Manish Sabharwal

The world’s pharmacy has a challenge — shifting from volume to valueSubscriber Only

February 21,2026 07:05:43 AM

Policy entrepreneurship by two governments on opposite sides of the planet had the same motivations 14 years apart: Affordability and availability. Policy magic followed in both countries

Thirty five years after liberalisation, let’s pick up threads from an incomplete 1991 storySubscriber Only

January 12,2026 07:17:20 AM

Not alleviating poverty preventable by entrepreneurship is a form of violence, yet entitled dynasts continue to peddle dated ideology that views suited booted entrepreneurs as predators

From Licence Raj to Jan Vishwas, what we need to set our entrepreneurs freeSubscriber Only

December 13,2025 07:05:56 AM

The proposed Jan Vishwas Siddhant is transformational. All licences outside the four areas of national security, public safety, human health and environment will be converted to perpetual self-registration

Four labour codes, one big leapSubscriber Only

November 22,2025 07:06:20 AM

They make India a better habitat for good jobs

EPFO changes will enhance social securitySubscriber Only

October 24,2025 07:00:48 AM

They also lay the foundations for EPFO to morph from an isolated employer instrument into a lifetime

America is going back on all the things that made it great. India’s must seize the opportunitySubscriber Only

July 12,2025 07:05:54 AM

Success is far from guaranteed but the moment feels auspicious

For a Viksit Bharat, India needs to cut down on its regulatory cholesterolSubscriber Only

May 30,2025 07:00:44 AM

The journey from India’s first government budget of Rs 198 crore in 1947 to spending over a hundred lakh crore has delivered many good outcomes, but we must slow down spending and public debt growth if we aspire to be good ancestors

Lessons from India in tackling proxy wars and terrorismSubscriber Only

April 30,2025 06:49:29 AM

India's long-term strategy in Kashmir offers the world three valuable lessons

More regulation on private schools is bad ideaSubscriber Only

April 25,2025 07:09:53 AM

The notion that the failure of government schools can be overcome by higher regulatory cholesterol for private schools ignores rising costs, including higher teacher salaries, skyrocketing construction costs, and increasing land prices.

Jan Vishwas 2.0 and 3.0 will find the ‘madhyam marg’ between trusting and punishing citizensSubscriber Only

March 19,2025 07:05:44 AM

The current system also blurs the lines between minor infractions and serious crimes. It can award lesser punishment for serious offences and severe punishment for lesser offences

Three flick-of-a-pen reforms chief ministers can make to put India on the path to prosperitySubscriber Only

February 25,2025 07:01:18 AM

CMs can help raise numbers of high-wage employers by digitisation, decriminalisation and civil service rationalisation

Understanding a nation through its linguistic and literary heritage is key to equal citizenship, identity, and soft powerSubscriber Only

February 16,2025 07:17:42 AM

India’s translation ecosystem is ready to help by moving to the next orbit. India’s first non-profit, open-access and crowd-sourced database of Indian translations is now searchable at www.bhashavaad.org.

India’s wage challenge has shifted from chronic to immediate — here’s what to doSubscriber Only

December 16,2024 07:57:44 AM

Reversing our gaze by moving from a bird to a worm’s eye policy view of the daily life of employers suggests private, productive, formal non-farm jobs that pay higher wages need digitising, decriminalising and rationalising regulatory cholesterol.

India could not create mass prosperity. It’s not too lateSubscriber Only

November 04,2024 04:00:46 AM

The challenge must be met through high-productivity firms and factories

Making campus equal, excellentSubscriber Only

September 25,2024 07:43:55 AM

The biggest challenge for non-profit universities is convincing philanthropy to fund revenue expenses because it is easy to confuse university buildings with building universities.

Abrogating Article 370 was a necessary, but not sufficient condition for ending terrorismSubscriber Only

August 05,2024 07:10:43 AM

Recent attacks on the army in the Jammu region show desperation and remind us that the job of ending terror in J&K is far from finished. Risk-taking to restore peace must continue.

From abrogation of Article 370 to Pakistan’s decline: Five reasons why violence is down in J&KSubscriber Only

July 07,2024 14:00:31 PM

The most significant change is a new political tone from the top — we don't have to be Western to be modern, we have zero tolerance for terrorism, and India@100 must be a developed country. India’s soft and hard power are changing Pakistan’s niyat (intentions), calculations, and options

No, Pakistan’s employment picture isn’t better than IndiaSubscriber Only

May 08,2024 08:30:24 AM

The only real data in labour markets — everything else is a model — are prices and votes. Both suggest that a massive transformation of India’s labour market is underway.

As Trump attacks migrants, how India can help itself and the West on labour migrationSubscriber Only

March 05,2024 16:32:00 PM

Services exports give India the legitimacy to anchor an orderly guest worker programme that will raise global prosperity

In today’s tech-savvy times, the importance of combining shaastra (knowledge) with shastra (weapons)Subscriber Only

January 29,2024 07:15:33 AM

Our proposed National Security Strategy must target 10 Indian universities in the global top 100

Distrust of employers is bred into Indian policy. It needs to endSubscriber Only

January 08,2024 07:30:33 AM

Jan Vishwas Bill 1.0 recognised this problem but couldn’t do enough. A Jan Vishwas 2.0 that aims higher is needed, so that job creation can be accelerated

Abrogation of Article 370 upheld: Better days lie ahead for KashmirisSubscriber Only

December 11,2023 14:53:04 PM

The end of special constitutional status dramatically improves the prospects of peace and prosperity in J&K

What start-ups get wrong: Lessons from WeWorkSubscriber Only

November 13,2023 07:15:10 AM

The company had no use for past learnings about market, strategies, capital, governance, and sustainability. It paid for its arrogance

Best of both sides | Manish Sabharwal writes: Bihar caste survey is a cynical attempt to expand reservation — India needs a different approachSubscriber Only

October 13,2023 07:14:26 AM

Reservation is a valuable tool but India is ready for something more universal, for the simultaneous pursuit of justice, equality, excellence

Anantnag attack: Pakistan’s terror factory won’t back down without new calculationsSubscriber Only

September 14,2023 19:42:27 PM

It has been weakened but it needs to be stopped. The world must blunt global terrorism by helping Pakistan’s people to force their defence forces to defend, not rule