Opinion

Demography Awaits Dividend: BRIC By Brick, India Built Growth But Not Jobs

Twenty-five years, five governments and several hundred investment summits later, demography is waiting for politics to propel the promise.

Public Assets, Private Capital: India's Next Reform Step

That gap between what India's sovereign assets are worth and what they currently earn is central to India's location in the low-middle income bracket.

Opinion | PM Modi's Austerity Appeal And The Bitter Economics Of 'Sacrifice'

In 2010, Athens was turned into a lab for austerity. The tidy logic was that Greece lived beyond its means and needed discipline for recovery. What followed was a decade of devastation - GDP contracted, hospitals ran out of medicines

Opinion | Lights, Camera, Sarkar

The neon-lit history of Tamil Nadu politics isn't written in ink; it is etched in celluloid and projected at 24 frames per second. The silver screen has never been just entertainment. It has been the primary incubator for political power for over 50 years. The celluloid screen is where a man's mythology is manufactured before it is tested at the ba...