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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.

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The poor are driving India’s demographic trends now | Number Theory

The National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS) suggest that the latest flattening in India's demographic curve is a result of the poor having fewer children.

Updated on Sep 11, 2025 02:21 AM IST

The economic undercurrents in Nepal’s rage against the machine | Number Theory

Demonstrators celebrate after successfully storming the Singha Durbar office complex, that houses the Prime Minister's office and other ministries, during a protest against Monday's killing of 19 people after anti-corruption protests that were triggered by a social media ban, which was later lifted, during a curfew in Kathmandu, Nepal,(REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 09, 2025 06:07 PM IST

Is the BJP winning because of rigged electoral rolls? | Number Theory

Recent volatilities in elector counts are not very different from what they used to be in the pre-Modi era. They do not necessarily correlate with BJP victories even today, (AFP)

Updated on Sep 08, 2025 01:19 AM IST

Terms of Trade: What is a good foreign policy for India?

The almost uncritical celebration of India’s pivot from being a strategic ally to the US to the latest détente with China along with old friend Russia is a perfect example of this. (AP)

Published on Sep 05, 2025 03:12 PM IST

Complexity of pursuing 'swadeshi' in present era | Number Theory

Representational image.

Updated on Sep 01, 2025 09:38 AM IST

GDP growth blows past estimates, hits 5-quarter high of 7.8%

Industry, driven by a 7.7% growth in manufacturing and helped by a 7.6% growth in construction despite a double-digit growth last year managed to post an aggregate growth of 7%. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 30, 2025 04:56 AM IST

India's population is past its peak religious churn | Number Theory

Representational image.

Updated on Aug 29, 2025 10:25 AM IST

Terms of Trade | Onwards to the 2025 Bihar contest

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin, Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, party MP Priyanka Gandhi, party Bihar President Rajesh Kumar, LoP Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and CPI-ML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya during the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra', in Muzaffarpur on Wednesday (AICC/ANI)

Updated on Aug 28, 2025 06:02 PM IST

Demographic debates need sanity, not crude rhetoric | Number Theory

PTI photo via ECI(PTI)

Updated on Aug 26, 2025 02:11 PM IST

Dowry deaths 25 times more frequent than rape murders | Number Theory

NCRB data shows 60,577 cases of dowry deaths were pending in courts at the end of 2022. (HT)

Updated on Aug 26, 2025 08:04 AM IST

Terms of Trade: From strategic ally to voodoo doll

India is being punished not just for buying Russian oil but also its trade with Russia in things such as military hardware. (REUTERS)

Published on Aug 21, 2025 01:12 PM IST

The Congress’s challenges in Bihar | Number Theory

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi with Bihar LoP Tejashwi Yadav (in black) during the 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Aurangabad on Monday(INC India)

Updated on Aug 21, 2025 09:05 AM IST

The fiscal implications of GST rationalisation | Number Theory

Representational image. (iStockphoto)

Updated on Aug 20, 2025 09:05 AM IST

Why trade matters for India's economy | Number Theory

A cargo ship anchored at the Adani Group-owned Mundra port in Gujarat.(PTI)

Updated on Aug 18, 2025 10:03 AM IST

Terms of Trade | We need a new national interest framework

The Raisina Hill illuminated during a ceremony in New Delhi (Virendra Singh Gosain/HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 14, 2025 02:59 PM IST

Malayalam and Tamil speakers’ international diaspora bigger than domestic one

Malayalis have mostly migrated to West Asia and more recently America and Europe, while Tamils have a longer history of migration beginning with South East Asia, present day Myanmar and more recently North America. (FILE IMAGE)

Updated on Aug 14, 2025 08:12 AM IST

Putting the leash in front of the dog | Number Theory

Sakib Ali/HT Photo

Updated on Aug 12, 2025 08:58 AM IST

Reconciling the questions about voter-roll integrity

Regions with a contested history of migration such as Assam have had long spells of unrest over electoral discrepancies, which led to controversial moves such as the NRC. (HT Photo)

Published on Aug 08, 2025 08:36 PM IST

Why India is right in resisting US demand to open up agriculture | Number Theory

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.(PMO)

Updated on Aug 08, 2025 09:52 AM IST

Making sense of MPC's policy rate status quo | Number Theory

The Reserve Bank of India headquarters in Mumbai.(Bloomberg)

Updated on Aug 07, 2025 09:21 AM IST

Time for an ideological reset

Donald Trump on Wednesday slapped an additional 25% tariff on goods coming from India as penalty for New Delhi's continued buying of Russian oil. After the order, the total tariff on Indian goods, barring a small exemption list, will be 50% (PTI FILE)

Updated on Aug 06, 2025 10:25 PM IST

Trump's hypocrisy on Russia-India oil trade detailed in 3 charts | Number Theory

US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 5, 2025. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 06, 2025 08:55 AM IST

Three charts which capture Shibu Soren’s legacy | Number Theory

Shibu Soren at Parliament House in New Delhi in 2011. He died on Monday, August 4, 2025.

Updated on Aug 05, 2025 08:36 AM IST

The legacy of Shibu Soren

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Shibu Soren passed away at a hospital in Delhi on August 4. (PTI)

Updated on Aug 04, 2025 06:14 PM IST

Bihar SIR: Key takeaways from draft electoral roll after ECI’s revision

A painter paints a wall to create awareness among voters ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections 2025 at the state election department premises, in Patna on Friday.(ANI)

Published on Aug 02, 2025 08:25 AM IST

Why it's hard to placate or retaliate against the US | Number Theory

US President Donald Trump.(AP)

Updated on Aug 01, 2025 08:33 AM IST

Terms of Trade| Migration, religion, language: Bengal’s new political churn

A lot of working-class settlements across Indian cities have seen special drives to detect what the Indian state believes are illegal Bangladeshi migrants. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)

Published on Jul 31, 2025 01:32 PM IST

Terms of Trade: Come and hear the boom boxes in the street

Anybody, no matter who, who comes in their way, is likely to be crushed like anything coming in the way of the marching wildebeests (Hindustan Times)

Published on Jul 23, 2025 02:59 PM IST

Terms of Trade: The political economy of welfare in India

The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy, the latest book by Louise Tillin, finally does justice to the task of putting together the longue durée narrative of welfare in India. (cambridge.org)

Updated on Jul 18, 2025 04:16 PM IST

Vanguard to rearguard: Nitish Kumar’s populism in Bihar | Number Theory

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. (HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 18, 2025 09:30 AM IST

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