I knew about Dr. Manmohan Singh as a brilliant economist, an OX-Bridge product and a faculty at the Delhi School of Economics. He made significant contributions in the area of Trade and Development, ...

Contract labour, temporary staff, gig employment have contributed to this phenomenon. The net result is that real wage levels in the US stagnate today at 1975 levels. For certain sectors, it is even ...

The interlinking of rivers (ILR) is ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating, and socially disruptive. Here’s why ILR needs to be scrapped, and integrated ...

Manmohan Singh’s qualities as a human being outshone both his successes and failures as an administrator. He was, at the very core, a thorough gentleman, unlike most political animals, someone who ...

I like to indulge in some broad reflections on the lessons of the year that is ending. My focus is largely on the political arena with some thoughts expressed on the direction of the economy, ...

can make them less sad.

Perhaps in my reading list of books, this will have to be included in the most surprising book of the year 2024. That is why in the state level program of West Bengal NAPM, when I was specially asked ...

The recent fracas in the Parliament over the remarks made by Home Minister Amit Shah, on Nehru’s reaction to Ambedkar’s resignation over the Hindu code bill has sparked a debate in the public sphere.

That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the ‘Commentariat’, given their general political-moral make-up, should now be singing the praises of former Prime ...