<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Bibek Debroy"><item><title>ANNUS HORRIBILIS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/annus-horribilis/</link><pubDate>December 31, 2020, 4:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/7b29515d_1170_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>A lot was made of the sharp negative growth in Q1 of 2020-21. As the Q2 numbers highlight, there was no need for all that gloom and doom. Barring a few sectors, there has been broad-based recovery in Q2. While 2020-21 will certainly end with a neg...</excerpt></item><item><title>Not truly an insider’s account</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/not-truly-an-insiders-account/</link><pubDate>October 16, 2020, 9:35 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Bookleadphoto.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Delivering reforms is often not about ‘what’, but about ‘how’ and ‘when’.
Bimal Jalan, with considerable experience of working within the executive
and even within legislature, could have written more about the ‘how’.</excerpt></item><item><title>This Plassey book isn’t a dumbed-down history</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/this-plassey-book-isnt-a-dumbed-down-history/</link><pubDate>July 31, 2020, 6:15 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/beat-lead.png</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Sudeep Chakravarti’s Plassey is an extremely well-researched book which, thankfully, is not written in a pedant’s boring style, writes Bibek Debroy.</excerpt></item><item><title>An appetiser, not the main course</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/annus-horribilis/</link><pubDate>December 31, 2020, 4:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/7b29515d_1170_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>There are several versions of the Ramayana story. Despite some regional variations, the Mahabharata story is essentially one. For Ramayana, there are Sanskrit and non-Sanskrit versions. For example, in Sanskrit, we have (1) Valmiki Ramayana; (2) A...</excerpt></item></author></feed>