Indian Economy
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The Raj With a New Flag: Gandhi and the Inherited State
Gandhi built India’s nation; the Raj built its state. Pakistan’s Afghan strikes, Delhi’s protest ban and the RBI rate rise show that inherited state at work.
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80 achievement of the Modi government on the 80th Independence Day 2026
Calvin D’Souza, in his first post, lists what he calls 80 undeniable achievements of the Modi government for Independence Day 2026, from the national grid, trade deals and ports to…
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Did Modi Make India Great Again?
X.T.M, writing from Delhi, weighs what one Modi tenure has compounded against Britain’s seven prime ministers in a decade, citing India’s rise to fourth-largest economy, and asks what continuity buys…
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New writing ideas
Notes on possible future posts, including one on how the Hindu epics made geographical India into cultural India, and a commenter’s argument that coastal connectivity explains why some Indian states…
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Modi 3 and the fruits of fiscal Tapasya
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s election-year budget broke from freebies, citing the 2019 farmer cash transfer and Congress’s welfare promises in Karnataka, and reads this as the government’s confidence…
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Modi’s fiscal masterclass
Guest writer Saiarav argues that Modi’s second term showed fiscal discipline through global turbulence without losing political capital, and explains why India has strong reasons to reduce deficits, from debt…
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Random musings on the interim budget
Guest writer Saiarav sets out his takeaways from India’s interim budget: a stunningly non-populist budget in an election year, with almost nothing for voters, which he reads as Modi’s supreme…
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Podcast: A “Frank” conversation about modern Indian politics
A BrownCast in which the host and Akshar talk to ‘Frank’, an Indian financial professional interested in history and politics, about everything from Nehruvian India to Modinomics and Hindutva, and…
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Modinomics: Why India is Rising
An essay arguing that India’s rise has largely been explained by outsiders rather than analysed, and that the Modi government deserves credit for it, set against a Nehruvian socialist inheritance…
