-The Indian Express Agrarian crisis is an opportunity, for the Government that assumes office after elections, to enact a law giving farmers the right to sell any quantity of their produce to anybody, anywhere and at any time. The German obsession with sound currency has been conditioned by the collective memory of the Great Hyperinflation of 1922-23, just as American intolerance to double-digit unemployment and stock market crashes is traceable to...

-Scroll.in Effects of demonetisation and GST continue to be felt across the country on the eve of the elections At three grimy market squares in India’s pink city of sandstone palaces, the fates of a former farming couple, a former factory owner, and a graduate illustrated how difficult it now is to find even a job of hard labour, as a general election looms in a country witnessing record unemployment. It had been...

-The Indian Express “The number of jobs created under the Mudra scheme will be released after the polls as the Expert Committee found anomalies in the methodology used by the Bureau in arriving at the findings,” sources said. The Labour Bureau’s survey on the number of jobs created under the Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency (Mudra) scheme will not be made public for another two months making this the third...

-The Indian Express Economic data raises questions about missed opportunities and expending of political capital by NDA Government. As India’s political parties switch to poll mode, economic data released in the past few days at the end of the NDA Government’s term paints a far from rosy picture. Industrial growth in January slowed down to 1.7 per cent compared to the 2.6 per cent growth in factory output in December last...

-The Indian Express Laws like Official Secrets Act conflate the interests of particular parties, Governments with the greater good. They must be contested. The greatest failing of Indian public life over the past 70 years is the manner in which the state and forms of Government have become identified with the life of the people. We have come to believe that state and society are the same thing and that pronouncements...