AT1 bond

AT1 bonds return to haunt India’s banking system

The Credit Suisse AT1 bond episode shows how weak disclosure and poor suitability checks can hurt investors. #AT1bond #banking Read more »
Corporate governance challenges

Corporate governance and sustainability need individual commitment

Corporate governance fails when incentives reward evasion and make honesty harder for firms and managers. Read more »
women’s reservation bill fails parliamentary hurdle

Women’s reservation fails its latest political test

Parliament backs the idea, but disagreement over delimitation blocks implementation of women's reservation again. Read more »
Jan Vishwas Bill:

Jan Vishwas Bill: Easing compliance, diluting accountability?

The Jan Vishwas Bill shifts health regulation from courts to administrators, and enforcement capacity will be its real test. #JanVishwasBill Read more »
Aadhaar authentication failures

Aadhaar authentication failures trigger an invisible exclusion crisis

Aadhaar authentication failures affect over 20 million Indians each month, yet this problem remains invisible in policy design. #Aadhar Read more »
decentralisation lessons from iran war

What Iran’s resilience reveals about decentralisation, collective action

Decentralised systems can endure only when sustained by a larger sense of meaning, but the meaning itself must remain alive through debate and the possibility of disagreement. Read more »
heat stress

Extreme heat stress draining India’s gig workforce

The heat stress is cutting gig worker incomes, hurting their productivity and weakening consumption across the Indian economy. #heatstress #gig Read more »
H-1B visa restrictions

H-1B visa crackdown exposes India’s dependence on US

Trump’s H-1B visa restrictions threaten remittances, mobility and India’s IT services model. Read more »
rupee

RBI’s rupee defence is about volatility, not control

The rupee fall reflects more than oil and outflows; offshore arbitrage and speculative pressure are now shaping domestic volatility. #rupee Read more »
Plantation crops need FPO reform

Plantation crops need FPO reform, not just budget support

Budget attention is not enough for plantation crops; they need stronger FPOs, better insurance and incentives linked to sustainability. #FPO Read more »