Fighting the economic virus

Book review of Beyond Covid's Shadow - Mapping India's Economic Resurgence

There are 20 essays in this book, all focused on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 and the lockdown on the economy, the government’s policy response and the way forward. The essays are segmented under six broad subject categories — managing growth, the fiscal dimension, the pandemic’s impact on the people, trade policy, employment, including migration, and the new economy.

The editor of the volume has chosen the contributors with care and prudence. About a fifth of them are associated with the current government or its advisory bodies and four more are sympathetic to the Modi regime. One of the essays is