The Niti Aayog which replaced the decades-old Planning Commission with much fanfare in 2014 appears to have already outlived its usefulness to the states, who now want a new institutional arrangement ...

Prescience is supposed to be a good thing. But its results can be unexpected. India’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government seems to have foreseen that the Covid-19 pandemic will continue till 2...

The last few months have been the most challenging for India as it has faced a multitude of challenges such as Covid-19, earthquakes, cyclones, a locust attack, heat wave, lightning deaths and floods....

It is not a great time to think of economics. The Covid-19 crisis has no precedent in our lifetime. The last pandemic was the influenza epidemic in 1918; the British rulers handled it so incompetently...

I wrote on New Year’s Day about Arvind Subramanian — the chief economic adviser who would barge into Arun Jaitley’s room and shower him with bright policy ideas, only to be politely listened to ...

Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that she would not attend the Niti Aayog meeting he has convened on June 15, saying participation would be “fruitless” since the bod...

The recently released Niti Aayog strategy document reads very much like the ‘approach papers’ and other ‘plan documents’ that were the staple of the erstwhile Planning Commission. There is men...

Fed up with the shrill sermons of its deputy chairman, which he suffered as chief minister of Gujarat, the prime minister had said that he would abolish the Planning Commission. He kept his promise. B...

What would you think of a doctor who can't read the pulse? Or has outsourced the routine BP check? And yet here we are once again in a situation when an elected leader, a grassroots one at that, feels...