Classified under topic heads
(with links): Economics - General, Development &
Policy, Indian Economy & Politics, West Bengal Economy & Politics, Misc, Coronavirus Crisis,
& Interviews
Please click here for all essays organised in chronological order
1. A pioneer of modern economics passes away, Hindustan Times, May 16, 2023.
2. A simple realistic solution to the paywall problem, (non-paywalled version), Hindustan Times, May 27, 2022.
3. Relentlessly pursuing growth can uproot the tree that bears us fruit, The Economic Times, December 23, 2020.
4. Vital additions to empirical research, The Hindu, October 18, 2019.
5. What Lies Behind Abhijit Banerjee’s Nobel, The Open Magazine, October 17, 2019.
6. Pricing Social Returns in Economic Growth, Business Standard, October 19, 2018.
7. Poverty and Inequality in a ‘Principles of Economics’ Textbook, (web version), Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol. 53, Issue No. 24, 16 Jun, 2018
8. With Thaler’s Nobel Win, Behavioural Economics Has Officially Made Its Way Into the Mainstream, The Wire, October 13, 2017.
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Development
1. A modified UBI policy is more feasible, The Hindu, October 18, 2024.
2. Electoral Bonds, Incumbency Advantage, and Concentration of Political Power, The India Forum, July 7, 2024.
3. Determining how many Indians are poor today, Ideas for India, May 29, 2024.
4. Debating inequalities in the backdrop of elections, Hindustan Times, April 27, 2024.
5. Poverty in India Over the Last Decade: Data, Debates, and Doubts, The India Forum, April 10, 2024.
6. India’s suboptimal use of its labour power, The Hindu, March 9, 2024.
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The
rise of the affluent is the real India growth story, Hindustan Times, March 1, 2024.
8. Quantity vs Quality: Long-term Trends in Job Creation in the Indian Labour Market, The India Forum, January 31, 2024.
9. Why Gig Work Matters, Business Standard, 7 August 2023.
10. The simmering debate over poverty rate, Mint, May 4, 2023.
11. Estimation of poverty in India, Introduction to an e-Symposium for Ideas for India, October 10, 2022.
12. Trends in Economic Inequality in India, The India Forum, (click here for pdf version), September 19, 2022.
13. Why people stay poor, in VoxEU.org, September 16, 2022.
14. Does India have an inequality problem? CEDA-Data Narratives, June 29, 2021.
15. India's Inequality Problem, The India Forum, July 2, 2021.
16. The real problem is of unequal opportunities, Forbes India, 12th Anniversary Special Issue, May 21, 2021.
17. The lack of mobility hinders the India story, Hindustan Times, October 9, 2020.
18. What Would Make India’s Growth Sustainable? The India Forum, August 13, 2020.
19. Not long-term solution to poverty but useful ‘first-aid’, NYAY e-Symposium, Ideas for India, May 1, 2019.
20. How the Congress can make the minimum income guarantee scheme a reality, in CNBCTV18.com, March 27, 2019.
21. Can Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income guarantee proposal work? Ideas for India, February 7, 2019, the original version was published in NDTV.com on January 30, 2019.
22. Make the debate fruitful, The Economic Times, December 6, 2018.
23. The Big Bank Theory - The Need to Move Beyond the Privatisation vs Nationalisation Debate, The Open Magazine, March 23, 2018.
24. Aadhaar is fine to stop some kinds of leakage and corruption. But it is no panacea, The Economic Times, January 23, 2018.
25. India needs to create greater economic opportunities for all, The Economic Times, October 9, 2017.
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32. 'Suit-boot' or 'Jhola'? That Debate's a Trap, in NDTV.com, July 20, 2015 (See longer version in the Ideas for India).
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35. Empower, Don't Patronise the Farmer, The Indian Express, March 30, 2015 (See longer version in the Ideas for India).
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37. Response to the Bhagwati-Panagariya rejoinder on MNREGA, Ideas for India, December 14, 2014 (See shorter version in The Times of India).
38. Wrong Numbers: Attack on NREGA is Misleading, Times of India, November 9, 2014. Click here for a pdf version. (Slightly longer version in Ideas for India).
39. India
has more than its fair share of super-rich and it isn’t a good thing (with
Debraj Ray), The Economic
Times, Setember 4, 2014. Click here
for the longer Ideas for India
version.
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1. An assessment of policy performance under the current regime, Ideas for India, February 1, 2021.
2. FM had a tough task, but Budget has failed to clear the smell test, (pdf version), The Times of India, February 2, 2020
3. With a huge informal economy, government should increase spending, not worry about deficit, The Indian Express, January 22, 2020 (coverage in Financial Express).
4. $5 Trillion Economy By 2024? Magic Realism at Play Given Current Low, in NDTV.com, January 10, 2020.
5. No Disguising The Economic Slowdown Now, in NDTV.com, October 7, 2019.
6. Modinomics - What He Promised And What We Got, in NDTV.com, March 26, 2019.
7. Modi's five years prove that sustained economic growth is incompatible with toxic Hindutva politics, in Scroll.in, March 24, 2019.
8. The Mirage of Modinomics, (with Udayan Mukherjee), The India Forum, March 8, 2019.
9. Economic Growth under Modi and UPA I and II, in NDTV.com, August 30, 2018
10. Did
India Grow Slower than the World when the Nehru-Gandhis were in power? in NDTV.com,
March 13, 2018.
11. Commanding Heights Again, The Open Magazine, February 9, 2018.
12. Budget
Signals No Achhe Din For Those Looking For Jobs, in NDTV.com,
February 2, 2018.
13. Gujarat
Poll Results Cap BJP's 2014 Hangover, Start New Chapter in Indian Politics,
CNN-IBN, December 27, 2017.
14. Why So
Many Economists Are Disillusioned With the ‘Gujarat Model’? (with Sanchari
Roy), The Wire,
November 29, 2017
15. When
Gujarat Model Fails, Bring In "Padmavati" in NDTV.com, November 24, 2017.
16. Gujarat’s
growth rate of income stayed the same before and after Modi, The Print, November 9, 2017
17. Gujarat
model: The gleam of state’s high growth numbers hides dark reality of poverty,
inequality, in Scroll.in, October
25, 2017.
18. Modinomics has turned into Muddlenomics, in NDTV.com,
September 27, 2017.
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27. Notes
Ban Beats Holograms as Modi's Campaign Gold, in NDTV.com, November 22, 2016.
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29. Modi
Government Presented A UPA 3 Budget in NDTV.com,
March 3, 2016.
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32. From
‘Mess in India’ to ‘Made in India’ as a global brand?, The
Economic Times, October 13, 2014. Click here
for the longer Ideas
for India version.
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West Bengal –
Economy & Politics
1. Crime stats miss plight of West Bengal women, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2024.
2. 2021 West Bengal Assembly election: Did the Covid-19 surge matter? Ideas for India, May 12, 2021.
3. West Bengal’s economic performance relative to India over the last three decades, Ideas for India, May 1, 2021.
4. The Big Numbers That Could Decide Whether Mamata Returns, in NDTV.com, April 28, 2021.
5. The story of Bengal’s economy, Hindustan Times, April 15, 2021
6. West Bengal: The Dilemma That Left-Leaning Voters Are Facing in This Election, The Wire, April 3, 2021.
7. No
hope left? Interpreting the West Bengal election results, in NDTV.com, May 24, 2016.
8. Spare
Some Change: Mamata Hasn't Delivered Much For Bengal in NDTV.com, April 19, 2016.
9. The Chit fund crisis: Should not put all financial intermediaries in the same bracket, (with Abhijit V. Banerjee), Ideas for India, May 3, 2013
10. Anger in the Wake of Aila (with Sreyashi Dastidar), Financial
Express, New Delhi, June 11, 2009.
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1. Two Pieces on Timir and Other Poems by Sankha Ghosh - A Tribute, The Space Ink, April 23, 2021.
2. Remembering My Grandfather – Manish Ghatak, The Space Ink, February 15, 2021.
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4. My Most Unforgettable Teacher, (pdf version) Reader's Digest, Indian Edition, September 17, 2017.
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`Meghnad
Badh Rahasya’ Evokes Memories of a Movement That
Continues to Haunt Bengal’s Imagination, (with Manishita Dass), The Wire, September 5,
2017.
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7. Media fumbles as NOTA wins US elections with 42% evading polls, Business Standard, 16 November 2016.
8. The Trump Conundrum, The Open Magazine, Web Exclusive, 2 November 2016
9. Brexit suggests focusing on trade and inequality may not be antithetical, The Economic Times, June 28, 2016.
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12. In an Imperfect World (with Sugata Marjit), The Telegraph, Calcutta, June 29, 2002.
13. Big Boom Theory (with Parikshit Ghosh), The Telegraph, Calcutta, June 4, 1999.
1. How has Covid-19 affected India’s economy? Economics Observatory, June 30, 2021. (Reprinted in Scroll.in, July 9, 2021.)
2. India’s true self-reliant entrepreneurs, Hindustan Times, March 24, 2021.
3. So How Bad Is India's Economic Crisis? Brace Yourself, in NDTV.com, September 02, 2020.
4. Can India Recover? (pdf version), Interview in India Today, September 7, 2020.
5. Comparing Rishi Sunak's Plan For UK To India's Steps, in NDTV.com, July 20, 2020.
6. We Threw Our Workers under the Bus, Reader's Digest, Indian Edition, July 2020.
7. A blueprint to protect labour rights without constraining capital, Hindustan Times, July 4, 2020.
8. State governments can be better armed financially to fight Covid-19 by issuing public health bonds, The Economic Times, June 5, 2020.
9. How to reorganise the World Health Organization – and how to finance it, in LSE Business Review, June 5, 2020.
10. The World Health Organization: A GRID for reform, in VoxEU.org, May 30, 2020.
11. Will it work? (pdf version), Interview in India Today, May 23, 2020.
12. Migrants Certainly Forced into Atmanirbhar Abhiyan, in NDTV.com, May 19, 2020.
13. The indispensability of labour in reviving India’s economic engine, Hindustan Times, May 8, 2020.
14. The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and How to Resolve Them, The India Forum, April 24, 2020.
15. Step up action to ease poverty amid this crisis, Evening Standard, April 21, 2020.
16. The World Has a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here’s How to Solve It. The New York Times, April 20, 2020.
17. Coronavirus Will Upend the 'Profits Over People' Mantra of Globalisation, The Wire, April 4, 2020.
18. 3 Points of Concern On Government's Much-Needed Economic Package, in NDTV.com, March 28, 2020.
19. Coronavirus: How will it change us? Podcast of panel discussion, BBC – The Real Story, March 27, 2020.
20. The crumbling of India’s economy, Hindustan Times, March 24, 2020.
1. Choosing Economics as a Subject, Unravel Economics, October 16, 2020.
2. The Delivery Deficit, (pdf version), Interview in India Today, February 17, 2020.
3. An idea with dual impact, an interview for The Telegraph on the co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize, Abhijit Banerjee, October 16, 2019.
4. A revival roadmap, Interview in India Today (pdf version), September 6, 2019.
5. The price of NYAY, Interview in India Today (pdf version), March, 2019.
6. Walking The Fiscal Tightrope, (pdf version), Interview in India Today, February 8, 2019.
7. On Shaky Ground, (pdf version), Interview as part of cover story on India's growth slowdown in India Today, October 19, 2018.
8. Show Me the Black Money, (pdf version), Interview as part of cover story on demonetisation in India Today, September 08, 2018.
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10. At the moment, the GDP growth is at a four-year low, Interview in The National Herald, September 17, 2018.
11. Stormy Times but Stay Optimistic: An Interview with Suman Ghosh, in The Telegraph, September 03, 2018.
12.
Ceteris
Paribus, Interview at The
Economie, Netherlands, September 22,
2014.
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