A Budget blueprint for difficult times
Alarming inequality, failing health care and border tensions loom large and the economic situation needs full attention
30
Jan
29
Jan
India’s Income Tax Base
Praveen ChakravartyJanuary 29, 2021 It's budget season. The usual trope about very few Indians pay income tax & the need
25
Jan
Vaccinating all Indians, for free
India has started vaccinating citizens against Covid-19. As more people get vaccinated, we can slowly start to shed our fears and masks and return to a more normal life.
01
Jan
Covid-19 highlighted the ‘the tyranny of experts’
Ideas and opinions play an inordinately important role in a liberal democracy and should flourish freely. But the weight of such ideas and opinions rise only when incentives are aligned and symmetrical
15
Dec
The menace of social media monopolies
Facebook’s global monopoly profits helped propel WhatsApp’s domination of India, with great social costs