Column: The Post #COVID New normal demands new set of skills
December 27, 2020The need of the hour is massive re-skilling of the existing workforce of many organisations
Category: Economics and Society
Column: Govt must step out of its echo chamber & listen to ‘Jan ki Baat’
December 27, 2020Farmers from four North Indian states – Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh — are currently in Delhi, protesting against the new laws pushed through by the Government that promise to transform agriculture. While the BJP calls it reform, the opposition and farmers’ groups call it a death sentence.
Column: Breaking up Big Tech – The Way Ahead
December 27, 2020Fair Tax Mark, the organisation that certifies organisations on their good tax practises, estimates that in the decade between 2010 and 2019, the Silicon Six – Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix – paid $100 billion less than they should have.
Column: Hunger And Starvation In 21st Century India
December 27, 2020Right now, we have a twin problem of excess supply of foodgrain (flagged by the RBI), and an excess number of very hungry people. There seems to be something fundamentally flawed with a system that allows the pile-up of food at one end and ignores the hunger of almost 200 million people at the other.
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
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…