Desai Diaries

Sustainable development is defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet needs in the future.  The threat of climate change requires something more than this.  The issue is not just avoiding anything n....Read More

Artificial intelligence could have as great an impact on development as the discovery and promotion of steam engines, railways, electricity and motorcars did in the nineteenth century. Every substantial advance in the human access to data/information....Read More

Agriculturists in India are developing their work mainly through improvements in their traditional areas, with new seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides, mechanised modes for managing cultivation and sometimes even new products. Some agriculturi....Read More

Thirty-five years ago, in 1991, Dr. Manmohan Singh presented a budget that abolished the industrial licensing system and launched what has been described as the "liberalisation" reform, but which is better described as a "privatisation" reform becaus....Read More

Over the past few weeks policy makers in India have had to cope with the economic impact of the West Asia war, mainly on oil and gas availability and price. The ceasefire softened the impact but the failure of the dialogue between USA and Iran revive....Read More

India’s greatest economic and diplomatic challenge in the short and medium term is the change in the global geopolitical system that is under way mow.  It began with the emergence of a government in USA that is transactional, amoral and di....Read More