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Student suicides are worsened by institutional failure | Number Theory

India, Sept. 22 -- The death by suicide of an IIT Bombay student has once again brought to the fore a crisis which is getting worse in India. Extremely tragic as the incident is, IIT Bombay administra... Read More


India's economic challenges beyond 7.8% growth and 4.8% inflation | Number Theory

India, Sept. 19 -- Economic commentary in the past couple of weeks in India has been dominated by the debate around the veracity of its GDP numbers. The debate, triggered by the 7.8% GDP growth in the... Read More


Terms of Trade: The ghosts of primitive accumulation in India

India, Sept. 17 -- About half a million road accidents happened in India and almost as many people were injured in them in 2024, the latest year for which we have official data. Not all accidents make... Read More


Superpower vs retaining power: Trump's dilemma | Number Theory

India, Sept. 16 -- Less than two months from now, Donald Trump will face the most important political challenge of his second presidency - the mid-term elections in the US. Irrespective of what happen... Read More


Can a Sino-Indian detente reinvent Global South solidarity? | Number Theory

India, Sept. 12 -- The biggest highlight of the 18th BRICS Summit underway in New Delhi is the thaw in relations between China and India. China's President Xi Jinping's visit is his first to India sin... Read More


Terms of Trade | BRICS: 25 years since an idea

India, Sept. 11 -- New Delhi will host the 18th BRICS Summit this weekend. The idea of BRICS is older than the number of annual summits. It was in 2001 that a Goldman Sachs economist, Jim O'Neill, wro... Read More


Brics: Spirit of multipolarity in a bipolar world | Number Theory

India, Sept. 10 -- The 18th BRICS Summit will take place in New Delhi on September 12 and 13. When BRICS came into shape -- its first conference was held in Russia in 2009 with Brazil, Russia, India a... Read More


Terms of Trade | Nerds, trolls, statistics and politics

India, Sept. 4 -- (Roshan Kishore, HT's Data and Political Economy Editor, writes a weekly column on the state of the country's economy and its political fall out, and vice-versa) Published by HT Dig... Read More


India shrugs off oil shock to post 7.8% growth in Q1, PM Modi hails 'herculean feat'

India, Sept. 1 -- The Indian economy grew at 7.8% in the first quarter (April-June 2026) of the current fiscal year braving what has been described as the largest oil shock in the history of capitalis... Read More


Terms of Trade: Political limits of alchemy via exorcism

India, Aug. 27 -- In the spring of 2020, this author went on a sabbatical to the Centre for Advanced Studies of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Like many journalists, the idea was to work on ... Read More