In today's Mint, I argue that Indian PM Modi is best understood as a pragmatic modernizer of the economy rather than a textbook "economic reformer".

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/B7lPnKUi863p68gNziYnVN/Modinomics-at-two.html

In Mint on Sunday, I take a deep dive into secular stagnation, negative interest rates, and helicopter drops.

http://mintonsunday.livemint.com/news/what-explains-the-great-global-slowdown/1.0.507010461.html

My latest for Mint argues that India should "swipe right" for genuine free trade, not for Trojan-horse so-called trade deals like TPP.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/jC2FC1IvE3AMlGfAVO4CbP/Swipe-right-for-free-trade.html

My initial reaction to Union Budget 2015-16, live now, and in print tomorrow in Mint. In a word, my main takeaway is Jaitley sticking to the fiscal consolidation target, which make sense; but he will need to convince the sceptics that his fiscal maths add up.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/BM242n5faKn7XsxE68RgsO/Union-budget-Show-me-the-money.html

The Economic Survey 2015-16 has a whole chapter devoted to tax/GDP! Building on a recent special column with Praveen, my latest Mint piece dissects the ES's claim that India isn't an outlier, and points to 1991 as a year of a structural break.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/vjSlh6i79zBZHlJtZ4vVsO/Tax-to-GDP-ratio-redux.html

The estimable Kevin Carmichael, writing on "Pikettymania" in India, picks up my recent Mint column, inter alia.

https://www.cigionline.org/blogs/kevin-carmichaels-observer/pikettymania-arrives-india#.Vsvb5hKfeqY.twitter

In this extra Mint piece, my IDFC Institute colleague, Praveen Chakravarty, and I argue that India's tax to GDD ratio, and share of direct to indirect taxes, is skewed, looking at data and also economic theory.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/brbD6Tw1akpGS3um0t3CaM/India-is-an-outlier-in-its-tax-policy.html