Plain Facts: Best of Mint’s data-driven stories in 2024
1 week, 3 days ago

Plain Facts: Best of Mint’s data-driven stories in 2024

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Today, we revisit the biggest data stories featured in Mint’s Plain Facts section through the year. Our special full-page package and data analysis highlighted how a large share of Bharatiya Janata Party candidates secured over half the votes in their constituencies, even as the party faced setbacks in rural India. Even without the need to track changes since 2011-12, our analysis highlighted troubling gaps, including possible poor welfare scheme coverage among the poorest and stark inequality: the top 10% of urban Indians spend ₹16,612 per person monthly—over three times the median. Political bonds One of the biggest data stories of 2024 came out of a set of endless tables released by the Election Commission of India in March. India's nutrition crisis This year, a large company came under pressure for sugary baby food, another briefly faced flak for the kind of cheese it was accused of using, and a third was ordered to not call its popular children’s beverage a ‘health drink’.

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Mint Primer: Why the urban middle class has cut spending

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Urban millennials in India have had much to reveal in five years
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Urban millennials in India have had much to reveal in five years

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The story of modern India through data
3 years ago

The story of modern India through data

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Few subjects are as polarising as statistics. In a fine new book, Whole Numbers And Half-Truths: What Data Can And Cannot Tell Us About Modern India, data journalist Rukmini S. offers what she calls a “toolkit” to enable that engagement, and shows how seemingly dry numbers capture the nuance and complexity of India. I knew that official data from the …

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