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Kurian Bastian's avatar

Waiting too long to come back to twitter. Please do so, Miss you a lot

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VS's avatar

I just hope you are okay. Miss you/ your work.

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Ragini Singh's avatar

What an analysis ,Great going.

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mukund mishra's avatar

unambiguously well stated mam. Great job!

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BK Panigrahy's avatar

What a stupid economist you are? Looks like you have mastered history, economics, statistics, mythology, sociology to mislead the gullible public, in the guise of data-driven analysis.

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Kousalya Ramasamy's avatar

Very good information, suspect where all the money gone, spending more on interest payments, actual receipts are low

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Ajay Pareek's avatar

Good information

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Ranjan Sapra's avatar

Yes, that is what I strongly suspected. Their credibility is in the pits

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Yash Mishra's avatar

You need to update the interest payment data for 2021-22 RE and 2022-23 BE as percentage of tax revenue. That will show the current picture

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K_336's avatar

Very embarrassing after reading this data and how these people mastered on how to fudge numbers.What we can expect from such a government who even don’t even stands on their Promises Like smart city ,Adarsh village ,Farmers income.And so many other.There is nothing at ground only Hindu is there .

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Vinod's avatar

Exhaustively researched, intensely data-driven @sonaliranade elucidates disturbing features of the budget that merit deep thought. Essay has energy & honesty that makes all charts and graphs practically shimmer.

Wonderfully thoughtful & provocative.

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Ranaji's avatar

PERFECT. :)

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Mohit Shenoy's avatar

Spot on. Superb analysis, Esp. the GDP Deflator and inflation. Inflation is raging in India.

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