Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.

The data is clear on this, though Indians are caught in a battle of political narratives on the country’s reality.

On the face of it, India’s progress against poverty challenges both these narratives. In glaring contrast to China, the country is an impatient, fractious democracy.

In India, Raman continued, there is a tendency to “systematically under-represent” the number of slum dwellers, a fact illustrated by a recent disagreement over whether there were 65 million ...

India News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the country is using technology as a weapon against poverty. On the inaugural day of the 25th edition of the Be ...