In this article for Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Executive Director, Artha Global, recounts the history of the interventionist state in India, all the way back to the early days of World War II. While the 1991 reforms did away with many controls, there is still an entire web of regulations that impose an immense burden on companies, especially the smaller ones.

Read the full article here.

Image sourced from Mint.