Are we on the right track to achieve 30 trillion $ economy by 2047? I examine the issue with Sanjay Kumar and NK Sharma, who retired from the Ministry of statistics and program implementation. thewire.in/economy/indias…

Dear airtel India neither the wifi not the 4G or 5G are working in sector 61 Noida. Please get it fixed. How do we work without access to Internet?

Spoke to hashtag Manisha Gupta of CNBC-TV18 about the damage to kharif crops, especially in Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Conditions are favourable for a good rabi crop. cnbctv18.com/agriculture/in…

Dear GST Tech The GST portal is not working and the GSTR-1 filed can not be downloaded. Please make it work.

We write on inter- state inequality in rates of growth. Similarly there is disparity between Agriculture and Non- Agriculture sectors. The lead author, Mr Sanjay Kumar was Additional DG MoSPI. m.thewire.in/article/econom…

Taking per worker GVA in agriculture & allied activities as in the SDG Progress Report 2025 and the corresponding total GVA from NAS-2025, the number of workers in agriculture has remained the same at 26.31 crore for 9 years from 2015-16 to 2023-24 (minor rounding off ignored).

Unintended consequences of blending ethanol with petrol. moneycontrol.com/news/opinion/u… In this article with Garima Jain, I examine the disastrous effect of DDGS from maize on soybean crop.

Dear Amul.coop If you are not able to deliver, please do not take online orders. And please do not depute your officers to conferences to promote online shipping of Amul products.

The book Truth Pill has documented details about the lax regulation of drug manufacturers. This book must be read by all the IAS probationers. CGHS now gives medicines made by unknown companies. Only hope that the regulator is doing its job, at least for CGHS supplies.

Dear Amazon India For the last five days I am getting messages that Amazon shipping will deliver Amul's high protein cheese. Tracking number 363876931916. Why are you misleading customers? Amul.coop may also find out.

The fake propaganda of infiltrators in Bihar by the BJP-Modi has been exposed here — Total Objection — 3.75 lakh Objection of foreigners — 1087 Objection accepted — 390 No of Muslim in this — 76 10 in Seemanchal, out of which only 5 are Muslims in which 2 are dead. So only 3.

The ownership of computers in India has had a slow growth. Over the last two decades, the share of households who own computers grew from just over 1% to just over 9%. In most developed countries, on the other hand, computer ownership is above 75%. This growth has been even

Dear WhatsApp In the age of AI, why can't you identify if a contact is in more than one broadcast list?

This is how farmers are treated by big Corporates. Farmer's contract required 24 brix (sugars). His crop measured 23.9, barely missing the mark. That 0.1% shortfall was enough to erase an entire year’s income. This is in US. yahoo.com/finance/news/c…

Yearly reminder that festivals feel festive only because women labour in the kitchen, decorate, shop, do the religious activities the whole freaking day. Without them it will just be a bunch of men sitting in front of the TV discussing random political events that they know

In the third piece in Viksit Bharat series in The Wire we examine the challenge of reaching life expectancy of 84 years by 2047. In this series, we have examined the promises and the potential of Viksit Bharat. thewire.in/health/viksit-…

"How India is losing it's Supreme Court" - An important and worrying piece by Samar Halarnkar substack.com/home/post/p-17…

Modern science answers a lot of questions about ancestry, and destroys the myths.

It will be a privilege to moderate a fabulous panel on Food Systems tomorrow at 5 pm at Constitution Club. It has three of India's top experts, Prof Dr Ramesh Chand, Dr Mangi Lal Jat and Prof Soumya Swaminathan. Hosted by Bharat Krishak Samaj. @AjayJakhar acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…

Business newspapers and TV channels should be educating people about exorbitant valuations of Lenskart IPO. And they should ask mutual funds to explain to their investors why they found the valuation justified.