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Joe Athialy

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Executive Director at the @cfa_ind Focus on political economy and tracking how public money is allocated, spent, and misused. Views are political.
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September 16, 2026
Joe Athialy
BRICS: The Summit India Wished Happened Elsewhere
It would have been different if India had taken firm positions when it mattered, stood up to bullying by powerful countries and supported its traditional allies when they needed it the most. Police personnel stand near a BRICS Summit billboard amid preparations ahead of the summit, in the Dhau...
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September 17, 2026
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Why Chidambaram’s Prescription is Dangerous
An Interview of former minister P Chidambaram in yesterday’s (Aug 27) Business Standard tells us what has been wrong about policymaking in this country and flawed policymaking is not an innovation of Modi government. In the interview, reflecting on the economic liberalization 35 years back, h...
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September 16, 2026
Dr Vishvaja Sambath, Joe Athialy, Anirban Bhattacharya, Shivam Dwivedi
Petrochemical boom in Budget 2026: Fossil lock-in amid climate crisis
INDIA’S 2025 was a year of unrelenting climate catastrophe. Extreme climatic events battered the country on 99 per cent of days from January to November, devastating 17.4 million hectare of crops and claiming over 4,400 lives. The “Year of Extremes” brought heat waves that scorched Delhi, floo...
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December 5, 2024
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Note the hypocrisy
The Hindenburg report had accused the Adani Group of using shell companies in Mauritius for laundering money. But the Indian government staunchly defended the corporate giant. The Financial Action Task Force, a Paris-based global watchdog that sets standards for combating money laundering and terror...
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September 26, 2026
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We20 – Defending the Right to Dissent
India assumed the G20 presidency end of 2022 and the Leaders’ Summit was held in early September 2023. During this time the Government used it to seek political and electoral mileage, conducting over 200 meetings in 60 towns and cities, making a spectacle out of it. The picture that was presented an...
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