Book of revelations

The first economic survey in 1959 had 71 typewritten pages. Today, it is a 294-page door-stopper with a 127-page appendix to boot. “That’s a four-fold growth, not much, considering how much the economy has grown since 1959,” sniffs Rangeet Ghosh, a 31-year-old Indian Economic Survey officer who worked on the first chapter of the latest Economic Survey.

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