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Roshan Kishore
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Data & Political Economy Editor, Hindustan Times
What has all of this got to do with AAP's landslide victories in 2015 and 2020? AAP's entry put an end to what was very large political fragmentation (vote share of candidates from No. 3 onwards) in outer ACs. 7/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is where we bring in the class factor.
How do we know whether outer ACs (with more migrants) are poorer than the core? Fortunately, Delhi gives ration-card data at the AC level. Higher NFSA beneficiaries per voter in outer ACs 6/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Which also means outer ACs have seen a larger growth in the number of electors. Once again, the data is clear. Can't make a pre-2008 comparison because of delimitation 5/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This has a direct bearing on electoral politics. ACs in the city's outer circumference have seen a larger growth in settled area in the last four decades 4/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An analysis of satellite data shows that most of the increase in settled area has happened in the city's periphery; the core was already settled 3/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Despite a similar natural growth of population, Delhi has had a higher growth in number of voters than rest of the country in most elections. This means a large number of voters are migrants who eventually settled here 2/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Once in a while its okay to say we are proud of the work we do. This full-page data package explaining how Delhi's centre of (political) gravity has shifted from its core to the periphery is a fit case.
Done with Abhishek Jha & Nishant Ranjan & produced by Jamie Mullick 1/n
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
And it’s not just inequality but growth too, which has fallen continuously in the last few decades. Trump should focus on this than the othering game n/n
January 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
US’s real problem is the collapse of income growth in the lower half of the population, which is what has hurt the white working class the most 4/n
January 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
But that’s largely their educational premium in the US job market 3/n
January 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Naturalized citizens especially Asians have much higher incomes the average white American 2/n
January 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Going after naturalized citizens or their children won’t make America great again 1/n
January 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
What should be Manmohan Singh’s economic legacy and how did the 1991 reforms change India?
December 28, 2024 at 9:34 AM
But it’s humiliating loss this time is a result of a complete collapse in Vidarbha-Marathwada region, the poorest & most rural in the state. This part of the state stood with the Congress even post-Emergency4/n
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Congress’s marginalisation in Maharashtra is a process which started since 1990 3/n
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Maharashtra is the 17th legislative assembly in India where the congress has less than 10% MLAs (the minimum you need to even claim an LoP). It’s national footprint in assemblies has been falling continuously 2/n
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Congress’s Maharashtra collapse should worry the grand old party deeply, we explain here 1/n
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
On Nov 16, DSS put contribution of stubble burning to Delhi’s PM2.5 on Nov 15 at 37.5%.
On Nov 18, this number was revised down to 21.56%.
One reason, large number of weddings in Delhi. They  assumed that 50 firecrackers were burst at each wedding held in Delhi.
November 20, 2024 at 1:52 AM