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Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Asset Management Limited
Updated : Apr 22, 2025

‘Basket’ approach offers better risk-adjusted returns: Radhika Gupta, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd

Traditionally, in financial markets, investments in equities have been rewarding in the long term.

The Problem of Demand
Updated : Apr 17, 2025

Economic slowdown in India stems from long-term crunch of consumption demand: TISS Prof. R Ramakumar

The economic slowdown in India has a long history of over a decade, and stems from a severe long-term crunch of consumption demand in the economy.

GST Needs Wider Net, Lower Rates
Updated : Mar 18, 2025

GST Needs Wider Net, Lower Rates

Its grand success requires that the tax burden be moderate, coverage comprehensive, administration use cutting-edge technology, and dispute resolution swift and fair.

Women at Work
Updated : Mar 18, 2025

India needs to unlock the hidden potential of millions of women to become a global economic powerhouse by 2047

By unlocking the hidden potential of millions of women, India can accelerate its journey to becoming a global economic powerhouse by 2047.

India Needs a New Federal Compact
Updated : Mar 18, 2025

India needs a robust and institutionalised system of resource federalism as an intrinsic part of fiscal federalism

What is needed is a robust and institutionalised system of resource federalism as an intrinsic part of fiscal federalism

India s Workforce Challenge
Updated : Mar 18, 2025

To create 400 million jobs, India needs to reimagine the challenge as one of employed poverty rather than unemployment

To create 400 million jobs, India needs to reimagine the challenge as one of employed poverty rather than unemployment. High wages need high productivity employers.

Resilience Through Reform
Updated : Mar 12, 2025

India must sustain its growth rate in a hostile and heterodox global environment

Here's what India must do to sustain its growth rate in a hostile and heterodox global environment marked by volatility

Helping More Indians Fly
Updated : Mar 12, 2025

Indians need to think and dream big, and combine that with flawless and speedy execution

We need to think and dream big, and combine that with flawless and speedy execution, accompanied by deep reforms.

Is this India’s Decade and Century ?
Updated : Mar 12, 2025

India needs to use technology to improve health and education outcomes, upgrade existing labour stock

We need to use technology to improve our health and education outcomes and upgrade the existing labour stock through a massive skilling effort

No Theme Lasts Forever
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

Sensible investment strategy involves ignoring noise, using a systematic criterion to pick assets: Devina Mehra

A sensible investment strategy involves ignoring the noise and using a systematic criterion to pick assets. A good investment strategy can be boring.

India Must Embrace Competitiveness
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

India Must Embrace Competitiveness

Protectionism in response to trade deficits only worsens outcomes by reducing competitiveness and disincentivising its enhancement.

Needed: JAN AI
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

India must build its own LLMs and apps as part of the fabled 'India Stack'

India must build its own LLMs and apps as part of the fabled 'India Stack'; like it did with UPI and Aadhaar.

Ready for Take-off
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

The Indian aviation sector continues to soar, and the best is yet to come

Total passenger traffic has grown from around 120 million to over 236 million per annum.

Reimagining India's Public Sector
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

Reimagining India's Public Sector

India's policies since 1991 have been to get government out of business' way. Robust public sector is needed for providing basic needs equitably.

India: A Roaring Tiger or Lumbering Elephant?
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

 India: A Roaring Tiger or Lumbering Elephant?

Corrections do not negate the unequivocal benefits that accrue from a rising stock market- drop in cost of equity capital and shift in household savings to financial assets.

Innovation is the essence of Digital Bharat
Updated : Mar 11, 2025

Innovation is the Essence of Digital Bharat

With careful governance, India has the potential to be a digital powerhouse for all Indians, as well as a beacon of innovation for the world.

Progress or Dead End ?
Updated : Mar 10, 2025

State Governments Have Powers to Enact Reforms, But Not Willingness

State governments have all the powers to enact reforms, but very few have shown the willingness to go ahead.

A New, Equitable Tax Code
Updated : Feb 15, 2025

How taxation will guide India’s reformatory phase, says tax expert Mukesh Butani

FM's Budget speech earmarked 'taxation' as a dominant pillar to guide India through a reformatory phase

Expect Private Investment Cycle To Pick Up
Updated : Feb 15, 2025

Expect Private Investment Cycle To Pick Up, says Sanjeev Krishnan Chairperson, PwC in India

The government's budgetary strategy focusses on modification and moderation, a fine balance between the long term and the short term

A Very Well-Crafted Budget
Updated : Feb 13, 2025

Rs 1 lakh crore to boost consumption, says Bank of Baroda's Chief Economist Madan Sabnavis

The release of Rs 1 lakh crore is a booster for consumption and savings, depending on how the taxpayer uses this benefit.

The Gentleman-Scholar PM
Updated : Jan 13, 2025

The most courteous and humble gentleman-scholar PM: Narayana Murthy on Dr Manmohan Singh

In every role he held, be it Finance Minister or Prime Minister, Singh remained open-minded and constantly sought new ideas.