Op-Eds Opinion
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves enormous credit for presiding over one of India’s most successful pieces of digital public infrastructure. UPI has changed how this country transacts. From the vegetable vendor and autorickshaw driver to the neighbourhood kirana shop, restaurant, professional and large retailer, scanning a QR code has become almost instinctive.
Op-Eds Opinion
When Tarun Kapoor, Advisor to the Prime Minister, said that ethanol production in India had gone “beyond our imagination” and was now more than what the country had planned for and more than what was required for blending, he unintentionally summed up one of the most astonishing policy failures of recent years. This was not […]
Op-Eds Opinion
India has spent years talking about polluted rivers, disappearing ponds, neglected lakes and crumbling traditional water structures. Governments announce missions, municipalities run cleanliness drives, activists raise alarms and social media regularly fills with photographs showing just how badly many local water bodies have been treated. Yet, in different parts of the