UN World Population Prospects 2022 predicts that on November 15, global population will cross 8 billion, and during 2023, India’s population will overtake China’s. This has induced hang-wringing by environmentalists and some members of the ruling establishment who back population […]
Ignore doomsters. Let’s celebrate the 8-billion milestone Read More »
The future lies in services, not manufacturing. This is good news since India has a greater comparative advantage in services than in manufacturing, and should be building on its strengths. Instead, the government seems obsessed with manufacturing and is pouring
Mistaken priority: Putting all eggs in manufacturing basket is starving services Read More »
Your Bharat Jodo (unify India) padyatra has started well. India is a badly divided nation that needs healing. Yet that wound cannot be healed without clearly understanding the cause and remedy. You believe the hard secularism of Jawaharlal Nehru has
Padyatra is fine but harness the power of Mahatma’s music Read More »
Along with Taiwan’s Foxconn, Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta plans to set up India’s first silicon fabrication plant (fab) in Gujarat, along with a display glass unit, costing a whopping $20 billion (₹1.6 trillion). Silicon from this project will be sliced into
Are subsidies for silicon fabrication plants liable to be wasteful ‘revadis’? Read More »
Subhas Chandra Bose’s statue at India Gate in New Delhi was inaugurated last week, replacing the earlier statue of George V. I always wanted that space occupied by a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, something that never happened. The BJP is
Let’s put things in perspective with a towering Gandhi statue Read More »
Last week’s column exposing Medha Patkar’s claims on the Sardar Sarovar Dam drew responses like how dare you attack a great activist; large dams are bad; dam resettlement has a terrible history; tribals have been the biggest victims of displacement.
The real story of how Narmada dam oustees became crorepatis Read More »
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the US and its Nato allies quickly imposed tough sanctions on Russia, including the freezing of its foreign exchange reserves and suspension from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payments system that
Who’s sanctioning whom? How the Ukraine screenplay has been reversed Read More »
Inaugurating several projects including a canal bringing Narmada water to Kutch, Prime Minister Modi said last week that Medha Patkar and her “urban Naxal” friends had opposed and delayed the Narmada project that had greatly benefited Gujarat. In fact, the
Medha Patkar was wrong on Narmada project Read More »
There is not the slightest chance that the world has a hard landing and India does not. We are only 7% of the global economy; the idea that we will stand out is a fantasy to me,” says Swaminathan Aiyar,
Deeper US recession spells big trouble for India, says Swaminathan Aiyar Read More »
The latest projections of the IMF, even with the downward revisions is still showing India as being the fastest growing economy. When everybody else is going down, let us not pretend that we can become a 10% economy. If we
Rupee nearing 80? Swaminathan Aiyar on why we shouldn’t worry too much Read More »
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