Publications

Articles

How Should the Supreme Court Solve Land Acquisition Problem? [Moneylife 11/11/2019]

What Troubles the Bureaucrats? [Moneylife 13/09/2019]

Exceptional Competitiveness Must Become the Bedrock of India’s Growth Model [Moneylife 06/09/2019]

How Lower Inflation Lowered Economic Growth With Many Knock-on Effects [Moneylife 28/08/2019]

Why the Indian Manufacturing Sector Does Not Take Off and How to Fix It [Moneylife 22/08/2019]

Interest on Compensation is Non-Taxable, Rules Bombay HC [Moneylife 16/08/2019]

Going Bananas over Taxation – Govt Must Put Its House in Order [Moneylife 01/08/2019]

Supreme Court To Decide on Land Acquisition Act [Moneylife 03/04/2019]

What Does the Law Say on Medical Negligence and Issues of Diagnosis, Treatment, Informed Consent, Interference and Damages? [Moneylife 14/03/2019]

How Can Smart Cities Be Built on ‘Dumb’ Development Plans? [Moneylife 22/01/2019]

Law and Order - The missing reform [ Moneylife - 29/11/2017]

How to stop farm loan waivers and farmer suicides [Moneylife -10/07/2017]


NHAI Crisis Series (Analysis of NHAI problem and policy solution to address it) [Moneylife - 03/10/2019 -30/10/2019]

The NHAI Crisis Part 1: How many roads do we need?

The NHAI Crisis Part 2: Making roads the Right Way!

The NHAI Crisis Part 3: What is wrong with NHAI?

The NHAI Crisis Part 4: The Problem with NHAI's Financials

The NHAI Crisis Part 5: The Tolling and Revenue puzzle!

The NHAI Crisis Part 6: How to Fix NHAI


Improving Best Series (On strategy for improving the Mumbai urban transportation operator BEST ) [ Moneylife - 30/10/2017 to 07/11/2017]

Improving BEST: Making City Transportation Profitable - Part 1,

Improving BEST: Revenue Generation of Mumbai’s public transporter –Part 2

Improving BEST: How to cut running cost of Mumbai’s public transporter? Part 3

Improving BEST: How better coordination helps increase usability and relevance –Part 4

Improving BEST: Why none of the routes of Mumbai’s public transporter is profitable–Part 5

Improving BEST: Fleet Re-Configuration to improve efficiency –Part 6

Improving BEST: Strategy for making the public transporter ‘Best for Mumbai’ –Part 7

Research Papers


LAW
  1. Common Law and Indian Cases on Medical Negligence deals with lays down the position of law on medical negligence to distill what care the doctors, patients and the hospitals need to take to reduce the instances of legal medical negligence. (2019)
  2. “Pre-marital Sex & Marriage – Position of Indian Law” deals with how Indian courts have dealt with cases of relationships which are not marriage but "in the nature" of marriage. (2013)
  3. “Common Law cases on liabilities of undisclosed Principal” deals with liabilities of principal when his identity is not disclosed by the agent. (2013)
  4. “Common Law cases on Remoteness of Damages” concerns with primary cause of damages in case of breach of contract particularly after the famous Achilles case. (2012)


ECONOMICS
  1. US, China & Free Trade looks at the reason there is a trade dispute between US and China, whether US China Trade is indeed fair and what are possible options for each of the countries to play this Trade War. (2019)
  2. A Solution to Farmer Suicides & Loan Waivers explores the reasons for agricultural stress and proposes a solution in the form of Smart Agriculture Management System (SAMS) to help markets function better in agriculture. (2017)
  3. Black Money and Demonetisation tries to predict if Demonetisation was a good idea or not. It explains the effect on black money and tries to evaluate the merits of the decision. (2016)