How Indian politicians realised that creating a more equal society was a bad idea and not conducive to winning elections

What should the next government do to keep India on the growth track? A lowdown from four experts on the state of the economy.

The government needs to get down to understanding what IS really causing MSME distress and then look at sops that target sectoral growth and prosperity.

Besides burdening state budgets and banks, loan waivers don't solve the farmer's root problem

The great advantage of a cess was that unlike tax revenues, it did not need to be shared with states.

The Bajajs are business royalty.

The government's decision to recapitalise the ailing public sector banks without first fixing the management problems is a bad idea.

Most steps advocated by governments and politicians are meant for catching votes without solving the real problems. To fix the farmers' problems, the government needs to take tough steps and go up against entrenched interests.

The Modi government has always had an uneasy relationship with digital marketplaces. The new regulations only show more evidences of its confused goals

The end of the year is the time when you make lots of resolutions for the New Year, which you invariably break, and lots of predictions as well - most of which turn out to be wrong.

The problems with SMEs, troubled power companies, and NBFCs have hardly been created by the RBI. And while the government would love to believe that a more reasonable (or pliable) central bank will solve all the problems, this is not going to happen.

Critics have already started saying that Shaktikanta Das is Modi's and Jaitley's man, and therefore will do exactly what they tell him to do.

Over the past six months, it had become apparent that the quiet Patel was increasingly at loggerheads with the Finance Ministry and, unexpectedly, he was sticking to his guns and refusing to be cowed by the Finance Ministry.

How well is the Indian economy doing? The government would like to say that everything is hunky dory.

Nobody knows what to do with the latest back series.

If anything, this data revision by the government, which shows that the growth during the UPA years is even lower than the growth in the past four years, is hard to reconcile for one reason -- the first UPA government witnessed tremendous economic tailwinds.

Getting access and then converting it to inclusion and adoption through appropriate products is the target.

Sixteen billion US dollars is a lot of money to pay to take control of an Indian company.

Digitisation of manufacturing is a reality that some have adjusted to quickly while others face challenges.

The B-school universe in India is very big - there are well over 300 institutes offering MBA degrees or PGDBM. But there is a strict pecking order among them.