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A call to protect the people from arbitrary exercise of the law, an appeal not to squeeze the private sector and some advice on choosing economic advisors to the government. Pallav Nayak sums up the views.
The government has been busy getting parliamentary approval for legislation that arms officials in multiple departments with extra powers to prosecute and arrest. As the government becomes more powerful, ordinary citizens must be reassured that statutory protections will work without having to appeal that the law hears them, writes T N Ninan.
P C Mahalanobis guided Jawaharlal Nehru's economic thinking. Who does
