Why are foreign banks exiting India or scaling down operations?
Recently, the transition of Citibank’s retail business to Axis Bank was completed. Like Citi, several other foreign banks have shrunk operations in India or exited altogether. They have set the standa...
3 Elo 20246min
Private-sector job reservations based on domicile are a bad idea
Domicile-based job reservations in the private sector don’t work. They only raise the cost of compliance and force businesses out of the states that introduce such laws. Besides, courts have often sai...
26 Heinä 20248min
‘Elections have never been fought on electoral issues; it’s always about a personality.’
Over the past decade, Indian politics has seen systemic changes with the changing nature of the electorate, the expansion of political competition in one sense and its shrinking in the other, the use ...
23 Heinä 202432min
Why is India not generating enough jobs?
The unemployment rate was a worrying 9.2% in June. Never mind what the government says, unemployment is now at crisis proportions and most estimates say India will struggle to create enough jobs in th...
19 Heinä 20249min
Hathras tragedy turns focus on safety emergency planning at religious gatherings
The Hathras stampede, which claimed 121 lives has brought into focus again the lack of safety measures at religious gatherings. A study showed that between 2001 and 2014 more than 2,421 people died in...
12 Heinä 20248min
NEET disaster underscores all that’s wrong with India’s entrance exam system
The latest controversy over the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET, shows how broken India’s entrance exam system is. Paper leaks and corruption are common, calling into q...
5 Heinä 20249min
What lies beneath the tussle over Birsa Munda’s legacy?
Birsa Munda, the legendary tribal rebel who died more than 120 years ago, is at the center of a heated political battle. Sangh Parivar outfits are using his memory to co-opt Adivasi identities into th...
28 Kesä 202411min
‘$5.8 bn in impact investing last year, 40% growth over 3 years’
Impact investing, which aims to achieve positive social or environmental results alongside financial returns, is considered a big opportunity in India. Impact funds usually earn a market rate of retur...
25 Kesä 202432min
