September 22, 2020
Indian Economy
By Nitin Desai
August 25, 2020
Development Strategy|Governance & Politics|Social Justice
By Nitin Desai
EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE by NITIN DESAI We need to liberate education from political control and give institutions the autonomy needed to innovate for the future *** About a month ago the Government approved the New Education Polic....Read More
July 14, 2020
Development Strategy|Natural Resources
By Nitin Desai
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
June 24, 2020
By Nitin Desai
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
June 16, 2020
Indian Economy|Social Justice
By Nitin Desai
The fiscal conservatism of the finance ministry means growth revival is going to take longer and may not be seen till late in the next fiscal year or even later. Discussions about the Covid epidermic and the Government's policy announcements are&nbs....Read More
May 19, 2020
Social Justice
By Nitin Desai
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
March 24, 2020
Governance & Politics
By Nitin Desai
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
February 22, 2020
Governance & Politics
By Nitin Desai
Keynes said that “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.” Montek Singh Ahluwalia is one such dentist who, quietly and steadily helped to repair ....Read More
February 17, 2020
Governance & Politics
By Nitin Desai
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
January 20, 2020
Development Strategy|Governance & Politics
By Nitin Desai
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