My latest article in the Business standard. I analyse “under the hood” worrying trends in the Indian economy underlying sound short term macroeconomic outcomes. business-standard.com/amp/opinion/co…

EPFO is a nightmare. I've been trying for over a year to merge two accounts (past and present employer). All other information has been same for 20 years. Yet merger denied. All I get is cryptic dismissals of complaints - case closed. No interest paid for two years. Between

My latest column in the Economic Times. I have written extensively on this. 3 examples: For more analytics in a capsule see: nipfp.org.in/media/medialib… nipfp.org.in/media/medialib… For a detailed exposition my 2020 Manthan lecture: youtu.be/VQrzcr9H6bQ?si… m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…

Had high hopes for Air India when Tatas took over. Sadly the culture is worse than ever. Intimidating passengers with a “final call” 45 mins b4 flight takeoff was one such stunt this morning for flight AI2515. Add threats to forcibly checking bags and I’m never flying this again

Will the RBI move away from its de facto rupee-dollar peg and allow the rupee to depreciate? Our 3 recent pieces on why it should: First, the peg since 2022 has led to a large appreciation of the currency resulting in foregone export growth, especially manufacturing 1/

I speak to Karan Thapar about the impact of the tax cuts... youtu.be/RBz0lM19Q0Y?si… via YouTube

Shekhar Suman hosted the show Movers and Shakers on primetime television. He mimicked and made jokes about Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee nearly every day. Here’s what the PM said when they met …

I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information. 1. Indian news channels ran programming for hours last night reporting that the Indian Navy had been deployed and had bombed and destroyed Karachi Port. 2. Indian news channels ran

First the Niti Aayog CEO makes a claim on the size of the Indian economy which apparently surpassed Japan's 'just as he was speaking.’ Then a member of the NITI Aayog contradicts its CEO and presents a more realistic picture. Now the Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog takes a

Another day, another revelation of how the Modi Government has bulldozed the Great Nicobar Mega Infra Project through due process. Now we learn that official maps of the island have been airbrushed to remove corals from the map. • In the 2020 map of Great Nicobar Island, the

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Brazilian model voting in Indian elections? The reality of House Number Zero. This presser is going to go viral, and how!

I love India. I grew up there, and my memories are precious. But please don’t buy lies just because they’re repeated loudly. I’m trying to open your eyes to reality: India is falling massively behind. This isn’t criticism—it’s the honest truth. We’re not the 4th largest economy;

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Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died. Rest in peace, good and great man, rest in peace.

The World Bank’s latest report on air pollution in the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Himalayan foothills titled ‘A Breath of Change’ is comprehensive, evidence-based, and unambiguous. It is also, obviously, very timely. It highlights the fact that there are now around 1 million

India did not “produce” these CEOs. The West selected them. The filter is not JEE or middle class pressure. It is immigration + corporate ladders. The kind of Indian who ends up in the US/EU pipeline is already an extreme outlier: English-speaking, comfortable with hierarchy,

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His name is Sanjiv Chaturvedi. IFS 2002 batch. Engineer from MNNIT Allahabad. In Haryana he exposed fake plantation schemes. Illegal tree felling. Misuse of government funds. He was transferred 12 times in 7 years. In 2012 he became Chief Vigilance Officer at AIIMS Delhi. In