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Mythili Bhusnurmath

ARTICLES BY MYTHILI BHUSNURMATH

RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra chaired his sixth and last MPC meet in 2025. (PTI)

Why did RBI’s monetary policy committee fire a bazooka in support of growth?

4 min read . 07 Dec 2025

Seasoned central bankers have long described central banking as an art rather than a science. (Photo: Bloomberg)

RBI’s rate moves are signals: Markets can choose to heed or disregard them

4 min read . 01 Oct 2025

RBI's Discussion Paper Review of Monetary Policy Framework is a welcome change from the central bank’s usual ivory-tower approach. (Reuters)

India’s monetary policy framework: Let’s go from good to great

4 min read . 27 Aug 2025

The MPC seems to have tacitly accepted that there are limits to what monetary policy can do. (RBI Youtube)

RBI has done well to focus on its core competence: Price stability

4 min read . 06 Aug 2025

For central banks, the motto must always be, ‘Better safe than sorry.’ (PTI)

The Reserve Bank’s leap of faith: A big rate cut is very hard to justify

4 min read . 08 Jun 2025

It is against a background of near-complete panic that the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met for three days. (Photo: Reuters)

The MPC’s decision is the first scene of a whole new tariff-driven drama

4 min read . 09 Apr 2025

The reality is that the balance of risks has shifted. (REUTERS)

Monetary policy: Surely, a rate cut could’ve waited for some clarity to emerge

4 min read . 09 Feb 2025

The overarching theme of the Economic Survey 2024-25 is ‘deregulation’ and the benefits thereof. (ANI Photo)

Economic Survey 2025 is worth preserving for this one piece of advice

5 min read . 31 Jan 2025

RBI has always prided itself on its nimble-footed liquidity management. Resorting to a CRR cut weakens that claim. (PTI)

Prudence wins the day: RBI didn’t go in for a knee-jerk rate cut

4 min read . 08 Dec 2024

This is not the first time the RBI has come down on recalcitrant NBFCs. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

Finance is not the Wild West; there is no place for cowboys here

3 min read . 21 Oct 2024

Supply-side forces that drove India’s annual inflation to a high of over 6% in 2020-21 and 2022-23 are now subdued.

RBI sticks to its guns: We’ll have to wait longer for a policy pivot

4 min read . 09 Oct 2024

In its Financial Stability Report released in December, the RBI said while NPAs may rise, the stress in the banking sector ‘while significant, appears to be bottoming out’. Photo: Reuters

RBI has wisely charted a course that’s unique to India’s economy

4 min read . 08 Aug 2024

The MPC has done well to keep rates unchanged (for the eighth time running) even if it was with a split verdict of 4:2

The MPC has done well to keep policy interest rates unchanged

4 min read . 10 Jun 2024

Not only is growth, according to governor Shaktikanta Das’s own admission, likely to touch 8% in 2023-24 but is likely to remain robust in 2024-25. (Bloomberg)

RBI shows the dull but venerable art of batting with a straight bat

4 min read . 08 Apr 2024

He said, “The MPC also decided to remain focused on withdrawal of accommodation to ensure fuller transmission and anchoring of inflation.” (Bloomberg)

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das does an encore after the budget

3 min read . 09 Feb 2024

The RBI’s monetary stance affects the capacity of the government to finance the budget deficit by altering the rate of interest and by limiting or expanding the available sources of financing.

The macro challenge is to get our mix of fiscal and monetary policy right

4 min read . 31 Jan 2024

On the regulatory front, Governor Das announced a series of measures with a view to maintaining financial and macro-economic stability. (PTI)

The MPC’s ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ rate decision has its merits

4 min read . 10 Dec 2023

According to RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, RBI is going to focus on bringing inflation down to the mid-point of its target range—i.e. 4%—on a sustainable basis.

Is the monetary policy panel’s decision wise? Credible?

4 min read . 08 Oct 2023

In the April statement and the press conference that followed, Governor Das went to great lengths to affirm that “the decision to pause on the repo rate is for this meeting only. (AFP)

Inflation as Banquo’s ghost: It’s back to haunt RBI’s policy panel

4 min read . 11 Aug 2023

The monetary policy committee vote was closer for good reason

4 min read . 09 Feb 2023