Farmers for federalism In Bloomberg Quint , Yamini Aiyer argues that Modi’s failure to pass agricultural reforms makes the case for greate...
Farmers for federalism
In Bloomberg Quint, Yamini Aiyer argues that Modi’s failure to pass agricultural reforms makes the case for greater consensus building with states on broad national policy.
More needs to be done to invest in institutions that enable better centre-state coordination. Our frameworks for economic policymaking have to recognise that sustainable long-term reform cannot be achieved by undermining federalism. Rather it requires strengthening federal institutions.
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An impossible founding
Is the constitution of India a promissory note? Or was it, to reprise a famous comment of the Mahatma’s on another British effort at constitutional founding in India, a post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank?
In the Global Intellectual History journal, historian Faisal Devji argued that India’s Constituent Assembly actually ended up entrenching the dominance of caste and community in newly independent India. The Congress’ single-party status in the aftermath of Partition meant the party was able to deploy a confessional and upper caste majority in the Constituent Assembly to dismantle the long-standing constitutional privileges, however undesirable, of a religious minority in the grip of severe discrimination.
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Beyond the transportation debate of city vs suburb
In the United States, the transportation debate as it usually plays out today amounts to a fight between cars and transit writ large. Like so much else in American life,...
