Column: Universal Basic Income – the time is now
December 27, 2020The Indian economy needs a rapid infusion of disposable income in the hands of individual households to get out of the mess
Category: Economics and Society
Column: Strangulating the Economic Dreams of Millions
December 27, 2020Covid has given the Government a fig leaf to cover up its disastrous handling of the economy
Column: The Clash of Competing Rights
December 27, 2020this appeared in the FPJ The state of Idaho in the United States of America claims to fame is that it produces over a third of all the potatoes produce in the country. A few months ago, this sleepy little state was…
Column: #COVID and the Educational Digital Divide
December 27, 2020This appeared in the FPJ There still seems no end in sight to the COVID crisis. There is the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, but across the world scientists have raised a red flag at the rush to hit the market at the…
Column: #COVID and the Disruption of Organised Religion
December 26, 2020This appeared in the FPJ The first lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID was over a 100 days ago. For many of us, our lives have not yet got back to normal. As countries come out of lockdown, many states, many…
Column: #COVID and the need to reimagine a more equal world order.
December 26, 2020This column appeared in the FPJ “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” said the economist Milton Friedman. Right now, the…
Insurance for your health in uncertain times
July 26, 2020It feels strange to give financial advice, considering that for a large part for my early and mid-career life, I spent money like it was going out of fashion. I invested in the usual LICs and PPFs because I had to, but I don’t think I had a single…
Reflections on Why More Women Don’t Get to the C-Suite: A View from China – why HBR shouldn’t have retracted
July 4, 2020This morning HBR retracted a story on why women in China don’t rise up to the CXO level. In consultation with the author, we have decided to remove the text of this article from HBR.org. We did not properly convey the cultural…
Post-COVID Job Market – Impact of Losing a Job….
June 9, 2020.. can be devestating. There is a bloodbath in the post-COVID job market, and it is sparing no one. Senior management, middle management, fresh recruits, support staff, housekeeping, all are impacted – and there is no hope in sight. A few days…
COVID 19: Did we lockdown too soon, and ease the lockdown too soon?
June 7, 2020As India eases the COVID lockdown, this is what is terrifying. The only curve that has flattened seems to be that of the economy. The cases of infection are rising. And, then you see a tweet like this from a CM of…