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From Russia With Love… Putin’s Fog of War

The crux of the conflict is located in Vladimir Putin’s vision of Russia not as it is but as he sees it. The dare has jolted the West out…

Feb 20, 2022

From Russia With Love… Putin’s Fog of War

Feb 20, 2022

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Archaic Laws Criminalise Entrepreneurs

Three decades Licence Raj was dismantled, Inspector Raj persists . Businesses must navigate 26,134 compliances hosting the threat of…

Feb 13, 2022

Archaic Laws Criminalise Entrepreneurs

Feb 13, 2022

Fight House Fallout: Peace Trips on Egos

Once offered a ride Zelenskyy is asked to take a hike. Trump whisperers say make his ego your ally. Macron and Starmer showed how…

Mar 2

Fight House Fallout: Peace Trips on Egos

Mar 2

Market Miasma: Growth Bubbles and Bearish Ides

Everything that fomented hubris is haunted by doubts and every argument is daunted by geopolitics. Nifty futures are in the red, Europe is…

Feb 23

Market Miasma: Growth Bubbles and Bearish Ides

Feb 23

Trumpistan-Global Chaos in Slow Motion

The chaos unleashed by #Trump is unravelling in slow-motion. The collision of notions and nuances, with attendant twists and turns, have…

Feb 16

Trumpistan-Global Chaos in Slow Motion

Feb 16

Trump’s Torrid Tariff Twists and Turns

Divining the mind of DJT is a reality show roiling regimes and markets. Trump has yo-yoed from targeted 60 % tariffs to universal tariffs…

Feb 9

Trump’s Torrid Tariff Twists and Turns

Feb 9

Budget Goes Big, Growth Hinges on Hope

Budget 2025–26 has “gone big”, and pinned its hopes on the private sector with repeated mentions of the middle class to boost growth…

Feb 3

Budget Goes Big, Growth Hinges on Hope

Feb 3

DOGE for India: Been There, Dodged That!

There is much chatter about a DOGE for India. Many Indians have come to subscribe to the Reaganesque thesis — government is not the…

Jan 26

DOGE for India: Been There, Dodged That!

Jan 26

India’s Middle Class Stranded in a Political Muddle

It is that time of the year when the taxpaying middle class hopes the promised dawn will arrive. The taxpaying middle class believes it…

Jan 19

India’s Middle Class Stranded in a Political Muddle

Jan 19

Fix Problems for Growth: Ideas for Budget 2025

Growth has slid to 6.4% as public investment is lower, industrial growth poorer and consumption is slower. There is much lather on ways to…

Jan 12

Fix Problems for Growth: Ideas for Budget 2025

Jan 12

Indian Economy: Betwixt Questions & Half Answers

Its the Budget Season.How is India doing? The reality is wedged between questions MPs ask and the response of the government. In December…

Jan 5

Indian Economy: Betwixt Questions & Half Answers

Jan 5

2025: A Year That Defies Predictions

Trump’s victory has upended formulaic two-by-two charting and SWOT analysis. His rule with social media posts approach renders uncertainty…

Dec 29, 2024

2025: A Year That Defies Predictions

Dec 29, 2024

Taxpayer Money Wasted, Public Issues Adjourned

It is estimated that running a parliament session costs Rs 2.5 lakh per minute. The nation is paying a greater price in the neglect of…

Dec 22, 2024

Taxpayer Money Wasted, Public Issues Adjourned

Dec 22, 2024

Trump Effect: The Power of Noun and Verb

The inauguration of the 47th US president is more than a month away. Yet, for all intents and purposes, Trump is in power. Like in…

Dec 15, 2024

Trump Effect: The Power of Noun and Verb

Dec 15, 2024

GST Rate Changes: Consult the Public

The ‘proposed’ rate hikes triggered public anger. The outrage signals need for transparency and wider consultation with stakeholders. Is…

Dec 8, 2024

GST Rate Changes: Consult the Public

Dec 8, 2024

At the Root of Slowdown: It’s Politics, Stupid

The villain of the slowdown is poor governance. Government expenditure is lower. Private sector capex is slower even as companies pile up…

Dec 1, 2024

At the Root of Slowdown: It’s Politics, Stupid

Dec 1, 2024

Maha Mandate: Sops Success and Surge of Populism

The verdict in Maharashtra has stunned the opposition and left eyebrows raised. The mandate arrives with costs. The expansion of sops…

Nov 24, 2024

Maha Mandate: Sops Success and Surge of Populism

Nov 24, 2024

Maha Polls — Live Exchange of Futures and Options

Maharashtra matters beyond the parameters of Lok Sabha seats and size of GDP. It is the hub of soft power, hard cash and political venture…

Nov 17, 2024

Maha Polls — Live Exchange of Futures and Options

Nov 17, 2024

Here We Go Again — Faustian Fracas on Freebies

The freebies debate made a comeback this week. Fact is no party is innocent in the race to assemble a coalition of beneficiaries to win…

Nov 3, 2024

Here We Go Again — Faustian Fracas on Freebies

Nov 3, 2024

Trump Triggers Trade-offs in Geopolitics

This week India and China met to talk peace. What caused the change in China’s approach with India? The state of China’s economy and the…

Oct 27, 2024

Trump Triggers Trade-offs in Geopolitics

Oct 27, 2024

Shankkar Aiyar

Shankkar Aiyar

Journalist-Analyst. Author of ‘Accidental India, ‘Áadhaar: A Biometric History’ and ‘The Gated Republic’. Studying how politics rules the economics of people!

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