Writings
External essays, articles, and interviews — published elsewhere.
The cap on auto rickshaws is unjustified
Why arbitrary numerical caps on auto-rickshaws hurt riders, drivers, and the city — and what a better policy would look like.
Call of the liberals: Review of Aditya Balasubramanian's Toward A Free Economy
A review of Aditya Balasubramanian's history of free-market thought in post-independence India.
ViewPoint 14: Denationalisation of Banking in India
A case for unwinding bank nationalisation in India and the policy steps it would take.
Ambedkar Batted for Factories and not Romanticised Farms
Why Ambedkar would have favoured industrialisation and land acquisition over the romanticised village economy.
B. R. Shenoy: A Forgotten Economist And What Modi Can Learn from Him
Revisiting B. R. Shenoy's lone dissent against Nehruvian planning — and the lessons it still holds for India today.