100 Ways to See India - In 100 Charts

Welcome to the Visual Discovery of India

Part 1: Life

How Indians live, speak, eat, love, vote, migrate, and coexist—seen through everyday data that quietly overturns familiar assumptions.

How Bengaluru Became India’s Language Capital

56 Mother Tongues — and They Are All Hindi

India’s Baby Boom Is Over. You Just Haven’t Noticed Yet

Yes, All of India Can Fit into Kerala

India’s Vegetarian Perception — and Non-Vegetarian Reality

When Engineers and Doctors Choose Political Science

One Real Love, Three Fake Crimes

The Justice Gap in Crimes Against Women

How Many Indians Speak Hindi? Fewer than You Think

India’s Largest — and Least Empowered —Democracy

5 Surprising Truths about How India Elects Governments

Decline of the Cow, Rise of the Chicken

Fewer Indians ‘Drink’, but They Drink a Lot and Drink Hard

Your Chances of Getting Murdered Are the Lowest Now

Nobody’s Mother Tongue, Everybody’s Language

How Fast Does India’s Crime Clock Tick?

Everywhere to See, Few to Care, Nobody to Solve

Two Lifetimes in One: How Long India Now Lives

Caste and Religion: What the Data Really Shows

Why Only 3% Adult Indians Pay Income Tax

What Happens When You Add up Every MLA in India?

When Women Lead, Everything Changes

Are SRK’s and Rajini’s Future Heroines Even Born Yet?

India Abroad: The World’s Most Powerful Migrants

More Married Women than Men— in Every Indian Religion

A ₹1 Lakh Crore Economy You Never Hear About

Millions Without Homes; Millions of Homes Without People

The First Trillion-Dollar State May Not Be the One You Think

What Do We Know of Rich Farmers?

Growth Is Getting Less Tangible — and More Powerful

Part 2: Growth

What drives India’s economy beneath the headlines, from jobs and income to savings, inequality, and the mechanics of growth itself.

From 16th to 5th in 30 Years; Third in Two More?

60 Years to the First Trillion — Just 7 to the Next

Why a Banker Adds 15 Times More to GDP than a Farmer

How Fast Does Income Double in India?

Why Everyone Talks about Employment, but Few Understand It

Why Nobody in India Is Jobless after 30

Why Jobs Shrink as Education and Prosperity Rise

From Caution to Confidence: India’s Great Savings Shift

From Savers to Shareholders: India’s New Wealth Story

Why Fools and Their Money Are Still Being Parted

How India Half-Won Its War on Inflation

11 New Factories a Day: Hope for Manufacturing Revival?

How a Tax Paid by Just 3% Became Biggest Revenue Source

The Four Faces of Indian Income

The 2016 Revolution That’s Still Changing India

Are Companies Getting Bigger than Countries?

How India Rewrote Its Trade Story in 20 Years

What Does It Take to Be the Richest 10%

Why Do Tourists Spend More in India than in Europe?

What Spending Habits Reveal

India Just Got Out of One Poverty, and Got into Another

India’s Inequality Puzzle: Less Poor, More Unequal

The Invoice for Female Democracy

Two Countries, One Start Line

The Wars Pakistan Lost to India — Without Any Bullets Being Fired

Power to the People — and the Planet

How India’s Coastline Went Up by 50% Almost Overnight

The Monsoon Makes Roads Dangerous — and Driving Safer!

Welcome to Delhi, Bihar’s Second-Largest City!

More Indians Die for World Peace than Any Other Country

The Indian with the Most Nobel Noms Isn’t Gandhi

The Changing Face of Our Currency

Who Really Owns India Inc.?

Part 3: Future

Where India is headed demographically, economically, and environmentally—and why tomorrow’s biggest shifts are already visible in today’s numbers.

Where Will the Next 100 Babies in India Be Born?

What 25 Pyramids Say about India’s Future

Population Is Shrinking, Quietly, District by District

How Much Does it Cost to Raise a Child?

The First Image of an Emptying Planet?

What Kills Indian Men, Women, and Children the Most

Districts of India: Count Them If You Can

Why India’s Parliament Hasn’t Grown Since 1971

The Net Zero Race: No One Wins until Everyone Does

India’s Post-2000 Sporting Turnaround

When Chess Joined Cricket at the Top

How Our Differences Became Divisions

Part 4: Explore

A guide to reading data better, spotting misdirection, and continuing the journey beyond the book through charts, sources, and questions.

How not to be fooled by a number

25+ Destinations for Your Data Expedition