The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.
June 15,2020 04:20:21 AM
Education reforms are an endeavour of profound optimism but have been stifled by purists, vested interests, and regulators. It is illogical to deny the poorna swaraj that comes with the Institutes of Eminence tag to Ashoka University and Ahmedabad University or pursue regulation-driven standardisation for our 993 universities.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020May 18,2020 00:23:24 AM
The COVID-19 lockdown exposes how per capita GDP is more important for our citizens than total GDP.
Mon, May 18, 2020May 02,2020 03:45:26 AM
The RBI must remember three things — acting prudently to balance the next quarter and quarter century, acting flexibly to blunt this economic cataclysm, and acting within their mandate to ensure institutional legitimacy and immunity.
Sat, May 02, 2020April 06,2020 03:00:59 AM
April 15 and May 1 are important milestones for employers and economic policy. The lockdown’s continuance, partial lifting or end must be decided on purely medical grounds (even though it turns out epidemiologists are like economists — they don’t agree with their past selves or each other).
Mon, Apr 06, 2020February 07,2020 02:10:42 AM
There is more work to be done. The central government must deadline digitising all its payments. The RBI must implement the 100-plus action items arising from its own Vision 2021 document and the Nandan Nilekani Committee for Deepening Digital Payments.
Fri, Feb 07, 2020December 23,2019 04:00:47 AM
Why is the GDP of 1.3 billion Indians less than 126 million Japanese, 83 million Germans and 40 million people in California? Why is India’s GDP today 20 per cent of China’s when they were equal in 1991? Why did the world’s largest democracy — created on the infertile soil of the world’s most hierarchical society — not create the world’s largest economy?
Mon, Dec 23, 2019October 09,2019 03:07:11 AM
The current economic slowdown is short-term pain for long-term gain because of overdue medicine.
Wed, Oct 09, 2019August 06,2019 00:30:18 AM
Kashmiris have been let down by a politics that doesn’t create economic opportunity.
Tue, Aug 06, 2019June 28,2019 00:20:28 AM
India’s policy choices around bankruptcy represent a rupture with the past. But there is work yet to be done
Fri, Jun 28, 2019June 08,2019 00:05:41 AM
Policy must pray to one god — formal jobs.
Sat, Jun 08, 2019March 18,2019 00:05:03 AM
India’s bad loan policy is finally moving in the right direction.
Mon, Mar 18, 2019February 15,2019 00:14:25 AM
India’s challenge is creating a complex ecosystem of high-productivity firms.
Fri, Feb 15, 2019January 19,2019 00:05:38 AM
The regulatory framework that has choked MSMEs has contributed to farm crisis and quota demands.
Sat, Jan 19, 2019November 29,2018 00:20:45 AM
Ease of doing business is more like Ludo. The detailed incremental improvements must be celebrated.
Thu, Nov 29, 2018October 13,2018 01:00:11 AM
It’s not a passing shower but climate change for banks. About time.
Sat, Oct 13, 2018August 04,2018 01:37:22 AM
State must be both — to tackle both corruption and poverty. Political parties must stop fighting yesterday’s wars
Sat, Aug 04, 2018July 02,2018 00:05:48 AM
A massive enterprise formalisation is taking place, and one year of GST has given the process a boost.
Mon, Jul 02, 2018May 28,2018 05:08:33 AM
Delhi’s move to introduce spoken English lessons for govt school students taps into a long-felt desire.
Mon, May 28, 2018May 25,2018 00:01:16 AM
The Bhushan case is a brick in the wall of a new corporate meritocracy where rule of law matters.
Fri, May 25, 2018May 09,2018 00:05:27 AM
We should judge Karl Marx not by his intentions but by the outcomes.
Wed, May 09, 2018April 16,2018 01:25:04 AM
Bankers’ demands for accounting forbearance are dangerous and self-serving.
Mon, Apr 16, 2018March 10,2018 00:15:16 AM
New India’s challenge is thinking about the future with economic stories that don’t ignore or glorify the past.
Sat, Mar 10, 2018February 02,2018 00:05:10 AM
A budget that does not believe that in the long run we are all dead.
Fri, Feb 02, 2018December 20,2017 00:00:49 AM
Gap between global banks and Indian banks on bad loan recovery is set to narrow
Wed, Dec 20, 2017November 07,2017 01:00:23 AM
Five ways in which demonetisation made India a better habitat for formal job creation
Tue, Nov 07, 2017