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Harish Damodaran

Introduction

Harish Damodaran is National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor of The Indian Express. A journalist with over 33 years of experience in agri-business and macroeconomic policy reporting and analysis, he has previously worked with the Press Trust of India (1991-94) and The Hindu Business Line (1994-2014)....Read More

Harish Damodaran is National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor of The Indian Express. A journalist with over 33 years of experience in agri-business and macroeconomic policy reporting and analysis, he has previously worked with the Press Trust of India (1991-94) and The Hindu Business Line (1994-2014).

Harish Damodaran Industry Experience
  • Years of experience: 33+
  • Previous experience: Harish has previously worked with the Press Trust of India (1991-94) and The Hindu Business Line (1994-2014).

Published works: Damodaran is also the author of two books, India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation (Hachette) and Broke to Breakthrough: The Rise of India’s Largest Private Dairy Company (Penguin). Damodaran is currently working on a third book, which is a business biography of the founder of India's third largest industrial house at the time of Independence.

Awards and Recognition: His book 'India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation' won the ‘Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award’ under (Books-Non-Fiction) category in 2008 Broke to Breakthrough: The Rise of India’s Largest Private Dairy Company won the ‘Gaja Capital Business Book Prize’ in 2022.  

Articles by Harish Damodaran

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Why food inflation is softening, what lies aheadSubscriber Only

Apr 21, 2025 06:30 IST

An agriculture production recovery, plus forecast of an “above normal” monsoon for 2025, should...

Mon, Apr 21, 2025
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Adam Smith, Donald Trump and semiconductors: How US tariffs herald an end to hyper-globalisationSubscriber Only

Apr 19, 2025 07:00 IST

Adam Smith balked at restraints on free trade ‘either by high duties, or by absolute...

Sun, Apr 20, 2025
👁 nix

Trump’s tariffs and a tale of three human-made global shocksSubscriber Only

Apr 12, 2025 07:00 IST

In terms of their impact on the international trading and monetary system, Donald Trump’s...

Sun, Apr 13, 2025
👁 cotton

Explained: The crisis in India’s cotton production, and what can helpSubscriber Only

Apr 07, 2025 07:00 IST

The pink bollworm has brought down India’s cotton production by a quarter in the last decade....

Mon, Apr 07, 2025
👁 explained tractors

Explained: How India’s farm mechanisation is moving beyond tractorsSubscriber Only

Apr 01, 2025 07:30 IST

Globally, the market for farm machinery is bigger than that for tractors. That is starting to...

Tue, Apr 01, 2025
👁 Losing the thread copy

Why India fell behind in the cotton race – an aversion to science and technologySubscriber Only

Mar 29, 2025 07:01 IST

The Indian farmer has been denied access to technology.Will the activists who blocked the field...

Sat, Mar 29, 2025
👁 India farm produce US

Explained: As US eyes India market for farm produce, why these 3 crops are keySubscriber Only

Mar 24, 2025 07:10 IST

Amid the threat of tariffs, the Trump administration is seeking greater market access for American...

Mon, Mar 24, 2025
👁 us-china tariffs

How agriculture has become central to the China-US trade warSubscriber Only

Mar 17, 2025 08:00 IST

The Chinese retaliatory tariffs have not been sweeping and across-the-board. But even while...

Tue, Apr 22, 2025
👁 sugar and wheat

Why sugar & wheat are the main food inflation worries nowSubscriber Only

Mar 10, 2025 06:30 IST

Precarious stock levels and production uncertainties have made the last mile of disinflation most...

Mon, Mar 10, 2025
👁 India agriculture exports

Why India’s agriculture trade surplus is shrinkingSubscriber Only

Mar 04, 2025 07:10 IST

Farm exports have posted above-average growth, with basmati rice, spices, coffee and tobacco...

Wed, Mar 05, 2025
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How can Indian farmers be weaned away from urea, DAP and potash?Subscriber Only

Feb 24, 2025 06:30 IST

All these three fertilisers are imported, whether directly or as inputs for domestic manufacturing....

Mon, Feb 24, 2025
👁 jobsee

Middle Class 2.0: Changing employment sector in India, and its one big challengeSubscriber Only

Feb 17, 2025 07:02 IST

The top 5 IT firms (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and Tech Mahindra) employ more Indians today than the...

Mon, Feb 17, 2025
👁 Trump-15e

Why Trump’s trade wars may harm US farmersSubscriber Only

Feb 12, 2025 07:00 IST

The countries against whom the US President has imposed new import tariffs – China, Canada and...

Wed, Feb 12, 2025
👁 Union Budget 2025-26

Budget announcement: Why aatmanirbharta in pulses is a challengeSubscriber Only

Feb 03, 2025 07:25 IST

The Union Budget’s Rs 1,000-crore mission for achieving self-reliance in pulses comes even as...

Mon, Feb 03, 2025
👁 fertilizer urea

Union Budget 2025: New urea plant to come up in AssamSubscriber Only

Feb 02, 2025 04:57 IST

If this proposal in the latest Union Budget fructifies into investment, it would be the eighth new...

Sun, Feb 02, 2025
👁 wheat-1

Budget 2025: Subsidy bill set to fall to 6-year lowSubscriber Only

Feb 02, 2025 03:19 IST

Rs 426,216 crore provided towards all Central subsidies for coming financial...

Mon, Feb 03, 2025
👁 Budget highlights explained

Union Budget 2025 Explained Highlights: Push for relief to middle class, tax slab tweaksSubscriber Only

Feb 01, 2025 10:15 IST

Budget 2025 Highlights: In this live blog, senior editors for Economy and Business at The Indian...

Thu, Jan 29, 2026
👁 wheat crop 1600

Ahead of Union budget, why food inflation remains a challengeSubscriber Only

Jan 27, 2025 06:40 IST

Farmers have planted more area. But the supply situation is tight or finely balanced in at least...

Mon, Jan 27, 2025
👁 haresh-potato-frenchfries

From importing frozen French Fries to now exporting: how contract farming is a win-win for both agri industry, farmersSubscriber Only

Jan 20, 2025 07:01 IST

India has emerged as a major exporter of French Fries, which owes much to companies procuring...

Thu, Jan 23, 2025
👁 MSP (2)

Best of both sides | Harish Damodaran writes: Why farmers deserve price securitySubscriber Only

Jan 10, 2025 07:20 IST

It is a strategic imperative and in enlightened consumer self-interest to make our farmers farm...

Fri, Jan 10, 2025
👁 urea expl

How urea has been an investment success storySubscriber Only

Jan 08, 2025 18:02 IST

As many as six new plants, and a seventh in the pipeline, have been commissioned at a cost of over...

Tue, Jan 14, 2025
👁 DAP

Govt extends special subsidy on DAP, weakening rupee upsets calculationsSubscriber Only

Jan 02, 2025 04:20 IST

Fertiliser companies are being given a subsidy of Rs 21,911 per tonne on DAP, plus the “one-time...

Thu, Jan 02, 2025
👁 Manmohan Economy 3

Why Manmohan Singh as FM will be remembered more than Manmohan Singh as PMSubscriber Only

Dec 27, 2024 10:13 IST

The undoubted architect of India’s liberalisation, it was he who announced, “Let the whole...

Fri, Dec 27, 2024
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