A population-based guarantee will offer more to the majority than to minorities and will sanctify religious majoritarianism Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has coined an unfortunate new election slogan, “Jitni abadi, utna haq” (the rights of any group are proportionate to its population share). […]
Rahul’s ‘jitni abadi’ slogan against spirit of Constitution Read More »
From its inception, India provided voting rights for all regardless of class, caste, religion or gender. Some stalwarts of the ruling party seem to think that ancient India was the first in everything. Indian mythology tells us that Shiva cut
India isn’t world’s first democracy, but it’s first on one count Read More »
I was reminded of this when Indian External Affairs Minister Jaishankar recently said, “The West has a bad habit of commenting on others. They somehow think it is some kind of God-given right. They will have to learn only by
Criticising others is not a bad habit Read More »
Incentives should not be extended beyond five years: the biggest risk is that they will continue forever in flop sectors to save face and jobs. Demands from additional sectors to get PLI must be resisted. 14 sectors are already too
Why PLI for cellphone making should be mostly for export, not domestic market Read More »
The release of Anand Mohan at the behest of Nitish Kumar is being seen as a bid to capture the Rajput votebank ahead of the next election. India’s remission policy definitely needs a rethink. We can’t just free killers It
Remission policy needs rethink. We can’t free killers Read More »
BJP politicians castigate the western media for anti-Indian bias, accusing people with a colonial mindset of thwarting India’s rise. BJP vice-president Jay Panda, has bashed them saying, “The western media’s abandonment of objectivity in the pursuit of a preset narrative
Western media: Don’t shoot the messenger Read More »
It may be better to forget production-linked incentives and focus on service exports where India’s future lies Politicians and economists emphasise merchandise over services exports. Vast subsidies and tariff protection are offered to attract manufacturing companies to shift from China to India.
India’s best export you don’t know of, MNCs do Read More »
India has a huge comparative advantage in skilled labour, especially engineering skills. India now produces 600,000 engineers a year, and MNCs are harnessing this flow of inexpensive skills. Accenture has 300,000, of its global workforce of 700,000 in India. IBM
Forget production-linked incentives, service exports represent India’s future Read More »
India is no longer a poor country. With a per capita income of $2,600, it is now a lower middle income country. Even so, many readers will be astonished by an IMF working paper suggesting that less than one percent of Indians are
Rapid Economic Growth Is the Best Poverty Alleviator Read More »
Poverty declined in the Congress era as well as under BJP rule. However, it was not just subsidised food but rapid GDP growth that made the difference. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper by Bhalla, Bhasin and Virmani (henceforth
Why researchers differ on India’s poverty rate Read More »
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