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Business News > Mint Authors > Sonal Varma

Sonal Varma

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY SONAL VARMA

How much should we buy into the RBI's hawkish talk? (Photo: PTI)

Five reasons why we are looking beyond the RBI’s hawkish talk

3 min read . 09 Apr 2024

RBI is still driving through the fog, must stay nimble

3 min read . 02 Oct 2023

The rural economy had a tough year battling higher inflation last year, and risks are rising that the food price resurgence could dampen rural demand more.

Beware the three bears now that Goldilocks has exited

4 min read . 18 Aug 2023

Banking turmoil in the West has placed India at a fork in the road

4 min read . 26 Mar 2023

Headline inflation has eased a shade below 6%, but core inflation is still a concern (Photo: Mint)

RBI should cross the river by feeling the stones

3 min read . 06 Feb 2023

India’s latest budget succeeds in hitting all the right notes

3 min read . 02 Feb 2023

With second-round effects in check and fading cyclical forces, we expect inflation to average around 6.8% this fiscal year and 5.0% the next. Photo: Mint

Stable shores in India only after 2023’s global storm

4 min read . 15 Dec 2022

RBI’s choice: An inflation target of 4% or a soft economic landing

4 min read . 08 Aug 2022

How RBI broke its ‘telegraph’ machine

4 min read . 09 May 2022

The going may only get tougher for the RBI MPC

3 min read . 04 Aug 2021

RBI’s monetary policy is nearing an inflection point

3 min read . 05 Apr 2021

Opinion | Package is first in a multi-phased policy response

2 min read . 18 May 2020

The threat to India’s economy is worsened by our financial sector vulnerabilities and weak corporate balance sheets. This calls for extra vigilance. (Photo: PTI)

Opinion | The double whammy that India’s economy now faces

4 min read . 20 Mar 2020

The RBI, cognizant of this shifting balance of risks, cut the repo rate by 50 bps cumulatively and moved system liquidity from deficit to surplus

Opinion: Financial stability, growth should be RBI’s top priority

3 min read . 05 Jun 2019

Opinion | The ‘frown curve’ that could determine a government’s fate

4 min read . 07 Mar 2019

A number of events could trigger a repricing of risk premium in the coming quarters.

Time for policy orthodoxy in India

4 min read . 29 May 2018

Every a 1 percentage point increase in MSPs leads to a 15 basis point increase in inflation. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The changing politics of food price inflation

4 min read . 27 Feb 2018

By not overreacting to the inflation moderation this year, the RBI’s monetary policy committee has kept a sufficient real interest rate buffer, even if some of the upside risks materialize. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

RBI’s monetary policy and inflation: Steady as she goes is the theme

4 min read . 30 Nov 2017

The quantum of recapitalisation is a positive surprise and matches estimates of capital requirements for public sector banks. Photo: Mint

What bank recapitalisation means

4 min read . 03 Nov 2017

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy committee has chosen inflation targeting to fix interest rates. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

Too early to declare victory on inflation

4 min read . 31 May 2017