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Opinion: PM Modi's Green New Deal Could Really Work - Here's Why

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Friday August 27, 2021

After making great strides in promoting renewable energy, India is once again being singled out as a global climate laggard.

Opinion: Third Wave Likely This Month, India Not As Ready As It Thinks

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday August 10, 2021

Memories of India's devastating second wave of Covid-19 are slowly receding. The pandemic has once again fallen out of the headlines; malls and mountain resorts are crowded with shoppers and tourists.

Opinion: Why Pegasus Scandal Is A Wake-Up Call For US

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday July 20, 2021

Of the 50,000 phone numbers that were, according to a consortium of investigative journalists, possible targets for surveillance using the Israeli company NSO Group Ltd.'s Pegasus spyware, apparently not one had a +1 prefix.

Opinion: The World Should Learn From India's COVID-19 Cataclysm- by Mihir Sharma

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday May 31, 2021

In cities at least, India's nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate below 2% for the first time in two months.

India Needs Modi To Work With Political Rivals Right Now

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday May 04, 2021

As anyone who has tried to invest in India can tell you, India's states are as distinct from each other as European countries.

Opinion: Everyone Is Battling The Virus - Everyone Except The Government

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Friday April 30, 2021

If you are lucky enough to be healthy in Covid-haunted Delhi, life feels strangely disconnected. Offline, there's an undeclared lockdown. The normally noisy city is silent except for the sound of birds.

Opinion: Even Without A Pandemic, Going Maskless In Delhi Can Kill You

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday March 29, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic hit India and, for me, the oddest thing is how healthy I've been. Like most but not all of the people I see on the streets, I have been masked up these past 12 months. I've washed my hands religiously and avoided crowds. As a result, for the first time in my life, I haven't caught a cold all year.

Opinion: India Can't Afford To Binge On Debt

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Thursday February 04, 2021

India's economy has suffered more than most from the pandemic and so have its people. The country has lost more than a year's worth of growth and perhaps a decade's progress in its efforts to reduce poverty. The economic contraction - the first in India since the 1970s - has put pressure on its government like so many others to respond.

Opinion: PM Modi Should Stand Firm On Farm Laws

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 26, 2021

India's agitating farmers show no signs of fading away. Angry cultivators have been camped on the doorstep of Delhi for weeks through north India's bitingly cold winter. They have shown a talent for staying in the headlines as well, with attention-grabbing stunts such as staging a tractor convoy to rival India's official Republic Day parade.

Opinion: Private Sector Should Be An Ally In India's Big Vaccine Push

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Tuesday January 05, 2021

The Indian state faces one of the world's most formidable challenges: rolling out a Covid-19 vaccination program for 1.3 billion people. To succeed, many things have to go right in a country that usually gets a lot wrong. The government would be wise to enlist the country's private sector in this gargantuan effort - and soon.

Opinion: Why Protesting Farmers Are Unable To Trust Government

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Thursday December 03, 2020

The third rail of Indian politics has always been agriculture. While the economy has been partly liberalized since opening up to the world in 1991, the process has largely bypassed the three-fifths of Indians who depend for their livelihoods, directly or indirectly, on farming.

Opinion: India Skipped China-Led Bloc But Can't Turn Away From Trade

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday November 16, 2020

After almost a decade of "negotiating with blood, sweat and tears," as Malaysia's trade minister put it, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was signed this weekend at the conclusion of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. Fifteen countries - all of ASEAN, alongside Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and China - will be part of this gi...

Opinion: What PM Modi's Approach To Economic Reforms Lacks

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Friday October 02, 2020

In recent weeks, India's government has shown unusual amounts of energy in pushing through long-awaited economic reforms. The last session of Parliament - cut short when several MPs tested positive for Covid-19 - was exceptionally productive. Two labor-law amendments were passed, as was a package of measures addressing the agriculturalsector.

Opinion: Why PM Modi Remains So Popular Despite Coronavirus Crisis

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday September 14, 2020

India's Covid-19 cases continue to climb, even as the economy tanks. China is pressing forward on the two countries' disputed Himalayan border, where dozens of Indian soldiers have been killed. Tax revenues have plummeted, state governments are unhappy and 21 million of India's rare salaried jobs vanished in the last few months. And yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi - ...

Opinion: Indian Negotiators Must Strike Before The US Vote

Mihir Sharma, Bloomberg | Monday August 31, 2020

America's elections provide a narrow window of opportunity for its trading partners. Across the world, negotiators will have seen a man from Maine given a prime spot at the Republican National Convention: Lobsterman Jason Joyce spokeabout how President Donald Trump had "brokered a deal to end European Union tariffs of 8% on Maine live lobsters and up to 20% on Maine l...

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