Atanu Biswas

Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

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Stories by the author

• 250 years of Adam Smith: Why Trump should read 'Wealth of Nations'

  
  14 Mar 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Why Werner Herzog’s lone penguin from Encounters at the End of the World is resonating online again

  
  14 Feb 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Does the charisma of leaders or strategy wins polls? Bihar may offer a clue, but not an answer

  
  31 Oct 2025 10:51 PM IST
• Decoding doctor's handwriting: The urgent need for legible prescriptions in healthcare

  
  18 Oct 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Yes, AI minister, more of your lot in government

  
  20 Sep 2025 10:50 PM IST
• Being artificial, she's a natural!

  
  23 Aug 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Can classroom seating break the frontbench-backbench divide?

  
  26 Jul 2025 11:00 PM IST
• View: Can Elon Musk really play party pooper?

  
  09 Jul 2025 11:07 PM IST
• Fudging facts at Harvard: Professor Francesca Gino loses tenure over data fabrication

  
  04 Jun 2025 10:52 PM IST
• School's out in America: Why the US is flunking the global talent test

  
  02 May 2025 11:12 PM IST
• Can you really learn a thing or two or three about being or becoming happy?

  
  12 Apr 2025 11:01 PM IST
• Ivy League is losing its fig leaf: How Trump’s crackdown on federal funding threatens academic freedom

  
  27 Mar 2025 11:52 PM IST
• Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland opens up the question of territorial sovereignty as a commodity

  
  16 Mar 2025 10:57 PM IST
• Deporting undocumented immigrants: The economic costs of Trump’s aggressive immigration policy

  
  21 Feb 2025 11:24 PM IST
• Your place or mine? Or hang at a third place?

  
  08 Feb 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Kumbh's maha economic amrit

  
  27 Jan 2025 10:59 PM IST
• MAGA star Donald Trump is shaking up nationalism

  
  11 Jan 2025 11:00 PM IST
• View: Good ol' America gets its favourite bad boy back

  
  06 Nov 2024 11:02 PM IST
• Predicting election results: A mug’s game — and a sweet sport

  
  25 Oct 2024 10:52 PM IST
• Reading between the subtler lines of Durga Pujo

  
  12 Oct 2024 10:03 PM IST
• US election: Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris will have an effect on voters — but how much?

  
  13 Sep 2024 10:42 PM IST
• Time to send all those loutish tourists packing

  
  07 Sep 2024 11:00 PM IST
• US presidential elections: Opportunity economy, or opportunist, Kamala Harris?

  
  21 Aug 2024 12:00 AM IST
• Why so much buzz over a budget exercise, Kola Veri Di?

  
  13 Jul 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Got your digital doppelganger yet?

  
  11 May 2024 11:00 PM IST
• No, not UBIquitous yet

  
  5 mins read1 May 2024
• Coming to a cinema near you, a new Madhubala movie?

  
  06 Apr 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Daniel Kahneman: The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist who revolutionized economics

  
  4 mins read29 Mar 2024
• Cuppa chai, and a tale of two steaming Dollys

  
  10 Mar 2024 12:11 AM IST
• View: Don't you forget to remember

  
  17 Feb 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Consumers starting to wake up to shrinkflation across FMCG industry worldwide

  
  6 mins read31 Jan 2024
• 'Who wants to be a trillionaire': The game show is nearing its climax

  
  27 Jan 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Taylor Swift economy is booming- Maybe it's time for India to sign an FTA?

  
  16 Dec 2023 10:42 PM IST
• View: There's a growing loneliness economy to tap

  
  02 Dec 2023 11:00 PM IST
• In case you thought Diwali is just a desi Indian festival, well, think again

  
  11 Nov 2023 11:00 PM IST
• View: From Putin to Tintin, Jawan to Chandrayaan, Barbie to Derby... you wanna Adda this Pujo?

  
  21 Oct 2023 11:00 PM IST
• Sporting glory at Asian Games 2023... It’s the economy, stupid!

  
  10 Oct 2023 01:25 AM IST
• Simultaneous polls: Electorates can distinguish between Parliament and state assembly elections

  
  6 mins read4 Sep 2023
• View: A 7%-plus growth target is all very fine. But let’s not get too colonised by this narrow index

  
  6 mins read14 Aug 2023
• Grossed out or not, but whose GDP is it anyway?

  
  12 Aug 2023 11:50 PM IST
• Baraat Jodo Yatra: Baat Maaniye, Shaadi Kariye

  
  01 Jul 2023 11:22 PM IST
• View: Mystery of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand will continue to haunt economists

  
  10 Jun 2023 10:32 PM IST
• View: Succession is tricky, none trickier than the richest person choosing who follows him

  
  13 May 2023 11:00 PM IST
• That statistical rare figure, C R Rao

  
  5 mins read12 Apr 2023
• How Michelangelo’s David continues to scandalise many

  
  08 Apr 2023 11:00 PM IST
• How to keep walking in inflation's slippery boots

  
  18 Mar 2023 09:07 PM IST
• No need to practise what you preach about practising

  
  17 Dec 2022 11:11 PM IST
• Would you stick your (statistical) neck out to predict this World Cup’s champion?

  
  26 Nov 2022 11:00 PM IST