If you want to learn on how not to conduct an interview by frequent interruptions and using provocative language to rile the interviewee, please do watch #karanthapar interview with Surjit Bhalla. Badgering the guest seems to be Karan’s style. Sad.

Correct. After Modi came to power, science just withered.
ISRO landed a space craft on the lunar south pole by using magic.
The digital revolution was brought about by playing carom.
An indigenous covid vaccine was made in record time by regularly tweeting BS.
#KuchBhi !

Almost 11 months after a Sikh extremist’s killing, Canadian police have arrested three of the five suspects. In the 1985 Air India bombing that killed all 329 on board, Canada failed to bring a single suspect to justice, despite identifying Canadian Sikh terrorists as the…

With #elections in full swing, @bdutt talks to economist & Author Surjit Bhalla on what matters to the voters and what his new book 'How We Vote' forecasts for both #BJP and #Congress .
Full show: youtube.com/live/YUWf0VKgj…

I don't know if I am in a hopeless minority of one in my forecast that BJP will end with a razor thin majority on its own in 2019, but I do hope that I will be close to the actual result on May 23rd - a psephologist lives with fingers crossed till judgement day

‘People vote on the basis of what has helped them the most and who has helped them the most'—author & economist Surjit Bhalla Surjit Bhalla tells Shekhar Gupta in #ThePrintOTC

Stay tuned for the full episode tonight at 7 pm

Watch this interview of Surjit Bhalla with Shweta Punj where he debunks every opposition narrative - brick by brick.

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Speaking at the book launch of Surjit Bhalla’s How We Vote. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

How India Votes

interesting conversation b/w Shekhar Gupta & Surjit Bhalla on factors tgat influence voters

- economic welfare plays dominant role in voting behaviout, price rise/ inflation very little

- emotive issues, identities, ideological positions explains very little

.@SurjitBhalla, former Executive Director at the IMF and former member of the PMEAC, will be our next guest in #ThePrintOTC on 26 April, 7 PM. He will talk about his new book 'How We Vote', in conversation with Shekhar Gupta.

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Ask no questions, and you will be told no lies

CMIE data does not go up - Female labour force participation rate now at 9 % when the PLFS value is close to 40 %; I think the peak CMIE data for FLFPR over the last few years is 11 % - so, consistently lower than Yemen and Iraq

Ideology laced lazy journalists are , by definition, not interested in evidence; they are interested in a political narrative - another reason to read my book Why We Vote in which narrative peddling is discussed in detail - as well as the now obsolete? CMIE data on employment

Economist reports that Rahul Gandhi is not interested in economic growth but only in redistribution. The Economist is breaking ranks from the rest of western media in characterizing Rahul Gandhi as the problem and not the solution to India's divided opposition.

Looking forward to watching the interview!

In a 'radical' judgement ILO has determined that PLFS surveys for 2017-18 and 2018-19 are unusable (very bad quality); Indian govt. found HCES 2017-18 survey to be of very bad quality. I raise questions about Indian data and its use and misuse.

In Mint
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Important for all concerned with poverty measurement and poverty dialogue to read this 'introduction' to common mistakes made by experts - and how not to make these mistakes in the future

For a preview of what might happen in Election 2024 ; an economic, political, and narrative analysis. Please join April 25th, IIC Delhi 6pm onwards

India Eliminates Extreme Poverty

कुशल मेहरा in conversation with Karan Bhasin on a report by Surjit Bhalla and Karan

Podcast addresses not just the report but also its criticisms, with a deep dive into methodologies and approaches

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