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Thanks, Arjun, Niranjan and the team for this compilation! For obvious reasons, I've started with V K R V Rao, but hope to read all of them.

Wonderful thread of essays on Indian economists, including my grandfather A.K. Dasgupta and my uncle I.G. Patel.

The 11 April US tariff exclusions benefit China and Asia the most. To put things in perspective - in 2024, US imported 25% of the exempted items from China, which equaled 22% of total Chinese imports. But who knows how long the exemptions will last…

Reminds me of the great paper written by Jagdish Bhagwati and V.K. Ramaswami in 1963

“We are also trying to shift the emphasis of government officers from spending government money to mobilising private industry” — Praveen Pardeshi, the first CEA of Maharashtra. Let’s see how — and if — incentives are altered to make this shift possible. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

CAFRAL is glad to host Dr. Neelanjan Sircar and Priya Vedavalli from Artha Global as part of the CAFRAL Research Seminar Series. 🗓️ Apr29, 2025 | 11:00 AM 📍 CAFRAL, BKC, Mumbai 📄 Topic: Changing Dynamics in Rural India – Female Labour Force Participation & Livelihood Schemes

In today’s The New Indian Express I write on the methodological issues of the Fiscal Health Index report - an important document for every state finance department influencing how Indian states can think about their macro-fiscal numbers! newindianexpress.com/amp/story/opin…

What JK Galbraith wrote in 1958 about US resonates in India today. "In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway."

Higher-than-average heatwave days are predicted this May. (bit.ly/4d3oWRm) Not only does this strain India’s power systems — it’s a public health crisis too. At the Artha Global Centre for Rapid Insights, we surveyed 27,500 people across India last year in May

Fascinating report. The easy six-hitting these days is not only because of heavier bats but also their convexity. And the first person to figure it out was Sachin Tendulkar. indianexpress.com/article/sports…

My colleague Karan Shah making a presentation to chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on ⁦Artha Global⁩’s work to design clean air zones in two cities in Andhra Pradesh, and what can be done to help vulnerable communities adapt to the growing incidence of heat stress

Mathematicians on a roll. First the Pope and now the new president of Romania.

Jayant Naralikar: “My Flirtations With Cricket”, featuring economists Amit Bhaduri and Bimal Jalan, and physicist Kumar Chitre … jvnarlikar.blog/p/my-flirtatio…

"Exit barriers reduce entry, misallocate resources and create a long right tail in the age distribution of firms." From a new paper by Shoumitro Chatterjee, Kala Krishna, Kalyani Padmakumar and Yingyan Zhao: "No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India"

A lovely thread on Ramanand Chatterjee, the editor of “Modern Review”. Also sharing the (ungated) link to a review I wrote in 2016 on a very good collection of essays from that outstanding journal… livemint.com/Leisure/omtPFl…