MONEY
| 3-minute read
Budget Afterthought: Big hug to the middle class
Budget 2019 was a chronicle of achievements, a roadmap for the future, envisaging the return of the NDA, garnished with pre-poll populism, and finally, some warmth for the tax payer.
MONEY
| 3-minute read
Interim budget 2019: Presumptions and probabilities
Last year's Budget focused on farmers and social welfare. It largely ignored the private sector and the middle class. Will this Interim Budget mind those gaps?
MONEY
| 4-minute read
How to make sense of the Indian economy: The petrol price mystery
To understand the core issue here, all you need to do is look at two points in time: March 2012, and the present.
MONEY
| 8-minute read
Why the current state of the Indian economy suggests it is time to go bearish
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, there isn't much to be excited about the state of the economy in the short to medium term.
MONEY
| 4-minute read
How digital lending can be a game-changer in post-demonetisation India
A syncretic marriage of traditional and new-age lenders should be the way forward.
VOICES
| 5-minute read
IIT-Kharagpur architecture graduate explains merits of learning Vastu Shastra
What is so outrageous about its principles being taught to students?
MONEY
| 7-minute read
How India can save itself from digital colonisation
We must adopt a policy of strategic protectionism.
MONEY
| 4-minute read