Whether state or market oriented, trust lies at the foundations of peaceful progress.   (more…)

Is education merely for incomes? (more…)

There is something grossly wrong in the manner we are dealing with progress.   (more…)

I had gone to Jaipur for a conference on the Political Economy of Competition and Regulation in India. Well as part of my plans I also decided to meet a friend of mine from school after some 16 years. She was the hardworking studious girl who topped class and did all the “right” things, got her medicine degree both  graduate and post graduate from the best medical schools of Delhi. Standard story of how family compulsions got her to Jaipur and she thought of taking a teaching job at a private medical college. (more…)

The screening committee set up to select the next chairman of telecom sector regulator TRAI has shortlisted three candidates—finance secretary Arun Ramanathan, Consumer affairs secretary Yashwant Bhave and former BSNL director S D Saxena. Many a times it has been pointed out that the Independent Regulator’s office should not become a sinecure for retired bureaucrats and the job should be equally attractive for experts in the field. But, this development shows that these institutions, still only attract bureaucrats. What puzzles me is that why does the regulator’s office not attract non-bureaucrats? (more…)