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📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
What 36,780 Government Notices Teach
Since the first day of 2020 the Indian government has published 36,780 press releases. They come from 26 different ministries, across 2,440 separate days, and hardly any of them ever made the news. No…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Most Important Release of 2026 Had the Dullest Headline
On 27 February 2026 the Indian government published a notice called "New Series of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Estimates with Base Year 2022-23." Nobody shares that. It is a line of pure jargon wi…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Two Months India's Government Went Quiet
In April 2024 the Indian government published 108 press releases. Across the other five full years of this whole record the April average is 392. In May it published 160. That May average is 357. N…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
Nobody Announced That It Was Over
For three years one word dominated everything the Indian government published. Then it disappeared, and nobody ever issued a notice to say so. This is what an ending looks like in a public record. Her…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
The Year One Word Replaced Another
In 2021 the Indian government published 6,421 press releases. That is more than in any other year of this record, and about half as many again as 2020. A busy government is usually a worried one. Here…
📝 Article · 28 Sep 2026
Seventeen Days Into 2020
On the first day of 2020 the Indian government published a very ordinary list. Tax collected in December. A change to railway fares. A year-end review of the roads ministry. Seventeen days later came …
📝 Article · 30 Aug 2026
PPI & CPI: The Biscuit and the Shop — What 100 Years of Market Crashes Reveal
Most retail investors look at the stock market like a random lottery machine. They wait for a big crash to happen, see the red numbers in their app, and panic. But the market leaves tracks in the snow…
⚔️ Ranbhoomi · 14 Aug 2026
Five Lower Highs — And What Three Years Of Sector Numbers Say About Them
Nifty closed the week at 24,366.00. Last Friday it closed at 24,570.65. The week cost 204.65 points, or 0.83%. Two rising weeks ended here. Sensex closed at 78,009.25, down 489.92 points (0.62%). Bank…
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