Rajat Kathuria
The writer is director & chief executive, ICRIER. Views are personal.
Wed, Apr 13, 2022
Rajat Kathuria, Isha Suri write: Its use as a tool for market development must balance consumer protection, innovation, and competition.
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
Rajat Kathuria, Mansi Kedia write: Economic policymaking needs to be insulated from politics and vested interests of business, as underlined by breaches in NSE.
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
🔴 Rajat Kathuria, Isha Suri write: The enduring lesson from the two decades or more of previous experience shows that even if companies have equal access to skills and technology, access to government is unequal
Fri, Nov 26, 2021
Rajat Kathuria, Mansi Kedia write: The benefits of digitalisation could have been much larger and more widespread had telecom policy been more predictable and less erratic
Mon, Nov 16, 2020
Anti-trust proceedings against Google could mark a shift from the times when it, along with Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, dictated terms in the tech world.
Tue, Sep 29, 2020
For a scholar of her stature and with all the exceptional achievements to boot, she could well have rested on her laurels. There was nothing left to prove. But that was not Isher.
Wed, Sep 16, 2020
With reports of network quality deteriorating by almost 20 per cent, the need of the hour is to augment network capacity immediately and be future ready when 5G comes along.
Thu, Feb 13, 2020
When the Supreme Court adjudicated on the definition of adjusted gross revenue, it was in no mood to give the benefit of doubt to telecom operators, even for legitimate reasons.
Sat, Jan 18, 2020
If the SC judgment sticks, competition will remain debilitated. Moreover, the demands that governments make of the telecom sector could be an enormous burden for Jio alone. Sometimes, to win the war one has to lose the battle. This is a battle well worth losing for Jio.
Sat, Nov 16, 2019
Worried about the future of the public sector entities, the government has crafted a revival plan, including a merger of BSNL and MTNL. In management jargon, the merger could potentially unlock synergies, but unfortunately there appear none on the telecom horizon.
Tue, Aug 20, 2019
A question uppermost on trade economists’ minds is whether the WTO is worth saving. One way to evaluate the question is to investigate its achievements, with the obvious caveat that the past is an imperfect guide to the future.
Thu, Jul 04, 2019
Unfortunately, the revenue enthusiasm of the private entrants was belied, not least because tariffs for the new services were set at impossibly high levels. The Rs 156 per month rental and Rs 16.80 per peak minute tariffs encouraged subscription but not usage. Revenues did not materialise and besides, the incumbent public sector monopoly made life hard for the private sector entrants.
Death by Breath
Fri, Apr 10, 2015
India is at a crossroads: It can pursue a carbon-intensive development agenda with huge health implications.
Fri, May 14, 2010
Trais recommendations attempt to correct past errors.