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Is Peace in Ukraine Possible?
Rediff.com10 Apr 2023

The responsibility for peace in Ukraine now rests in the hands of the two principal...

What Nirmalaji Must Include In The Budget Speech
Rediff.com31 Jan 2023

The real requirement for the finance minister's explanatory speech is to explain the...

Yoginder Alagh's Death Is A Loss To India
Rediff.com7 Dec 2022

For Yoginder, it is a release from pain. But for us, his friends, it is the loss of a...

India, The Electoral Autocracy
Rediff.com25 Oct 2022

'The most important priority for the next 25 years should be to strengthen our...

Challenges before NITI Aayog's Suman Bery
Rediff.com14 Jun 2022

The most immediate challenge for growth is the disruption of the global economy brought...

What Modi must do to boost growth
Rediff.com30 Sep 2020

'The answer for a quicker boost to growth is simple -- run a much larger deficit, use...

It does not look like a 'do or die' Budget
Rediff.com17 Feb 2020

'More a show that you are doing something in the Budget even if that something never...

How India can get back on high growth path
Rediff.com25 Oct 2019

'The revival of household savings and investment is the litmus test of whether we are...

Are we staring at a new NPA crisis?
Rediff.com28 Sep 2018

The measures to reduce the current account deficit should have focused far more on...

Grand plans, Mr Jaitley, but where is the money?
Rediff.com13 Feb 2018

Is the Budget sufficiently prudent? It probably is but at the cost of substantial...

How India can meet its job creation challenge
Rediff.com28 Dec 2017

How soon can India reach a point when there is no hidden underemployment and all who...

Will Samvat 2074 be good, bad or ugly?
Rediff.com31 Oct 2017

If GDP growth in Q2FY18 remains below 7%, the outlook for Samvat 2074 would remain...

How to revive India's economy
Rediff.com3 Oct 2017

Nitin Desai suggests some concrete measures to revive investment and boost growth.

Rs 201 per day? Rs 277? How much welfare do Indians need?
Rediff.com31 Jul 2017

Universal basic income or social security? Economist Nitin Desai feels we need a...

The fury of farmers
Rediff.com30 Jun 2017

Loan waivers will never be enough. Reforming the agricultural marketing system is...

The road ahead is long and winding
Rediff.com27 Apr 2017

From the roll-out of GST to H1B visa problems, the government needs to quickly deal...

Even BJP needs to look beyond caste and religion
Rediff.com31 Mar 2017

The party's most important electoral challenge lies in whether it can meet the...

The end of the world, as we knew it
Rediff.com4 Feb 2017

'An isolationist US and a disintegrating European Union will create a power vacuum that...

3 tactical changes Modi & co need to make
Rediff.com29 Apr 2016

The prime minister sees himself as the "vikas purush". But realising his government's...

Where are the leaders who can inspire our youth?
Rediff.com24 Mar 2016

'Are moving towards a political culture that provides more space for violence and a...