The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.
Manish Sabharwal and Arunava Sinha write: A translation revolution is blurring aesthetic, linguistic and political borders. This will raise inclusiveness, prosperity and soft power
Wed, Aug 03, 2022Manish Sabharwal writes: Chief Ministers ought to create high wage jobs, and not borrow money future generations will have to repay
Tue, May 31, 2022Manish Sabharwal and Rituparna Chakraborty write: Enabling degree apprentices will make the Indian skill system self-healing, enrol 10 million young people, and make India the world's largest apprenticeship system
Mon, Apr 25, 2022Manish Sabharwal, Neeraj Kakkar write: The few that survive will raise India’s soft power and prosperity by using improbable ideas to solve impossible problems
Fri, Mar 18, 2022Manish Sabharwal writes: Reducing the 26,134 jail provisions in employer compliance will reduce corruption, accelerate job creation, and improve justice.
Fri, Feb 11, 2022🔴 Manish Sabharwal, Rajeev Mantri write: The government’s creativity and persistence in divesting the national carrier must be replicated with most of the remaining 360+ central PSUs
Thu, Jan 27, 2022Manish Sabharwal, Rajeev Mantri write: Three acts of private, nonprofit, policy intervention converged to accelerate our startup ecosystem.
Sat, Oct 30, 2021Manish Sabharwal and Rajiv Mehrishi write: Covid reinforces that good urbanisation is our most powerful technology for poverty reduction
Tue, Sep 21, 2021Manish Sabharwal and TV Mohandas Pai write: Regulatory simplicity allowed Indian industries built on minds — software services and start-up ecosystem — to flourish. There’s a lesson here for the rest of the economy
Sat, Sep 04, 2021Prosperity is possible and best accomplished by the goal of making the rupee a global reserve currency by 2047.
Wed, Aug 04, 2021Governance must shift from control of resources to learning outcomes; learning design, responsiveness, teacher management, community relationships, integrity, fair decision making, and financial sustainability.
Sat, Jul 10, 2021Thanks to these six factors, a new breed of entrepreneurs is participating in the recovery of the Covid-hit economy.
Wed, Jun 09, 2021Touted as “employee welfare” schemes since the 1950s, both have failed their clients since birthing and in COVID.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021Many students lack employability and workers lack productivity because learning is supply-driven. Learning-by-doing ensures demand-driven learning.
Thu, Feb 18, 2021This budget reflects policymaking that is risk-taking and ambitious. More importantly, when seen with the three Covid mini-budgets and seven previous annual budgets, it reflects policymaking that is iterative.
Tue, Feb 02, 2021The RBI working group challenges us to shift Indian banking to being open, big and inclusive from its current closed, small and exclusive form. No change is finalised, but let’s have an open debate without canceling the question.
Tue, Dec 08, 2020Ant IPO drama exposes China's contradictions. As global economic gravity shifts to Asia, financial services entrepreneurs must be empowered to seize the opportunity
Thu, Nov 12, 2020It sabotages economic justice because fiscally funding banking diverts money from education, health and skilling expenditure.
Wed, Oct 21, 2020The recent reform is substantial but must be followed by civil service, banking, compliance, decentralisation, and urban reform.
Thu, Oct 01, 2020Let's ignore the breathless demands for the government to borrow 10 lakh crore by stealing from our grandchildren. Let’s, instead, create climate change for our entrepreneurs, firms, and citizens with reforms that will give them economic Poorna Swaraj.
Thu, Sep 03, 2020Manish Sabharwal writes: God willing, we won’t test the RBI’s COVID worst-case scenario of 14.7 per cent bad loans but handling the inevitable COVID bank pain needs resisting short-termism. In the long run, we are not all dead.
Fri, Aug 07, 2020India’s current gap between the digitisation of the private sector and government often reflects the 1972 Dandekar Committee recommendation that no entity install a computer without first “justifying” its use to employees and their trade unions.
Thu, Jul 09, 2020Education reforms are an endeavour of profound optimism but have been stifled by purists, vested interests, and regulators. It is illogical to deny the poorna swaraj that comes with the Institutes of Eminence tag to Ashoka University and Ahmedabad University or pursue regulation-driven standardisation for our 993 universities.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020The COVID-19 lockdown exposes how per capita GDP is more important for our citizens than total GDP.
Mon, May 18, 2020The RBI must remember three things — acting prudently to balance the next quarter and quarter century, acting flexibly to blunt this economic cataclysm, and acting within their mandate to ensure institutional legitimacy and immunity.
Sat, May 02, 2020