There is a quiet assumption that policy is a matter of numbers. Budgets are calculated, beneficiaries counted, and impact measured through metrics that promise neutrality. Yet many of India's most persistent failures are not the result of weak data but of weak imagination. We have spent decades evaluating welfare programmes without asking a simpler question. Do they preserve the dignity of the people they claim to serve?Dignity is usually treated as a moral ideal, not a technical standard. But i...

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