Budget 2025: Only tinkering, no vision

It needed to signal a paradigm shift. It didn't...

Budget 2025: Neither a halwa, nor a biryani

Manmohan Singh would have readily agreed that his 1991 economic doctrine has run its course. But this budget fails to present a new paradigm. Rather than getting out of the way of entrepreneurs, as...

The Great Indian Middle Class’s anger is justified

India’s middle class is upset. Very upset, at what they perceive as a betrayal and injustice by Prime Minster Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman...

Budget: Picking up ideas from the other side of the aisle

Two key job schemes announced in the budget on employment-linked incentives and apprenticeship were mentioned in the Congress manifesto...

To measure economic growth, India must look at jobs, not products

Hiding behind the reputational ‘pallu’ of the RBI will not solve the jobs crisis, ideas like the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) will incentivise job creation...

Make the poor richer without making the rich poorer

It is simply incontestable that the economic disparity between the rich and the poor has widened alarmingly over the last two decades, not just in India but across the world...

Watch what they do, not what they say

The Reserve Bank of India’s latest consumer confidence survey shows that 70 per cent of Indian families—those earning less than Rs 50,000 a month—feel the economy has worsened for them...

Manmohan Singh and Modi’s 10-year economic legacy—MNREGA safety vs unsafe jobs in Israel

The Interim Budget 2024 offers a neat milestone to compare economic, taxation, and expenditure philosophies of Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi’s ten-year tenures...