When I last wrote a blog post on India two months ago, it was about how we shouldn’t be tying up the Indian economy in knots and that we ought to be liberalising our import duty structure and implementing other reforms to incentivise investment by the private sector in new job-creating ventures. The economy is… Continue reading Unnecessary Chaos in India
When I was working in the advertising industry in Delhi more than 20 years ago, I used to frequent book shops – of which Delhi has many good ones – and buy and read books voraciously. However, I always had a pile of unread ones waiting to be read since there was my work in… Continue reading Sita Valles, Somebody’s Idea of a Revolutionary
It was long overdue. In fact, GST should have been launched in 2017 with no more than a couple of slabs. Ideally, it should have been just one at 18%. But in a country like ours where most of the population can barely afford even the daily essentials, perhaps a rate of 5% on some… Continue reading How Car Companies Should Make the Most of GST Rationalisation
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