An Absence of Euphoria
The blog is just a broader write up of my tweet series that was quite well received. One of the achievements of the Modi government has been the masterful control of inflation. While it can be argued that oil prices helped etc, these are more political arguments than substantive ones. My concern however, is whether we have been too successful in inflation control, to the point where it has sapped joy from every day life. Yes, I am being facile but this is not way off the mark. There is a distinct absence of a "feel good" factor or euphoria from the economy that one witnesses around them. Even the political commentary from pro-BJP quarters seems to be increasingly data driven. The name of my blog is Eco political , and as such I cannot completely divorce politics from economics, and politics at the end of the day, is perception based. While I need not go into details how perception management allowed Congress to wrest three States from BJP recently, I cannot