Taking a leaf from Hume and Hayek, my latest Mint column explores the "fatal conceit" of technocracy today.

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-fatal-conceit-of-technocracy-that-afflicts-most-policymaking-11613918810294.html

Wherein I commit apostasy, arguing India’s turn toward higher tariffs doesn’t betoken an unthinking, atavistic return to pre-1991 autarky, but a deliberate pivot toward a tariff-induced, FDI-driven economic strategy, for which an economic rationale exists.

 https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/sitharamans-tariff-increases-are-based-on-a-new-economic-gambit-11612710624837.html