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The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Crowd of BJP supporters during Union Home Minister Amit Shahs election campaign rally, in Bhojipura, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | Return of class in India's caste-obsessed politics

Almost all political reporting in the run-up to an election is focused on caste

1 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Amul and dairy co-ops: Milch cows get political

Why should perugu or thayyaru or mosaru be called dahi?

17 April 2023 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 57th All India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police, in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

There is no reason to believe that BJP governments, including that of Mr Modi, have been free of the taint of...

3 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

President Xis dual circulation plan, as part of Chinas 14th Five Year Plan (2021-25), the bursting of the real estate bubble and an economic slowdown have combined to put global firms on alert. (AP)

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Sanjaya Baru | As China bridges Gulf divide, can India draw right...

West Asian energy constitutes an important geo-economic dimension to China's growing stakes in West Asia.

20 March 2023 12:53 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Secession of the successful: Their passage out of India

Ajay Banga is the latest addition to the long list of overseas Indians, mostly citizens of their host countries, to have...

6 March 2023 12:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inaugural ceremony of Aero India 2023, in Bengaluru, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | If not 126, then 220 Modi deals China card

Prime Minister Modi deserves full marks for the manner in which he has deployed economic incentives in his foreign...

20 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

In February 2022 Nirmala Sitharaman had stepped forward to salvage the situation by giving up a key mantra of what economists refer to as neo-liberalism . (File Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The State in the economy and state of the economy

Returning to the 7.0 to 8.0 per cent growth path is the only way in which the next decade can hope to be dubbed as ...

6 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | Budget 2023: Capital strike subdues the animal spirits'

It has become a habit for most governments to make the annual Budget speech a statement of past achievements and grand...

23 Jan 2023 12:28 AM IST

Major American companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics are eyeing the Indian market now, which is projected to grow exponentially over the next decade. (Representational image: PTI File)

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Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It's like riding a roller coaster

The US has so many diasporas from nations that it has poor relations with.

9 Jan 2023 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the G20 Extraordinary Summit on Afghanistan, via video conferencing, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The Big Powers and the Global South in 2023

If 2022 was all about Big Power conflict, 2023 should be used to turn global attention to issues that concern developing...

26 Dec 2022 12:58 AM IST

The economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 on account of impact of COVID pandemic. (Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The world economy and us: Are we decoupled?

It is time the Union government offered an honest, realistic and objective assessment of where the economy is headed.

12 Dec 2022 1:35 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Global South can make G-20 much less of a G-2

India must set out an agenda of interest to the developing countries

28 Nov 2022 1:47 AM IST