At a fundamental level, the concept of a common inflation rate is flawed—for different households have different consumption patterns

High level engagement of Pakistan is a waste of diplomatic capacity and political capital Pakistan’s decision to ‘suspend’ the peace process with India along with the ‘co-operation’ on investigating the...

An analysis of how much it costs RBI to print a new, high-value currency note, and impact on the exchequer if it is pulled out of circulation

While the intention to keep tax structures revenue neutral is laudable, whether a precise revenue neutral rate exists is questionable

A few months back, Anupam Manur, a colleague at the Takshashila Institution, had written an Op-Ed in The Hindu that the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) mechanism is archaic and needs...

Action now shifts to the states which will have the first real opportunity to react to a new, and still shifting fiscal landscape By Pranay Kotasthane (@pranaykotas) One of the most...

Back in the 1970s, economist Thomas Schelling proposed a model to explain why cities are segregated. Individual people choosing to live with others like themselves would have the macroscopic impact...

While the intention to keep tax structures revenue neutral is laudable, whether a precise revenue neutral rate exists is questionable

India’s Policy towards Myanmar: Interests, determinants and risk factors Guru Aiyar and Priya Ravichandran, The Takshashila Institution Download the discussion document in PDF format (160KB) Executive Summary Myanmar’s elections in...

My first exposure to political ideologies took place in 2004, when I joined the now-defunct (but then brilliant) social networking site Orkut. While filling up my personal details, I was...

This piece by David Henderson has a very powerful quote by Milton Friedman. Quoting in full: In the circumstances envisaged in the socialist society, the man who wants to print...

Although the book is nominally a travelogue, Detours' narrative often meanders from descriptions and experiences of places

Karnataka held its annual global investors meet last week. On its sidelines, Rajya Sabha MP Dr Rajeev Gowda launched Resurgent Karnataka, a publication by Raintree Media. I shared my thoughts on smart cities...

Implementation of Pune’s City Parking Policy In response to the draft public parking policy of Pune Municipal Corporation Siddarth Gore, Scholar Centre for Smart City Governance, The Takshashila Institution Read...

To cut to the chase, the answer is yes

A survey shows it is clear that many supporters of both the Net neutrality and Free Basics campaigns were not really aware of the issues they were supporting

Paris attacks have got more coverage than those in Beirut due to the higher information content of the former

Poor estimates of Grand Alliance’s effectiveness and NDA’s inconsistent performance among the major factors

Thanks to the efforts of customs dept and an open data enthusiast, we can look at trade at a more granular level

A statistical look at how the govt should react to writers returning awards in protest against intolerance