump’s presidency in 2016-20 will lambast him for …
I stand with French President Emmanuel Macron in declaring that free speech includes the right to offend. Those offended are welcome to protest peacefully, but not to gag or kill the offenders. In France, a Christian teacher was assassinated by …
Right to offend is an inalienable part of right to religious freedom, free speech Read More »
I am among those favouring regulation of the internet giants — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft — because of their humungous control of viewers’ data (raising issues of privacy and national security) and unintended role in spreading falsehoods and …
Big tech needs regulation but govt action no solution Read More »
In the US polls, the Democrat challenger can lose all ‘toss-up’ states and still win Let me throw caution to the winds and declare that Joe Biden will thrash Donald Trump in the US elections on November 3. Let me …
Why has India funked a big fiscal stimulus to stimulate the economy? The answer must be mainly political. The Prime Minister’s Office is clearly the driving force behind India’s fiscal conservatism. Most likely, the PMO fears that a fiscal spending …
Vote fears should not come in way of bigger stimulus Read More »
The worst is over. Covid infections and deaths seem to have peaked, though it remains to be seen if India escapes the resurgence of the virus seen in many countries as winter approaches. India’s lockdowns are being eased and some …
The BJP government should uphold its own pledge to end ‘tax terrorism’ Both Indian businessmen and foreign investors have long complained of India’s ‘tax terrorism’. For Indian business, this refers to tax raids. For foreigners, it means unfair assessments and …
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