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, 2021
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Bibek Debroy
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anita Pratap
- Shobhaa De
- Anuja Chauhan
- Navtej Sarna
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019 -
Preventing chronic kidney disease
By Dr Bharat V. Shah July 20, 2019 -
Building capacity
By Dr Sanjiv Kumar July 20, 2019 -
Patient safety, the prime priority
By Pavan Mocherla June 15, 2019 -
Hit in the heart
By Dr C.N. Manjunath May 25, 2019 -
Five worrying factors this election season
May 18, 2019
Bibek Debroy
Bibek 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.
The forgotten knights
The series The Queen’s Gambit has reportedly triggered increased interest in chess,
By Bibek Debroy January 03, 2021
The aspirational districts
The year was 1998. Airports and flights weren’t what they are now. Waiting at Delhi
By Bibek Debroy December 06, 2020
Clips on reforms
The expression “reforms” is subjective, since one person’s reform can mean conform
By Bibek Debroy November 08, 2020
Cooling all classes
Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj was originally written in Gujarati in 1908. This
By Bibek Debroy October 11, 2020
Counting conundrum
Birth, copulation and death, wrote T.S. Eliot. Since 1969, there has been a statute
By Bibek Debroy September 13, 2020
An Indian definition of recession
The origins of chess are shrouded in mystery. We know chaturanga (a reference to
By Bibek Debroy August 16, 2020
The tangle of taxes
Should one use tax policy to address concerns about equity, tax the rich relatively
By Bibek Debroy July 19, 2020
Need a good model
Abraham Wald (1902-1950) was a mathematician, born in Hungary. Not many know that
By Bibek Debroy June 21, 2020
The identity crisis
A few weeks before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I went to visit a city
By Bibek Debroy May 24, 2020
We cook too much...
There was a recent news report about a resort in Coorg. If a guest wastes food, the
By Bibek Debroy April 26, 2020
En route to reforms
In 2014-2015, I had the good fortune to chair a committee on restructuring the
By Bibek Debroy March 29, 2020
GST matters
The Union Budget is not meant to change indirect taxes. Indirect taxes are the Goods
By Bibek Debroy February 22, 2020
A country of the young? Not really
In the 2011 Census, India had a population of almost 121.1 crore. Of this, 29.5 per
By Bibek Debroy January 25, 2020
Learning from Macaulay
Two-thirds of backlog of judicial cases are criminal cases, typically concentrated
By Bibek Debroy December 28, 2019