My latest Mint column revisits the evergreen debate on whether good economics is good politics in India.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/kD1DxWMIqFfD53J6rsa0tI/The-relationship-between-economics-and-politics.html

Writing in Mint, Rupa Subramanya critiques recent policy proposals by the Modi government, arguing they betray the old command and control mentality, not the good governance that the BJP and Narendra Modi promised.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/PKlzMrPIoTIELzvkGx7VoK/Is-Narendra-Modi-abandoning-his-promise-of-good-governance.html

My latest Mint column asks whether the GST will increase political fragmentation, with some comparative political economy on centralization vs. federalism from the Quebec secession movement in Canada.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/egVkPOQX9ayoRrHX1MLtaJ/Will-the-GST-increase-political-fragmentation.html

In today's Times of India, Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and I take stock of demonetization and remonetization, and how the critics got it plain wrong.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/looking-back-at-demonetisation-the-concerns-of-its-legion-of-critics-have-all-been-proven-plain-wrong/

"Why care about inequality?" My latest Mint column reflects on this age old question.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/yXW7qZuokuDzr7LeYvQySO/Why-care-about-inequality.html

Praveen Chakravarty and I have a new IDFC Institute Briefing Paper using a novel luminosity based data set to study income convergence/divergence at the level of India's districts.

http://www.idfcinstitute.org/site/assets/files/11020/district_luminosity_bp_number_5_23mar17-2.pdf

In our latest Mint Essay, Praveen Chakravarty and I deploy a novel luminosity-based data set to document widening income gaps *within* states, not just across them. A Briefing Paper on this, going into greater detail, is forthcoming shortly.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Uqj3rmz3SxVNw7EONHyvzH/Income-divergence-governance-or-development-model.html