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Sanjaya Baru
About the AuthorSanjaya Baru
The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
    The ride has been rough for Ms Sitharaman. Despite her best efforts, and visible results on the fiscal front, both investment and consumption remain subdued due to persistent modest expectations about the near term. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Restoring confidence is key to economic growth

    It is not at all surprising that Ms Sitharaman chose to be so bold as to claim credit for the sentiment on Dalal Street

    9 Aug 2021 3:04 AM IST

    Japan placed its bid for the 2020 Olympics (now being held in 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic) five years after China made its dramatic entry onto the world sporting stage playing host to the Beijing Olympics.Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Games nations play: Sport, geopolitics & the Olympics

    Hosting them and securing medals has also been about national pride and geopolitics

    26 July 2021 3:56 AM IST

    For most Indians China is an adversary, a source of cheap products or the home of chow mien. (Twitter)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | India-China: Bhai-bhai to buy-buy to bye-bye

    China has risen on the foundations of its human capabilities and Indians ought to have a better appreciation of that.

    12 July 2021 2:52 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an all-party meeting with various political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, in Delhi, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | A step forward after two steps back: Twist in J&K

    The question of J&K’s statehood remains on the table and none less than Shah gave assurance that statehood would be...

    28 Jun 2021 12:00 AM IST

    P.V. Narasimha Rao (Photo: Sondeep Shankar)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao

    Rao lent his prime ministerial imprimatur to the sweeping industrial and trade policy reforms that set India on a new...

    14 Jun 2021 9:20 AM IST

    Narendra Modis imperious manner as Prime Minister contrasts with his attitude towards the Central government as the chief minister of Gujarat and his promise of pursuing cooperative federalism . (ANI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Flux in Centre-state ties with breakdown of trust

    A cooperative relationship between the two is essential for good governance in a quasi-federal administrative system...

    31 May 2021 7:22 AM IST

    An Indian hawker arranges mangoes at a roadside shop in the southern city of Chennai. (Photo: Reuters)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The mango as a metaphor: The pluralism of our palate &...

    India's mango exports to the US were the fruit of prolonged negotiations

    17 May 2021 8:36 AM IST

    For all his continued popularity, at least as shown in the opinion polls, the fact is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been at the head of an incompetent administrative response to the pandemic. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Ideology or competence: What do the voters want?

    Politicians are voted in and voted out for a variety of reasons, but rarely have they been voted out for incompetence

    19 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Given the kind of links that China has established with all major economies, it remains to be seen how effective the Quad countries can be in decoupling themselves from China. (AFP file photo)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Quad Quandary: Of social intimacy, political conflict

    India cannot ignore the fact that Australia, Japan and the United States continue to do far more business with China...

    5 April 2021 7:35 AM IST

    China has for long been a factor in relations between India and the United States. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid

    Securing US support for India's economic rise is as important for India as strengthening its defence capabilities

    21 March 2021 11:28 PM IST

    Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah waves at supporters during his election campaign roadshow at Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Competitive politics & competitive economy

    If the regional parties and the Congress in Assam manage to defeat BJP, these elections will mark a turning point in...

    7 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

    The Sikh diasporas expression of solidarity with Sikh farmers in India is no different from the Tamil diasporas concern about Tamils in Sri Lanka. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local

    A Sikh in Canada does not have to be a Khalistani to express concern about the fate of fellow Sikhs in India

    22 Feb 2021 4:34 AM IST

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