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Business News > Mint Authors > Jessica Seddon

Jessica Seddon

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY JESSICA SEDDON

Any counter strategy, therefore, must view it as more than just a public health issue. We need to also acknowledge our individual roles that collectively contribute to such crises.

Opinion | Lessons for the world from the coronaviral pandemic

4 min read . 12 Mar 2020

It’s surprising that court records have not been a more prominent source in studies of India’s evolving infrastructure regime. Photo: Mint

The practice of policy

4 min read . 08 Aug 2017

The pan-city proposals under the Smart Cities mission read like a list of monitoring apps. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Leveraging information for action

4 min read . 04 Jul 2017

Electric vehicles, increasing use of electricity in industry, or expansion of induction cooking, for example, will change the demands being placed on the electricity system. Photo: AFP

Innovation and connections for energy access

4 min read . 06 Jun 2017

The economically damaging and uncomfortable effects of biodiversity loss are visible on political and corporate time-scales. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Biodiversity. But what is it?

4 min read . 22 May 2017

Stocks and flows

4 min read . 25 Apr 2017

he common response to the ban on liquor sale near highways is simply to relabel the roads; what happens to research on, say, “The dynamics of road development under competitive federalism”? Photo: AFP

Convenient classification, collateral damage

4 min read . 11 Apr 2017

India’s parliamentary political system means that individual lawmakers have limited agenda-setting power, almost no ability to represent constituencies rather than party platforms, and negligible prospects for effecting change. Photo: Hindustan Times

Campaign finance—what really matters?

4 min read . 28 Mar 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently thanked people for ‘using their third eye’ to ensure a BJP victory ‘wherever there were elections, whether the BJP had any presence or not’. Photo: Reuters

The return of the local

4 min read . 28 Feb 2017

More than the loose ends, the most provocative part of proprietary cities is that it sets city leaders’ objective function to economic growth. Photo: iStock

Urban agenda 2017: quiet but provocative

4 min read . 14 Feb 2017

Protests have been seen as a way to signal boundaries beyond which leaders should not trespass if they’d like to remain in place. Photo: AFP

Protest nations

4 min read . 31 Jan 2017

The drought in Tamil Nadu and Cyclone Vardah provoked deep public discussions about the need to rethink infrastructure development and disaster preparedness. Photo: PTI

Crises and critical points

4 min read . 17 Jan 2017

We are all in some ways responsible for and increasingly able to contribute to versions of the post-truth world that we can live with.

Thriving in the post-truth era

4 min read . 03 Jan 2017

The move towards a less-cash economy will depend on speed of infrastructure development, skilful regulation of the payments industry, and concerted efforts to build and maintain trust in invisible cash. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Landing a leapfrog

4 min read . 20 Dec 2016

The electoral college has been dismissed as an instrument for maintaining elite control but one can’t ignore the sense in the public rationalization of the process. Photo: AFP

Why the electoral college matters

4 min read . 22 Nov 2016

All of the Indian Institutes of Management, the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indira Gandhi National Open University in various smaller cities are all part of the list of central autonomous bodies. Photo: Mint

Making autonomous institutions accountable

4 min read . 08 Nov 2016

Finance minister Arun Jaitley. Photo: AP/PTI

The benefit of the doubt

4 min read . 25 Oct 2016

Perspective in politics

4 min read . 11 Oct 2016

Photo: Hindustan Times

A new cartography for catalysts, not just cities

4 min read . 27 Sep 2016

The maze of cross-subsidies

4 min read . 13 Sep 2016