Recently the Ministry of Corporate Affairs had sought public comments on changes being considered in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016. In consultation with experts and civil society we submitted our responses to the...
In recent times, wherever one travels in India, and in all big cities, one is bombarded with the message on the lines that “India under Modi rule has become so great that the G20,...
The Godi media which had been asking for opinions from people on what is needed from the budget has forgotten the wishes of people and showering encomium on the Finance Minister who has made...
Mr Gautam Adani who become the second-richest man due to the support of Mr Narendra Damodardas Modi (See Random Reflections – Why boycott Adani) is in deep trouble. Almost every bank in the country...
As India prepares for the next budget, here is another critical issue it needs to focus on: The galloping trade deficit. According to the First Advance Estimate (AE1), released earlier this month, the trade...
The Money Trail Will our Finance Minister align with the common people this time? Will she accept that the economic slowdown is predominantly a demand crisis and not because corporates are not motivated enough?...
It was only after the nationalisation of 14 banks on July 19, 1969, that the banks reached the common people. The main changes that were done included a shift from class banking to mass...
Somewhat like ‘thalinomics’ of Economic Survey of 2019-20 which measured household incomes and “dosa economics” of Raghuram Rajan in 2016 to explain inflation, ‘car economics’ explains the higher-growth-higher-inequality paradigm
The central government opening the biggest new coal mine auction, announced in November 2022, is a mockery of the Prime Minister’s own climate announcements at climate change summits, and an invitation to worsening the...
India has officially acknowledged that 62.5% of its population or 813.5 million people are extremely poor and need to be fed
In this in-depth analysis of the entire Demonetisation process in the context of the 4:1 Supreme Court verdict delivered on January 02, 2023, points out that the extensive damages caused by the 2016 measure...
How do you describe a nation that is the fastest-growing major economy in the world and also the fifth largest economy in the world
When RBI is refusing to disclose details of borrowers whose loans are written off except in the case..
Import barriers are self-inflicted wounds which is not only disabling the fourth growth engine – exports – but also increasing forex outflows
For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...
