All bees are not honeybees
How many bees are there in India? India has a human census and a livestock census,
By Bibek Debroy January 31, 2021Bibek Debroy is an economist and author. He is the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the prime minister. He was also a member of the NITI Aayog.
How many bees are there in India? India has a human census and a livestock census,
By Bibek Debroy January 31, 2021The series The Queen’s Gambit has reportedly triggered increased interest in chess,
By Bibek Debroy January 03, 2021The year was 1998. Airports and flights weren’t what they are now. Waiting at Delhi
By Bibek Debroy December 06, 2020The expression “reforms” is subjective, since one person’s reform can mean conform
By Bibek Debroy November 08, 2020Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj was originally written in Gujarati in 1908. This
By Bibek Debroy October 11, 2020Birth, copulation and death, wrote T.S. Eliot. Since 1969, there has been a statute
By Bibek Debroy September 13, 2020The origins of chess are shrouded in mystery. We know chaturanga (a reference to
By Bibek Debroy August 16, 2020Should one use tax policy to address concerns about equity, tax the rich relatively
By Bibek Debroy July 19, 2020Abraham Wald (1902-1950) was a mathematician, born in Hungary. Not many know that
By Bibek Debroy June 21, 2020A few weeks before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I went to visit a city
By Bibek Debroy May 24, 2020There was a recent news report about a resort in Coorg. If a guest wastes food, the
By Bibek Debroy April 26, 2020In 2014-2015, I had the good fortune to chair a committee on restructuring the
By Bibek Debroy March 29, 2020The Union Budget is not meant to change indirect taxes. Indirect taxes are the Goods
By Bibek Debroy February 22, 2020In the 2011 Census, India had a population of almost 121.1 crore. Of this, 29.5 per
By Bibek Debroy January 25, 2020Two-thirds of backlog of judicial cases are criminal cases, typically concentrated
By Bibek Debroy December 28, 2019