FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

fter two debilitating Covid-19 waves that killed 476,135 people (as of December 15) and destroyed millions of livelihoods, the big question on everyone’s mind has been—how soon will the Indian economy recover? India’s GDP had begun slipping since the third quarter of the financial year 2016-17, well before the pandemic struck. GDP growth went from 8.6 per cent to 4 per cent in the fourth quarter of FY20. The pandemic and the nationwide lockdown imposed in March 2020 saw the economy slip into a recession for