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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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A tale of two Hindu sects
A scholar explores why two 18th century movements challenging key tenets of Hindu worship face very different fates in modern India
 "A tale of two Hindu sects")
No escape from extra borrowing
Despite growth likely in the second half of the year, revenue gap will be large leading to higher borrowing and expenditure management
 "No escape from extra borrowing")
Why states should find newer resources rather than cut back on spending
For states staying within the fiscal deficit targets is important, but not by cutting back on expenditure
 "Why states should find newer resources rather than cut back on spending")
Yet another oil bonanza for Modi
A 32 per cent jump in oil revenues offers some relief to strained govt finances
 "Yet another oil bonanza for Modi")
Pranab as FM: Remembering how he managed controversies, even created some
The gap between Mukherjee's two tenures as FM is testimony as much to his longevity and utility as a politician as to his ability to survive under different Congress regimes
 "Pranab as FM: Remembering how he managed controversies, even created some")
Q1 GDP numbers just first instalment of a bad news story on economy
If not for the numbers on agriculture and government expenditure, the GDP growth print for the first quarter of 2020-21 would have been far worse
 "Q1 GDP numbers just first instalment of a bad news story on economy")
Eight focus areas in Prime Minister Modi's Independence Day address
The middle-class featured prominently in the PM's speech even as he steered clear of both serious growth challenges before the Indian economy and the pressure this was putting on public finances
 "Eight focus areas in Prime Minister Modi's Independence Day address")
Once bitten, twice shy: Why states doubt centre will share taxes fairly
States are understandably wary even after getting half the Centre's gross tax revenue in the first quarter of 2020-21
 "Once bitten, twice shy: Why states doubt centre will share taxes fairly")
The joker in the pack
Government's fiscal headroom is crucially linked to a realistic assessment of its net revenue collection
 "The joker in the pack")
Driving the private sector
R C Bhargava finds the idea of reforming a public sector undertaking and making it competitive and a wealth-creator almost an impossibility
 "Driving the private sector")
Fond hopes of a lean govt
How long can Modi keep the size of his council of ministers as lean as it has been so far?
Amid many crises facing India, govt is in need of professional experts
In any governance structure, particularly in a democracy, the elected political leadership has to be in the forefront of all decision-making processes
Fiscal math of the imponderables
Growth holds the key to the government's fiscal deficit slippage
 "Fiscal math of the imponderables")
Grand announcements
Executing road projects worth Rs 15 trillion in two years will be a tall order
How Covid-19 spoilt the oil bonanza
Conventional wisdom is that when crude oil prices drop, India benefits as it is dependent on imported oil to the tune of about 85 per cent of its total consumption
The Chakravyuh challenge
Exiting from the lockdown will be as tricky and challenging as imposing it
The long shadow of FY20 on Centre's finances can not be missed by anybody
There may be no official word yet on how the Centre's tax revenue assumptions for the current year have gone awry
Covid-19: Rs 1.7-trn relief package welcome, but more support needed
A few more rounds of assistance would be necessary in the coming weeks as the impact of the lockdown and the disease on the economy becomes more evident
 "Covid-19: Rs 1.7-trn relief package welcome, but more support needed")
The other casualty of Covid-19
COVID-19 will cause no less a disruption to the economy than the goods and services tax has done
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Problematic revisions: We need fewer, quicker economic growth estimates
The CSO releases as many as 6 estimates of India's annual economic output growth; believe it or not, these estimates for the same year's economic output are released over a period of three years!
 "Problematic revisions: We need fewer, quicker economic growth estimates")