September’s 5.54% inflation looks high, but a few prices are doing most of the work. Onions, silver and freight have jumped, while health, rent and communication remain calm. Onions follow an old farm cycle, where cheap years lead to scarce ones, and freight deserves watching, since it spreads costs everywhere.
In 2017, Shekhar Gupta started ThePrint with a simple belief: Indian readers want journalism that asks why and what next, not just what. And that enough of them would be willing to pay for good journalism.
Nine years on, that belief has held.
And, in these nine years, we’ve stayed true to our mission. We’ve been asking the follow-up questions, going beyond the headlines and explaining what’s actually happening. We’ve travelled across the country to bring you in-depth, visually-compelling stories from the ground.
It’s been nine years of readers choosing to make this possible. If you’d like to be one of them:
