No-holds barred interview. Rajiv Kumar, Niti Aayog, on India’s crisis plan

No-holds barred interview. Rajiv Kumar, Niti Aayog, on India’s crisis plan

11 June 2020

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In an unusual, no-holds barred conversation, RAJIV KUMAR — key crisis planner for government & Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog — fields some hard questions on the economic handling of the pandemic.

Why has 90% of India lived beneath policy radar? What is being done to fix it? What’s Prime Minister Modi thinking?

A yin and yang interview. On mistakes. Wins. And the big picture for the road ahead.