Finance Minister - Different Truths

July 8, 2025
Prof. Bhaskar Majumder
Economy, Politics

Focus: The Hidden Redundancy in Glorifying Profit in a Market Economy

Prof Bhaskar critiques the Union Finance Minister’s statement that profit isn’t a bad word, highlighting its complex economic realities and the need for nuanced scrutiny, exclusively for Different Truths....

June 30, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Congress-BJP Confrontation will Badly hit Passing of Bills

The political temperature has soared so much that any talk of cooperation being mentioned by the ruling party leaders for passing the bills, is being dealt with contempt by...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

It is High Time NDA Addressed Core Economic Issues

Though there is not much of a difference between a dynasty and a single-party supreme leader in terms of his or her writ being run unquestioned, the fact remains...

May 23, 2018
IPA Service
Economy, Fossil Fuel

Indian Economy on a Slippery Oil Slope: Centre Must Give up Part of Bounty Collected through Duty

It is appalling to see the authorities openly stating that the time had not come to cut excise duty as global crude prices had not reached that high. Embarrassingly,...

May 21, 2018
IPA Service
Banking, Economy

Banks Being Penalised While Big Fraudsters are at Large

Quizzically, PNB, a victim of the world’s biggest bank fraud ever, is out of RBI’s first prompt corrective action (PCA) list. The biggest global bank fraudster, Nirav Modi, who...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Challenges in Indian Economy this Fiscal: Corruption Continues to Eat into Vitals

The road ahead is bumpy for India’s growth story. Though India has been in a sweet spot umpteen times in the last couple of decades, its economy never grows...

May 18, 2018
IPA Service
Legal Issues, Politics

Supreme Court has Prevented Horse Trading by Advancing Floor Test: Karnataka Episode Should be a Lesson to Governors

According to latest judicial pronouncements, if an alliance of two parties gets a majority, its leader should be invited to form the government. It hardly matters if the alliance...

May 16, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Industry

Bitter Cup of Woes of the Sugar Industry

The moot issue is whether the latest support would help mills, burdened as they were with payment arrears of a humongous Rs. 13,899 crore to the growers as on...

May 6, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Gallup Survey Calls the Pakoda Bluff: Real Global Unemployment Rate is 33% and Not 6% as Claimed

Pakoda economics is not just a midnight thought for Modi. There is a certain method in it. Before coming to power, Modi had promised to create one crore new...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Agriculture Needs to be Freed from Shackles

Even as India successfully ended by degrees the despicable licence-cum-permit raj after the advent of industrial and trade policy reforms way back in 1991, the concurrent improvement on the...

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