In this podcast, Kushal speaks with Rajeev Mantri about “India’s Economic Management through the COVID crisis”. A lot was said during the 1st and 2nd COVID wave about what India should do and what India is doing to manage the ...

In this podcast, Gautam Chikermane and Rishi Agrawal talk to Kushal about their new monograph published by the Observer Research Foundation. This podcast covers some of the topics of the monograph which looks into the imprisonment clauses that plague India’s ...

In this podcast, Surjit Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, and Arvind Virmani talk about their latest paper published in IMF on the “estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through ...

In this podcast, Diva Jain talks about a brief history of sanctions and their features. She also mentions the motives for using sanctions and explains why they usually fail using certain statistical tools. Using this baseline she then explains why ...

In this podcast, Harsh Madhusudhan Gupta talks about the latest budget presented by the Honourable Finance Minister. How would we rate this budget compared to the budget of 2021? We also talk about the 30 % tax on virtual digital ...

In this podcast, Harsh Madhusudhan Gupta and Aashish Chandorkar share their views on the latest budget presented by the Honourable Finance Minister. Is this the best budget presented by the Modi government so far since its inception? We try to ...

In this podcast, Kanchan Gupta shares his views on the Farmers’ Bills 2020, the recent farmers’ protests in India around Delhi, and the subsequent media coverage of the same. This podcast was inspired by a beautiful Twitter thread by Kanchan ...

Days come and days go but nothing really changes. If you are one of the millions of users on social media in India, your daily experience ranges from recreational outrage to sob stories where every single irrelevant topic is discussed ...

As we anticipate probably a second lockdown, India finds itself staring deep into the abyss of a fractured economy. The maximum city of Mumbai, once hustling and bustling, seems like a minimalist nightmare. Traders and manufacturers have lost a month ...

In this conversation, Monika Halan talks about the Six money rules she learnt from the pandemic. We talk about topics such as the cost of living, emergency funds, the volatility of the stock markets and much more. You can read ...