Desai Diaries

NATURE IN PERIL by NITIN DESAI   Nature can protect us only if we protect it-that is the simple truth this  government needs to recognise.   The environment in India faces a unique challenge. The ministry charged with protecting....Read More

  Trapped for months at home with nothing to do all day By a virus that refuses to go away I sought refuge in stories about tecs and spies. Set back in time, with history in a new guise. I begin this account of my lockdown....Read More

The current Covid epidemic has been compared with the great plague of the of the 14th century which led to revolutionary changes in the polity, economy and society in Europe. There are some who argue that the Covid epidermic will have a similar ....Read More

Good governance requires good politics, something we are seriously short of now. Today our political process is rife with hate speeches that divide communities, groups using violence to do precisely this, acrimonious relationships between political p....Read More

There is a great deal of talk these days that the revival of growth will require major policy reforms. Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah in their outstanding book on the art and science of economic policy, give the thumb rule that major policy changes and i....Read More

When the Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her first budget in July 2019, this columnist, like many others, had listed a litany of economic woes including the sharp decline in the growth rate of GDP, fiscal pressures, twin balance sh....Read More