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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

Bumrah delivers another champion performance

Simply inevitable. He has had a terrific tournament yet again, and Jasprit Bumrah was able to put some gloss on it with a sequence of deadly dipping yorkers, which made the ball move like almost nobody else in the world of cricket can. Three quick wickets at the tail, finishing with scarcely believable figures of 4/15.

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 24:54 IST

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 05:31 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)

Updated on Sep 2, 2025 15:16 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

Updated on Nov 19, 2024 14:26 IST

Trim the monuments list, not all are worthy

Nicholson Cemetery (Hemant Arya/Wikimedia Commons)

Updated on Aug 5, 2024 15:34 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.

Updated on Jun 4, 2024 19:46 IST

How best to regulate Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence words are seen in this illustration taken in March.

Updated on Nov 6, 2023 16:47 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?

Updated on Jul 5, 2023 16:37 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.

Updated on Nov 18, 2022 04:08 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

Updated on Jan 6, 2021 14:53 IST

Transforming public administration

Reforms include a national recruitment agency, compulsory retirement, rationalisation of autonomous bodies, and a taxpayers charter

Updated on Sep 14, 2020 13:55 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

Updated on May 20, 2020 24:13 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.

Updated on Jan 25, 2017 05:32 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

Updated on Dec 7, 2016 06:16 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.

Updated on Nov 16, 2016 02:27 IST

Let us mind our languages

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Updated on Oct 6, 2016 03:46 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 5, 2016 17:12 IST

Unblock our cities’ arteries

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Updated on Sep 8, 2016 05:04 IST

Drainage networks, not roads, are arteries of the city

The maintenance of the drainage networks is critical for avoiding repeated floods.

Updated on Sep 8, 2016 02:59 IST

We must write our own story

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Updated on Aug 11, 2016 02:29 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.

Updated on Aug 10, 2016 19:53 IST

Of farmers and pay hikes

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Updated on Mar 2, 2008 16:22 IST

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