-The Times of India Blog Prakash Singh, former IPS officer who also headed the Border Security Force, dealt with naxalism in its early stages. He continues to research the movement. In a conversation with Sugandha Indulkar, he shares his idea of urban naxalism. * What is urban naxalism? Urban naxalism, in simplest terms, implies naxalism as practised in urban areas by different shades of intellectuals – lawyers, journalists, writers, doctors, professors or people...
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Is the new GDP series a travesty of statistics? -Himanshu
-Livemint.com India’s statistical system suffered credibility shocks when the GDP series was released Last week, the NITI Aayog released the back series of gross domestic product (GDP) data on base 2011-12 for the years 2004-05 to 2011-12. The series was eagerly awaited by researchers as well as policymakers ever since the base was revised in January 2015. This release follows an unofficial release of the report of the committee on real...
More »GDP back series data: New numbers do not pass the basic smell test; mess of the past has just got worsened -Vivek Kaul
-Firstpost.com In January 2015, India moved to a new method of calculating the gross domestic product (GDP). The trouble was that up until day before yesterday, data from only 2011-2012 onwards was available as a part of this new GDP series. Hence, any comparison with the years before 2011-2012 was not possible. On Wednesday, nearly four years after moving to a new GDP series, the government released GDP data for the years...
More »Why India's New GDP Math Lacks Credibility -MK Venu
-TheWire.in The new back-series GDP data, released four months before the 2019 general elections, fails several common sense tests. India’s back-series GDP (gross domestic product) data, released by the NITI Aayog just four months before the 2019 general elections, turn the basic laws of macroeconomics on their head. Here’s one that is most intriguing. The data show lower GDP growth during the UPA years, which is when the gross investment to GDP...
More »Why the farmers want to march again -Rishi Majumder
-The Telegraph 1 lakh farmers and farm labourers plan to march towards Parliament on November 30. But what do they want? Mumbai: We, who are not farmers, tend to think of farmers as a catch-all word. A word that signifies to us a people who work to cultivate something. I have no idea why. I can never see ‘journalists’, for instance, as a catch-all word, even if some others do. This is...
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