Tags: Ajay Shah
The Arrogance of Power
May 21st, 2013
in Op Ed
by Ajay Shah, ajayshahblog Yu Hua has a great piece in the New York Times titled In China, Power is Arrogant where he says: Several of these rules have since been revoked, but their wacky and arbitrary nature demonstrates the arrogance of power i… more »
A Sea Change In the Knowledge of the Young In India
April 13th, 2013
in Op Ed
by Ajay Shah, ajayshahblogp> In 1887, roughly 14 million children were born in India, and we got one Ramanujan. It seems reasonable to think that there were 9 others who went undiscovered. We may guess that the Ramanujan rate is roughly one in a mil… more »
How to Improve Freedom of Speech in India
February 24th, 2013
in Op Ed
Most of us in India understand that there is a huge problem with freedom of speech in India. India now ranks at the bottom of the world on freedom of speech. Here is some interesting discussion on such facts. For a sense of the zeitgeist, see an edito… more »
Is This A Time for Monetary Policy Easing?
January 29th, 2013
in Op Ed
Click to enlarge The best price index in India is the CPI-IW. 'Headline inflation' in India corresponds to the widely watched year-on-year change in the CPI-IW. The above graph shows us the experience of inflation in India from 1999 onwards. The info… more »
Activism and Wonkery Are the Yin and Yang
January 21st, 2013
in Op Ed, syndication
by Ajay Shah The first element of achieving change is a dissatisfied public that is able to speak up. In places like China, freedom of speech is circumscribed and it is not that easy to express dissatisfaction with the way things are going. In India al… more »
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