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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
About the AuthorSanjeev Ahluwalia
The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert
    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

    Aircraft and services matching the quality of Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines can enable commercially fruitful dovetailing within the Star Alliance group. (Photo: Air India)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Will a sparkling Maharajah be ‘home away from...

    The normally low-profile Tata Group high-rolled their way into London earlier this week, signing letters of intent to...

    17 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

    It is a known fact that many leaders have taken a head start and are using social media to prepare the ground for the next elections. (Photo:AFP)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | How the fatal tug of social media got bigger,...

    If you get your news and views from Twitter or Google search, you correspond via Gmail or Slack, your files are stored...

    29 Dec 2022 1:58 AM IST

    Indias GDP to contract 16.5 pc in Q1 as pandemic spreads, says SBI report. (Representative Image)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian economy between a rock and a hard place…

    Growth is slowing in India. In July to September this year there were six major economies -- Malaysia, Greece, the...

    9 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

    The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December last and is being studied by a standing committee.Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Personal data is only ‘half protected’ by new...

    When is a bill only a “half bill”? The answer (borrowing from Chetan Bhagat’s bestseller Half...

    25 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Elon Musk (AP file image)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Musk storms tweeter nest: Twitter to retain its...

    It has finally “sunk in” that Twitter is entering uncharted waters as it tries to create a world defined by...

    2 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Great power rifts shatter India’s dream...

    Cinema buffs know that the dream sequence ends when the lights come on. But politicians and economists can spin national...

    27 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

    A cheetah after being released inside a special enclosure of the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Cheetahs back: Will it take India into happier...

    The import of cheetahs from Namibia to diversify the fauna in our national parks, seven decades since the cheetah became...

    22 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation on the occasion of the 76th Independence Day at the Red Fort, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug 15, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Can India be a developed nation before it gets...

    India, acting internationally as a pragmatic, non-preachy, middle power would be new for its citizens

    18 Aug 2022 12:26 AM IST

    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or blessing?Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Is growth in population a ticking bomb or...

    Managing population through heavy-handed top-down curbs on fertility is an inhuman and ineffective policy

    21 July 2022 12:50 AM IST

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