How have the five budgets presented by the BJP-led NDA government fared?  The anxieties around the 2019 exercise illustrate the saga of unfinished agenda.

The cost of pendency is the price paid by the public in terms of governance and increased taxes.

When Members of Parliament voted this week, they also, in a sense, certified the true state of the political economy.

A prosperous future for India depends crucially on promoting well-planned urbanisation.

 The stark reality is that every party is ensuring its electoral fortunes by parading sops as the solution for every failure.

There is madness and then there is a method, and frequently madness becomes the method.

It is not surprising that only 3% of Indians pay income tax.

Shankkar Aiyar highlights the need for champions who can power the ideas that lie latent in Budget 2017

Five major reforms that should ideally be a part of the Budget but will not due to political compulsions. They must wait to be propelled by a crisis.

Vivek Dehejia, Jagdish Bhagwati and Pravin Krishna use figures to counter demonetisation fallacies