Swaminomics

BJP’s hopes for a final-mile gallop just got a booster shot

In these columns last week, I noted that lacklustre GDP growth in Modi’s first four years boded ill for his

Jailing traders is no remedy for unrealistic minimum support prices Month after month, as India approaches the next general election,

No election was ever won because of statistical revisions. Yet the recent revisions to GDP data, backdated to 1993-94, have

Even as the trade deficit has widened to record levels and exports remain below the 2013-14 peak, the government is

What is to be done about the four million people in Assam who failed to get into the draft list

In the recent Lok Sabha debate, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Modi runs a “suited-booted” government that favours

Alarmism over genetically modified foods is unscientific and false As an old fan of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),

Maharashtra was wracked last week by a violent agitation by Marathas for, among other things, a reserved quota in government

Why just 10 posts for lateral entry into the bureaucracy? Why not 500? This column has argued for decades for