Make in India
The website is impressive, no doubt about it. It is sleekly designed and easy on the eye, and it appears to offer a lot of information on what is supposed to be the Modi government’s ambitious new initiative to transform…
Fiscal Correction versus Democracy in India
There is a reason why budgets have to be passed in parliament (in India certainly, but also in most other countries). There is a reason why, as per the Indian Constitution, the Finance Bill that details the revenues and expenditure…
The Land of Exclusion
There are many ways to divide Indian society, and unfortunately we seem to be pretty good at all of them. There are material inequalities: in terms of asset ownership, incomes, consumption, access to finance, control over physical and natural resources,…
Is the Swachch Bharat Mission the Way to a Cleaner India?
On the face of it, the campaign to clean India is something that obviously must be welcomed and accepted by every right-thinking citizen: something unexceptionable in intent and clearly desirable in stated outcomes. But it suffers from the same deficiencies…