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Home > Posts by Anirban Bhattacharya

Street vendors are the low-hanging fruits in the battle against plastic 

Single-use plastic ban vilified street vendors and small players, but conveniently missed the real villains: the producers and users of plastic – petrochemicals companies, plastic producers, and FMCG companies – who choose to make...

Read more March 8, 2025 at 5:32 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

The (Few) “People’s Budget”

The budget this year has been touted as a middle class friendly budget. The proposal of no income tax for those with yearly income up to 12 lakh rupees was celebrated across news rooms...

Read more February 18, 2025 at 4:31 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

To tackle the climate crisis, address inequality

Every morning, when we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future.we turn the pages of the newspaper, we get a glimpse of a rather grim future....

Read more July 28, 2023 at 10:51 am Anirban Bhattacharya

Hanuman’s leap: Why India’s firms aren’t making investments despite Nirmala Sitharaman’s pleading 

Industrialists will only invest when it they see returns and it makes business sense. In Kishkinda Kanda, the fourth book of the epic Ramayana, the wise Jambavan reminds Hanuman of his own strength. As...

Read more October 11, 2022 at 2:40 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

How the row over ‘freebies’ hides India’s failure to meet the basic needs of its citizens

While it targets welfare schemes, the Union government has also written off crores in outstanding loans for India’s rich and given huge corporate tax rebates.

Read more August 30, 2022 at 2:16 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt’s ‘Climate Concerns’

The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the...

Read more July 14, 2022 at 3:54 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Lies, Despair and a Grotesque Inequality Plagues Indian Economy Today

We witnessed an infantile jubilance on the part of the government since last year about a “record recovery” from the pandemic. Finance Ministry’s report claimed that armed with necessary macro and micro growth drivers, India...

Read more July 12, 2022 at 4:56 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

More Privatisation, less Accountability- How did the Indian Economy fare last month?

In pursuance of its policy of monetisation of national assets, the government earlier this month approved the setting up of the National Land Monetisation Corporation (NLMC). It would be a government-owned company with the...

Read more April 1, 2022 at 12:12 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Sanctions on Russia: Political Economy of Sanctions & the Fallout

The Russian belligerence and the unfolding war has led to an immense humanitarian crisis and the sanctions, while purportedly aimed at hurting the government of the aggressor, also have the potential of causing immense...

Read more March 24, 2022 at 4:15 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

National Monetization Pipeline: A Critical Evaluation

In August 2021 the NDA government unveiled its grand design to put chunks of the nation’s public assets on lease for private profits. The plan has been named the National Monetization Pipeline, the idea...

Read more March 1, 2022 at 1:03 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Who stands to gain if LIC bleeds?

In her last budget speech in 2021, the Finance Minister declared the government's disinvestment plans for the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). Already, amendments to the LIC Act have been made to set...

Read more January 27, 2022 at 6:13 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Faced with grotesque inequality, what can we learn from Chile?

“Chile was the birthplace of neoliberalism, and it shall also be its grave!” said Gabriel Boric, a young student leader from the radical fold who was forged in the protests that has rocked Chile...

Read more December 22, 2021 at 6:21 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

What lies at the end of this pipeline?

Disinvestment entails the government selling an asset, in part or full. By the term “monetization” the government is claiming to retain ownership while offering the asset to private players for investment and operationalization. The...

Read more September 3, 2021 at 4:06 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

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