The data fundamentalism relates to the suppression of data over ‘adverse’ inferences or inferior data.

Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ and his later works popularised the notion of ‘top 1% income quintile’ and estimated income inequality in the context of India. He used a combination of …

[ In conversation with Jayant Sriram of The Hindu. ]

Adequate fiscal space and socioeconomic context should be the basis for welfare policies

There is an overwhelming consensus that a slew of welfare policies initiated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in its previous term secured the party’s victory …