Last week the union government did the unthinkable. It rolled out a plan to reform the Indian bureaucracy. Dubbed as Mission Karmayogi, it proposes to make the Indian bureaucracy b ... Read more
The Good and Service Tax or GST was developed on the idea of a new federal polity. Defined by the ideology of cooperative federalism. Three years later all of this is threatening t ... Read more
Almost everyone believes in India’s potential. But its inability to eliminate the myriad social and economic barriers has been its undoing. Nandan Nilekani the former UIDAI chief a ... Read more
Next year India will celebrate its 75th year of Independence. A significant moment. The big question is what will India look like 75 years later. It is clear that status quo won’t ... Read more
The Indian economy too has been devastated by the economic crisis induced by the COVID pandemic. Initially, the priority was on saving. Now the focus has shifted to restoring livel ... Read more
The Union government unveiled the long-awaited National Education Policy last week. Very unlike a normal government policy document, it lays down a bold and visionary blueprint to ... Read more
Most indicators suggest that the Indian economy may have just overcome its worst moments. More importantly it is drawing the right kind of attention. Tech majors are queuing up. So ... Read more
Increasingly tough questions are being posed to the tech majors on their exploitation of personal data of millions of users. India is uniquely poised to restore control to users, r ... Read more
The big picture is that India is doing great on ease of doing business. None other than the World Bank says so. But the ground reality is that it is still a work in progress. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a mindset reset. Maybe it's time to do the same with public policy spending to align it with the new priorities before India. Read more
