Pulapre Balakrishnan

Pulapre Balakrishnan is Professor of Economics, Ashoka University and Senior Fellow, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

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Activists shout slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata.

Review of The Crooked Timber of New India — Essays on a Republic in Crisis: India after 2014

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘it is with respect to education that India has fallen most behind the countries that are the manufacturing successes of the world’

At the root of India’s manufacturing challenge

Pulapre Balakrishnan

A shopkeeper counts ₹2,000 notes at a jewellery shop in Mumbai.

The fundamental value of the rupee

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘Clearly, it is the rising price of food that is driving current inflation in India’

Corporate power and Indian inflation

Pulapre Balakrishnan,M. Parameswaran

‘Brahmapuram defines our treatment of the earth’

Brahmapuram as a policy game-changer for Kerala

Pulapre Balakrishnan

At a job fair near Chennai

India must avoid growing into a dystopia

Pulapre Balakrishnan

The Madras famine of 1876-78, which covered most of the southern part of the country, occurred at a time when expenditure on wars was soaring. The belief that British policy in India caused repeated famines is bolstered by the fact that there has not been a single famine since 1947. Photo: Special Arrangement

Census as a mirror of past and present

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently flagged concerns about sluggish corporate investment.

Why India Inc. is not taking a Hanuman leap

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘The approach to inflation currently favoured in Anglo-American economics is the result of an evolution lasting close to a century’

How ideology muddled inflation control in India

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘Nehru seems to have anticipated that merely adopting democracy as a form of governance would not assure a fulfilling life for all Indians’

India, democracy and the promised republic

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Food in India has never been plentiful, reflected in the high share of the average household budget devoted to it.

The cost of misrepresenting inflation

Pulapre Balakrishnan,M. Parameswaran

Lost ground: The pandemic has wiped out progress made in reducing poverty over the past 2 decades.

A poverty trend in search of an explanation

Pulapre Balakrishnan

‘While celebrating India’s journey, there is also a need to recognise that there are forces are at work, weaakening its unity’

Driving the Balkanisation of India

Pulapre Balakrishnan

Koyambedu market in Chennai.

Inflation control needs another model

Pulapre Balakrishnan,M. Parameswaran