Ranvir Nayar, Author at Media India Group

Modi leaves India guessing about lockdown 4.0

May 14, 2020

When yet another address to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was announced, practically everyone in India had a wish to be fulfilled. However, instead of answering prayers or laying out government’s strategy to restore the economy back to health, the speech had only p...

Migrant workers desperate to get home run into a wall of cops in Mumbai

May 6, 2020

With little clarity on trains being run at long last to take millions of migrant workers stuck all over India, thousands in Mumbai decide to hit the road.

Rural India bears the brunt of coronavirus fallout

April 21, 2020

While the spread of covid19 has mainly been in urban India, the worst impact of the pandemic is being felt in its villages.

Covid-19 & Indian economy

April 18, 2020

The additional moves by the Reserve Bank of India to ease liquidity in the markets in order to prop up the economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic don't address demand side issues.

The mythical Chinese Trojan horse

April 16, 2020

At a time when most of the companies are vulnerable to takeovers due to the crash in global stock markets following the coronavirus pandemic, unfounded fears of a Chinese raid on their prized businesses seem to have gripped many western nations.

Coronavirus & Indian youth

April 9, 2020

India’s youth population will be amongst the hardest hit due to the Coronavirus impact and cast a shadow over their already clouded future.

Social distancing: A luxurious myth for most

March 31, 2020

While the government has been advocating social distancing as an effective tool in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, it is at worst a myth and at best a luxury for most of the poor in urban India.

Corona impact: Virus delivers double whammy to the voiceless

March 26, 2020

Two days after the 21-day nationwide lockdown began the government has finally announced INR 1.7 trillion (USD 24 billion) relief package,amidst reports of thousands of migrant workers returning home on foot and fears of starvation. The enormity of the challenge before the govern...

Coronavirus locking down Indian economy

March 20, 2020

Coronavirus is the third major blow to hit the Indian economy in the past four years. While large companies will make it, the informal sector is already gasping for breath. A complete lockdown could be the final blow to this large part of the Indian economy.

Trump’s trade terror tactics

March 13, 2020

Hundreds of millions of the world’s poor could be badly hit by Donald Trump’s distorted vision of the global economy and trade. Last month, United States President Donald Trump abruptly ‘reclassified’ over half a dozen nations in terms of their economic status. Overnight,...