Economist Pranab Bardhan, Professor at Berkeley coined the phrase “Bhagwat vs Bhagwati” for the growth vs Hindutva challenge facing the BJP government. He has recently published a collection of his popular essays entitled, ‘Globalisation, Democracy and Corruption: an Indian perspective.’ He tells TOI’s Sagarika Ghose that today Bhagwat co-exists with Bhagwati.
One of the campaign promises of the BJP was to end the scams of the UPA. Has corruption significantly declined since the BJP government came to power?
Even ignoring the current scams in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and elsewhere, it’s a little superficial to think that corruption has decreased since this government came to power, because the structural reasons for corruption remain. A few years back we used to hear about the mining Read More
