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The role that compassion could play in India’s economic revival
The public policy challenge is to make this inner quest a social outcome. How do we create incentives for compassionate behaviour? | 8th Jun 2020
Now Holmes has become Sherlock
“Moriarty? Him? The guy looks like an investment banker. He can’t be Moriarty!” | 31st May 2020
India should prepare itself for realpolitik over a covid vaccine
Both the West and China are pouring billions of dollars into fast-tracking vaccines. India’s investment is minuscule in comparison. | 25th May 2020
Crowds at booze stores reveal an addled approach to policy
Government over-control and excessive taxation of liquor might satisfy our hypocrisy but could make real problems worse | 10th May 2020
Should people be allowed to have weird names?
Are we going to allow the limitations of computer software to determine what we can or cannot do? If that were so, we wouldn’t have made it to the 21st century, and set our clocks back every year in order not to be bitten by the Y2K bug. | 9th May 2020
How India should deal with economic investment from a politically hostile China
Modi government must quickly lift the lockdown on Chinese investments and proceed to a staggered reopening. | 5th May 2020
Get India back at work to secure the economy and employment
If we promote mass-employment when hundreds of millions have lost their jobs and there is a reverse exodus of migrants to the countryside, I cannot think of a time we ever will. | 27th Apr 2020
To open or not to open India up: a dilemma that need not be one
India needs a calibrated approach to tighten or relax controls at a local level depending on data from expanded testing | 12th Apr 2020
The early days of online schooling
"My mic is not working” is the 21st century equivalent of “dog ate my homework” | 12th Apr 2020
On the economics and morality of counter-epidemic policies
I have been thinking more about what the post-pandemic world will look like, and specifically, policy options for India. In many ways we have to go back to the US and European experience between and after the two world wars. | 2nd Apr 2020
Look ahead of the current crisis to plan for an economic revival
If the Modi government demonstrates a political commitment to economic growth, articulates a credible plan to achieve it and backs it with concrete actions, India will find thousands of Marshalls ready to fund the programme. | 29th Mar 2020
Why the current pandemic may perhaps be the world’s last one
Pathogens will certainly evolve to frustrate humankind’s best-laid plans. It is in the order of nature that they will succeed, but human ingenuity will limit that success to small outbreaks that will be quickly contained. | 15th Mar 2020
The unequal consequences of the lockdown
Closing schools to prevent the spread of the pandemic was necessary, but it evoked different reactions from the three kids. | 14th Mar 2020
Opinion | Climate change and geopolitics converge to yield locust swarms
Abnormal rainfall in the Arabian desert and an effect of the Yemen war have revived a menace that could hit Indian crops | 1st Mar 2020
Let’s think afresh about how to govern India’s gig workforce
You can’t govern a 21st century economy with 18th century regulatory technology. | 16th Feb 2020
Thinking over sleepovers
As David Brooks says, managing social relationships is a far more important and difficult life skill than academic or artistic performance | 9th Feb 2020
Technology is set to be the main front in the US-China trade war
The coming technology war is an opportunity for India as US companies shift their supply chains. It would be a shame if we let it go. | 19th Jan 2020
Sanskrit or French?
Given the choices available, this meant having to choose Sanskrit or French, along with English and Hindi. | 11th Jan 2020
The government ought to take a more reconciliatory approach
The onus is on the government to get the country to step back from the brink. | 5th Jan 2020
The right to internet access must have legal sanctity
India needs better legal procedures to ensure that the bar for denial of access is much higher. | 22nd Dec 2019
Democratic decisionmaking in the household
The amount of chaos in a system is proportional to Nth power of 2, where N is the number of children present. | 15th Dec 2019
In the second space age with one hand tied at the back
India needs a new space policy—one that aims to harness space as a growth sector for the economy, attracts private investments and creates jobs, even as it promotes scientific breakthroughs and helps leapfrog developmental challenges. | 8th Dec 2019
Mapping Indian genes could work wonders for our health
A national genomic platform can serve as an inclusive health infrastructure and enable future generations to lead much healthier lives. | 25th Nov 2019
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