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Roshan Kishore

Roshan Kishore

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: India’s democracy needs a bonfire of the alibis

PTI picture

Updated on Jun 4, 2026 07:21 IST

Cockroaches, zombies and the deathtraps of Delhi

NDRF team conduct a rescue operation as the building collapsed in Saidulajab, Saket last night, in New Delhi, India, on Sunday, May 31 (HT Photo/Ishant Chauhan)

Updated on Jun 1, 2026 09:41 IST

Health cover, welfare drive India’s social gains: NFHS

The findings also highlight the success of government programmes –– such as those in the areas of financial inclusion and health insurance. (Representative photo)

Updated on May 30, 2026 24:52 IST

Terms of Trade: A colonial club and the art of political schadenfreude

The attention has shifted to looking for privileged parasites rather than structural holes in India’s economic story.

Updated on May 28, 2026 11:53 IST

What is the actual economic inequality in India? | Number Theory

Picture for representational purposes only.

Updated on May 28, 2026 03:35 IST

Is the war's energy shock shifting gears in India now? | Number Theory

Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Symi, carrying approx 20,000 tonnes of LPG, arrives at the Kandla Port in Kutch.

Updated on May 22, 2026 03:39 IST

India’s fertiliser output rises in April but still short of normal level

A farmer sprinkles fertiliser on a paddy field in Nagaon district of Assam. (ANI)

Updated on May 21, 2026 06:29 IST

Terms of Trade: Reforms, reality and rationality

Vehicles in the DLF Special Economic Zone in Gurgaon, India, on Monday, May 11, 2026. (Bloomberg File)

Updated on May 20, 2026 10:03 IST

The manufacturing roots of India’s trade deficit | Number Theory

A cargo ship at a container port.

Updated on May 20, 2026 02:06 IST

The trade part of India’s external balance story post-reform | Number Theory

A cargo ship sailing into a port amid the West Asia conflict.

Updated on May 18, 2026 01:03 IST

The economics of exclusion: How far have we come on caste?

The slim 50-page manifesto stands out for its lucidity and revolutionary invocation.

Updated on May 16, 2026 14:35 IST

Terms of Trade: Can the Opposition reinvent itself?

Suvendu Adhikari was a TMC leader in West Bengal and his father was a Congress-man before he joined TMC and then the BJP. (ANI photo)

Updated on May 15, 2026 07:30 IST

India's wholesale inflation surges to 8.3% on oil shock, weak rupee

Retail inflation numbers — 3.48% — suggest that India was immune from the economic pain of the ongoing war in West Asia.

Updated on May 15, 2026 01:00 IST

The Sino-US dynamic: Trade, war, possible peace | Number Theory

US President Donald Trump (left) with China's Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday.

Updated on May 14, 2026 03:14 IST

Understanding India's external account challenge | Number Theory

A cargo ship sailing into a port amid the West Asia conflict.

Updated on May 13, 2026 02:14 IST

India’s reckoning with the war’s economic cost begins | Number Theory

People wait with empty LPG cylinders for refilling in a village on the outskirts of Uttar Pradesh's Jewar district.

Updated on May 12, 2026 01:12 IST

From margins to majority: The BJP’s march to power in Bengal

West Bengal will get its first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Saturday. (APF)

Updated on May 9, 2026 24:58 IST

2026 polls: A watershed in Assam's politics | Number Theory

HT Photo/Sanchit Khanna

Updated on May 8, 2026 03:10 IST

Rahul Gandhi’s politics of fruitless opportunism

So, what exactly is Rahul Gandhi’s — and his party’s — core politics today? (@INCIndia/ANI)

Updated on May 7, 2026 16:01 IST

Lost in SIR debate: Muslim attrition from Trinamool Congress

Trinamol Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee speaks to people after special morning namaz on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Fitr on March 21 (HT File Photo/Samir Jana)

Updated on May 6, 2026 03:48 IST

What explains the BJP’s Assam victory?

The combined vote share of the BJP and its allies is now 48% in Assam. (File photo)

Updated on May 5, 2026 03:38 IST

The numbers behind Tamil Nadu’s political earthquake

Both the DMK and the AIADMK have recorded among their worst ever contested vote shares in Tamil Nadu. (DMK website)

Updated on May 5, 2026 03:18 IST

Did SIR exercise win West Bengal for the BJP?

SIR could not have won the Bharatiya Janata Party the state of West Bengal if hard electoral data is looked at

Updated on May 5, 2026 02:31 IST

Terms of Trade: And then there were none

In West Bengal, the BJP finally managed to unseat the TMC. (HT File Photo)

Updated on May 4, 2026 08:56 IST

Four questions that are set to shape the election verdicts

Security personnel stand guard outside the strong room of Khudiram Anushilan Kendra on the eve of counting and results of the West Bengal Assembly polls, in Kolkata

Updated on May 4, 2026 24:59 IST

Social burden of West Bengal’s regional exceptionalism: Part 2 | Number Theory

Artistes perform during a BJP rally in Kolkata on Monday.

Updated on Apr 28, 2026 03:27 IST

Social burden of West Bengal’s regional exceptionalism | Number Theory

An aerial view of people at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's rally in Cooch Behar.

Updated on Apr 27, 2026 03:05 IST

Terms of Trade: The 2026 battle for West Bengal, seen historically

West Bengal is a unique state in India on a count which is often not appreciated enough. (Representative photo/ Facebook)

Updated on Apr 22, 2026 07:28 IST

Caste makeup, Dravidian party duopoly dominate TN politics

India will count castes other than Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) for the first time in the forthcoming census. (File picture)

Updated on Apr 22, 2026 03:28 IST

Long-term demographics of Muslims in West Bengal | Number Theory

ANI file picture

Updated on Apr 21, 2026 03:27 IST

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