R. Jagannathan in Firstpost picks up on the blog that Rupa Subramanya and I wrote recently fisking the Geruso-Spears study on religion, toilets, and mortality.

http://www.firstpost.com/living/indias-open-defecation-crisis-why-bring-manusmriti-into-this-1634347.html

Rupa Subramanya and I analyze new, much-publicized research which relates religion, open defecation, and infant/child mortality.

http://rupasubramanya.blogspot.in/2014/07/is-it-religion-which-makes-hindus.html

My take from Santa Colomba Conference 2014 revisits the "Triffin paradox" in the context of the Fed's zero-interest policy and the flows of "hot money" into emerging economies.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/PYlOLpqmSTcMFc5qhLB8TP/Illusions-bred-by-a-reserve-currency.html

Here, I speak to Alicia Gonzalez of El Pais about the new BRICS Bank proposal and whether BRICS can rise above being an acronym.

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/07/13/actualidad/1405270597_195035.html

My latest "Marginalia" column in Business Standard -- a primer on "inflation targeting", which the RBI and the Finance Minister would like India to adopt.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/vivek-dehejia-aiming-at-the-wrong-target-114071401195_1.html

Quoted in a couple of newspaper items in recent days....

Here, I  speak to Andrew Buncombe of the Independent about the recent Union Budget in India:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/will-modinomics-get-india-going-9599252.html

Again on the budget, I am quoted by Alicia Fernandez in El Pais:

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/07/10/actualidad/1405014006_619025.html

Again in El Pais on the new BRICS Bank and whether the BRICS can rise above being an acronym:

http://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2014/07/13/internacional/1405282307_452180.html

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/07/13/actualidad/1405270597_195035.html

Earlier this evening, on a panel on NDTV discussing today's Union Budget as part of a distinguished panel.

http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/ndtv-special-ndtv-24x7/watch-what-budget-2014-offers-for-the-common-man/329484