Shankkar Aiyar

Shankkar Aiyar (Columns, Opinions)

The rupee’s fall is triggered only partly by mood mechanics and is mostly affected by moolah mathematics.

India’s paradox: Rising growth and falling rupee

06 Dec 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting with Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Modi, Carney reset ties from lose-lose towards win-win

29 Nov 2025

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New Labour Codes: Push power, judicial, urban reforms next

22 Nov 2025

For folks at home, claims of lower inflation seem, in the words of H G Wells, as absurd as saying solid earth was liquid.

Low inflation optics and cost of living politics

15 Nov 2025

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The electoral republic of vote benefit transfers

08 Nov 2025

The rise in global indices is a curious jigsaw. Indices in richer economies growing slower are delivering higher returns.

Trick or treat: Posers from K-shaped world economy

01 Nov 2025

US President Donal Trump

Deal or no deal: 200 days of Trump’s tariff whiplashes

25 Oct 2025

Gold price rises

Gold rush, AI bubble, roaches and Scent of fear

18 Oct 2025

The upcoming electoral contest between the NDA and the opposition alliance led by RJD is, effectively, a competition of schemes.

Bihar’s long march of promise and why it matters

11 Oct 2025

United Nations: Fading footnote in history of hope

20 Sep 2025

European Council President Antonio Costa, from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a family photo during the G7 Summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Monday, June 16, 2025.

Poor rich G7 and their third world troubles

13 Sep 2025

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (C) and Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary (R) during the 56th GST Council meeting in New Delhi.

Use GST recast mood to cast reform net wider

06 Sep 2025

Beyond the outrage and the compulsions of binary jingoism, the fact is that the answer to the “unfair, unjustified and unreasonable” tariffs imposed by Trump is strengthening the domestic economy.

Tariff threat: Convene CMs’ meet, put reforms on clock

30 Aug 2025

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