The menace of social media monopolies
Facebook’s global monopoly profits helped propel WhatsApp’s domination of India, with great social costs
15
Dec
Yearly Archives: 2020
26
Nov
Jobs, Exports & the Trade Pacts link – coauthored with P Chidambaram
India needs to shed its exaggerated fears of trade agreements to create new jobs — the country’s biggest challenge
09
Nov
The robustness of the US federal set-up
The US may want to import Indian election systems, but India needs to import genuine decentralisation from US
08
Nov
What can cooking Kolkata mutton biryani teach us about surveys and polls?
When studying any survey, ask not what the sample size is but how stratified it is.
07
Nov
TRPs, Surveys, And Polls: The Sample Size Enigma
The U.S. Presidential election has brought the issue of surveys and polling back to the fore. Polling is dead because they have been spectacularly wrong, seems to be the emerging consensus.