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Incremental investment

India needs reforms on multiple fronts

Judging the RBI by the wrong rule

Has the RBI been biased toward tight monetary policy, or is its rate-setting framework flawed?

The impossible trinity, revisited

Large interventions across markets call for greater coherence in the RBI's policy framework

Parliament's democratic deficit

Disruption & hastily passed laws reflect poorly on MPs

Best of BS Opinion: Quick fixes cannot substitute for structural reform

We see a pattern in messages across these pieces: Temporary management can buy time, but durable change needs structural reform

Puzzling policy: Premature ending of FCNR (B) swap raises questions

From the turn of events, it would appear that the scheme was not adequately thought through

Renewed reform push: India must speed up its growth to meet challenges

To assuage the anxieties of the youth and children, the country must broaden the avenues for gainful employment available to them and reduce the unemployment rate among graduates

The cost of exchange rate policy: What is the price of controlling rupee?

The path to Indian economic success begins with a full reckoning of the costs of exchange-rate management

Economics of oilseed production: Why India's import dependence persists

The genesis of the persistent rise in imports of edible oils, regardless of steady increase in indigenous production, lies in the demand growing faster than the supplies

Gen AI is rewriting how the world buys, spends as technology shapes choices

As the first cohort surrounded by AI and media from birth, Gen Alpha's tech fluency is intuitive and its consumption behaviour is different

Forty years on, has India allowed General Vaidya's sacrifice to fade away?

Soldiers, however senior, can't determine their destinies, and especially so in democracies

In an age of social media, founder-led brands are the new business model

Interestingly, founder-led brands follow a very different marketing formula

Punjab's political climate turns fluid as old alliances lose their grip

Conditions of extreme fluidity hang over Punjab as the weather cools but election fever hots up

The case for keeping UPI free outweighs the costs of its infrastructure

It is worth seeing the argument from a perspective that does not limit itself to asking how UPI infrastructure costs ought to be funded

Failure, but please call it something else: The new language of losing

Startups pivot, companies rightsize, politicians introspect, and relationships evolve. We still fail; we've simply learnt to hide the wreckage behind respectable euphemisms

Great anxiety to Viksit Bharat: Tracing India's changing economic narrative

An analysis of India's Budget speeches since Independence reveals a growing confidence in tone

No more fear of flying: India needs more competition in the skies

We are now in 2026. Indian consumers have taken to air travel in a big way and there will be continued demand as long as air fares don't balloon

India must redefine its cities before urban growth outpaces governance

A city is not an inventory of assets but a metabolism, drawing in water, energy, land and people and returning them in usable form or failing to do so

India needs a national framework to build a sustainable care economy

The Union Budget for 2026-27 announced measures to strengthen the care ecosystem, including the expansion of geriatric and allied services, and programmes to train 150,000 multiskilled caregivers

Bank boards need better processes, not just RBI governance rules

The RBI has been issuing directions to bank boards on matters to be taken up at board meetings