Roshan Kishore is the Data and Political Economy Editor at Hindustan Times. His weekly column for HT Premium Terms of Trade appears every Friday.
Articles by Roshan Kishore
Terms of Trade | What ails competitive capitalism in India
Viral Acharya's new paper, which is likely to create a big debate, suggests that the monopolistic practices of a few firms are contributing to inflation.
Published on Mar 31, 2023 07:55 PM IST
Number theory: The state of India’s consumption at the end of FY 2022-23
India’s GDP suffered a contraction of 5.8% in 2020-21, largely a result of the economic disruption of the 68-day long lockdown which began on March 24, 2020.
Published on Mar 30, 2023 11:41 PM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
GST collection set to exceed ₹18 lakh crore this financial year
GST collections in the first 11 months of FY23 have already touched ₹16.46 lakh crore, a robust 22.7% year-on-year growth.
Published on Mar 30, 2023 11:40 PM IST
Rajeev JayaswalRoshan Kishore, New Delhi
Number theory: Five charts which explain the Karnataka contest
The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Thursday that elections to the Karnataka state assembly will be held on May 10 and the results declared on May 13.
Updated on Mar 30, 2023 11:23 AM IST
Number theory: Two charts which capture Congress’ current crisis
Even without the crisis triggered by the Gandhi’s conviction, the Congress would have still had to take a call on its face for the 2024 campaign – unless it decided that it would pick current President Mallikarjun Kharge.
Updated on Mar 28, 2023 10:47 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Terms of Trade | Should Rahul Gandhi take the two-year jail term?
Here’s a counter-intuitive take: Embracing the sentence will generate moral capital for the Gandhi family, burnish his anti-establishment credentials, create sympathy, and perhaps improve his party’s fortunes in 2024
Published on Mar 24, 2023 07:36 PM IST
Five questions which explain Delhi’s Budget
Finance minister Kailash Gahlot presented Delhi’s 30th budget on March 22
Published on Mar 22, 2023 11:55 PM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Indian economy is in a low-risk low-reward position if there is a global slowdown
The world economy has been living from one scare to another in the past few years
Published on Mar 22, 2023 02:19 PM IST
Delhi’s GSDP set to cross ₹3 lakh per capita, third state to hit benchmark
With an expected per capita GSDP of ₹3.08 lakh in 2022-23, Delhi will become the third state after Goa and Sikkim to cross the benchmark
Published on Mar 21, 2023 12:32 AM IST
Terms of Trade | Rahul Gandhi should return to a 1920 communist debate
As MN Roy sought support from the Communist International for revolution in India, Lenin shot him down. India’s Left-liberals are today seeking the support of Capitalist International. It won’t work
Published on Mar 17, 2023 02:06 PM IST
What explains high inflation despite weak consumer demand?
Data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) shows that headline IIP print for the period between April 2022 to January 2023 stood at 136.9
Updated on Mar 16, 2023 11:49 AM IST
Inflation in Feb 6.44% on prices of cereals, milk
A hike will add to the cumulative rate hike of 2.5 percentage points since May 2022 and is bound to generate growth headwinds for what is already a slowing economy.
Updated on Mar 14, 2023 08:11 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Terms of Trade | The economics and politics of migration in India
The news about an attack on Bihari workers in Tamil Nadu wasn’t true. But it raises interesting questions about the push-and-pull factors behind migration, the differential impact on politics of different kinds of migration, and the often invisible but effective democratic consciousness of migrants
Published on Mar 10, 2023 12:38 PM IST
Terms of Trade | The story of two betrayed revolutions in Bihar
The political trajectory and subsequent tragedy of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati and Karpoori Thakur in Bihar underlines the complex interplay of caste and class
Published on Mar 03, 2023 08:42 PM IST
How to interpret India’s latest GDP numbers
While analysis of GDP statistics is normally a straightforward exercise, the latest release included revisions to past GDP statistics in keeping with NSO’s revision calendar
Updated on Mar 03, 2023 11:26 AM IST
Key takeaways, political impact of poll verdicts in north-eastern states
Of the three states which went to polls the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were in power in Tripura and Nagaland. It is going to retain power in these two states
Published on Mar 03, 2023 12:37 AM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
The good, bad and ugly about India’s post-pandemic labour market
Once lockdown restrictions were relaxed and the economy started recovering, questions shifted to not just the magnitude of the recovery but also its nature
Updated on Mar 01, 2023 12:02 AM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
India’s Q3 GDP growth 4.4% amid slew of revisions
The 4.4% growth for the quarter ending December was lower than the 4.7% projection by a Bloomberg poll of economists
Updated on Mar 01, 2023 04:08 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Unemployment rate falls to lowest since 2018; job markets recover from pandemic
The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report also suggests that some migrants who came back to their villages during the pandemic have gone back to the cities again
Updated on Feb 25, 2023 08:52 PM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore
Terms of Trade | Climate crisis is further complicating capitalist agriculture
There exists research to show that the intersection of climate crisis with capitalist farming has made things far worse for the farmer than what pre-capitalist weather fluctuations entailed.
Published on Feb 24, 2023 07:29 PM IST
Number Theory: How will the churn in Shiv Sena and JD(U) affect 2024?
As one waits for these four elections , there is an interesting political churn taking place in another two states, which account for almost as many Lok Sabha constituencies as the four described above.
Updated on Feb 23, 2023 12:54 PM IST
Roshan Kishore and Abhishek Jha
Terms of Trade | Cooperatives: BJP’s latest rural challenge to the opposition
With its push for cooperatives, the BJP has the potential to deepen its political strength across rural India and weaken the finance muscle of other Opposition parties. It also makes sound economic sense.
Published on Feb 17, 2023 10:07 PM IST
Number theory: How will a global slowdown affect the Indian economy?
The intensity of a global slowdown’s impact on the Indian economy will depend on its magnitude in countries with which India has a more important export relationship.
Updated on Feb 16, 2023 01:51 PM IST
Four charts which capture the inflation situation in India
India’s retail and wholesale inflation stood at 6.5% and 4.7%, respectively, in January. While retail inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased from 5.7% in December
Updated on Feb 14, 2023 11:22 PM IST
Retail inflation shoots up to 3-month high of 6.5% in Jan as food prices bite
High cereal and protein prices pushed India’s retail inflation beyond RBI’s tolerance zone once again in January , with the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) print coming in at 6
Updated on Feb 14, 2023 03:37 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Terms of Trade | Will Adani-gate hurt the BJP?
The setback for the group has neither established firm evidence of a money trail with the party nor is it affecting the larger economy, yet. The battle is confined to the political narrative but to win that, the Opposition has to dent the BJP’s political economy approach
Published on Feb 10, 2023 08:45 PM IST
State of the economy, as the Monetary Policy Committee would have seen it
The latest meeting of the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is the first after the presentation of the Union Budget.
Updated on Feb 09, 2023 06:05 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
‘Economy remains resilient’: RBI increases key policy rate
The hike, which many experts see as the last in the current monetary tightening cycle, will also raise the borrowing cost for corporate borrowers, increasing the cost of capital.
Updated on Feb 09, 2023 05:07 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Evaluating the Amrit Kaal strategy in a demographic context
How does the government’s “Amrit Kaal” strategy look in the context of India’s ongoing demographic evolution? Here are five charts that explain this in detail.
Updated on Feb 06, 2023 08:49 AM IST
Abhishek Jha and Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
The Indian economy: Past, present, future
No other government has prioritised government capital spending as much as the second Narendra Modi government is doing.
Updated on Feb 06, 2023 11:00 AM IST
