‘Ensure Benefits Of Growth Are Shared’: Former RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao
Former RBI governor and ex-IAS officer Duvvuri Subbarao has come out with a new book titled Just A Mercenary?: Notes From My Life and Career. In a freewheeling chat with Outlook Business, Subbarao speaks about his career, concerns and what India must do to achieve sustainable economic growth
Ayaan Kartik - June 29, 2024
An Inside Story Of The Bankers’ Bank
Reserve Bank of India is not perfect. It has room for improvement. Alpana Killawala, who handled RBI’s communication for over 26 years, uncovers insider facts about the central bank and its governors, from S. Venkitaramanan to Raghuram Rajan, drawn from her extensive experience as the communication officer
June 30, 2024
Gangs Of Wasseypur
Excerpts from the book, When Coal Turned Gold, By Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya
Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya - July 23, 2024
Roadblocks To India’s Global Status Ambitions
While the Modi government was wallowing in self-praise for having beaten the Covid-19 pandemic, images of burning corpses told a different story. T.V. Paul, in his book The Unfinished Quest: India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi, explores India’s desire to achieve influence in the changing world order and highlights the challenges that stand in its way
T.V. Paul - May 31, 2024
Hoodwinked in App-Verse
Online markets are teeming with dark patterns— manipulative designs on apps meant to deceive and make people buy things they never intended to. People using apps to get groceries, book flight tickets or call cabs need to be cautious
Prathik Desai - April 27, 2024
Complexities of Governance in a Democracy
Democracy is a work in progress and needs careful monitoring, managing, nurturing and protecting, writes entrepreneur and policy maker Sam Pitroda in his latest book The Idea of Democracy. He examines its workings globally and in India, observing distraction, distortion and derailment in democracy over the past few years
April 28, 2024
A Nation Stuck Between Missing Jobs and Growth Ambitions
India grapples with a job crisis fuelled by factors including high youth unemployment, educational and skill imbalance and low female participation, among others. In their book, The Elephant Moves: India’s New Place in the World, Amitabh Kant and Amit Kapoor explore India’s economic evolution through the lens of competitiveness, stressing the need for, and challenges to, policy changes in its run to becoming a developed economy by 2047
March 01, 2024
Wipro's No to Narayana Murthy: A Rejection That Changed Indian IT Sector’s Face
Before he set up what was to become one of Indian IT sector’s biggest success stories, Narayana Murthy was rejected by Wipro chairman Azim Premji. The Infosys chairman later found out that Premji considered this one of his gravest errors of judgement. In her latest book An Uncommon Love Story, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores little known facets of Murthy’s life and the influential role his wife Sudha played in it
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
What Led to Urjit Patel’s Resignation? An Insider Explains
There have been resignations in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), but governor Urjit Patel’s in 2018 over policy differences was a rare event in the history of the central bank, writes former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg in his book. He details the frustration of the government with the RBI under Patel and the circumstances that eventually culminated into the latter posting his resignation on the RBI website
October 31, 2023
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