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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
    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

    Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor Arif Mohammad Khan (ANI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Are Raj Bhavans a sinecure or a political waiting room?

    Three non-BJP govts in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are at loggerheads with their governors

    14 Nov 2022 12:10 AM IST

    The entry of Apple into the foldable market will not be through the iPhones but rather the companys tablet devices, as per CCS Insights annual predictions report. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Building brands: Tata & Satya top of India’s list

    The Tatas entered the top 100 list for the first time in 2020 and in 2022 are placed at 78th place

    30 Oct 2022 9:58 PM IST

    Forcing the use of Hindi in non-Hindi regions by the Central government and Central public sector enterprises, including the nationalised banks, is causing avoidable resentment (Image credit: Facebook)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The politics of language: India’s unity in diversity

    If Hindi enthusiasts are hurting the cause of their language, so are other such language enthusiasts in other parts of...

    16 Oct 2022 10:19 PM IST

    Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge (ANI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | ‘Organisation Man’ takes on the ‘Non-Organisation...

    Mallikarjun Kharge represents continuity, asserted Shashi Tharoor, whereas “I represent change”. In so...

    3 Oct 2022 1:09 AM IST

    The sympathetic response of Indians to the death of Queen Elizabeth may well be due to the fact that she reminded us all of our grandmother.Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties

    Indians-' attitude to the English language and to Britain is, without doubt, schizophrenic

    19 Sept 2022 12:00 AM IST

    The Indian Army has said agressive local incidents on the Line of Actual Control are resolved through local meetings ofOpinion
    Sanjaya Baru | India and China: Keeping an unstable equilibrium

    Many of us were taught at school the wisdom of Robert Frost’s famous proposition: “Good fences make good...

    5 Sept 2022 1:53 AM IST

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