This site is now up
A first post, to confirm everything works end to end, and to say what this site is for.
Anupam Kumar
I write about public finance, public policy, economics and geoeconomics. The aim of this site is narrow and deliberate: to make economic information usable by people who are not economists.
Alongside the writing, it will hold cleaned public finance datasets with their sources and methods documented, and small tools that run entirely in your browser.
Recent writing
What notes are for
The difference between a note and an essay here is one of weight, not of care.
My Assessment of Raisina Dialogue 2026
Raisina Dialogue is a highly complex event that is executed through immense effort behind the scenes while appearing seamless in the foreground.
Coming soon
Coming soon
What is coming
Datasets
Cleaned Indian public finance data, each one carrying its source, the date it was retrieved, a description of every column with its unit, and a build script that regenerates it from the original files. Documented well enough to cite in a paper.
Tools
Small interactive things that run entirely in your browser. Nothing you open or upload is sent anywhere, because there is no server to send it to.