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Where have all the statesmen gone?

The national interest may not be popular. The international interest may be even less so. It's what the world needs now

Vaccine economics: Only pros, no cons

Vaccines are an amazing deal. Use the market to deliver more, more quickly

Redeeming India

To restore our reputation we must define a good health outcome by Diwali - and follow some principles to get there

Coping with Covid

We need to stop messing around and plan ahead of the infection curve

Vaccinating India brilliantly

The government has laid out the right protocol for the Covid vaccination drive. Now let the private sector get on with the job

India's opportunity in higher education

Let universities compete their way to quality - with complete autonomy to do so

Let's not slide back to Licence Raj, we must not stifle the economy

Our economy reflects a slide back to the Licence Raj. Realising our potential requires that we squash bureaucratic control

Growth matters

Our goal of being a $5 trillion economy by 2024 is the first step. We need sustained growth of 8-10 per cent for 30 years

Needed: A boring Budget

The Budget should be judged on delivering boring principles - realism, fiscal prudence, fewer schemes and more governance

The 2020 Budget speech

The finance minister will present her first full Budget on February 1. This is the speech I wish to hear

RCEP: Two futures for India and its industry

Our poor trade performance reflects poor industrial competitiveness. The sooner industry addresses this, the better for India

The price of onions: The best thing for the govt would be to do nothing

The right immediate action is inaction. The right preventive action is to get traders to constantly hoard too much

Reviving animal spirits

Reviving the moribund economy must be our national priority. There's much to learn from 1991

Jet Airways: Exit is best

Over 25 years, Naresh Goyal systematically built Jet Airways into the world's best airline and then destroyed it

It's about high-quality jobs

We need millions of high-quality jobs to become a developed nation

Book review: A dozen problems with the economy and about as many solutions

By far the best chapter in the book is "Fixing Schools" by Karthik Muralidharan

It's about jobs in industry

Creating millions of high-quality jobs requires we prioritise labour-intensive industry

A contest of content in this election

We need to hear from our political parties why we should vote for them, what ideas they stand for, their policies, reform, etc

How to reform Indian public research

Freeze budgetary allocation to national laboratories in nominal terms and allocate the annual increase to the higher education sector