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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
About the AuthorSanjeev Ahluwalia
The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert
    India will continue to enjoy the benefits, and suffer the downsides, of political stability. Success, sadly, breeds hubris over time, so this cannot be a long-term fix. (Image: DC)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | What lies ahead: India to grow, inequality will...

    New beginnings are better in theory than in practice, at least for the average, Risk-averse individual. First, there is...

    28 Dec 2023 12:00 AM IST

    The time horizon of the AI tipping point is uncertain. (Image: jcomp on Freepik)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Why the whole world needs to keep the AI genie...

    Humans have faced existential threats before during the 300,000 years they have been around. Self-inflicted harm exceeds...

    11 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indias energy transition: Who will lead the way?Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | India's energy transition: Who will lead the way?

    By 2070, India will go from spewing 2.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually to none at all -- a near nirvana like,...

    19 Oct 2023 12:07 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is it creative disruption, or the murder of democracy?Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is it creative disruption, or the murder of...

    ONE NATION, ONE ELECTION

    6 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Unshackling or rebranding Indias basic criminal laws?Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Unshackling or rebranding India's basic criminal...

    The Union home minister has said he wants to unshackle India from its colonial legacy by proposing to repeal three...

    17 Aug 2023 12:10 AM IST

    Book Review | How to rehumanise the workplace in the era of cyborgsLifestyle
    Book Review | How to rehumanise the workplace in the era of cyborgs

    The central concern of the authors is how to retain human-centric workplaces in the face of the expected tech onslaught...

    23 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Book Review | Finance ministers who shaped early post-Independence IndiaLifestyle
    Book Review | Finance ministers who shaped early post-Independence...

    Finance ministers (FMs), despite their dour calling, do not always follow the bland, understated credo expected of them....

    2 July 2023 6:34 PM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The sounds of a silent Internet in ManipurOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The sounds of a silent Internet in Manipur

    It is incongruous for a country which is aiming for global digital primacy to also figure at the top of a list of...

    12 Jun 2023 12:36 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Too many people: Think before you have a babyOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Too many people: Think before you have a baby

    An India, more populous than China this year, and growing to 1.66 billion people by 2050, is touted as good news by the...

    27 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How culture underpins the budgets of states in IndiaOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How culture underpins the budgets of states in...

    Associating budgetary allocations with cultural tropes is one way of validating them. Consider the case of two Indian...

    5 April 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of Transforming the Steel Frame: Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform edited by Vinod Rai. (Photo by arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Could our civil service be less rule-oriented, more...

    Vinod Rai — the editor — retired as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, one among the...

    26 March 2023 12:09 AM IST

    Officials said that the windfall profit tax on domestically produced crude oil and export of fuel will continue and is expected to give about Rs 25,000 crore in the current fiscal ending 31 March, 2023. File ImageOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Export, monetise, privatise: The eco mantra India...

    In India, the Union government takes on a much broader fiscal mandate than is necessary. Some of this is driven by the...

    14 March 2023 12:27 AM IST

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