The Past, the Future and the RBI

Sunday 07 August, 2011

The Planning Commission which ruled the poverty roost with an iron hand for over thirty years seems to have hung up its gloves.

India and Africa: Soft Power

Thursday 26 May, 2011

India is playing in fact a soft leadership role in the continent of the future.

Rajiv Gandhi and Soft Power

Saturday 21 May, 2011

Rajiv had no patience with 'more of the same'' and threw out those who made a career of it, from his strategic thinking teams.

Kalighat Memories

Monday 16 May, 2011

It is only when the election results were being declared that I discovered that Mamata Didi is a denizen of Kalighat.

On Gabriella Pasqualotto

Sunday 15 May, 2011

The IPL cheerleader Gabriella Pasqualotto raised a set of questions which in our very alert civil society would have raised a storm.

Finger in the bowl

Friday 29 April, 2011

Try as much as you can tradition which perhaps becomes a habit doesn''t go away.

Effective Food Security

Wednesday 27 April, 2011

The Food Security debate seemed almost closed with the PMEAC and the NAC both deciding on a coverage of around two thirds of the population.

Subsidising Farmers in Rich Countries

Monday 18 April, 2011

In an open economy, you subsidize the farmer who exports to you too.

Games we win

Tuesday 05 April, 2011

If everyone wants to be a great sportsperson, we need to eliminate malnutrition.

FDI in Power

Saturday 26 March, 2011

My impression is that power sector is on a turning point and the upswing in FDI also may come earlier.

Chinese Social Science

Thursday 24 March, 2011

There was an interesting item recently on a state of the art report on rural economic policies in China by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

The Thorium Route

Tuesday 15 March, 2011

I have been a supporter of going the thorium route since we have almost unlimited reserves of thorium.

Inverted Tariffs and Other Inversions

Thursday 03 March, 2011

You must be as bored as I am of the souped up hype in the budget week.

Public Sector and Government

Wednesday 23 February, 2011

Concept of an arms length relationship does not mean that the govt as an owner of a company has no rights on it apart from collecting the dividend.

Dabbas and R&D

Friday 18 February, 2011

I belong to a generation in which dabbas were shared.