C. Raja
Mohan in Foreign Policy magazine on India's strategic future.
Vivek
Kulkarni in the Hindu Business Line estimates the
magnitude of corruption in Karnataka.
Ashish
Nandy in Outlook magazine on India's proclivity towards censorship.
How to improve tax compliance in
India: Thorsten
Beck, Chen Lin and Yue Ma have an article where they say that
financial development helps reduce tax evasion: when firms use more
external financing, they have greater incentive to not `cook the
books', which induces bigger tax payments.
Salil
Tripathi in Caravan magazine on improving freedom of
speech in the UK.
Robert
F. Worth in the New York Times on the shift of the
State in Saudi Arabian away from tolerating Islamic fundamentalism
to fighting it.
Who was
right: Aldous
Huxley or George Orwell?
Nicholas
Schmidle in The Atlantic with a story from Ghana about
something we badly need in India: serious investigative
journalism.
Anand
Giridharadas in the New York Times,
and Kimberly
Brooks on the Huffington Post on alternatives to the
handshake, particularly `Namaste'.
I just
read this
beautiful obituary for Milton Friedman, written by Larry Summers.
In continuation of the Indian debate on ownership and governance of
critical financial infrastructure,
see Jeremy
Grant in the Financial Times.
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