My latest Mint column looks at the uncanny parallels between Canada's defeated PM Harper and India's PM Modi -- both loathed by their country's respective liberal intelligentsia and both competing with dynastic brokerage parties (Liberals and Congress).

http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/DqVOqfNMVNhs4ah6FFMeiK/Politics-in-Canada-and-India.html

Siddharth Singh, new editor-at-large for Open, on myths surrounding writers returning awards in India. Yours truly is cited arguing that some at least are politically motivated.

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/what-s-the-writers-problem-modi-or-intolerance

TN Ninan in his new book draws on an earlier piece of mine suggesting there might be a corruption Kuznets curve.

Here's an excerpt from TN Ninan's new book:

http://scroll.in/article/762603/if-rich-countries-are-more-corrupt-what-explains-corruption-in-india

Here's my op-ed in the International Herald Tribune (now the International New York Times) from 2011 which put forward the hypothesis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/opinion/14iht-eddehejia14.html?_r=0

India needs economic reforms, but signing up to the Trojan horse of a US-led TPP isn't the way to do it, I argue in my latest Mint column.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/X6oSIbbiPwD0euvpno9HMO/Trade-and-national-interest.html

Chunauti, a politics blog site with informal ties to Congress, picks up a Mint column of mine on alleged bias in the New York Times coverage of India.

http://chunauti.org/2015/10/06/does-the-new-york-times-really-have-an-india-problem/

Delighted to be an invited guest at the launch of the Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at Columbia this past week.

http://www.idfcinstitute.org/activities/blog/2015/october/inauguration-of-the-raj-center-on-indian-economic-policies-at-columbia-university/