Manish Sabharwal

The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.

The virtues of formality

Mon, Jul 02, 2018

A massive enterprise formalisation is taking place, and one year of GST has given the process a boost.

How knowing English helps

Mon, May 28, 2018

Delhi’s move to introduce spoken English lessons for govt school students taps into a long-felt desire.

Signals from a bankruptcy

Fri, May 25, 2018

The Bhushan case is a brick in the wall of a new corporate meritocracy where rule of law matters.

Karl Marx: Evaluating the long shadow

Wed, May 09, 2018

We should judge Karl Marx not by his intentions but by the outcomes.

The great bank fiddle

Mon, Apr 16, 2018

Bankers’ demands for accounting forbearance are dangerous and self-serving.

Changing our stories

Sat, Mar 10, 2018

New India’s challenge is thinking about the future with economic stories that don’t ignore or glorify the past.

Moving from jobs to wages

Fri, Feb 02, 2018

A budget that does not believe that in the long run we are all dead.

Reveal, recognise, resolve

Wed, Dec 20, 2017

Gap between global banks and Indian banks on bad loan recovery is set to narrow

Aiming high, looking far

Tue, Nov 07, 2017

Five ways in which demonetisation made India a better habitat for formal job creation

Good news on bad loans

Tue, Oct 10, 2017

Relationship between entrepreneurs, banks, bankruptcy is being reworked to end culture of impunity.

Jobs, facts and fiction

Tue, Jul 18, 2017

India has more formal non-farm jobs than we think. Creating millions more needs labour, education reforms

Ignore the jobs doomsayers

Tue, May 30, 2017

Notion that India has peaked in manufacturing & IT employment is at best premature, at worst, dishonest

Three ten-year plans

Mon, May 01, 2017

As India shifts from reducing poverty to boosting a middle class, goals must be set for land, labour, capital

Do less, do it better

Mon, Mar 27, 2017

New NITI Aayog recruitment rules should trigger a revamp of the Indian state’s human capital

US, me, myself

Tue, Jan 31, 2017

President Trump’s economic nationalism reinforces urgency of fixing India’s land, labour markets.

A new story of us

Fri, Dec 30, 2016

GST and demonetisation are risky. But they could end up reviving the lost romance of policy.

Jobs vs Wages

Mon, Nov 21, 2016

Three faultlines in wages sabotage private formal job creation. Demonetisation will undo some damage.

Day of the specialist

Mon, Aug 29, 2016

Public policy requirements of the 21st century demand a bureaucracy less generalist

The case for Holdco

Thu, Jun 30, 2016

Attracting the best human capital needs moving PSUs into an independent holding company.

From poetry to prose

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

Union budget reinforces the message that India will not be hot or cold but consistently warm.

Jul 23: Latest News

Novel character: Mumbai in Sacred Games is just one of many cities to play a pivotal role in a book

Several Indian authors, much like Vikram Chandra did in Sacred Games, have also explored cities as characters in their novel and sometimes even titled their work of labour after them.

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