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It is fair to conclude that in a democracy all policy is politics. Ergo, all policy interventions should also be seen through the prism of politics. In this podcast, Anil Padmanabhan will ex...

In the run-up to Diwali this year the Delhi government banned sale and bursting of firecrackers. But nothing really changed. Begging the lar...

This week the Air Quality Index in Delhi and its vicinity began to rapidly deteriorate. Setting in motion the annual blame game. In this epi...

The covid-19 pandemic has ravaged the Indian economy. Less discussed is the economic scarring this has caused to those at the bottom of the...

The world economy is projected to contract by 4.4%. This recession is unprecedented and risks reversing the hard-won gains against poverty b...

India may be winning the battle against the covid-19 pandemic. It needs to worry about the cure: tackling the prevailing NCD epidemic. If no...

Over the weekend, first the Reserve Bank of India and later the finance ministry swung into action. The big bet is that together they stand...

After a long time, the Indian economy had a run of good news. Suggesting things are on the mend. But it begs the obvious question: Does one...

The relationship between the centre and states is plumbing new lows. Testing India’s federal polity as it were. Will it derail the much need...

The union government’s decision to legislate second-generation reforms of the farm sector has run into a political storm. This episode looks...

India’s problem with China along the Line of Actual Control is not going away. Despite the recent move to declare a truce, both sides are ye...

Last week the union government did the unthinkable. It rolled out a plan to reform the Indian bureaucracy. Dubbed as Mission Karmayogi, it p...

The Good and Service Tax or GST was developed on the idea of a new federal polity. Defined by the ideology of cooperative federalism. Three...

Almost everyone believes in India’s potential. But its inability to eliminate the myriad social and economic barriers has been its undoing....

Next year India will celebrate its 75th year of Independence. A significant moment. The big question is what will India look like 75 years l...

The Indian economy too has been devastated by the economic crisis induced by the COVID pandemic. Initially, the priority was on saving. Now...

The Union government unveiled the long-awaited National Education Policy last week. Very unlike a normal government policy document, it lays...

Most indicators suggest that the Indian economy may have just overcome its worst moments. More importantly it is drawing the right kind of a...

Increasingly tough questions are being posed to the tech majors on their exploitation of personal data of millions of users. India is unique...

The big picture is that India is doing great on ease of doing business. None other than the World Bank says so. But the ground reality is th...

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a mindset reset. Maybe it's time to do the same with public policy spending to align it with the new priori...

The national mood in India favors decoupling with China. Not only will the process not be easy, but it will also come at a cost. So India ha...

The bloody face-off along the LAC is part of a pattern by China to bend the neighbourhood to its will. It risks an exhausting low-intensity...

How do you catch people before they fall back in poverty? In this episode of Mint Capital Calculus, Anil Padmanabhan speaks to Anirudh Krish...

In this episode of Mint Capital Calculus, Anil Padmanabhan spoke to Himanshu, Associate Professor, JNU about legislative moves taken by the...