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Calibrating finances

The Report of the 16th Finance Commission (FC) containing recommendations on the devolution of Central taxes and grants to states was tabled in...

08.02.2026 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Development Paradigms ~II

The artificial classifications of the World Bank and IMF at best serve their limited institutional purposes ~ to determine for eligibility of poorer...

06.01.2026 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Development Paradigms ~I

India is aiming to become a developed nation, or Viksit Bharat, by 2047, a hundred years after independence. To understand how we should transform...

05.01.2026 30

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Where ignorance is bliss

As India’s GDP clocked 8.2 per cent in Q2, IMF gave a ‘C’ grading to our national account statistics. It also labelled the RBI’s exchange rate...

17.12.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Surreal Promises

Long years back, when I was posted in Bihar under the Lalu regime, a Bihari friend had told me, “To understand Bihar, you must realise that Bihar is...

07.11.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

The case for a ban~ll

India’s growing UPF market is leading to an uncontrolled and unregulated junk food epidemic. Governments are responsible for providing public goods,...

21.10.2025 30

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

The case for a ban ~I

A recent UNICEF report titled “Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children” revealed very disturbing facts. It reported that...

20.10.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Time to regulate AI

Artificial Intelligence is the most transformative revolutionary technology of our era that is shaping every area of human activity, but its immense...

09.09.2025 20

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Why lose sleep?

The West dislikes India’s growth because it undermines their global power, especially as their own influence declines. However, a strong and...

15.08.2025 30

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Fragile Borders

Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based nationalidentity system, has definitely been a gamechanger in the delivery of our public policy benefits. Designed...

21.05.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Indus Water Treaty

Following the dastardly massacre of innocent Hindu tourists at Pahalgam, India swiftly declared that it will put the 1960 Indus Water Treaty (IWT),...

05.05.2025 20

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Isolate America

Global markets are reeling from the escalating trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s irresponsible rhetoric and unpredictable behaviour,...

13.03.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Seeking Divine Bliss

As the Vande Bharat Express left New Delhi Station on the cold morning of February 9 and as I was settling in my window seat with a newspaper, hoping...

20.02.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Reforms in states

The first generation of fiscal reforms in the states started with the enactment of Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Acts (FRBMA) between...

04.02.2025 10

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Pillars of Caste~I

‘Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The tragically accelerated, chilling, and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi...

25.01.2025 20

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Govind Bhattacharjee New Delhi