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Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal

Sanjeev Sanyal is an internationally acclaimed economist, environmentalist, urban theorist and the best-selling author of The Ocean of Churn & The Land of Seven Rivers. He tweets as @sanjeevsanyal

Articles by Sanjeev Sanyal

Sharad Pawar, Ashish Shelar remain in-charge of city cricket body MCA

Mumbai, India. Nov 12, 2025 - Sharad Pawar, the chief of the National Congress Party (NCP) and Nana Patole, Congress MLA arrived at Wankhede Stadium to cast their vote in the Mumbai Cricket Association election.Mumbai, India. Nov 12, 2025. (Photo by Raju Shinde/HT Photo) (Raju Shinde)

Updated on Nov 13, 2025 11:01 am IST

Jan Vishwas Bill: Towards trust-based governance

The legislation empowers regulatory authorities to impose monetary penalties through administrative channels rather than dragging cases through criminal courts. (Shutterstock)

Published on Sept 02, 2025 08:46 pm IST

Work-visa focus in FTA talks doesn’t help India

The negotiating leverage and political capital spent on securing such commitments could be better utilised in negotiating for lower tariffs and meaningful market access

Published on Nov 19, 2024 07:56 pm IST

Trim the monuments list, not all are worthy

Nicholson Cemetery (Hemant Arya/Wikimedia Commons)

Published on Aug 05, 2024 09:04 pm IST

Compounding India to prosperity in new term

When India began to reform its economy in 1991-92, its GDP amounted to just $270 billion in nominal terms. (AFP)

Published on Jun 05, 2024 01:16 am IST

How best to regulate Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken in March.(REUTERS)

Published on Nov 06, 2023 10:17 pm IST

Undergrad learning can be made free. Here’s how

Ask yourself the following questions: Is there a need to spend four years on a university campus to attend lectures that are freely accessible online?(HT Photo)

Published on Jul 05, 2023 10:07 pm IST

Rethink India’s nationally protected monuments list

The list includes several minor monuments with no national significance. We estimate that this applies to at least a quarter of the current list. The list, for instance, includes 75 graves of colonial-era soldiers or officials of no particular importance. (ASI/Dharwad Circle)

Updated on Nov 18, 2022 09:38 am IST

The new architecture of a new India

Great cities and societies are not those that unquestioningly preserve everything from the past. They evolve and add new things while retaining the best from the past

Published on Jan 06, 2021 08:23 pm IST

Transforming public administration

Reforms include a national recruitment agency, compulsory retirement, rationalisation of autonomous bodies, and a taxpayers charter(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Sept 14, 2020 07:25 pm IST

Ending Inspector Raj in agriculture, writes Sanjeev Sanyal

A law will be introduced to allow farmers to sell their produce as they wish. Barrier-free interstate trade will be encouraged(Sanchit Khanna/HT PHOTO)

Updated on May 20, 2020 05:43 am IST

Why PM’s Independence Day speech should move out of Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Red Fort on the occasion of 69th Independence Day celebrations in New Delhi. Neither the national capital nor Delhi’s Red Fort have any special place in it beyond tradition. Freedom belongs equally to residents of the smallest village in Meghalaya or Kerala.(Ajay Aggarwal/HT)

Published on Jan 25, 2017 11:02 am IST

We need a law to streamline the rules

The law on transparency of rules should suit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative(PTI photo)

Updated on Dec 07, 2016 11:46 am IST

Why retrieved antiquities should be sent back to place of origin

From a bronze Ganesh statute to a Jain figure of Bahubali, the US returned more than 200 pieces of artifacts to India during PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in June.(PTI file photo)

Updated on Nov 16, 2016 07:57 am IST

Let us mind our languages

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Published on Oct 06, 2016 09:16 am IST

Indian languages face threat of fossilisation, need revitalisation

Munshi Premchand’s Idgah may be a great story but, at the risk of offending his fans, it may no longer resonate with most school children

Updated on Oct 05, 2016 10:42 pm IST

Unblock our cities’ arteries

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Published on Sept 08, 2016 10:34 am IST

Drainage networks, not roads, are arteries of the city

The maintenance of the drainage networks is critical for avoiding repeated floods.(Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)

Updated on Sept 08, 2016 08:29 am IST

We must write our own story

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Published on Aug 11, 2016 07:59 am IST

Distortion or depreciation: The problems facing Indian history writing

Even our politics is impacted by who did or did not pull down a temple in the sixteenth century. If anything, we Indians are obsessed with history.(AFP file photo)

Updated on Aug 11, 2016 01:23 am IST

Of farmers and pay hikes

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Updated on Mar 02, 2008 09:52 pm IST

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