Selected Publications In Popular Media

Hindi:

“What People should Expect from Election Manifestos”, The Quint Hindi, March 2019

“Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan: successful yet unsuccessful”, News Laundry, December 2017

“The Effect of Demonetization in India”, The Quint, March 2017

“How Fiscal Targets will shape the Union Budget 2016”, Scroll, February 2016

“Explaining Transaction Costs”, Logos-The National Interest, May 2015

English:

“Shortfall“, FiftyTwo.in, February 2023

“Who should finance digital ecosystems?”, Hindustan Times, March 2022

“New Volleyball League Heralds Change in Indian Sports Landscape”, The India Cable, March 2022

“Digital Ecosystems: Who should finance What?“, Hindustan Times, February 2022

“Aadhaar Link threatens Sanctity of Electoral Rolls”, The Wire, January 2022

“Towards Fuller Capital Convertibility”, Financial Express, January 2022

“The Economic Reforms of 1991: How India went from Crisis to Consensus”, The 1991 Project, July 2021

“Why Linking Aadhaar with Voter ID is a Dangerous Idea”, The Indian Express, July 2021

“Revise Judges Appointments to build Judicial Capacity”, The Indian Express, April 2021

“Financing Institutions is crucial for the Digital Economy”, Data Governance Network Blog, February 2021

“Digitisation can help streamline government audits”, Financial Express, January 2021

“On Digital Governance, Don’t Repeat Mistakes”, Hindustan Times, October 2020

“Community Data: More a River Than a Lake”, Financial Express, August 2020

“Urgent CSS reforms Needed”, Financial Express, June 2020

“Let the Economy Open. Don’t Micromanage Lockdown Exit”, Times of India, May 2020

“RWAs play a crucial Role in deploying Community Testing”, FirstPost, May 2020

“Relax FRBM Norms for States to Fight COVID-19”, Financial Express, May 2020

“Importance of Street Level Bureaucracy to Fight the Pandemic”, Money Control, April 2020

“An Income Support Plan for the Poor to Tide over Testing Times” ,Mint, March 2020

“Budget 2020: Reform Income Tax to Build Fiscal Capacity. That pays”, Money Control, January 2020

“Ayushman Bharat can be a Success if Modi Government incentivises Data Use”, The Print, January 2020

“Keep up with Tech and Regulate Whatsapp and Amazon, India must adopt Futures Thinking”, The Print, January 2020

“Creating Jobs through Infrastructure Investments”, Business Standard, September 2019

“India should take Advantage of the US-China Trade-war”, Mint, September 2019 (contributor)

“The Potential of Moving the National Capital”, Money Control, May 2019

“Indian Democracy Must Be More Representative”, Hindustan Times, April 2019

“Unfulfilled Political Promises Weaken the Spirit of Democracy”, The Wire, April 2019

“Narendra Modi led government made some radical reforms but lost out on dynamic change”, Firstpost, February 2019

“Finance Ministry has a Poor Forecasting Record”, Mint, January 2019

“A New Vision for Election Manifestos”, Mint, November 2018

“War and Peace in Economics”, Pragati, August 2018

“All Eyes on India’s Biometric ID Experiment”, Pathways for Prosperity/ University of Oxford, May 2018

“The End of Accountability”, Pragati, February 2018

“Who will Teach the Teachers”, Pragati, November 2017

“Jan Dhan Yojana: An Intriguing Work in Progress”, The Hindu (thRead), September 2017

“Handle with Care”, Pragati, September 2017

“Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan: An Ineffective Remedy”, Oxford Policy Blog, May 2017

“Why don’t we See Wrestlers from Tamil Nadu or Runners from Bihar and Haryana”, FirstPost, April 2017

“Is India Growing?”, Swarajya, March 2017

“Looking East for Lessons on Labor”, The Hindu (thRead), September 2016

“Budget 2016: A Fiscal Perspective”, Swarajya Magazine, March 2016

“Understanding Capital Reforms in China and Some Lessons for India”, Swarajya Magazine, February 2016

“More Than Education”, Huffington Post, October 2015