What should one expect from the upcoming Union budget? The honest answer – and I hope to be proved wrong – would be very little. When there is no problem to acknowledge, there is no problem to solve.

Can a sitting prime minister and other members of his council go around pitching for a market rally and expressly telling investors and traders to buy stocks?

The classic Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was brash, brusque, completely devoid of gender or other sensitivities. But hat he deserves credit for is positive attention he drew for the stock market.

The biggest test will be how LIC stock performs over a longer period. On that, there may be further disappointment if earlier state-owned IPOs are anything to go by.

In an interview with Mitali Mukherjee, the author talks about her book 'Encounters with Kiran', the overarching political environment for India and why she doesn’t recognise the new India anymore.

Mitali Mukherjee talks to the authors of 'The Comrades and the Mullahs', Ananth Krishnan and Stanly Johny, about how they read the current geo-political climate.

There are still two choices available. Admit that India is in dire need of serious monetary and fiscal recalibration or to brazen it through and leave things in an ‘as-is’ state.

Mitali Mukherjee speaks to Barkha Dutt about her new book, a collection of essays on her long and emotionally wrought road trips covering the spread and devastation of the pandemic.

Always volatile and high-strung, there is tumult once again in the cricket world.

Mitali Mukherjee and M.K. Venu discuss what will be the outcome for Indian markets and how will the economy be affected by surging commodity prices.

While the Centre doesn’t have a clear role in so much as a correction is concerned, it is now faced with the effects of a commodity price surge, global instability, sharp foreign investor outflows and rattled domestic sentiment.

Mitali Mukherjee and Neeta Sanghi discuss if India seized the opportunity to be the most important key to vaccine supply worldwide – especially for lower-income countries.

Author Mukulika Banerjee in her new latest book 'Cultivating Democracy – Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India' explains the reasons for the democratic slide in India in the last few years.

In an exclusive conversation with The Wire's Mitali Mukherjee, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said India must think about the direction in which events have proceeded in the past decade.

Ashwini Deshpande, founding director, CEDA, Ashoka University discusses with Mitali Mukherjee what is happening across India and how can governments help to manage economic distress.

The Union government has the awkward distinction of missing its divestment targets three years in a row. Here's why this is problematic on multiple levels.

What hasn’t been front and centre as a topic of conversation while talking about UP may become the simmering issue of discontent.

Recent economic events make it clear there are two Indias. Which one should the upcoming Budget speech address?

Ultimately the lack of democracy has a very strong connection with the way that equity is dealt with by the government and how much interest people get when the government thinks about their problems, the Nobel laureate said.