Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

by Shrayana Bhattacharya

Combining tax data, survey data and national accounts statistics, economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel try to create a sharper measure of national income in India. Using these methods, with all their limitations, they find that the top ten per cent owned fifty-six per cent of national income in 2015, increasing from thirty-five per cent in 1992.