English Opeds

1. Hiding in labour data, a tale of economic distress, Hindustan Times, January 22, 2025. 

2. A modified UBI policy is more feasible, The Hindu, October 18, 2024. 

3. Crime stats miss plight of West Bengal women, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2024. 

4. Debating inequalities in the backdrop of elections, Hindustan Times, April 27, 2024. 

5. The rise of the affluent is the real India growth story, Hindustan Times, March 1, 2024. 

6. India's suboptimal use of its labour power, The Hindu, March 9, 2024. 

7. Why Gig Work Matters, Business Standard, August 7, 2023. 

8. A pioneer of modern economics passes away, Hindustan Times, May 16, 2023. 

9. The simmering debate over poverty rate, Mint, May 4, 2023. 

10. Estimation of poverty in India, Ideas for India, October 10, 2022. 

11. A simple realistic solution to the paywall problem, Hindustan Times, May 27, 2022. 

12. Does India have an inequality problem? CEDA-Data Narratives, June 29, 2021. 

13. The Big Numbers That Could Decide Whether Mamata Returns, NDTV.com, April 28, 2021. 

14. The story of Bengal's economy, Hindustan Times, April 15, 2021. 

15. West Bengal: The Dilemma That Left-Leaning Voters Are Facing in This Election, The Wire, April 3, 2021. 

16. India's true self-reliant entrepreneurs, Hindustan Times, March 24, 2021. 

17. Relentlessly pursuing growth can uproot the tree that bears us fruit, The Economic Times, December 23, 2020. 

18. An assessment of policy performance under the current regime, Ideas for India, February 1, 2021. 

19. The lack of mobility hinders the India story, Hindustan Times, October 9, 2020. 

20. So How Bad Is India's Economic Crisis? Brace Yourself, NDTV.com, September 2, 2020. 

21. Comparing Rishi Sunak's Plan For UK To India's Steps, NDTV.com, July 20, 2020. 

22. We Threw Our Workers under the Bus, Reader's Digest, Indian Edition, July 2020. 

23. A blueprint to protect labour rights without constraining capital, Hindustan Times, July 4, 2020. 

24. State governments can be better armed financially to fight Covid-19 by issuing public health bonds, The Economic Times, June 5, 2020. 

25. Migrants Certainly Forced into Atmanirbhar Abhiyan, NDTV.com, May 19, 2020. 

26. The indispensability of labour in reviving India's economic engine, Hindustan Times, May 8, 2020. 

27. Step up action to ease poverty amid this crisis, Evening Standard, April 21, 2020. 

28. The World Has a $2.5 Trillion Problem. Here's How to Solve It, The New York Times, April 20, 2020. 

29. Coronavirus Will Upend the 'Profits Over People' Mantra of Globalisation, The Wire, April 4, 2020. 

30. 3 Points of Concern On Government's Much-Needed Economic Package, NDTV.com, March 28, 2020. 

31. The crumbling of India's economy, Hindustan Times, March 24, 2020. 

32. FM had a tough task, but Budget has failed to clear the smell test, The Times of India, February 2, 2020. 

33. With a huge informal economy, government should increase spending, not worry about deficit, The Indian Express, January 22, 2020. 

34. $5 Trillion Economy By 2024? Magic Realism At Play Given Current Low, NDTV.com, January 10, 2020. 

35. Vital additions to empirical research, The Hindu, October 18, 2019. 

36. No Disguising The Economic Slowdown Now, NDTV.com, October 7, 2019. 

37. Why Do We Insist on Debating Politics With Our Friends and Family, The Wire, May 22, 2019. 

38. Not long-term solution to poverty but useful 'first-aid', Ideas for India, May 1, 2019. 

39. How the Congress can make the minimum income guarantee scheme a reality, CNBCTV18.com, March 27, 2019. 

40. Modinomics - What He Promised and What We Got, NDTV.com, March 26, 2019. 

41. Can Rahul Gandhi's minimum income guarantee proposal work? Ideas for India, February 7, 2019. 

42. Make the debate fruitful, The Economic Times, December 6, 2018. 

43. Pricing Social Returns in Economic Growth, Business Standard, October 19, 2018. 

44. Economic Growth under Modi and UPA I and II, NDTV.com, August 30, 2018. 

45. Did India Grow Slower than the World when the Nehru-Gandhis were in power? NDTV.com, March 13, 2018. 

46. Budget Signals No Achhe Din For Those Looking For Jobs, NDTV.com, February 2, 2018. 

47. Aadhaar is fine to stop some kinds of leakage and corruption. But it is no panacea, The Economic Times, January 23, 2018. 

48. Gujarat Poll Results Cap BJP's 2014 Hangover, Start New Chapter in Indian Politics, CNN-IBN, December 27, 2017. 

49. Why So Many Economists Are Disillusioned With the 'Gujarat Model' (with Sanchari Roy), The Wire, November 29, 2017. 

50. When Gujarat Model Fails, Bring In "Padmavati", NDTV.com, November 24, 2017. 

51. Gujarat's growth rate of income stayed the same before and after Modi, The Print, November 9, 2017. 

52. With Thaler's Nobel Win, Behavioural Economics Has Officially Made Its Way Into the Mainstream, The Wire, October 13, 2017. 

53. India needs to create greater economic opportunities for all, The Economic Times, October 9, 2017. 

54. Review Of Jean Dreze's Book, Jholawala Economics For Everyone, NDTV.com, October 3, 2017. 

55. Modinomics has turned into Muddlenomics, NDTV.com, September 27, 2017. 

56. Please, Let's Call A Lynching A Lynching, NDTV.com, July 5, 2017. 

57. IT Lay-Offs Reveal The Dangers That Lie Beneath, NDTV.com, May 18, 2017. 

58. A Universal Basic Income Scheme for India? FICCI Economy Watch, April 2017. 

59. Demonetisation Was Bad Economics But as an Act of Vigilantism it Served Modi Well Politically, The Wire, March 13, 2017. 

60. What New Spend on MGNREGA Exposes About Notes Ban, NDTV.com, February 1, 2017. 

61. Economists against demonetisation - Firing cannonballs to kill mosquitoes, The Tribune, December 5, 2016. 

62. Notes Ban Beats Holograms as Modi's Campaign Gold, NDTV.com, November 22, 2016. 

63. Media fumbles as NOTA wins US elections with 42% evading polls, Business Standard, November 16, 2016. 

64. "Mann Ki Baat" Or "Ban Ki Baat"? Government Must Back Off, NDTV.com, August 31, 2016. 

65. Is India ready for a universal basic income scheme? NDTV.com, August 27, 2016. 

66. The price of basic income, The Indian Express, June 29, 2016. 

67. Brexit suggests focusing on trade and inequality may not be antithetical, The Economic Times, June 28, 2016. 

68. Congrats, Britain, you've likely voted for a recession, NDTV.com, June 25, 2016. 

69. Fixit, Don't Brexit, NDTV.com, June 22, 2016. 

70. No hope left? Interpreting the West Bengal election results, NDTV.com, May 24, 2016. 

71. Spare Some Change: Mamata Hasn't Delivered Much For Bengal, NDTV.com, April 19, 2016. 

72. Modi Government Presented A UPA 3 Budget, NDTV.com, March 3, 2016. 

73. How Brand Nitish Defeated Brand Modi, NDTV.com, November 9, 2015. 

74. Reservation Policy in India and Its Discontents, NDTV.com, October 11, 2015. 

75. Modi Government's Complacency Hit By Reality (with Parikshit Ghosh), NDTV.com, August 11, 2015. 

76. 'Suit-boot' or 'Jhola'? That Debate's a Trap, NDTV.com, July 20, 2015. 

77. Yes, a Land Acquisition Act Can Address Both Justice and Prosperity (with Parikshit Ghosh), The Wire, June 1, 2015. 

78. Calling Farmer Suicides a 'Tragedy' Fails India, NDTV.com, May 2, 2015. 

79. Empower, Don't Patronise the Farmer, The Indian Express, March 30, 2015. 

80. The Land Acquisition Ordinance (with Parikshit Ghosh), eSocialSciences.Org, February 2015. 

81. From 'Mess in India' to 'Made in India' as a global brand? The Economic Times, October 13, 2014. 

82. India needs more than Narendra Modi's trickle-down model, The Guardian, July 14, 2014. 

83. Winnowing fact from rhetoric: A look at what figures tell of UPA's regime (with Parikshit Ghosh & Ashok Kotwal), Economic Times, April 15, 2014. 

84. Growth is Not the Victim of the UPA, it is the Other Way Round (with Parikshit Ghosh), Hindustan Times, April 3, 2014. 

85. Gujarat Model of Development and Other Growth Stories (with Sanchari Roy), DNA, March 31, 2014. 

86. Modinomics: do Narendra Modi's economic claims add up? (with Sanchari Roy), The Guardian, March 13, 2014. 

87. Harvard, Hard Work, and Hard Facts, Economic Times, February 23, 2014. 

88. Reforming India's Land Policy (with Parikshit Ghosh and Dilip Mookherjee), Yojana, November 2013. 

89. The Land Acquisition Bill is Deeply Flawed (with Parikshit Ghosh), Ideas for India, October 23, 2013. 

90. The Chit fund crisis: Should not put all financial intermediaries in the same bracket (with Abhijit V. Banerjee), Ideas for India, May 3, 2013. 

91. Developing a land acquisition policy for India (with Dilip Mookherjee), Mint, September 5, 2012. 

92. Land acquisition: Is there a way out? (with Parikshit Ghosh), Ideas for India, July 16, 2012. 

93. Land on One's Square Feet, Hindustan Times, September 21, 2011. 

94. What Crisis Has Taught Economics, Financial Express, January 9, 2010. 

95. Buying Land and Selling Kidneys, Financial Express, November 9 & 16, 2009. 

96. No Way Out of this Plot (with Sanjay Banerji), Financial Express, September 30, 2009. 

97. Small is Smart, Financial Express, August 24, 2009. 

98. Anger in the Wake of Aila (with Sreyashi Dastidar), Financial Express, June 11, 2009. 

99. Poor Man's Capitalism, Financial Express, March 23, 2009.

100. Barefoot Entrepreneurs? Financial Express, January 12, 2009. 

101. Where is Credit Due? Financial Express, October 27, 2008. 

102. In an Imperfect World (with Sugata Marjit), The Telegraph, June 29, 2002. 

103. Bengal's Economic Survival (with A.V. Banerjee et al), The Telegraph, May 13, 2001. 

104. Big Boom Theory (with Parikshit Ghosh), The Telegraph, June 4, 1999.