By Andy Mukherjee India has chosen an odd combination of strategies in its fight against the coronavirus: a harsh lockdown on economic activity and a
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View: How to ensure Indian exports survive the churning and pick up steam
By Chandrajit Banerjee The global spread of Covid-19 has brought about an unprecedented halt to activity in all major economies. WTO has forecast global trade
View: India is now the modern day Dhanvantari to the world
By Gajendra Singh Shekhawat It was at a time of the great samudra manthan or churning of the ocean, as the Puranas say, that Lord
View: COVID-19 crisis presents a 100-year chance to shake up debt and taxes
By Andy Mukherjee For 100 years now, capitalism has had a pro-leverage bias. Unlike dividends, which are paid only after the state has taken its
coronavirus impact: View: It’s time for humans to stop living voraciously
The chorus is growing. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s acting executive secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, many leading infectious diseases experts, and 241 conservation groups
coronavirus impact on businesses: View: Revving to start up after lockdown
By Ganapathy Venugopal As an early stage investor, my world is largely surrounded by startups. Many of these businesses serve as barometers for what is
multilateralism: View: For the post-coronavirus world, we will need to reinvent multilateralism
Who would have thought that an epidemic gone viral, tears and fears in a locked down world, clear skies and clean air would accompany us
View: India needs more than curve-flattening curbs
By Nilanjan Banik & Samik Basu India, especially its 120 million migrant workers, have been facing unprecedented hardship during an economic shutdown and nationwide lockdown
View: Health can be a way out of the middle-income trap for India
By Andy Mukherjee Even before the coronavirus, India was at a crossroads. At roughly $2,000 a year, per capita income in 2018 was half of
View: How India can restart the economy after lockdown
By Raghuram Rajan Economically speaking, India is faced today with perhaps its greatest emergency since Independence. The global financial crisis in 2008-09 was a massive