Six Numbers the Modi Government Did Not Want You to Know in 2019

'...The NPR, and the planned NRC it is linked to, are enormous data-gathering exercises, and will give the government access to personal information about everyone living in this country. This information can then potentially be used as the government (and therefor ruling party) pleases – whether to deny people citizenship, as many are afraid will happen, or to target voters in different areas based on demographic analysis. This, clearly, is the kind of data the Modi government likes. But there is plenty of data the ruling regime does not like. In 2019, the Centre has time and again been accused of suppressing crucial all-India numbers that could help frame better policies – and give Indians a clearer picture of just how well the economy is (or isn’t) doing. When the government doesn’t like the data, it decides to simply pretend that those numbers don’t exist...'