Blog & Newsletters

Dr. Debasis Pahi | Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) | drdpklass.com

Policy Analysis Series · 07 Nov 2026
How Indian Scholars Should Read an ECLGS Notification Before Estimating MSME Credit Constraints

A practical protocol for reading successive ECLGS notifications so that estimates of MSME credit constraints rest on eligibility rules, coverage ratios, and risk-sharing parameters rather than on a single post-announcement dummy.

Read the playbook
AI & Business · 06 Nov 2026
How Indian CFOs Should Write a Board Paper on GenAI Adoption That Separates Productivity Claims from Control Gaps

A practical protocol for Indian CFOs to write a board paper on GenAI adoption that places productivity claims and residual control gaps in separate columns so the board can accept risk at a stated level rather than merely note that AI exists.

Read the playbook
Teaching · 05 Nov 2026
How to Run Weekly Low-Stakes Quizzes in Indian Commerce So Final-Exam Performance Improves Without Adding Marking Load

A practical design for weekly low-stakes quizzes in Indian commerce courses that surfaces misconceptions early, builds retrieval practice, and keeps marking time under control so the final exam is not the first real signal of learning.

Read the playbook
SDGs · 04 Nov 2026
How Indian Commerce Faculties Should Map Research Papers to Specific SDG Targets Without Turning a Keyword Match into an Impact Claim

A practical protocol for Indian commerce faculties to map research papers to specific SDG targets with a primary-target rule, evidence ladder, and cut-off test — not a keyword search or a citation count.

Read the playbook
ESG · 03 Nov 2026
How Indian CFOs Should Build an ESG Data Lineage File That Survives Both BRSR Assurance and Rating-Agency Queries

A practical protocol for Indian CFOs to build a short, controlled ESG data lineage file that can be re-performed for BRSR Core assurance and rating-agency questionnaires without creating parallel numbers.

Read the playbook
Research · 02 Nov 2026
How Indian Finance Scholars Should Build an Ethics and Data-Access Appendix That Prevents a Late-Stage Desk Rejection

A practical protocol for constructing an ethics and data-access appendix that satisfies journal requirements, respects Indian institutional and vendor constraints, and prevents late-stage desk rejection.

Read the playbook
Career & Interview Tips · 01 Nov 2026
How Early-Career Commerce Faculty Should Document Informal Mentoring So It Counts Toward API and Promotion

A practical system for turning informal mentoring hours into contemporaneous evidence that maps onto UGC and institutional API categories and survives a promotion-committee review.

Read the playbook
Policy Analysis Series · 31 Oct 2026
How Indian Scholars Should Read an RBI Financial Stability Report Before Estimating Bank-Level Systemic Risk

A reading protocol for RBI Financial Stability Reports so that systemic-risk estimates rest on the report’s own risk-map, stress-test assumptions, and data vintages rather than on secondary summaries.

Read the playbook
AI & Business · 30 Oct 2026
How Indian Controllers Should Keep a Living GenAI Use Register That Survives an Audit or Board Query

A practical protocol for Indian finance controllers to maintain a living register of GenAI tools, prompts, and outputs that can be produced when an auditor or the board asks for evidence of control.

Read the playbook
Teaching · 29 Oct 2026
How to Design Exit Tickets That Reveal What Indian Commerce Students Actually Understood Before the Next Lecture

A design protocol for exit tickets in Indian commerce classrooms so that the next lecture starts from what students can actually do rather than from what the syllabus says they should know.

Read the playbook