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Maitreesh Ghatak
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The pandemic in data: How Covid-19 has devastated India’s economy
The sharp drop in GDP is the largest in the country’s history – and even that may well underestimate the economic damage experienced by the poorest households.
Swati Dhingra & Maitreesh Ghatak
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Modi's five years prove that sustained economic growth is incompatible with toxic Hindutva politics
Jobs are scarce, agriculture is in crisis, unorganised sector crippled, tax regime sputtering, corporate sector struggling and exports sinking.
Maitreesh Ghatak & Udayan Mukherjee
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Gujarat model: The gleam of state’s high growth numbers hides dark reality of poverty, inequality
An analysis of data shows that the Gujarat model is a bubble waiting to burst.
Maitreesh Ghatak
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19 workers fled Arunachal border road project. Only 10 survived. Their ordeal tells a larger story
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India at 75: If being casteless is impossible, can freedom be possible?
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Supreme Court to hear petition seeking lifetime ban on convicts contesting elections
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Manusmriti gives respectable position to Indian women, says Delhi HC judge Prathiba M Singh
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Explainer: How will the Election Commission decide which is the real Shiv Sena?