economy

The Wages of Profligacy

Siddharth Singh

Behind the political anger directed at the Election Commission for asking parties to explain how they plan to fund their promised freebies lies an ever-growing threat to the Indian economy

A Prayer for Britain

Roderick Matthews

Liz Truss has made a perfect mess of everything in the shortest time possible

The Fall of the Brothers Rajapaksa

Ullekh NP

Can the newly elected, mild-mannered Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe be a rainmaker?

‘I have lived through a civil war, but I have never been this worried about the future,’ says T Shanaathanan

Ullekh NP

T Shanaathanan in conversation with Ullekh NP

The Generals and Their Puppet

Siddharth Singh

In November 2021, Imran Khan took a fatal misstep when he thought he could actually pick his own ISI chief

Lessons to Learn from Lanka

TP Sreenivasan

Spending borrowed money on unproductive projects is a curse

Island of Despair

Ullekh NP

In Sri Lanka, food inflation has soared to 25.7 per cent with the prices of essentials, including milk, skyrocketing

The New World Disorder

Minhaz Merchant

A new multipolar structure of autonomous alliances beckons India

Creating a Stakeholder Economy

Anil Padmanabhan

Development and access to basic amenities are moving voters away from the traditional draw of caste and religion in India’s most politically significant state