When life offers lemons, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government prefers to tell the world it has turned them into limestone deposits. T...
When life offers lemons, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government prefers to tell the world it has turned them into limestone deposits.
This is, after all, the government that touts the enormous numbers of downloads of an official contact-tracing app while omitting to say that it had been made nearly mandatory – and hasn’t been particularly useful. It is also the government that, years after everyone else has come to their senses on the matter, still maintains the fiction that the disastrous demonetisation policy of 2016 was a success.
And it is run by a party that used this chart:
So it should surprise no one that, even as India crosses the 1-million mark of total Covid-19 cases with one forecast expecting the economy to contract by nearly double digits, the government is finding ways to spin gold out of, well, haywire.
Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, the man who said mathematics doesn’t matter when looking at economic growth rates and that they never helped Albert Einstein “discover gravity”, this week tweeted about India registering a trade surplus, of nearly $800 million, for the first time in 18 years.
Rapid Turnaround of Exports: Realising PM @NarendraModi ji’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat, for the first time in 18 years, India records a monthly goods trade...
