India, May 20 -- This year marks 35 years since India embraced large-scale economic reforms. India had been moving toward economic liberalisation since the 1980s, but the quantum jump occurred when th... Read More
India, May 18 -- A falling rupee, outbound portfolio investment and sluggish foreign direct investment are flashing amber on India's external accounts dashboard. If the ongoing oil shock persists and ... Read More
India, May 15 -- It is useful to begin this column by highlighting a commonality between the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) chief ministers in Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. Combined, these states have... Read More
India, May 13 -- "The West Asia crisis is not a foreign policy concern that occasionally bleeds into economic planning but a live balance-of-payments stress test with direct consequences for inflation... Read More
India, May 7 -- It is useful to begin with recent chronology. The Congress fought the elections in Tamil Nadu as a junior partner of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). It fought in West Bengal again... Read More
India, May 4 -- To pre-empt self-fulfilling liberal alibis tending toward epitaphs of Indian democracy, let me begin this column with a caveat that paraphrases Carl von Clausewitz's famous quote on wa... Read More