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AAP's rise in Delhi politics has been marked by welfare schemes, but its lack of ideological challenge to BJP may cost it support amid shifting voter...
A second Trump presidency will not cripple the Indian economy but cause enough policy pain, which will only get worse if objectivity is lacking
To go to war with capitalism from a class perspective, you need to have a solid class alliance behind you.
AAP's core political economy model is to divert state resources from investment to supporting the short-term consumption of the poor.
India has seen a rise of what are often described as freebies, to supplement what are clearly inadequate incomes for a large part of our population.
Trump’s USP vis-à-vis the American voter is that he will make the country renege on the responsibility, and the costs, of being the leader of...
That incumbents in rich Maharashtra and poor Jharkhand are both relying on the cash transfer route to return to power is an indictment of India’s...
Hoodas are far from a liability for Congress, but they approached the elections with a sectarian agenda rather than widening the cordon sanitaire...
The political shift from socially progressive to regressive, and vice versa, is often, although not always, accompanied by a change in economic...
The real reason economics has not been able to make a positive contribution to the real world is due to political co-option and gatekeeping by the...
It is easy to criticise Yechury and his contemporaries. But it is important to appreciate that some of them embraced politics in the hope of...
The ultimate economic wisdom in India is likely being lost in the cacophony of self-righteous arguments which are seeking gratification rather than...
Even though the fiscal implications are not exactly clear, the UPS is among the most important “reform” rollbacks in India’s history.
History is replete with instances where politicians thought that the only contradictions that matter are what they have solved but are then proven...
The urban poor, when they come to cities, hope to achieve basic sustenance on a regular income, which they cannot ensure in a village or a smaller...
Neither Hasina nor Buddhadeb saw what was coming because the political apparatus they were heading was more invested in virtualising the untenable...
SC judgment is likely to encourage politics which seeks sub-stratification of political loyalties in name of sub-stratification of affirmative...
Economic Survey was categorical in admitting that India will not enjoy the kind of global tailwinds available to countries such as China a couple...