Opinion: Cairn’s attempts to seize Indian assets abroad are a display of unbridled corporate avarice

The $1.2 billion arbitral award to the firm undermines the country’s efforts to provide Covid-19 aid to its people.

Ashish Khetan

· May 29, 2021 · 07:30 am

To break free from Beijing’s chokehold on solar manufacturing, India should act like China

The country needs to create an end-to-end solar supply chain and manufacturing ecosystem to boost the growth of its renewable energy sector.

Ashish Khetan

· May 25, 2021 · 07:30 am

Until India starts celebrating its entrepreneurs, it will never become an advanced economy

Selectively targeting Adani and Ambani is neither helping the Opposition politically nor benefitting the country economically.

Ashish Khetan

· Feb 28, 2021 · 11:30 am

Why Ashish Khetan wrote a book about his discoveries from going undercover during the Gujarat riots

‘I had always believed that, at some point, I would have to tell the full story of what I witnessed in Gujarat.’

Ashish Khetan

· Jan 13, 2021 · 08:30 am

Delhi violence: How India’s human rights defenders have been silenced

After the Gujarat riots, India’s civil society was crucial in ensuring the judicial and law enforcement authorities played by the rules.

Ashish Khetan

· Jun 16, 2020 · 07:30 am

India’s economic growth: Don’t just tell me the size of the pie – tell me the measure of my slice

India must follow the example of the UK, Australia and the Netherlands in publishing the data on economic inequality and wellbeing.

Ashish Khetan

· Jun 02, 2020 · 11:30 am

Beyond minimum wages: For equitable growth, India must maximise labour’s share in national income

India needs a new framework for workers’ rights.

Ashish Khetan

· May 23, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Why India needs to rethink its corporate tax cut

The steep reduction has achieved none of its stated objectives – but has left the government poorer by Rs 1.45 lakh crore.

Ashish Khetan

· May 14, 2020 · 07:30 am

Telecom crisis: Why India should consider buying embattled Vodafone Idea and merging it with BSNL

This would create the single largest player with the greatest telecom infrastructure, the most subscribers and save tens of thousands of jobs.

Ashish Khetan

· Feb 19, 2020 · 07:30 am

If simultaneous elections become a reality, India will turn into a ‘managed democracy’

Money, muscle power will dominate electoral politics.

Ashish Khetan

· Jan 31, 2018 · 08:00 am

Ashish Khetan: Look beyond the CBI raids on NDTV. Indian democracy itself is under siege

The Narendra Modi regime is systematically weakening all opposition to build a dissent-free, one-party state.

Ashish Khetan

· Jun 14, 2017 · 08:00 am