Manish Sabharwal

Reimagining Nai Talim

The virus lockdown exposes five regulatory hurdles, holding back an important pillar of learning's future: degree-linked apprentices

Accelerating formalisation

India has become more formal job friendly with recent ESIC reforms

Expanding formal employment: India's labour laws need desperate surgery

The best place to start labour reform is creating competition and reforming the governance of the ESIC

Disrupting higher education

The mental conception of a university for most rich people is Harvard or Oxford

Forget toxic shortcuts

National minimum wage will murder formal job creation our youth need, corrode competitive federalism

Cities: Our policy orphans

India's farm to non-farm transition is being murdered by bad urbanisation

Manish Sabharwal & Rituparna Chakraborty: Sabotaging innovation

The ban on national online higher education is unjust, dysfunctional and arrogant

Manish Sabharwal: Why demonetisation will work

This demonetisation is only the 10th of the 25 things needed, because ending black money is not a regulatory beheading but death by a thousand cuts

Manish Sabharwal & Ashok Reddy: Case for a parallel higher education

We need to take a number of steps, from fixing schools to ending apartheid against distance learning, to make graduates employable

Manish Sabharwal & Rajesh Krishnan: Fixing labour plumbing

Manish Sabharwal & Sumit Kumar: Making skills self-healing

One solution to India's challenges of education, employment, employability lies in state govts adopting apprenticeships on a large scale

Manish Sabharwal: Nehru's tryst with India's destiny - Aiming high, looking far

India's first prime minister is one of the many reasons Pakistan and India born on the same night have had different destinies