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19 January 2024

Market ki baat

India’s future depends on wide popular acceptance of the virtues of private enterprise. PM’s monthly radio chat is an excellent platform to preach this mantra.

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6 September 2023

The Laptop Error

Has the License Raj come back? No, but here is a cautionary tale

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20 January 2023

Decolonisation? Yes. Let’s Reform Our Police

A stong PM who starts the change in BJP states can deliver this, 16 years after SC's landmark judgement.

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13 September 2022

A story of private success and public failure: Unless it fixes its institutions, India will not become a developed nation in 25 years

In April 2011, I was invited by the Arab Spring movement to present the India Model for Egypt’s future. They asked me three questions: How did you keep the generals out of power? Two, how did you become one of the fastest growing economies in the world (and a global outsourcer of IT services)? Three, how did you create social harmony in the most diverse place on the earth? They wanted to know how India had managed to have such a moderate Muslim population.

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21 June 2022

English-Vinglish, Hindi-Shindi

India doesn’t need a national language. Plus, Hindi is growing & English is no longer elitist.

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14 March 2022

Union Budget: Investment over consumption in 2022

This Budget chooses job creation over freebies and this is a victory.

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18 January 2022

Toolkit for the Indian reformer: The farm laws fiasco offers 7 lessons on how to reform in a democracy

Prime minister Narendra Modi stunned the nation on November 19 when he revoked three farm laws that had led to sustained protests during the past year. A government at the zenith of power, with a strong majority, had listened to the people. It was a victory for India’s democracy.

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26 November 2021

AI: Branding & billion dollars

Tatas will have to infuse substantial equity and run two brands to optimise the Air India acquisition

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25 September 2021

No nation became prosperous without trust between government and business.

In the past few weeks, a series of disquieting events have raised the question of trust between government and business. It brought back unhappy memories of the License Raj. Some think that getting government and business to trust each other is hopeless, like getting a pig to sing.

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31 May 2021

Covid and the bureaucracy: India needs modern institutions that are autonomous, accountable and creditworthy

The events of the past month have been so tragic, so unspeakably ugly that the only rational response was to pretend it wasn’t happening. The raging second wave of the virus revealed not only the governmental ineptitude but also exposed India’s soft underbelly – our heavy bureaucratic system, which wasn’t nimble enough to cope with the crisis.

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