Posts published by “Varna Sri Raman”

Varna Sri Raman is the Economy Editor of Freedom Gazette. She is an award-winning development economics researcher and currently runs Ideolog Works, an innovations consulting firm with several subsidiary interests in research, education, the intersection of gender and law, conscious consumerism and more. She is currently writing a book on global development practice, focusing on “how to think about prickly problems”.

Budget 2021: Will It Really Help the Common Man?

Budget 2021: Will It Really Help the Common Man?

By Varna Sri Raman on February 3, 2021

In the absence of any spending by industry or consumers, the government wants to say that it is now spending in their place. But many spending allocations in the budget seem opaque when analysed by sector. This year too, there was some smart wordplay and marketing wizardry at play.