Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

Counting Correctly Counts

Statisticians are not crooks. But their methodologies do need to change Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The government has junked the

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014 on an anti-corruption platform from which he told voters, “Main na khaoonga

When Narendra Modi was re-elected, optimists expected GDP growth to accelerate to 8%. Alas, it is plummeting towards 4%, having

People lie in surveys. Which is why India needs a new methodology to gather data A leaked National Sample Survey Office

Has the Supreme Court, long praised for independence and fearlessness, suffered some erosion of its tough impartial image, and allowed

Indian exports have grown very little since 2013. No economy in the world has had GDP growth of 7% for

The stock markets think the government might abolish the dividend distribution tax (DDT) and let all dividends be taxed as

Dear Abhijit Banerjee, Congrats on winning the Nobel Prize. In a recent interview, you castigated economic journalists like me for

India needs to expand its drone strategy, and have a major production programme Last month, Saudi Arabia was hit by