India has transformed and much has happened since the first Lok Sabha elections in 1951–52. Social media, AI and other technologies make it easy to spin narratives and evade accountability, and to glibly manufacture content, data and analysis. These
About the Author
Surjit S. Bhalla was executive director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the IMF and served on the PM’s Economic Advisory Council. He has also had stints at the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, and was founder-chairman of Oxus Investments.Abhinav Motheram works as a data science consultant at LEAD, Krea University. His research interests lie at the intersection of data quality, processes of data generation and related fields of survey methods. He holds a masters in economics from BITS Pilani.