The political economy of demonetisation
Demonetisation was a brave policy to implement and risky. But then serious policy measures entail risk and India’s political culture is normally risk averse. As a result, it allows consequential missteps already More...
Demonetisation – A Dharmic Perspective
Demonetisation is the reneging by a government of its promissory undertaking in regard to currency. The recent scrapping of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes is not demonetisation because the government still promises More...
The poor in India will lead the Digital Revolution – here’s why
Popular articles about the poor in India, paint a dismal picture of ignorance, illiteracy and hopelessness. This language starts with the international media and percolates down to even local newspapers, which would More...
Effects of Demonetisation: A Brief review
Demonetisation has been the biggest economic measure that India has seen post-Independence. It has caused and will result in many social, political and economic effects. Some people criticised the move in the beginning More...
Demonetization: The Ultimate Weapon against Black economy
The black money is a much bigger problem than what appears to it. It provides a fertile ground for all the anti-social and anti-national activities like illicit drug menace, prostitution rackets, human trafficking, More...
Demonetization-The Major Reset In India
Through notification on November 8th, 2016, all currency notes of the denomination of INR 500 (approx USD7) and INR 1,000 (approx USD15) have been demonetized by Central Government of India. Those currency notes More...
Citizen Responsibility: Invoking the Sacred
My fellow Indians, Unless you are living on another planet you have all probably heard, read, watched most of the news and analyses there is about the recent bold step introduced by the Government of India led by More...
Five Reasons Why They Love Ishrat Jahan
On 15 June 2004, the Pranesh-Amjad-Zeeshan encounter took place. Pranesh Pillai (a.k.a. Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar perished at the hands of the police and inputs were received from the More...
Nehru Was Afraid, Modi Is Not-Foreign Policy Truths!
First Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is supposed to have built the foundations for the best foreign policy that India could ever have had. It can be argued that this is untrue. It is part of the propaganda that More...
Beyond Right and Left: Restoring India’s Dharmic School of Social Thought
India needs to return to its traditional dharmic approach to political thought in order to take the country out of the quagmire created by following western political ideologies contrary to its deeper civilizational More...