Tag Archives: RBI

Modi, RBI, and the Tirupati Temple Laddu

In a country of 1.5 billion people with myriad of problems like sky-high inflation, multi decade high unemployment, rapidly increasing income and wealth inequality, falling apart social and cultural fabric of the society as evident by the communal violence in the state of Manipur, criminal lynching of innocent by the so-called cow vigilantes, increasing violent […]

Hindenburg vs. Modi and Adani

American short-selling institute Hindenberg Research Report’s damning report against the Indian billionaire tycoon Gautam Adani and his companies rocked the Indian political and economic scene last year. They revealed how Adani uses his obscure offshore companies to manipulate India’s stock market. In the run-up to the Indian parliamentary election, the opposition INDIA bloc effectively used […]

How to Increase Farmers’ Income?

Farmers in India have resumed their protest against the Modi government after Modi failed to fulfill the promises he made to them two years ago. Farmers are feeling betrayed by Modi. They started their agitation two years ago when the Modi government introduced two farm bills with the intent of a corporate takeover of the […]

On the Secularity of the Indian Army and the Impending Danger to the Indian Nation-State

Since the Modi government came to power, it has been trying hard to centralize all powers in its hands. The goal of the Modi government and its ideological backers, RSS, is to change the secular nature of the Indian nation-state and turn it into a religious theocracy like Iran, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. The RSS ideologues […]

India’s Fiscal Problem is a Golden Chance for Modi

Columbia University professor Arvind Panagaria was recently appointed as the head of the 16th Finance Commission. His job is to give suggestions on the way the financial relations between the central and state governments will work in future. The Wire reports (2024),  Arvind Panagariya has been recently appointed as the head of the 16th Finance […]