The Tantri Times

Thirteen years of mentions — columns, quotes, panels and the odd TV hit — shelved by year, like an encyclopedia nobody asked for but everybody cites. Each footnote opens a search for the original, because the originals live behind a dozen different paywalls.

2025

1. Total balance in Jan Dhan accounts cross ₹2.75-lakh cr mark — The Hindu BusinessLine · Nov 2025
2. Will They Make You Rich or Break India's Market? — INDmoney, YouTube · Sep 2025
3. ISB Prof on Hindenburg closure: "Reinforces faith in Indian Institutions" — Financial Express · Sep 2025
4. Can RBI's new guidelines regulate the use of AI, without slowing down innovation? — The Hindu · Aug 2025
5. Grasp of economics missing from fintech algorithms — The New Indian Express · Apr 2025
6. Let The Rupee Fall: Prof Tantri on RBI rate cut, Trump tariffs, India's growth — Swarajya, YouTube · Apr 2025
7. Jan Dhan ends FY25 on a high note — The Hindu Business Line · Mar 2025
8. Understanding RBI Monetary Policy, Rate Cut, Inflation Expectations Data — Swarajya, YouTube · Feb 2025
9. ISB Prof busts big myth about Modi's latest budget — Vaad, YouTube · Feb 2025
10. Three reasons why Indian economy is in trouble — Vaad, YouTube · Jan 2025
11. 'Monolithic bank like SBI': ISB Professor warns bank mergers may create monopolies — Business Today · Jan 2025
12. 'Big fan of Modi 1.0, but not Modi 2.0': reforms have slowed after 2019 — Business Today · Jan 2025
13. I discuss Indian Economy with an ISB Professor — Prakhar ke Pravachan, YouTube · Jan 2025
14. What India Needs In Union Budget 2025 — Swarajya · Jan 2025

2024

1. Food prices and inflation expectations: Should the RBI cut rates? — Moneycontrol · Dec 2024
2. Welfare gets a bad name, but not all social sector spend is unproductive — The Times of India · Jul 2024
3. Union Budget 2024, Awaaz Adda — CNBC Awaaz · Jul 2024
4. Budget Of Hope: ISB Professors and Students React to Union Budget 2024 — NDTV · Jul 2024
5. 'Formalisation creates losers': two course corrections for the Centre — Business Today · Jul 2024
6. Union Budget 2024–25 — Vaad, YouTube · Jul 2024
7. Launched "Finterpret" channel to disseminate finance research findings — Finterpret · Mar 2024
8. Understanding India's Banking Sector: Safety, Regulation, and Vulnerability — Moneycontrol, YouTube · Mar 2024
9. ISB Thinktank Upbeat On What Interim Budget Will Hold For Economy — NDTV · Jan 2024

2023

1. Modi Sarkar should do this for 10% GDP Growth — Vaad · Oct 2023
2. Government spending Explained: The Good, Bad & Ugly — Labour Law Advisor · Oct 2023
3. Meet Dr Prasanna Tantri — the man who influences govt policies — Labour Law Advisor · Sep 2023
4. Flip side to bank transparency — The Hindu Business Line · Mar 2023
5. Credit cards outstanding up a record 29.6% in FY23 till end-Jan — The Hindu Business Line · Mar 2023
6. Budget Brainstorm — Business Today · Feb 2023
7. SJM: Focus will be on Jobs — Deccan Chronicle · Feb 2023
8. Budget with NDTV — NDTV · Feb 2023
9. Mudra loans see record increase in Q3 of FY23 — The Hindu Business Line · Jan 2023

2022

1. Money matters: RBI has grip on Inflation — The Hindu Business Line · Dec 2022
2. A Case for Cash Transfers in place of Food Grains — The Indian Express · Nov 2022
3. Higher appetite: Mudra loans log a record 30% growth in H1 FY23 — The Hindu Business Line · Oct 2022
4. Disciplining Effects of IBC: Equity Inflows, RPT Reduction, and Investments — IBBI · Oct 2022
5. Why loan write-offs are a good thing — Modi's biggest reform — Vaad · Sep 2022
6. India central bank paper cautions against 'big bang' bank privatization — S&P Global Market Intelligence · Aug 2022
7. Why bank mergers are good for reducing NPAs — The Economic Times · Jul 2022
8. Govt's proactive steps helped deal with pandemic blues: FM — Financial Express · Jun 2022
9. Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana helped poor live with dignity — The Hindu · Jun 2022
10. On Modinomics, UPA's biggest fraud & stock market strategy — Vaad · Jun 2022
11. Ayushman Bharat's short-term impact is beneficial — The Hindu Business Line · May 2022
12. Effective and Efficient: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code — The Indian Express · Apr 2022
13. A High Resolution Tool: the IBC has outperformed the earlier regime — The Indian Express · Apr 2022
14. Corporate charity, mandating CSR spending and taxes — The New Indian Express · Jan 2022
15. Planning for retirement with Life Insurance — Moneycontrol · Jan 2022
16. Corporate tax cuts do boost investments — The Hindu Business Line · Jan 2022

2021

1. PMJDY turns 7; brings 43 crore under formal banking system — The Hindu Business Line · Aug 2021
2. Investors can lock in interest rates for long term with G-secs — Business Standard · Jul 2021
3. Why PMJDY must be scaled up to next level — The Hindu Business Line · May 2021
4. India's m-cap hits all-time high — The New Indian Express · May 2021
5. Total balance in Jan Dhan accounts goes down by ₹2,787 crore in April — The Hindu Business Line · May 2021
6. Should West Bengal adopt Ayushman Bharat? — The New Indian Express · Mar 2021
7. An evergreening exercise that has gone unnoticed for too long — Livemint · Feb 2021
8. Budget Insider — Business Insider India · Feb 2021
9. What happens when firms have to stump up for good causes — The Economist · Jan 2021

2020

1. Delayed Bank Recap Key to India's Pre-Covid Slowdown, Shows New Research — BloombergQuint · Oct 2020
2. A loan waiver in whose interest? — The New Indian Express · Sep 2020
3. PM Jan Dhan Yojana records 40 crore beneficiaries in six years — The Hindu Business Line · Aug 2020
4. Lessons from stock performance of IBC Resolved Firms — The New Indian Express · Jul 2020
5. RBI proposal on capping bank CEO tenure is not supported by cogent evidence — The Indian Express · Jul 2020
6. Telangana provided highest credit to SHGs — Times of India · Jul 2020
7. Is Cash-Transfers the Ultimate Solution To Recovery? — Civilsdaily · May 2020
8. Atmanirbhar Bharat analysis: FM's measures realistic and implementable — The New Indian Express · May 2020
9. Boosting demand with cheap credit to consumers is not a good idea — Indian Express · May 2020
10. To stimulate demand or improve supply, that's the question — The New Indian Express · May 2020
11. Power of Now in privatisations — The Times of India · May 2020
12. Equity infusion into SMEs is a great idea, but execution is key — The Hindu Business Line · May 2020
13. FM's overall package a good one, says ISB Prof — The New Indian Express · May 2020
14. Protect poor by creating jobs in formal sector — The New Indian Express · May 2020
15. All debt and no equity makes an entrepreneur a speculator — The Hindu Business Line · Apr 2020
16. Big business on the cards for banks with customers on swiping spree — The Hindu Business Line · Mar 2020
17. Coronavirus fears batter markets — is Friday's bloodbath just the beginning? — New Indian Express · Mar 2020
18. Global markets may stay volatile; time to hoard good stocks — New Indian Express · Mar 2020
19. Tackling the Ever-Greening Problem in Banks — The New Indian Express · Mar 2020
20. This bullet had to be bitten: the Yes Bank case — Times of India · Mar 2020
21. Have the budget proposals got your brains into a knot? — Business Insider India · Feb 2020
22. More than just Thalinomics: Economic Survey highlights — New Indian Express · Jan 2020

2019

1. PM Jan Dhan Yojna accounts are being used for consumption smoothing — Business Line · Dec 2019
2. Don't Shoot the Messenger — Times of India · Nov 2019
3. Markets riding high even as economy slumps — New Indian Express · Nov 2019
4. The Success Story of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana — India Report Card · Oct 2019
5. In India's quest for jobs, here's what the policy agenda should be — The Print · Oct 2019
6. Indian Economy at 100 days of Modi 2.0 — ETV Bharat · Sep 2019
7. Can MGNREGA data serve as a real-time index for rural distress? — DownToEarth · Aug 2019
8. One Tool to Track It All — Magzter · Aug 2019
9. SBI's rate cuts unlikely to impact deposits, for now — The New Indian Express · Aug 2019
10. NREGA: Economic Survey ignores large-scale exclusions — Counterview · Jul 2019
11. An imprint of ISB on the Economic Survey — Hindu Business Line · Jul 2019
12. Develop real-time distress indicator with MNREGA data — Economic Times · Jul 2019
13. Forced share sale won't assail stock process in long run — The New Indian Express · Jul 2019
14. Six reasons the Economic Survey's presentation of MGNREGA is misleading — The Hindu · Jul 2019
15. Three years after the note ban, banks see spurt in digital transactions — Hindu Business Line · Jul 2019
16. Total balance in Jan Dhan accounts crosses ₹1-lakh crore — Hindu Business Line · Jul 2019
17. Want to mop up more corporate tax? Reduce compliance burden — Times of India · Jul 2019
18. "Big Mandate For BJP Should Mean Bold Budget" — NDTV · Jul 2019
19. Budget should simplify tax procedure — Telangana Today · Jul 2019
20. Transparency push: Centre will provide unit-level data free of cost — Business Standard · Jun 2019
21. New Aadhaar for rural welfare — The Economic Times · May 2019
22. Foreign investors poured almost $200 billion into Modi's India — CNN Business · Apr 2019
23. Non-committed voters: your vote can improve economic performance — Moneycontrol · Apr 2019
24. In-Kind Transfers — The New Indian Express · Apr 2019
25. Behind the 'Down Beta' of Indian markets — Business Standard · Mar 2019
26. District reeling under distress? MGNREGA demand data holds the key — Times of India · Mar 2019
27. Lack of guarantee in payments — Eenadu · Mar 2019
28. States' own tax revenues expected to rise 14% in FY19 — Times of India · Mar 2019

2018

1. Farm loan waivers end up hurting the people they want to help — Moneycontrol · Dec 2018
2. Forcing firms to do good could have a negative impact — CBS Ideas and Insights · Nov 2018
3. Govt has done a fantastic job to maintain its fiscal deficit — ETV Bharat · Sep 2018
4. Why stock prices tumble after bank CEO turnover — Forbes India · Aug 2018
5. Is the Jan Dhan account capable of holding savings of the poor? — The Management Accountant · Jul 2018
6. Loan waiver: contagion, not solution — Deccan Herald · Jul 2018
7. Aadhaar linking cuts NREGS wage delays, fund transfers double — Times of India · Jun 2018
8. Increase in voter turnout does not signal anti-incumbent sentiment — The Print · May 2018
9. 'One Nation, One Election': what's in it for the government? — The Quint · May 2018
10. Millions more companies are now paying tax in India — KQ2 · Jan 2018

2017

1. More data needed to evaluate demonetisation — Livemint · Sep 2017
2. The admirable success of the Jan Dhan Yojana — Livemint · Aug 2017
3. Does debt waiver improve living conditions of poor farmers? — Times of India · Jun 2017
4. State of Aadhaar Report 2016–17 — ID Insight · Apr 2017
5. Are Jan Dhan bank accounts actively used? — Livemint · Apr 2017
6. High time our 'experts' stop armchair theorising — Economic Times · Mar 2017
7. Why debt waivers are likely to hurt Indian farmers in the long run — Times of India / Economic Times · Mar 2017
8. MNREGA live show — Lok Sabha TV · Jan 2017
9. Is MGNREGA destroying factory jobs? — Times of India · Jan 2017

2016

1. How moving money to the bank helps the poor — Livemint · Dec 2016
2. Demonetisation: are the poor really suffering? — Livemint · Nov 2016
3. Economic growth and incumbency: how to keep your government — Economic Times · Jun 2016
4. Labour law reforms are a necessity — Livemint · May 2016
5. Do swing voters ensure higher growth? — Livemint · May 2016
6. Improving governance in banks — Livemint · Mar 2016
7. Tax agri income for the benefit of small farmers — Livemint · Feb 2016
8. Harsh reality of moneylending business — Times of India · Jan 2016
9. The press plays a positive role — Times of India · Jan 2016

2015

1. Do educated voters select better candidates? — Moneycontrol · Nov 2015
2. Mucking up the inheritance: dynastic netas underperform — Times of India · Nov 2015
3. Helping the poor in consumption smoothing — Financial Express · Oct 2015
4. Insuring farmers to fight drought — Financial Express · Sep 2015
5. Partisan Commission — The Financial Express · May 2015
6. Who gains from freedom? — Livemint · Jan 2015

2014

1. Retail traders lost ₹5,584 crore a year due to bad calls — Livemint · Dec 2014
2. NDTV discussion of "Inherent Quality or Nepotism? Political Dynasties in a Democracy" — NDTV · Nov 2014
3. Does Internet-based media impact voting? — Livemint · Sep 2014
4. It is your money, not house money — Livemint · Sep 2014
5. Women investors are confident, not overconfident — Livemint · Jul 2014
6. Indexing tax slabs: an idea whose time has come — Livemint · Jul 2014
7. Do you suffer from getevnitis? — Livemint · Jul 2014
8. Did opinion polls display herd behaviour? — Business Standard · May 2014
9. Lok Sabha Polls 2014: high turnout versus criminal candidates — The Economic Times · Jan 2014

2013

1. Good economics is good politics — Times of India · Oct 2013