prosaicview https://www.prosaicview.com/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:03:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 The Nonsensical GDP Debates https://www.prosaicview.com/the-nonsensical-gdp-debates/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-nonsensical-gdp-debates/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:34:03 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=401 I have followed with a lot of interest and now amusement the hysterical debates on television and social media platforms after Mr Subhash Chandra Garg, former finance secretary, pointed out in a television debate that the absolute nominal GDP figure (or GDP at current prices) for first quarter of FY26 had been revised sharply downwards […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-nonsensical-gdp-debates/feed/ 1 Scorched Earth War https://www.prosaicview.com/scorched-earth-war/ https://www.prosaicview.com/scorched-earth-war/#respond Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:40:57 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=399 It is not clear how the term “scorched earth strategy” came about. Some point to war reporting by journalists who started using the phrase to describe the tactics of a certain US General in World War 2. Others say it is the English translation of the Chinese phrase jiaoutu zhengce – literally scorched earth policy […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/scorched-earth-war/feed/ 0 Trump’s Tariff’s are not another 1991 moment for India https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/ https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:04:17 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=395 As US President Donald Trump’s Liberty Day tariff is introduced, several economic commentators have begun saying this is an opportunity for India, not unlike the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis it faced, which led to the economic reforms. The assumption here is that Trump’s Tariffs could force the Indian government to lower the import tariffs it has […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/feed/ 0 Abhijit Sen Passes Away https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/ https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:46:00 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=390 Dr Abhijit Sen, renowned economist, former member of the Planning Commission, and the strongest votary of universal Public Distribution System passed away on Monday, 29 August 2022. He was 72. A renowned agricultural economist, he was the chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices set up by the A B Vajpayee government. The […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on IBC https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/#respond Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:40:51 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=386 In this episode of The Prosaicview Podcast, Veena Sivaramakrishnan, partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and an expert on the insolvency law talks to Prosenjit Datta about the changes that have been proposed as well as the changes that she would like to see in the IBC. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1631632/episodes/9381350

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/feed/ 0 The Government’s Tax Disputes https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/ https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/#respond Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:59:14 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=379 Removing the retrospective tax, while a good step, is not enough to solve the tax disputes problem The retrospective tax provision that the late Pranab Mukherjee had introduced as a clause buried in the fine print during while presenting the Union Budget in 2012-13 as Finance Minister in UPA II is finally being repealed. It […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on the OECD/G20 Tax Proposal https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/#respond Wed, 25 Aug 2021 06:03:04 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=383 In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I discuss the OECD/G20 tax proposal that 130 countries have broadly agreed on with Mr Rohinton Sidhwa, Partner, Deloitte India. We discuss its implications for India, the nuances of the various clauses and whether it will actually prevent big companies from reducing taxes using tax havens around the […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/feed/ 0 Vodafone-Idea Case: Don’t Miss the Woods for the Trees https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/#respond Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:22:03 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=373 The troubles at Vi are huge. But they are actually just a symptom of the mess in the telecom industry which needs to be fixed.   Vi – the Indian telecom giant formed by the merger of Vodafone India and the AV Birla group’s Idea Cellular in a $23 billion dollar deal in 2017 – […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/feed/ 0 PSUs: The Right Questions and the Wrong Ones https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/ https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/#respond Sun, 01 Aug 2021 07:53:59 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=367 The two most important questions are almost never asked when the decision to disinvest or privatise a PSU is taken Whenever any government in India announces its intention to privatise or otherwise dispose off any public sector enterprise (PSE), a heated debate starts off. The current target of trying to get Rs 1.75 lakh crore […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-business-responsibility-and-sustainability-reporting/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-business-responsibility-and-sustainability-reporting/#respond Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:12:24 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=372 In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I talk with Dr Inderjeet Singh, Director – Financial Advisory, Deloitte India about the new Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) norms that the top 1000 listed companies by market capitalisation will need to comply with as per the Securities and Exchange Board of India directive. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1631632/episodes/8960881

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