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2026 polls: A watershed in Assam's politics | Number Theory

India, May 8 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won its biggest ever victory in the 2026 Assam elections. The Congress, on the other hand, recorded its worst ever performance in the state. The im... Read More


Long-term demographics of Muslims in West Bengal | Number Theory

India, April 21 -- The first and second part of this series looked at the importance of Muslim votes for the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and the long-term trends in Muslim politics in West Benga... Read More


Have past delimitation exercises led to gerrymandering?

India, April 17 -- Parliament reconvened on Thursday to debate and (possibly) vote on three bills which will lead to the reallocation of Lok Sabha seats among states, delimitation of constituency boun... Read More


Has SIR altered West Bengal's electoral map ahead of assembly elections?

India, April 11 -- Has the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal, with its unique adjudication feature, led to a gerrymandering of the state's electorate ahead of assembly elections? This q... Read More


India will have to buy in spot markets to avoid being short on fertiliser | Number Theory

India, April 2 -- The ongoing war in West Asia has a direct bearing on food security across the world. Fertilisers, which are indispensable for modern agriculture, are critically linked to the petrole... Read More


Muslims in Assam's labour market | Number Theory

India, March 31 -- Assam has the largest share of Muslims in its population among all Indian states. It is also a state which sees shrill communal rhetoric in its polity. The current chief minister of... Read More


Maharashtra's fiscal masterstroke, or is it? | Number Theory

India, March 7 -- Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the finance portfolio now, presented Maharashtra's Budget for 2026-27 on Friday. The state government will spend Rs.7.69 lakh crore i... Read More


Indians are most agnostic about being proud of their country

India, Feb. 18 -- Almost one in three respondents in a survey conducted by Pew Research - a pre-eminent Washington DC based collector of data on public perception - in India either refused to answer o... Read More


The limits of political fruits of growth | Number Theory

India, Feb. 14 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin has announced a payment of Rs.5,000 to 13.1 million women beneficiaries of the state's cash transfer programme. Of this amount, Rs.3,000 is an ad... Read More