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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
About the AuthorSanjeev Ahluwalia
The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert
    Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)Opinion
    Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

    The ongoing pandemic’s most telling debris — other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia — are the ubiquitous...

    29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM IST

    A vegetable vendor pushes his bicycle loaded with vegetables on an empty street during a complete lockdown amid growing concerns of coronavirus in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 24, 2020. Authorities have gradually started to shutdown much of the country to contain the outbreak. (AP)Opinion
    Lockdowns are overkill, and won’t tame the coronavirus

    The silence of economic graveyards can be very expensive for struggling economies like ours

    24 March 2020 7:43 PM IST

    A woman wearing a facemask to protect against the coronavirus COVID-19 shops for groceries in a market in New Delhi on March 14, 2020. (AFP)Opinion
    The C-virus impact on the lives of urban Indians

    Globalisation benefited urban India the most, so it is urban India that is now affected the most

    16 March 2020 11:45 AM IST

    PM Modi and US President Donald Trump.Opinion
    Treating Trump better may be good for India; but let’s not forget...

    Friends in high places are useful diplomatic assets.

    22 Feb 2020 5:23 AM IST

    Arvind KejriwalOpinion
    Seismic changes haunt BJP after Delhi shock

    To be sure the city of Delhi — a cossetted child of emperors starting with the Great Mughals — is spoilt silly.

    15 Feb 2020 1:19 AM IST

    Nirmala SitharamanOpinion
    New thinking is needed, band-aids won’t suffice

    The government has been firefighting since FY 2019 using mostly Band-Aids of the cheapest kinds.

    29 Jan 2020 2:14 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Opinion
    Modi legacy: What the future holds for India

    Christianity has not been a threat. It was dignified 210 years ago, when it took up arms against the slave trade, out of...

    7 Jan 2020 12:43 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Opinion
    Stoke ‘animal spirits’ to let India breathe again

    Prime Minister Modi needs to take things in hand before the rot sets in deeper.

    25 Dec 2019 4:22 AM IST

    Active participation by the private sector in policy and rulemaking wherever they impinge on business should become a necessary practice, rather than the hush-hush, wink-wink business it is today. (Representional Image)Opinion
    Can govt let pvt sector take lead on growth?

    Bringing the private sector centre-stage requires a sea change in the manner of its participation and its role in...

    2 Dec 2019 12:36 AM IST

    World trade and China aside, the situation doesnt get any better for India even with the Asean countries, which constitute the 10 core countries of the proposed 16-nation RCEP. (Photo: PTI/File)Opinion
    India dodges RCEP, but can’t avoid Reforms 2.0

    Exports to China account for just around 15 per cent, while another 11 per cent go to other destinations in East Asia.

    8 Nov 2019 12:23 AM IST

    Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo Juggernaut, Rs 699Lifestyle
    Saving the world from the bottom upwards

    The Banerjee-Duflo team are a curious blend of Eastern asceticism and thrift, European social ethics and the Anglo-Saxon...

    3 Nov 2019 1:57 AM IST

    The projection is lower than 6.1 per cent that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had forecast in early October.Opinion
    ‘Hybrid’ export growth models: Hope for India

    Government advisory committees come with implicit constraints to stay within the limits of what is politically doable.

    2 Nov 2019 2:04 AM IST

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