In an age where politicians speak venomous language, have criminal backgrounds, behave in the most outrageous manner, it is difficult to imagine that a cultured person like Ashok Mitra was once the Finance Minister of West Bengal. Mitra, however, was…
One of my many treasured experiences while working for the Edit pages of The Telegraph was the opportunity every few months to go to Ashok Mitra's Sonali Apartment flat and have him dictate that week's post-edit piece to me. The…
Calls for a new development paradigm grow louder each day, especially in rapidly growing countries like India. Award-winning development economist Jayati Ghosh explores prospects for such a new model of equitable and sustainable development with Allen White, Senior Fellow at…
The name of Amitava Bose who passed away in Kolkata on January 13 may not be known to many people outside of a small circle of scholars, students, and friends, but he was in formal terms the finest macro-economist in…
This policy brief looks at the magnitude and nature of FDI inflows into India since the Make in India programme was initiated. In the process it raises serious doubts about the reliability and suitability of the official data. Click here…
Paulo Paolides was a lawyer in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1960s, a very prominent citizen who was a friend of the Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios, famous for his eloquence in winning high-profile legal cases. He was also and simultaneously…
