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 | Congress has embraced Mandal but will it reap the rewards?
Mandal politics led to the BJP replacing the Congress. Even today, there’s no reason why the BJP won’t benefit from the demand for OBC reservation
Published on Sep 22, 2023 03:25 PM IST
Number Theory: Household debt's role in India's growth story
This is the last of a 2-part data journalism series on household finances and Indian economy. The first discussed the latest fall in household savings in India
Published on Sep 21, 2023 08:53 AM IST
Number Theory: Making sense of the fall in household savings
This is the first of a two-part story on household finances. The second part will look at the relationship between household debt and India’s economic growth
Published on Sep 20, 2023 10:15 AM IST
Terms of Trade | Why Congress' trollification is bad for its political prospects
Ideological commitment, organisational perseverance and tactical clarity rather than just shrill rhetoric in social media echo chambers is the need of the hour
Published on Sep 15, 2023 09:40 AM IST
Number Theory: Understanding August's CPI inflation numbers
While the headline number has come down compared to its 7.4% print in July, what is the larger economic picture around inflation in the economy?
Published on Sep 13, 2023 08:42 AM IST
August retail inflation 6.83% as veg prices ease, cereals up
The moderation in retail inflation in August was primarily driven by a (relative) easing of vegetable prices, with vegetable inflation falling from 37% to 26.1%
Published on Sep 12, 2023 11:56 PM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Number Theory: Why the political future of TDP is at a crossroads
Chandrababu Naidu’s arrest by AP Criminal Investigation Department in corruption case raises questions about his and TDP's political prospects ahead of 2024
Updated on Sep 12, 2023 06:39 PM IST
Number Theory: What African Union's inclusion means for G20
The 18th G20 leaders’ summit, under India’s presidency, decided to include the African Union as a permanent member of the multilateral body
Published on Sep 10, 2023 09:40 AM IST
Number Theory: India’s political economy story of the last decade – 2
This is the second of a two-part series on India’s political economy story in the last decade. The 1st part looked at the trend in blue-collar wages in India
Published on Sep 08, 2023 12:28 PM IST
Terms of Trade | Making sense of Dravidian assertion 2.0
Hindutva’s rhetoric will tempt Dravidian politics to harden its own cultural rhetoric but the latter does not have the numerical strength to take on the former
Published on Sep 08, 2023 09:38 AM IST
Number Theory: India’s political economy story of the last decade – I
This is the first of a two-part series on India’s political economy story in the last decade
Published on Sep 07, 2023 07:10 AM IST
Number Theory: An oil slick over govt's fiscal plan for elections?
The government’s balancing act between inflation and fiscal prudence could become even more difficult
Published on Sep 06, 2023 07:34 AM IST
Number Theory: Will ‘One Nation, One Election’ help the BJP?
A look at how the ‘One Nation, One Election’ move will play out for the BJP
Updated on Sep 05, 2023 04:37 AM IST
Number Theory: Four charts which explain latest GDP numbers
A look at the key takeaways from the GDP numbers released on Thursday.
Updated on Sep 01, 2023 01:21 AM IST
Q1 growth at 7.8% as Indian economy braves headwinds
To be sure, almost all projections, including RBI’s, expect the annual growth number for 2023-24 to be lower than the June quarter numbers
Updated on Sep 01, 2023 12:01 AM IST
Roshan KishoreRajeev Jayaswal, New Delhi
Terms of Trade | The class-differentiation in India’s economic dynamism
New research by a SOAS economist on occupational mobility in 2005 and 2011-12 shows the simultaneous creation and destruction of millions of jobs in the economy
Updated on Sep 01, 2023 11:26 AM IST
Key takeaways from the reduction in LPG prices
A look at what the decision to decrease LPG cylinder price by ₹200 may mean.
Updated on Aug 30, 2023 11:56 PM IST
Watch out for the ‘statistical boost’ in the GDP numbers
A look at why GDP number may need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Published on Aug 30, 2023 11:24 PM IST
Gig work can’t fix India’s long-term job challenge
There are growing concerns about the physical and mental well-being of workers in the gig economy.
Updated on Aug 30, 2023 02:21 AM IST
Nine years of Jan Dhan Yojna: A macro analysis
Nine years after it was rolled out, there are more than 500 million PMJDY accounts in the country with a total balance of ₹2.04 lakh crore in the accounts.
Updated on Aug 29, 2023 04:49 AM IST
Terms of Trade | A three-point solution to India’s food market chaos
Governments sync promises to assuage farmer anger with the election cycle. There are alternatives to this cynical political economy of agricultural markets
Published on Aug 25, 2023 03:29 PM IST
Four charts which explain the politics and economics of inflation
Understanding the problem of price rise in the country
Published on Aug 22, 2023 11:44 PM IST
The rise and rise of white-collar salaried aristocracy in India
An HT analysis shows that the real economic winner over the last decade has been the white-collar salaried workforce
Published on Aug 21, 2023 11:59 PM IST
Can world’s third largest economy carry the weight of its greatest democracy?
Given the skewed nature of growth benefitting a very small part of the population, a rise in GDP may be unable to provide minimum entitlements to all voters
Published on Aug 18, 2023 10:35 AM IST
Retail inflation swells to 7.44%
India's retail inflation surged to 7.44% in July, driven by higher prices of vegetables, cereals, with food inflation at its highest level in 39 months.
Updated on Aug 14, 2023 10:48 PM IST
Roshan Kishore, New Delhi
Terms of Trade | Lessons from a Maoist balladeer’s state funeral
Maoist ideologue Gummadi Vittal Rao's death is a reminder of a time of feudal violence. Why do we not see such radical political figures/movements today?
Published on Aug 11, 2023 09:07 AM IST
RBI keeps status quo on rate, ups inflation target
Analysts see MPC’s communication as “modestly hawkish” and believe that RBI’s future course on monetary policy is likely to take a data dependent course.
Updated on Aug 11, 2023 12:09 AM IST
India’s laptop import restrictions is not a bad move
A look at why the decision to impose an import license on computers, if implemented intelligently, may not be a bad move
Published on Aug 08, 2023 12:42 AM IST
Terms of Trade | Sectarian politics and its statistical hubris
Dismissing growing concern around incidents of sectarian violence by citing other numbers for communal harmony is a wrong application of statistical law
Published on Aug 04, 2023 09:08 AM IST
Nuh: A troubled district to a communal tinderbox?
A look at why Haryana's Nuh district may become a communal tinderbox which may polarise politics.
Updated on Aug 02, 2023 12:48 AM IST
