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Underperforming and underinvested, India’s infrastructure needs transformation

by admin|05 November 202205 November 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 5, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. The collapse of the bridge in Morbi, Gujarat, that killed at least 135 people and the frequent accidents befalling the Vande Bharat...

LIC stock shock could set back disinvestment push

by admin|18 June 202218 June 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer June 18, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Are you among those who have invested in the Life Insurance Corporation IPO? Since its listing on May 17, the shares have...

Audio podcast: ‘Digitisation would lower farm costs by 25%’

by admin|08 June 202208 June 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer June 8, 2022 If India is to maintain a growth rate of 8%-10%, agriculture must grow at 4% at least. We need to significantly grow farmers’ incomes too. For this, digitisation is critical – not just in planting...

The post-COVID economic dichotomy of two Indias

by admin|14 February 202214 February 2022|All Indians Matter

Amit Sahita February 14, 2022 COVID-19 and its aftermath have led to the emergence of two distinct Indias. Many families have lost their earning members, faced pay cuts, faced job losses or incurred heavy medical expenses. All these situations have...

Audio podcast: Union Budget – the juggling act is on

by admin|15 January 202215 January 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 15, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Even as the first advance estimates peg India’s economic growth for 2021-22 at 9.2%, there are a couple of factors looming over...

Audio podcast: 7 things the finance minister didn’t tell you about Budget 2021

by admin|05 February 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 5, 2021 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. So much was expected from the Union Budget that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented on February 1, 2021. India needs an economic...

Audio podcast: What to expect from Budget 2021

by admin|08 January 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 9, 2021 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Few Budgets would have been as critical as the one Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present on February 1, 2021. India...

Audio podcast: India’s first ever ‘technical recession’

by admin|30 November 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 30, 2020 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. India’s economy contracted 7.5% between July and September 2020, coming on the back of a 23.9% contraction in the previous quarter. This...

We can’t have an Atmanirbhar Rashtra without self-reliant villages

by admin|18 May 202018 May 2020|All Indians Matter

This concludes the three-part series on the country Mahatma Gandhi dreamt of Tushar Gandhi May 19, 2020 COVID-19 has changed the way we live, the lifestyle we have got used to. The sham of our economic resurgence is evident. But...

Double whammy for India: coronavirus and the slowdown

by admin|18 March 202018 March 2020|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer March 19, 2020 Slowing growth, diminished cash flows, a seemingly unending banking crisis, and now the coronavirus… it’s no wonder the ‘R’ word is no longer being mentioned in hushed whispers. Even until the beginning of 2019, though...