Stories
The economy, one idea at a time.
Each story takes one question, answers it with the atlas data and explains the economics behind the picture. Every number links back to its source.
BudgetWhere ₹100 comes from and goesFollow one hundred rupees through the Union Budget 2026-27: the taxes and borrowing that pay for it, and the interest, transfers to states, defence and schemes it pays for, compared with last year.PricesWhat ₹100 buys todayPick any year since 1961 and see what ₹100 then buys now, built from the World Bank's annual consumer price inflation for India, with the decades that hurt most marked.Money and RBIPolicy time machineDrag through time and watch the RBI's repo rate, CPI inflation against the 2 to 6% band, GDP growth and the rupee move together, with the big moments marked. Coincidence is not causation.Growth and jobsOutput versus jobsAgriculture is under a fifth of India's output but employs over two in five workers, while services make more than half of output with under a third of the jobs. What that gap says about productivity and structural change.PricesInflation waterfallHeadline CPI inflation split into the twelve parts of the consumer basket: how many percentage points of this month's inflation came from food, housing and fuel, transport, jewellery and everything else, using MoSPI's weights.