The Politics of Budget

Everyone agrees that the budget is a political exercise, albeit couched in economic and financial terms. It touches the lives of virtually the entire population. Therefore, its impact is far reaching and necessarily takes on political overtones. It is often used to serve immediate partisan interests as for example in 2008, when the then finance…

Grads with grades that go nowhere

The trouble plaguing Young India today is that its schools and colleges put them through the wheels but leave them without usable skills. This has to change India has been among the fastest growing economies in the world. World Bank estimated that in the 1960s, approximately 45 percent of Indians lived below the poverty line.…