Five things to keep in mind to separate the noise from the substance For business editors, corporate titans and economists, the great Budget circus is an annual national event second only to, perhaps, IPL. The build up...
Prosenjit DattaThe Pre Budget Podcast 5 – Direct Tax Questions
In this episode, Himanshu Sinha, who leads the tax practice at Trilegal gives his views on what is possible on the direct tax front, why he remains bullish about tax collections, and also why the Covid cess is the...
Too many shortcuts
The DCGI needs to realise that unlike a vaccine will eventually be given to the entire population and that is why it is particularly important to be careful about approving it. The Coronavirus pandemic has tested the...
The Pre Budget Podcast 3 – Fixing the Economy
Sanjay Kumar, Partner and National Public Policy Leader of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in Chief, Prosaicview to discuss what the Budget can do to speed up the recovery and put India back on a sustained...
The Pre Budget Podcast 2 – All About Taxes
Anil Talreja, partner, Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, editor in chief of Prosaicview to discuss the tax changes that might come in the first Post Covid Budget to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala...
The Pre Budget Podcast 1 – Exports
Mahesh Jaisingh, partner, Deloitte and Prosenjit Datta discuss what the government can do to improve India’s export performance
Allowing Foxes in the Hen House
The suggestion of the RBI Internal Working Group that corporations should be allowed to own banks is a bad idea It is a bit difficult to understand why the Internal Working Group (IWG) of the Reserve Bank of India bats...
Going beyond Zoom for Education
Technology tools exist to improve the quality of school education. But most of the discussion on the subject has been quite superficial. For a very long time, politicians, bureaucrats, educationists and technology...