How India's monsoon shaped this year's food inflation
A patchy June and a heavy August moved vegetable prices more than any policy decision did. We trace the rain, mandi by mandi.
Meera Kulkarni
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Economy
Growth, inflation, jobs and trade — the macro picture of India, in numbers.
A decade of Nifty 50 returns, in one chart
Ten years, three crashes, one pandemic — and an index that still compounded near 12% a year. The long view on Indian equities.
Arjun Nair
India's manufacturing output, sector by sector
Electronics and pharmaceuticals are pulling away from the pack, while textiles tread water. A visual audit of the index of industrial production.
Sana Qureshi
What GDP does and doesn't tell us about India
GDP is the most quoted and least understood number in Indian public life. A field guide to what it measures, what it misses, and how to read it.
Dev Patel
Urban unemployment fell again. The fine print is more interesting
The headline rate is at a survey-era low, but the composition of new work — self-employment versus salaried jobs — tells a subtler story.
Meera Kulkarni
The rupee is weaker — and more stable — than ever
The INR has drifted past 90 to the dollar, yet its volatility is among the lowest of any emerging-market currency. Both facts matter.
Arjun Nair
The startup funding reset, two years on
Venture funding has stabilised well below the 2021 peak — and founders have quietly rebuilt their unit economics around the new normal.
Arjun Nair
How India counts inflation, and why your grocery bill disagrees
The CPI basket was weighted from a 2011-12 consumption survey. Your household in 2026 spends nothing like that. An anatomy of the gap.
Dev Patel
UPI's next hundred million users live in small-town India
Transaction data shows the fastest growth in payments is no longer in the metros. Tier-3 towns and rural districts are driving the curve.
Ishita Rao
Global capability centres are rewriting white-collar India
Over 1,700 GCCs now employ close to two million people. The data shows they are climbing the value chain faster than the IT services giants did.
Arjun Nair
The freight corridors are finally moving the needle on logistics
Average freight train speeds on the dedicated corridors are more than double the old network. The cost data is starting to follow.
Sana Qureshi
What two-wheeler sales say about rural demand
Motorcycle registrations are the closest thing India has to a real-time rural income indicator. They are finally accelerating again.
Ishita Rao