Swaminomics

Why Modi won’t privatise public sector banks

Having established a reputation as an incrementalist who shuns radical change, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly changed expectations by

A universal basic income that makes it feasible to avoid working is immoral A Delhi seminar last week discussed what

Bubble ahoy! Across the world, stock markets are inflating crazily. Don’t think that the Sensex boom is driven by Indian

Prime Minister Modi and his partymen wax eloquent about the need to tackle and end terrorism. But what exactly is

Forget the Bush-Manmohan Singh vision of a nuclear power renaissance. Recent developments -cheap solar power plus the bankruptcy of Westinghouse

To call Air India the national carrier, and so justify running it at losses that would make Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher

Invest in solar energy at a slower pace for cheaper, better technologies When I argued recently that excessive speed in

The courts are hearing petitions against the government’s expansion of schemes for which Aadhaar linkage is mandatory .Civil rights activists

FRBM-2 has good ideas but isn’t tough enough to enforce financial discipline The N K Singh Committee has suggested a