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
How does the Union Budget impact stability?
This year’s budget shows no intention of departing from this approach even in the aftermath of depleted political capital after the elections.
Updated on Jul 24, 2024 06:09 AM IST
How does the Union Budget impact politics?
What this budget has not tried to do is undertake the exercise of correcting what could’ve been a mistake.
Updated on Jul 24, 2024 01:32 AM IST
Number Theory: Four things to watch out for in today’s budget
Any significant increase in transfers to select states is bound to eat into the fiscal room available to the central government for other things.
Published on Jul 23, 2024 07:17 AM IST
Progress made, but skills gap, agri big hurdles on road to 2047: Economic Survey
The survey is clear about India having to navigate the most critical part in its economic trajectory at a time when global conditions are anything but conducive
Updated on Jul 23, 2024 07:58 AM IST
Economic Survey calls for tripartite agreement to make India developed by 2047
A quick summary of what the 2023-24 Economic Survey says about the desired economic roadmap of the government
Updated on Jul 22, 2024 01:28 PM IST
Number Theory: Fiscal prudence and its fallout on the Centre's political capital
This is the last of a two-part pre-budget series. The first part looked at government’s tax performance in the last 10 years.
Published on Jul 22, 2024 09:16 AM IST
Number Theory: Unraveling the tax story during 10 yrs of NDA govt
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the first budget of the newly elected National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on July 23
Updated on Jul 20, 2024 11:42 AM IST
Terms of Trade | Why Emergency is not a useful stick to beat the Congress today
The Congress’s dominance in the early years after independence is comparable to status of the colonial state which was marked by ‘dominance without hegemony’.
Published on Jul 19, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Number Theory: Against a decade ago, are Indian kids eating better?
This is the last of a two-part series on share of Indians who eat 3 meals a day. The first part looked at the share of overall population eating 3 meals a day.
Published on Jul 18, 2024 08:36 AM IST
Number Theory: Just over 50% Indians have three meals a day
This is the first of a two-part series in share of Indians who eat three meals a day. The second part will look at share of children eating three meals a day.
Published on Jul 17, 2024 09:24 AM IST
Number Theory: Understanding India's demographic challenge
India is the world’s most populous country, and will retain that position even in 2100
Updated on Jul 13, 2024 01:57 PM IST
Terms of Trade | The revenge of history
One can continue to see the upheaval in capitalism as country-specific developments or accept that the marriage of liberal democracy and capitalism is ending
Published on Jul 12, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Number Theory: Decoding the scale of economic challenges confronting Starmer
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and 2016 Brexit have been the two most important blows for the UK economy, seriously eroding its economic might in the world.
Published on Jul 10, 2024 08:48 AM IST
Number Theory: Is Congress really parasitic? Here’s what numbers show
In head-to-head comparison, the BJP has had a lead over the Congress in every Lok Sabha election since 1989, except 1991 and 2009.
Published on Jul 08, 2024 08:50 AM IST
India needs to move beyond the formalisation and welfare narratives
India never prohibited rural-urban migration and the interplay of democracy and demand for cheap labour in cities has allowed creation of enclaves for the poor.
Published on Jul 05, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Number Theory: Can CPI (M) recover from its Kerala debacle?
While the LDF has enjoyed a vote share premium in assembly elections in the past too, this dominance reached a new high in the 2021 assembly elections.
Published on Jul 03, 2024 09:19 AM IST
Number Theory: Can RJD win back its dominance in Bihar?
This is last of a two-part series which looks at RJD’s political predicament in Bihar. The first part explained the 2024 results in Bihar from RJD’s perspective
Published on Jun 28, 2024 10:30 AM IST
Number Theory: What do the 2024 results mean for the RJD in Bihar?
This is first of a two-part series which looks at RJD’s political predicament in Bihar. The second part will look at past election results in Bihar.
Published on Jun 24, 2024 08:14 AM IST
Number Theory: The inflation situation in the Indian economy
This is the last of a two-part series on inflation in the Indian economy. The first part explained what the latest inflation numbers mean.
Published on Jun 19, 2024 08:58 AM IST
Number Theory: Understanding India's fresh inflation numbers
This is the first of a two-part series on inflation in the Indian economy. The second part will put the latest inflation numbers in macroeconomic context.
Published on Jun 17, 2024 09:05 AM IST
110mn informal sector workers in India: Data
Calculation puts the value added and employment share of the informal sector outside agriculture at 6% and 19% respectively
Updated on Jun 15, 2024 07:24 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Terms of Trade: The knowns and unknowns about Modi 3.0
The BJP is down from its 2019 tally, but it is much closer to political power even after the 2024 losses than it used to be in the Vajpayee years
Published on Jun 14, 2024 02:38 PM IST
HT interview: Capitalism’s crisis is that it’s not what it was meant to be, says Ruchir Sharma
Sharma says even though at the surface the American economy is doing relatively well, most Americans feel that the economy is moving in the wrong direction
Updated on Jun 14, 2024 06:16 AM IST
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Number Theory: Should BJP have taken consumer sentiment data by RBI seriously?
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Published on Jun 13, 2024 08:34 PM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
India logs fall in inequality between 2011-12 and 2022-23, says govt report
The HCE report provides detailed information on consumption expenditure trends after more than a decade, with the last report released in 2011-12
Updated on Jun 08, 2024 05:05 AM IST
Growth-inflation balance now favourable, says RBI
Analysts believe that the monsoon and the next government’s Budget will be the key factor which determines which interest rates start coming down
Updated on Jun 08, 2024 05:30 AM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
5 charts to summarise the results of 2024 Lok Sabha elections
The balance of power within the government will shift in favour of the allies rather than the centralised government which the BJP ran in 2014 and 2019
Updated on Jun 06, 2024 06:51 PM IST
Indian democracy’s epitaph writers and fairy tale weavers have lost, for now
Ask the BJP and it will tell you that all of Hindutva and anti-Muslim speeches were not enough to harvest a majority in the Lok Sabha nor a win in Ayodhya
Published on Jun 06, 2024 06:00 PM IST
Number Theory: Why was Modi's victory margin in Varanasi lower?
Rajiv Gandhi’s 1984 victory margin of 72.2% is the highest ever victory margin for a sitting prime minister contesting a Lok Sabha election.
Published on Jun 06, 2024 08:23 AM IST
How Akhilesh, not Tejashwi, won Mandal battle
Mandal vs Kamandal battle in UP and Bihar shifts in 2024. NDA dominates Bihar but faces major loss in UP. Charts explain the divergence.
Updated on Jun 05, 2024 04:11 AM IST