Manish Sabharwal

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America is going back on all the things that made it great. India’s must seize the opportunitySubscriber Only

July 12,2025 07:05:54 AM

Success is far from guaranteed but the moment feels auspicious

Sat, Jul 12, 2025

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For a Viksit Bharat, India needs to cut down on its regulatory cholesterolSubscriber Only

May 30,2025 07:00:44 AM

The journey from India’s first government budget of Rs 198 crore in 1947 to spending over a hundred lakh crore has delivered many good outcomes, but we must slow down spending and public debt growth if we aspire to be good ancestors

Fri, May 30, 2025

Contrast the 1972 Vietnam War photo of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running with her clothes burnt by napalm with the 1993 images of terrorists surrendering with their hands above their heads after the first siege at Hazratbal, and the 2024 pictures of voter lines in state elections. (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

Lessons from India in tackling proxy wars and terrorismSubscriber Only

April 30,2025 06:49:29 AM

India's long-term strategy in Kashmir offers the world three valuable lessons

Wed, Apr 30, 2025

Uproar over rising fee in private schools in Delhi has revived a question: How can education be made accessible without compromising on quality? (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

More regulation on private schools is bad ideaSubscriber Only

April 25,2025 07:09:53 AM

The notion that the failure of government schools can be overcome by higher regulatory cholesterol for private schools ignores rising costs, including higher teacher salaries, skyrocketing construction costs, and increasing land prices.

Fri, Apr 25, 2025

The current system also blurs the lines between minor infractions and serious crimes.

Jan Vishwas 2.0 and 3.0 will find the ‘madhyam marg’ between trusting and punishing citizensSubscriber Only

March 19,2025 07:05:44 AM

The current system also blurs the lines between minor infractions and serious crimes. It can award lesser punishment for serious offences and severe punishment for lesser offences

Wed, Mar 19, 2025

Three flick-of-a-pen reforms chief ministers can make to put India on the path to prosperitySubscriber Only

February 25,2025 07:01:18 AM

CMs can help raise numbers of high-wage employers by digitisation, decriminalisation and civil service rationalisation

Tue, Feb 25, 2025

Understanding a nation through its linguistic and literary heritage is key to equal citizenship, identity, and soft powerSubscriber Only

February 16,2025 07:17:42 AM

India’s translation ecosystem is ready to help by moving to the next orbit. India’s first non-profit, open-access and crowd-sourced database of Indian translations is now searchable at www.bhashavaad.org.

Sun, Feb 16, 2025

India’s wage challenge has shifted from chronic to immediate — here’s what to doSubscriber Only

December 16,2024 07:57:44 AM

Reversing our gaze by moving from a bird to a worm’s eye policy view of the daily life of employers suggests private, productive, formal non-farm jobs that pay higher wages need digitising, decriminalising and rationalising regulatory cholesterol.

Mon, Dec 16, 2024

India could not create mass prosperity. It’s not too lateSubscriber Only

November 04,2024 04:00:46 AM

The challenge must be met through high-productivity firms and factories

Mon, Nov 04, 2024

While the new wave of non-profit universities has built a strong track record of not loading capital expenditures onto fees, the next frontier for them is raising untied funding for operating costs. (File Photo)

Making campus equal, excellentSubscriber Only

September 25,2024 07:43:55 AM

The biggest challenge for non-profit universities is convincing philanthropy to fund revenue expenses because it is easy to confuse university buildings with building universities.

Wed, Sep 25, 2024

Abrogating Article 370 was a necessary, but not sufficient condition for ending terrorismSubscriber Only

August 05,2024 07:10:43 AM

Recent attacks on the army in the Jammu region show desperation and remind us that the job of ending terror in J&K is far from finished. Risk-taking to restore peace must continue.

Mon, Aug 05, 2024

The recent decline in violence represents the possibilities of what is called Saadi Set Nairin (end of seven and a half) in Kashmiri. Better days lie ahead. (PTI)

From abrogation of Article 370 to Pakistan’s decline: Five reasons why violence is down in J&KSubscriber Only

July 07,2024 14:00:31 PM

The most significant change is a new political tone from the top — we don't have to be Western to be modern, we have zero tolerance for terrorism, and India@100 must be a developed country. India’s soft and hard power are changing Pakistan’s niyat (intentions), calculations, and options

Fri, Jul 12, 2024

No, Pakistan’s employment picture isn’t better than IndiaSubscriber Only

May 08,2024 08:30:24 AM

The only real data in labour markets — everything else is a model — are prices and votes. Both suggest that a massive transformation of India’s labour market is underway.

Wed, May 08, 2024

The current political weather around migration is brutal. Trump’s Make America Great Again campaign is thinly gift-wrapped “Make America White Again”, and he believes immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”. (AP/ PTI Photo)

As Trump attacks migrants, how India can help itself and the West on labour migrationSubscriber Only

March 05,2024 16:32:00 PM

Services exports give India the legitimacy to anchor an orderly guest worker programme that will raise global prosperity

Fri, Mar 08, 2024

India’s first National Security Strategy document is being written and will propose accelerating domestic defence production (Representational Image)

In today’s tech-savvy times, the importance of combining shaastra (knowledge) with shastra (weapons)Subscriber Only

January 29,2024 07:15:33 AM

Our proposed National Security Strategy must target 10 Indian universities in the global top 100

Mon, Jan 29, 2024

The recent Jan Vishwas Bill, now a law, has reduced corruption demands on employers by removing 113 jail provisions across 23 laws.

Distrust of employers is bred into Indian policy. It needs to endSubscriber Only

January 08,2024 07:30:33 AM

Jan Vishwas Bill 1.0 recognised this problem but couldn’t do enough. A Jan Vishwas 2.0 that aims higher is needed, so that job creation can be accelerated

Mon, Jan 08, 2024

Many people in J&K will be understandably unnerved by the finality of the Supreme Court judgment. But decades of blood, pain and tears demanded shaking the status quo.

Abrogation of Article 370 upheld: Better days lie ahead for KashmirisSubscriber Only

December 11,2023 14:53:04 PM

The end of special constitutional status dramatically improves the prospects of peace and prosperity in J&K

Tue, Dec 12, 2023

WeWork was entrepreneurial hype but was only possible with the investors that gave it money with the willing suspension of disbelief around its addressable market being $3 trillion.

What start-ups get wrong: Lessons from WeWorkSubscriber Only

November 13,2023 07:15:10 AM

The company had no use for past learnings about market, strategies, capital, governance, and sustainability. It paid for its arrogance

Mon, Nov 13, 2023

India is ready for the simultaneous pursuit of justice, equality, excellence. Indians should create a glide path to reach 100 years of Independence with 100 per cent reservation for 100 per cent of its people.

Best of both sides | Manish Sabharwal writes: Bihar caste survey is a cynical attempt to expand reservation — India needs a different approachSubscriber Only

October 13,2023 07:14:26 AM

Reservation is a valuable tool but India is ready for something more universal, for the simultaneous pursuit of justice, equality, excellence

Fri, Oct 13, 2023

Anantnag attack: Pakistan’s terror factory won’t back down without new calculationsSubscriber Only

September 14,2023 19:42:27 PM

It has been weakened but it needs to be stopped. The world must blunt global terrorism by helping Pakistan’s people to force their defence forces to defend, not rule

Fri, Sep 15, 2023

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G20 in India: Time to pounce on an opportunitySubscriber Only

August 21,2023 07:30:45 AM

September's G20 meeting in Delhi is a logical milestone in India’s journey of combining democracy with prosperity.

Mon, Aug 21, 2023

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Manish Sabharwal writes: How to renovate India’s soft powerSubscriber Only

June 10,2023 07:50:09 AM

Our hard power of domestically made drones, planes, and aircraft carriers must combine with the soft power of domestic universities, think tanks and schools that generate globally relevant books, articles, papers, technology, research, translations, and patents

Sat, Jun 10, 2023

Manish Sabharwal writes: For civil services, HR lessons from the militarySubscriber Only

April 20,2023 07:07:00 AM

Copying cutting-edge practices in hiring, specialisation and organisational structure will serve the bureaucracy well

Thu, Apr 20, 2023

With Bharat Jodo Yatra ending in Kashmir, a reason to remember Sheikh AbdullahSubscriber Only

February 03,2023 14:54:48 PM

Let’s recall his nationalism, pragmatism, and even imperfections, as we imagine a Naya Kashmir.

Mon, Mar 06, 2023

With India crossing China’s population next year, how we can create mass prosperitySubscriber Only

December 22,2022 07:19:08 AM

Experience and evidence now firmly suggest the odds of mass prosperity in the planet’s most populous nation rise from possible to probable by anchoring our strategy in human capital and formal jobs rather than fiscal or monetary policy.

Tue, Jan 03, 2023