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Business News > Mint Authors > Ajai Sreevatsan

Ajai Sreevatsan

ARTICLES BY AJAI SREEVATSAN

The stories of those who build cities are rarely told. (A preview panel from the book)

This graphic novel is about Bengalureans who remain invisible

2 min read . 20 Jun 2022

The whole saga of opium wars came to be described as the ‘century of humiliation’ in China. (Wikimedia Commons)

How the British Raj's trade in opium remade the world

7 min read . 07 Oct 2021

How Yellen’s call for corporate tax hike affects India

2 min read . 08 Apr 2021

Charting India’s new liberalized mapping policy

Charting India’s new liberalized mapping policy

2 min read . 17 Feb 2021

The gold standard for a good job—a written contract for 3 years along with benefits—is within reach for only 2% of the workforce. Art: Conditions Apply (from Triumph of Labour series) by Srinivasa Reddy N, watercolour on paper (Courtesy: Srinivasa Reddy N/Apparao Galleries)

Employment generation is a job half done

5 min read . 21 Jan 2021

How poor land records add to farm frustration

2 min read . 22 Dec 2020

Hunger pangs in India may have just gotten worse

2 min read . 14 Dec 2020

REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo (REUTERS)

Google’s ad engine may be the next antitrust target

2 min read . 26 Oct 2020

US lawmakers have come to the view that Big Tech has a track record of anti-competitive behaviour and something must be done. (Photo: Reuters)

How big tech reset will impact India

8 min read . 16 Oct 2020

In India, Google has been at the centre of a firestorm in recent weeks. Photo: Reuters (MINT_PRINT)

US Congress report finds 30% Apple and Google app store ‘tax’ anti-competitive

2 min read . 08 Oct 2020

NREGA, which is the world’s largest rural jobs programme, has already been used by over 86 million Indians in the first half of FY2020 (Ramesh Pathania/Mint)

The growing clamour for an urban jobs scheme

2 min read . 05 Oct 2020

The biggest common concern among the chief executives is India’s limited fiscal and monetary space for a demand stimulus

40% of CEOs worry about post-pandemic social, economic unrest: Mint-Bain survey

2 min read . 14 Sept 2020

From left: Tomás Pueyo, vice-president of growth at Course Hero, an online learning platform; Bhramar Mukherjee, a biostatistician at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan; and Amit Basole, a labour economist at Azim Premji University.

Data warriors driving the pandemic pushback

8 min read . 24 Jul 2020

WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan. (Reuters)

Covid-19 vaccine highly likely by 2021: WHO

2 min read . 07 Jul 2020

Former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation Janette Sadik-Khan.

'India can open up its locals and metro rail safely even during a pandemic'

4 min read . 02 Jul 2020

The ideal workspace must be much smaller than IT parks, with just 50-60 seats, and could even be a houseboat or resort. (Getty)

Could your next office be a houseboat?

3 min read . 24 Jun 2020

Jayadeva Ranade, president, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy.

Beijing is not going to withdraw its soldiers: Jayadeva Ranade

3 min read . 18 Jun 2020

A file photo of migrant workers standing in a queue at Central Railway Station to board a Shramik Special train for West Bengal (Photo: PTI)

Mystery shrouds migrant numbers

2 min read . 11 Jun 2020

Migrant workers and their families wait to board buses to reach the railway station during the covid-19 lockdown in Surat. (Photo: PTI)

Cities in Gujarat first to feel the pinch of migrant exodus

3 min read . 04 Jun 2020

An ICMR team conducts surveillance in view of the covid-19 outbreak at Balapur in Hyderabad. (PTI)

Hyderabad faces testing times as the city opens up without extensive covid tests

2 min read . 01 Jun 2020