Swaminomics

For Nitish, rural electrification can be a winner

Forget caste arithmetic. Economic development gave Nitish Kumar his Bihar election victories in 2005 and 2010. He looks set to

Narendra Modi’s Digital India is a scheme that includes connecting all Indian villages with broadband. He says this will empower

Angus Deaton, who has just won the Nobel Prize for Economics, is famous for three major findings. First, humanity has

Predicting elections is a mug’s game. Nonetheless, I predict that the BJP will lose in Bihar. Killing beef-eaters does not

As a beef-eating Hindu, I am utterly outraged at the killing of Mohammed Akhlaq in Dadri by a Hindu mob

Cynics say that G20 meetings are a complete waste of time. The G20 was created for a coordinated fiscal and

Last week, I wrote of the huge potential for creating fresh land by reclaiming it from the sea, instead of

The land acquisition issue has been brushed under the carpet for the time being. Yet officials in the department of

World Bank’s chief economist Kaushik Basu wants the US Fed to postpone raising US interest rates, fearing “panic and turmoil”