In my fortnightly Mint column, in print today, I present my analysis of the RBI's "surprise" rate cut last week.

http://mintne.ws/1B4zBmt

In my latest Economics Express for Mint, I ask whether technical experts make better ministers, and sift the arguments and some new research bearing on this question.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/NvHVXAvyFRZshjWgPJ6Q0N/Do-expert-ministers-lead-to-better-policy-outcomes.html …

In Mint, my take on the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, dissecting spurious claims made to curb free speech by what Salman Rushdie calls aptly the "but brigade".

http://mintne.ws/1KARgaW 

A new survey reported on in Macleans tracks 80 Canadian economists to see where they fit on the ideological spectrum, based on who follows them. Yours truly is right in the centre.

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/the-ideologies-of-canadian-economists-according-to-twitter/

Delighted to be quoted in this week's Economist on the "Gujarat model".

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21638147-how-modi-nomics-was-forged-one-indias-most-business-friendly-states

My latest Mint column looks at the creation of NITI Aayog (which replaces the Planning Commission) and how this likely presages a turn toward economic reform by the Modi government in India.

http://mintne.ws/1AskrIN 

Mint's year end mini-reviews of interesting books of the past year, in which I contribute a review on McKinnon's "The Unloved Dollar Standard".

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/7yHQqUaXyKGOM9cbKuF1tI/The-best-books-we-read-this-year.html