A Nation That Does Not Invest in Science Outsources Its Security A country can import weapons, buy software, license technology, assemble devices and celebrate foreign investment…
GDP Measures Growth, Not Whether People Are Living Better Lives GDP is a brilliant instrument, but a poor mirror. It can measure the size of the economic machine, but not the tex…
AI Will Not Kill All Jobs. It Will Kill the Comfort of Average Skills The panic around artificial intelligence is both justified and misplaced. It is justified because AI will di…
Forests Are Not Anti-Development; They Are Economic Infrastructure There is a lazy argument India must now outgrow: that forests are beautiful, but development is practical. It s…
India's Fiscal Federalism Is Becoming the New Battleground of Politics Indian politics is often described through elections, caste equations, party alliances, religious symbolism…
India's Growth Story Has a Jobs Problem India's growth story has a strange emotional contradiction. The macroeconomic numbers can look impressive, but the young graduate at home…
India's Digital Economy Promised Equality. It May Be Creating a New Divide India's digital revolution has one of the most powerful stories in the modern world: a tea seller accep…
India's Crisis Is Economic on the Surface, Moral at the Core Every society prefers to describe its crisis in measurable terms. Inflation, unemployment, debt, growth, fiscal defic…
India Wants Capitalism Without Cruelty. Can It Build One? India has never been fully comfortable with capitalism, yet it has never stopped desiring its rewards. We want wealth cr…
India has hundreds of welfare and development schemes, but poor execution remains a chronic problem. This editorial examines why implementation fails and what structural reforms a…
Every four years, India has the same conversation. An Indian athlete wins a medal, or comes agonisingly close, and for a few days the country erupts in celebration, analysis and r…
India's tourism industry has vast potential to generate millions of jobs, but it remains undervalued. Here's why treating tourism casually is a policy mistake we can't afford in 2…
India's economic growth remains incomplete without addressing women's development. This editorial analyses the gaps in gender equity and what policies can close them.
India is spending more than it ever has on welfare. Subsidised food for hundreds of millions, free cooking gas, direct benefit transfers, health insurance, housing schemes, employ…
