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Arun Maira

Maira, a former member of the Planning Commission, is the author of Listening for Well-Being: Conversations with People Not Like Us

The fundamental reform India needs is the process of listening to other perspectives

Sat, Jan 23, 2021

Democratic governance is breaking down because no one is willing to listen to people they don’t understand or agree with.

Govt’s dismissal of farmers’ concerns reduces quality of policies, makes them harder to implement

Fri, Dec 11, 2020

Market reformers must clean up their ideological lenses and see the reality of where power lies in markets. As Barbara Harriss-White, a scholar of India’s agricultural markets once observed, “deregulated imperfect markets may become more, not less, imperfect than regulated imperfect markets.”

Post-Covid world must find ways to reduce distorting power of global capital

Wed, Oct 28, 2020

The way the rules of the economy and trade are made must change to create a more just and resilient world. Voices of the poorest people and their associations must be heard more loudly than the opinions of the rich and their lobbies.

During pandemic, we must keep older people engaged, not isolate them

Wed, Aug 26, 2020

We need “social cohesion”, not “social distancing”, in communities, and in humanity as a whole, to fight this pandemic and also improve human well-being.

Lessons from Covid, China: India needs a new paradigm for trade, industry, and development

Wed, Jul 15, 2020

It is needed not only to strengthen India vis-à-vis China, but to make the economy good for India’s poorer citizens too.

In post-Covid world, growth of business must not be at expense of societal well-being

Fri, Jun 26, 2020

The lockdowns following COVID-19 have caused many people to introspect about the purposes of their lives, and the purposes of the enterprises they serve. It has also provided an opportunity to reset the course of economies.

Workers, and those who speak for them, must be heard on labour laws

Fri, May 22, 2020

India must remain a democracy. Workers, and those who speak on their behalf, must be heard while framing or changing regulations. Their voices must not be silenced by ordinances.

Post-COVID economic models, rules of governance, must be bottom-up, not top-down

Wed, Apr 29, 2020

Recovery from COVID-19 is an opportunity to create economies that are more resilient and fair. Three architectural principles must apply.

It would be wise for countries to maintain sufficient ‘economic distancing’ amongst themselves

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Governments should mind the health of their own economies. Thereby, they will improve the health of the global economy too.

Hearing those unlike us is essential for the health of our society and nation

Wed, Jan 01, 2020

Let us reach out to a citizen of our country who is “not like us”. Let’s listen to who she or he really is. Let’s start a national listening movement. And lead the world to an International Listening Day.

Catalyse, don’t control

Fri, Sep 12, 2014

A forum for states, Centre to learn from each other should replace Planning Commission.

Planning a new commission

Tue, May 13, 2014

We need a Planning Commission for the 21st Century

The institutional way

Wed, Jun 20, 2012

With EU in turmoil and global markets roiled,India cannot muddle along

The art of getting things done

Tue, Apr 03, 2012

It is not just private sector that wants reforms in government systems

A day at the races

Tue, Feb 28, 2012

Budget forecasting is big but futile. Can we instead talk about implementation?

Get out of the box

Wed, Jan 04, 2012

Each government institution has to re-invent itself in this decade

It is time for Plan C

Tue, Nov 01, 2011

How to reshape the Planning Commission for our changed times

It is time for Plan C

Fri, Oct 28, 2011

How to reshape the Planning Commission for our changed times

A fuller freedom now

Sat, Aug 27, 2011

Indias young people have shown they have the zeal to break a corrupt system. Now they must learn to build a better one.

Indias discordant democrats

Thu, Jul 28, 2011

Second-generation reforms require a deeper conversation,within and outside legislative bodies

Including,through conversation

Wed, Jun 08, 2011

Citizens must talk to each other better,between elections,to make an aspirational democracy work.

Learn by doing

Tue, Apr 26, 2011

We need to focus on improving tangible processes,rather than pore over numbers on paper.

The Republic of institutions

Wed, Jan 26, 2011

Dont have stale debates about socialism. Focus on the future and reinvent Indias public institutions.

How to be inclusive

Wed, Dec 22, 2010

Dont pass off the messiness of public life as the music of democracy.

The future is a plan away

Sat, Sep 18, 2010

Reforming the Planning Commission to be a thought catalyst.

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