TK Arun

TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.

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Insights, Center for ICT for Development, Economy and Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, ICT and Innovation, Science and Technology

The Need for IndOS: A Choice for a Fair Competition?

The government wants to create a mobile operating system (OS) to compete with the dominant Android, owned by Google, and Apple’s iOS operating systems that have pretty much divided up the global smartphone market (Chinese tech major Huawei uses its own Harmony operating system on its phones after US President Donald Trump ordered Google to deny Android to companies that violated the sanctions against Iran). The government has even come up with a name for it: IndOS.

IMPRI and TK Arun
January 21, 2023

Insights, Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies

Inclusive Democracy: Central to India’s Global Influence

India has a potentially big role to play on the world stage, but cannot do it without inclusive democracy at home

IMPRI, TK Arun and Samriddhi
January 8, 2023

Insights

Demonetisation Decision: Sound Judgement on Unsound Policy

TK Arun A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has upheld the legality of the government’s decision to demonetise high-value currency notes. The court is spot on. It is not the court’s place to sit in judgment on the soundness…

TK Arun
January 4, 2023

Insights

As we enter 2023, Recounting the Watershed Janus faced 2022

But rarely is a Janus view as much an imperative to anticipate the contours of the new year, as we move into 2023. A clear vision of 2022 is essential to clear the mist over 2023.

TK Arun
January 4, 2023

Insights, Center for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Center for the Study for Finance and Economics, Economy and Infrastructure, Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Generation Alpha Data Centre, Public Finances and Macroeconomics

Fiscal Deficit as a Shape-Shifter in India

The fiscal deficit created now translates into a higher debt burden that future generations have to service. Is that fair? It is more than fair. In the misty mornings of peak winter, a flock of sharp-beaked, joyless birds takes flight in the capital – Fiscal Deficit Hawks, who swoop down on North Block, where harried finance ministry officials race against time to prepare the Union government’s annual budget, to screech sharp orders to slash the fiscal deficit.

IMPRI, TK Arun and Tripta Behera
December 26, 2022

Insights, Center for Human Dignity and Development, Governance and Law

Electronic Seizures, Tampering of Evidence & Compromised Liberty

Is it fair to assume the possibility of investigating officers distorting or concocting evidence? The track record of police investigations does not permit the assumption that no manipulation of the evidence would be carried out by the police.

IMPRI, TK Arun and Satyam Tripathi
December 23, 2022