Election 2019: So, what are we voting for?
Apr 26th, 2019; Source: The Economic Times
Like every Indian, I, too, have been faced with the inevitable choice of which way to vote. The responsibility to vote is individual, but the outcome is collective. For me, the most important issue is economy — how do we lift much of India out of poverty and improve their living standards? Once ou ...ReadMore
BJP has helped the middle class realise its aspirations
Apr 24th, 2019; Source: Hindustan Times
By creating a robust fiscal architecture, arresting inflation, and improving ease of business, it has ensured growth. One of our biggest challenges is to create enough jobs for India’s growing work force. The NDA’s emphasis on upgrading our dated academic curricula to focus on innovation, resear ...ReadMore
Nov 20th, 2018; Source: BW BusinessWorld
I largely attribute my perseverance to the strong belief in this sector and its huge potential in the coming years. Back in 2010, I wanted to do something radically different from what I had been doing for the last 20-25 years. I had seen my father, an IAS officer, quit his comfortable job at a simi ...ReadMore
Setting The Economy On A Stable Course
May 12th, 2018; Source: BW BusinessWorld
As a nation, we need to improve the capability of the government as a whole to govern, with better quality outcomes, with more diverse knowledge and experience backing decision making. The latest report by the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) projects that India will remain the faste ...ReadMore
Modi @Davos: PM has to be Indias Marketing Chief
Jan 17th, 2018; Source: The Economics Times
Modi will have to lay out India’s position in this ever-changing world, and his personal views as the prime representative of a sixth of humanity. This year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos, Switzerland, that will take place during January 23-26 comes with a very different backgroun ...ReadMore
India@100: No More About Climate Change
Aug 29th, 2017; Source: BW BUSINESSWORLD
The renewable energy sector presents a great investment opportunity for India to capitalise on… As India completes 70 years of independence, the narrative of a young dynamic nation has become an integral part of discussion around the world. Since independence from colonial rule, the average in ...ReadMore
May 18th, 2017; Source: The Economic Times
The recent articles by Swaminathan S A Aiyar(Roll Out The Sun, But Gently;) and an editorial(;Solar power Calls For New Accounting;) on this page have cast doubts on the Centre;s 100GW target for solar energy by 2022. The write ups have argued that solar prices are going to drop fu ...ReadMore
The Tipping Point For Climate Change is nigh Upon Us
Jan 5th, 2017; Source: Mint
Up untill now, the conversation on the issue of climate change has almost always been hopeful. In various rounds of international negotiations, we have looked into the future and said that if we cap global carbon emissions, we will be able to stop temperature increases… Click on the link below ...ReadMore
Aug 22nd, 2013; Source: Tehelka
Readjustment over time, not knee-jerk reactions, is the need of the hour It has been evident to economy watchers, since at least the beginning of last year, that the Indian economy would deteriorate rapidly if corrective action was not taken. It was clear that the government;s lax economic policies ...ReadMore
CONTINUING REFORM & FISCAL CORRECTION WILL MAKE INDIAS 2013 STAND APART FROM 2012
Jan 8th, 2013; Source: The Economic Times
I do hope that the economic pragmatists of the government win over the political pragmatists of the UPA Future economic historians will probably remember 2012 and 2013 as the middle years of an extended post-global financial crisis era. Years that will be mostly remembered for tactical reasons such ...ReadMore
