Swapan Dasgupta
In conversation with top industry leaders
Our correspondent travels through Haryana’s Rewari district to see how the Budget’s rural vision has rekindled the hopes of villagers
On the demand for a ‘sin tax’ on cigarettes and alcohol in this year’s Budget
The Four Canons of Taxation outlined in Adam Smith’s 1776-published classic, The Wealth of Nations, still make for a superb set of first principles