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Rulers and information

The book also engages with the term Hindu, a favourite theme of the RSS and its ideologues and friends, again going back to Savarkar

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Aakar Patel
How does one square the reality that we live in an era in which there is almost an excess of information but a scarcity of good data?
 
India has no accurate means of measuring its levels of unemployment or its gross domestic product, and this is according to the government. There is almost no good data on inequality or wealth in India either. Are we doing well or poorly as a nation? We do not have answers or agreement on such basic questions.
 
And then, how does one deal with the idea that history can be rewritten in