Indira Gandhi’s Achhe Din

Bank nationalisation was an economic failure, but a smashing political success Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The 50th anniversary of the nationalisation of big banks by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has attracted limited comment. Some critics call it a terrible economic

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Tech What One Deserves

France shows the way in taxing digital giants and presenting a united front to the US France has enacted legislation to tax digital giants like Amazon and Facebook on their revenue, not profits. India — which levies a 6% tax

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Why the Sky is Not Falling

There are technical weaknesses in Subramanian’s claim of 4.5% growth Last week, former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian claimed in an Indian Express column (bit.do/ eVn2A), based on his new research paper, that GDP growth in 2011-16 was only 4.5%,

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