HOT NEW Release Whole Numbers and Half Truths PDF BY Rukmini S

HOT NEW Release Whole Numbers and Half Truths PDF BY Rukmini S Summary Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country’s growth appears to be defined by urbanization and by its growing, prosperous middle class. It is also defined by progressive and liberal young Indians, who vote beyond the constraints of identity, and paradoxically, by an unchecked population explosion and rising crimes against women. Is it, though?

In 2020, the annual population growth was down to under 1 percent. Only thirty-one of hundred Indians live in a city today and just 5 percent live outside the city of their birth.

As recently as 2016, only 4 percent of young, married respondents in a survey said their spouse belonged to a different caste group. Over 45 percent of voters said in a pre-2014 election survey that it was important to them that a candidate of their own caste wins elections in their constituency.

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A large share of reported sexual assaults across India is actually consensual relationships criminalized by parents. And staggeringly, spending more than Rs 8,500 a month puts you in the top 5 percent of urban India.

In Whole Numbers and Half-Truths, data journalism pioneer Rukmini S. draws on nearly two decades of on-ground reporting experience to piece together a picture that looks nothing like the one you might expect. There is a mountain of data available in India, but it remains opaque, hard to access, and harder yet to read, and it does not inform public conversation.

Rukmini marshals this information—some of it never before reported—alongside probing interviews with experts and ordinary citizens, to see what the numbers can tell us about India. As she interrogates how data works, and how the push and pull of social and political forces affect it, she creates a blueprint to understand the changes of the last few years and the ones to come—a toolkit for India.

This is a timely and wholly original intervention in the conversation on data, and with it, India.

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