A K Bhattacharya
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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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Why can't states opposed to farm laws be allowed to accept them later?
If eight states could join the VAT system after the rollout date, why can't the same apply to states opposed to farm laws?
 "Why can't states opposed to farm laws be allowed to accept them later?")
'Decoding' the Bhagavadgita
Book review of The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials
 "'Decoding' the Bhagavadgita")
A Budget after contraction
Past Budgets presented after a GDP decline had no exciting proposals
 "A Budget after contraction")
Salvaging the idea of India
Aakar Patel offers a sober analysis of Hindutva ideology from a non-BJP perspective and explains why it can be countered
 "Salvaging the idea of India")
Barking up the wrong tree?
Instead of pursuing Vivad Se Vishwas, greater focus on collecting tax dues without dispute may yield better results
 "Barking up the wrong tree?")
A tale of two Hindu sects
A scholar explores why two 18th century movements challenging key tenets of Hindu worship face very different fates in modern India
 "A tale of two Hindu sects")
No escape from extra borrowing
Despite growth likely in the second half of the year, revenue gap will be large leading to higher borrowing and expenditure management
 "No escape from extra borrowing")
Why states should find newer resources rather than cut back on spending
For states staying within the fiscal deficit targets is important, but not by cutting back on expenditure
 "Why states should find newer resources rather than cut back on spending")
Yet another oil bonanza for Modi
A 32 per cent jump in oil revenues offers some relief to strained govt finances
 "Yet another oil bonanza for Modi")
Pranab as FM: Remembering how he managed controversies, even created some
The gap between Mukherjee's two tenures as FM is testimony as much to his longevity and utility as a politician as to his ability to survive under different Congress regimes
 "Pranab as FM: Remembering how he managed controversies, even created some")
Q1 GDP numbers just first instalment of a bad news story on economy
If not for the numbers on agriculture and government expenditure, the GDP growth print for the first quarter of 2020-21 would have been far worse
 "Q1 GDP numbers just first instalment of a bad news story on economy")
Eight focus areas in Prime Minister Modi's Independence Day address
The middle-class featured prominently in the PM's speech even as he steered clear of both serious growth challenges before the Indian economy and the pressure this was putting on public finances
 "Eight focus areas in Prime Minister Modi's Independence Day address")
Once bitten, twice shy: Why states doubt centre will share taxes fairly
States are understandably wary even after getting half the Centre's gross tax revenue in the first quarter of 2020-21
 "Once bitten, twice shy: Why states doubt centre will share taxes fairly")
The joker in the pack
Government's fiscal headroom is crucially linked to a realistic assessment of its net revenue collection
 "The joker in the pack")
Driving the private sector
R C Bhargava finds the idea of reforming a public sector undertaking and making it competitive and a wealth-creator almost an impossibility
 "Driving the private sector")
Fond hopes of a lean govt
How long can Modi keep the size of his council of ministers as lean as it has been so far?
Amid many crises facing India, govt is in need of professional experts
In any governance structure, particularly in a democracy, the elected political leadership has to be in the forefront of all decision-making processes
Fiscal math of the imponderables
Growth holds the key to the government's fiscal deficit slippage
 "Fiscal math of the imponderables")
Grand announcements
Executing road projects worth Rs 15 trillion in two years will be a tall order
How Covid-19 spoilt the oil bonanza
Conventional wisdom is that when crude oil prices drop, India benefits as it is dependent on imported oil to the tune of about 85 per cent of its total consumption
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