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January 18, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The narrative of the Modi government is built on numbers – the fastest this, the highest that – but those numbers themselves are not trustworthy. While economists in India have been saying this for a while, the fate of data collection under Modi is now being noted by the international business press. An editorial in the Financial Times

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