Painful medium-term steps needed to get economy back on track: Rathin Roy

The call to Rathin Roy to set up this lunch leads to a fervent discussion on the futility of going to overpriced eateries in central Delhi, especially when there are so many state government bhawans and niwases, whose in-house canteens serve amazing fare from their respective regions. “We have to do it in one of those places,” says Roy, director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and a former member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).

We settle on Assam House in Chanakyapuri, Delhi. Not to be confused with the better-known Assam Bhawan a