development

The Fall of Eden

Siddharth Singh

The arc of India’s descent from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi

Planning Omissions

Bibek Debroy

Early Indian economic thinking was stuck between the too big and the too small

Between Freedom and Control

Bibek Debroy

The internal struggle of Central planning

Away from the humdrum of noisy electioneering, on three edges of the country—Kashmir, the Assam border and the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh—democracy faces different varieties of disenchantment that are hard to undo

Planning the Future

Bibek Debroy

The trajectory of state interventions in history

India Needs a National Plantation Policy

N Dharmaraj

For sustainability in agriculture as well as business, Kerala’s plantations need to achieve economies of scale

Minimum Opacity

Bibek Debroy

Urban reforms aren’t only about an alphabet soup of acronyms

Bastar: Guns and Roads

Siddharth Singh

After nearly two decades of violence, Bastar now has a semblance of normalcy but this has more to do with individual choices than ideological leanings