Nilanjan Ghosh

Rather than having an ambition of $5 trillion economy that seems almost unattainable by 2024, it is now important that the next three years focus on the creation of better provisions of public goods and services like health.

The biggest concern of India with RCEP at this juncture is not merely the economic reasons, but more geopolitical: the existence of China.

Both — Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India — are great ideas, and are misinterpreted in due to vested interests, or due to lack of communication and lack of understanding among the public.

With a negative public sentiment about China prevailing in India, China, with delinquent antics, is virtually pushing itself to lose out on the buoyant and burgeoning Indian market. This will hit them hard.

More than one-third of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will be pulling down their shutters as a result of the present economic trough, despite the liquidity measures promoted by the FM.

As if Covid-19 was not enough, Amphan has damaged infrastructure, rendered many homeless, and imposed a cost on the West Bengal economy whose indelible impacts will be felt in the long-run.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s first tranche of announcements of the fiscal stimulus for economic recovery closely follows PM Modi's vision of making the economy self-reliant.

A new “more equal” world has to replace the old unequal world with a paradigm propagating equality from spatial and temporal dimensions.

The situation has created rigmarole in market clearance across commodity derivatives markets of the world.

A changing global economic order will make many nations focus on India as a preferred destination for investment over China.

With the Covid-19 pandemic likely to affect global developmental objectives at a broader scale. the impacts will be observed prominently in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Studies show women’s economic empowerment can help poverty reduction, and create a more educated next generation.

Water needs a multidisciplinary approach that exceeds the capacity of reductionist engineering and myopic neoclassical economics.

The renewed interest in the Bay is driven by opportunities of connectivity, trade and development.

Union Budget 2020-21 is not merely a statement of government expenditure and receipts, but pursues a holistic vision of well-being.

Clean water cannot be allowed to be the responsibility of one body alone. It has to be the collective responsibility of all government machinery.

Hydro-diplomacy should be based on scientific data and informed analysis, rather than amorphous jingoistic sentiments.

Water has entered the turf of a verbal war between political parties serving the purposes of egotistic claims, rather the serving the people's cause.

The divergent views of the Centre and the state of West Bengal have led to the Teesta river being subjected to 'conflictual federalism'.

Indians are probably getting too used to pollution!

Information and knowledge gaps are largely responsible for creating an environment of mistrust among riparians and the various stakeholders in the river systems.

The Indian growth story will be an organic, consumption-led narrative spurred by the service sector.

Amid one of the largest environmental protests ever, the commitments from some of the biggest emitters — the US, China, and India — are awfully inadequate.

The scheme was introduced for private vehicles and two-wheelers. The sensitivity of pollution levels are, however, far higher for commercial vehicles.

The Amazon fire is a reminder that unbridled development is not in consonance with ecological sustainability and, consequently, human well-being.

Is India competitive enough to be set ‘free’ in the Indo-Pacific?

Nature budgeting is the need of the hour. The Himalayas have subsidized the entire civilization and now, it’s payback time.

The idea of water governance should be based on demand management and adapting to the moods of nature, instead of trying to control it.

Karnataka’s decision to refuse to release Cauvery water, to protect its irrigated summer paddy, will have an adverse effect on the standing Kuruvai paddy in Tamil Nadu, intensifying this property dispute of sorts.

Rahul Gandhi’s ambitious Nyuntam Aay Yojana or NYAY would have been a great plan in utopian India. In the real world, it is just anyaay.