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Sanjaya Baru
About the AuthorSanjaya Baru
The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
    Sanjaya Baru | Return of class in Indias caste-obsessed politicsOpinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Return of class in India's caste-obsessed politics

    Smart, articulate young people, who have been brought up within the cultural and linguistic milieu of metropolitan...

    1 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Sanjaya Baru | Amul and dairy co-ops: Milch cows get politicalOpinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Amul and dairy co-ops: Milch cows get political

    The controversy generated by the aggressive push into Karnataka of the Gujarat-based Amul, owned by the Gujarat...

    17 April 2023 12:53 AM IST

    Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in corruptionOpinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

    There is no statement more apt to describe the state of affairs when it comes to election financing in India than the...

    3 April 2023 12:18 AM IST

    President Xis dual circulation plan, as part of Chinas 14th Five Year Plan (2021-25), the bursting of the real estate bubble and an economic slowdown have combined to put global firms on alert. (AP)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | As China bridges Gulf divide, can India draw right...

    In a world of geopolitical and geo-economic shifts, the People’s Republic of China turned yet another page in...

    20 March 2023 12:55 AM IST

    Ajay Banga. (DC File Photo)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Secession of the successful: Their passage out of India

    Every time an alumnus of my school in Hyderabad gets a prize job overseas, everyone goes gaga. Ajay Banga is the latest...

    6 March 2023 12:55 AM IST

    In his close to nine years in office Prime Minister Modi has not yet been invited by the US for a state visit, though he did address the US Congress. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | If not 126, then 220… Modi deals China card

    Mahbub-ul-Haq was a distinguished Pakistani economist. A contemporary of Manmohan Singh and Amartya Sen at Cambridge...

    20 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks during a post-budget press conference, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The State in the economy and state of the economy

    Continuing the emphasis placed in the Union government’s budgetary strategy for the last fiscal year 2022-23,...

    6 Feb 2023 12:35 AM IST

    Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2023: Capital strike subdues the ‘animal...

    “I would like now to see private investors and private industry in India coming forward with that so-called animal...

    23 Jan 2023 12:26 AM IST

    Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next decade. (Representational image: PTI File)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It’s like riding a roller coaster

    Foreign correspondents have always been a window to the world. Even in these times of global electronic and social media...

    9 Jan 2023 12:02 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the G20 Extraordinary Summit on Afghanistan, via video conferencing, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The Big Powers and the Global South in 2023

    The year that is now coming to an end will long be remembered for the war in Ukraine, just as 2009 is remembered for the...

    26 Dec 2022 7:23 AM IST

    The economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 on account of impact of COVID pandemic. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The world economy and us: Are we decoupled?

    Referring to persistent uncertainty on the economic front, following the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war and other...

    12 Dec 2022 1:18 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Welcoming Dinner during G20 Leaders Summit, at the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Global South can make G-20 much less of a G-2

    It was a clever one-liner. The kind that diplomats all over the world are paid to conjure up at the right time for their...

    28 Nov 2022 12:30 AM IST

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