SWARAJ  

A case for scrapping STT

Harsh Gupta and Rajeev Mantri  10:35 PM | February 17,2010

Frequent trading can result in so much taxation that all trading profits are swallowed up by the transaction tax

The liberalism in BJP’s agenda

Rohit Pradhan and Harsh Gupta   08:03 PM | January 13,2010

Prominent issues such as the Uniform Civil Code and Article 370 should be delinked from Hindutva

Dual, differentiated GST

Harsh Gupta  10:21 PM | August 04,2009

The dual-structure GST proposal (instead of a single national GST rate) pays lip service to fiscal federalism

Why have women’s quotas?

Harsh Gupta  08:56 PM | June 28,2009

Studies have confirmed that competitive pressures such as trade and deregulation reduce discrimination against women in the labour market

Defecting from anti-defection

Harsh Gupta   09:21 PM | June 07,2009

Anti-defection laws are why India gets either an inflexible national party or fragmented regional ones

PRAGATI ARTICLES

More states, not satrapies. Fiscal independence will multiply the benefits of new states (Co-authored with Rajeev Mantri) - http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2010/01/more-states-not-satrapies/

Competition and Commission. The CCI is better than the MRTPC, but needs a still more specific mandate. Antitrust negates the rule of law - http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2009/08/competition-and-commission/

Let us keep our Republic. The debate over moral vigilantism should focus on the rule-of-law. (Co-authored with Rohit Pradhan) - http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/2009/11/let-us-keep-our-republic-2/

Liberal solutions. Adopting truly liberal solutions can save Kashmir—and the concept of India itself - http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2008/09/01/pragati-september-2008-kashmir-concerns-us/

Also, Published in January 2009 Issue – Book review of Nandan Nilekani’s “Imagining India” - http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2009/01/04/imagining-india-book-review/