Education policy failure is being dressed up as innovation, employer abdication as a skills gapIndian universities are failing to equip graduates with needed skills. Private firms now offer expensive courses, creating a barrier for ma...
08 Jun, 2026, 11.31 PM IST
Modi government in panic mode on current economic situation: CongressThe Congress party alleges the Modi government is in panic over the economy. They point to a reported plan to remove capital gains tax on f...
04 Jun, 2026, 12.52 PM IST
It's popular mechanics 101: India’s edge lies in using AI to enhance human productivity, not replace itThe piece argues that AI is not an inevitable force shaping economic outcomes; rather, societies decide how its benefits are distributed. H...
28 Apr, 2026, 11.11 PM IST
Noida workers’ unrest: A story of hidden inflation and its impactNoida factory workers protest: Years of rising costs have diminished buying power, creating widespread discontent among many. Wage growth l...
23 Apr, 2026, 02.17 PM IST
The myth of India’s extreme inequality: What the data gets wrongRecent studies reveal a misrepresentation of income inequality in India, challenging the commonly accepted pre-tax Gini coefficient of 0.61...
20 Apr, 2026, 11.47 PM IST
Income disparity in India has declined 74.2% since FY14, reveals SBI studyThe SBI report has shown a 74.2% decline in income disparity for individuals earning up to Rs 5 lakh annually between FY14 and FY23, attrib...
25 Oct, 2024, 04.57 PM IST
K-shaped? Kabhi nahinA word that means stacked inequity on one side and stacked privilege on the other was coined by Peter Atwater, a lecturer at Virginia-based...
08 Jan, 2024, 11.17 PM IST
View: Recalculate inequality — it hasn’t worsened over time, it’s stayed the samePiketty and Chancel analysed different periods of taxation in India, and concluded that inequality dropped sharply from 1950 to the early 1...
04 Jan, 2024, 10.36 PM IST
View: Post-Covid recovery of poor households exceeds expectations. But many still need a leg-upThe recovery was aided by benefits received through welfare schemes of both state and central governments, which helped bolster support for...
22 Dec, 2023, 11.08 PM IST
The state of inequality in IndiaIn India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey for the years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 shows that the top 10% earn approximately equal to th...
19 May, 2022, 05.33 PM IST
India needs basic income scheme to make lockdown work: Thomas PikettyIndia needs to come out with a basic income scheme to make the lockdown work, Thomas Piketty said.
12 May, 2020, 09.34 PM IST
View: The missing politics of inequalityConsidering the level of inequality in India in recent times, which is incomparable to democracies around the world, one would expect it to...
15 Mar, 2020, 03.27 PM IST
Inequality rise extreme in India, not so for China: Report20 Dec, 2017, 06.16 PM IST
View: Thomas Piketty couldn't have been more wrong about India. Just look at the dataUsing tax data for the rich and survey data for the non-rich compounds the illusion. Using tax data for the rich and survey data for the no...
11 Oct, 2017, 10.34 AM IST
India has gone from British Raj to Billionaire Raj: Report"Top 1% of earners captured less than 21% of total income in the late 1930s, before dropping to 6% in early 1980s and rising to 22% today,"...
06 Sep, 2017, 12.00 PM IST
India has gone from British Raj to Billionaire Raj: ReportThe reports show that between 1980 and 2014, income of top 0.1% income earners in France and China rose six times faster than the income of...
06 Sep, 2017, 08.24 AM IST
We must learn to live with growing income inequalityWe should be clearer and less sanctimonious about inequality. Poverty is an absolute concept. Inequality is relative.
07 Oct, 2011, 11.18 AM IST