India No Country for Women Founders
While India is third in the pecking order globally in the start-up ecosystem, women founders struggle to even get a start. Investors see them as less capable and hesitate to fund their ideas
Mahima Sinha - February 29, 2024
An Indian Apartheid
Ideals of the proletariat, their commune and a proletariat dictatorship lay fossilised as painful photos of scores of migrant labourers walking many hundred miles to reach the safety of their village hit headlines in India in the early days of the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020
Suchetana Ray - February 01, 2024
It Is Too Early to Celebrate India’s New Growth Path, Says Raghuram Rajan
Former RBI governor and economist Raghuram Rajan has been vocal about his ideas on policy matters in India. His latest book Breaking the Mould, co-authored with economist Rohit Lamba, is a deep dive into finer issues of the economy, including welfare schemes, job crisis, misplaced priorities of the government and much more. In an interview, Rajan demystifies the current narrative of growth in the country and why manufacturing-led growth might not be the best solution at hand. Edited excerpts:
Abdul Haleem Sherif - December 29, 2023
Rahul Gandhi: Walking for the Self
Rahul Gandhi’s multifarious attempts to take his idea of India finally bore fruit in the form of the Bharat Jodo Yatra earlier this year. In the process, he discovered a new self for himself and proposed a benevolent image for the nation
Nishant - December 01, 2023
A Sovereign Guarantee For Jobseekers
The jobs situation in the country is grim. If the Modi government needed a reminder, India’s youth has given it in the form of Agniveer-related protests. Modi’s advisors want him to emulate the much-criticised MGNREGA scheme in urban areas along with universal basic income, an idea that Rahul Gandhi proposed in 2019. Can a job guarantee scheme hit the bull’s eye in towns and cities?
Kamalika Ghosh - June 29, 2022
‘Global Events Could Challenge Hegemony Of Dollar’
Will the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war change the idea of globalisation and sovereignty? Will the hegemony of the US dollar and its might be challenged? K.V. Subramanian, former chief economic advisor, weighs in. Edited excerpts:
Kamalika Ghosh - May 28, 2022
One Nation, Many Burdens
The GST system of indirect taxation completes five years in 2022, and it already seems to have caused cracks in the idea of fiscal federalism. States feel shortchanged at losing revenue year after year. Was it worth surrendering their taxation powers to a GST Council that tends to agree with the Centre?
Kamalika Ghosh - January 28, 2022
Trust
Supporters of federalism will illustrate how the idea has come under threat as the heavy hand of the Centre has limited fiscal autonomy of states, curbing their ability to make a more meaningful contribution to our development
Suchetana Ray - January 28, 2022
Setting New Standards To Smart And Clean Premises In India
An ingenuous entrepreneur, Mr RAVINDRA MALINGA HEGDE, PROMOTER & MD, KHFM, had seen a unique business model as early as 1983. Many scoffed at the idea, but his visionary, daring mind decided to prove them wrong.
December 15, 2021
The Humble Economist
Outgoing CEA KV Subramanian’s idea of capitalism is a marriage between the invisible hand of markets and dharma
Kamalika Ghosh - November 28, 2021