My latest Mint column interrogates the analogy of PM Narendra Modi with the Peronist former President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-narendra-modi-the-peronist-prime-minister-of-india-1549809864395.html

I speak to the BBC about the Congress proposal for a minimum income guarantee for the poor.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47038421

My latest Mint column argues that coalition governments may not do much good but they could do much less harm than a strong single party majority.

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-don-t-despair-at-the-prospect-of-a-coalition-govt-1548610785603.html

Rupa Subramanya's debut piece in The Washington Post dissents the Modi governments economic policy record and finds it sorely lacking in sound economics and replete with voodoo economics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/15/modi-has-failed-reform-indias-economy-populist-tricks-are-all-he-has-left/?

My research on convergence among Indian states, joint with Praveen Chakravarty, is cited in the Harvard Economics Review.

http://harvardecon.org/?p=3818

My latest Mint column (January 14, 2019) argues the case for why the RBI needs de jure independence.

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/3eCw86Zi0I5MkVDzL4mW7N/Opinion--Why-the-Reserve-Bank-of-India-needs-de-jure-indepe.html

The Faustian bargain we have struck with "godless" secularism -- my latest Mint column (31 December 2018).

My latest Mint column may be found here:

https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/N59ADQI3Y0EUOtU9FU4EYK/Opinion-The-Faustian-bargain-we-have-struck-with-godless-s.html

A fuller version of the essay may be fond here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/59zr7ccqiqwnzns/Faustian%20bargains.pdf?dl=0