The third successive budget speech of Dr. Palanivel Thyagarajan, finance minister of Tamil Nadu, marks a distinct change in its tone and tenor. His first budget speech, preceded by his release of the important White Paper on the Finances of Tamil Nadu, had made sharp criticism of the Union...
The reports of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5 hereafter) have all been released and are available on the web. NFHS 5 is the fifth in a series that began in 1992-93 (NFHS 1) and was subsequently conducted in 1998-99 (NFHS 2), 2005-06 (NFHS 3) and 2015-16(NFHS 4). All five NFHS...
Commentaries on the Tamil Nadu budget 2022-23 presented by finance minister P Thiyagarajan (PTR) focused on how it served the Dravidian model. The ideological hegemony of neoliberal fiscal fundamentalism was evident in many of these commentaries. This is not surprising. However, what is...
One cannot envy the finance minister of Tamil Nadu, Palanivel Thyagarajan -- PTR, for short. We live in troubled times. The halting recovery of the global economy, which was expected to gain momentum with the receding of the Covid pandemic and the restoration of supply chains, was already being...
