About the newsroom
Who produces South India's most detailed economics reporting?
Ekonomikons is an independent economics newsroom founded in Chennai in 2019, focused exclusively on rigorous, data-led coverage of the southern Indian economy.
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What we do — and who we do it for
Plain-English economics journalism, anchored in data, written for South India's informed general reader.
Ekonomikons publishes economics journalism — not financial advice, not market tips, and not the recycled press releases that pass for business coverage in many regional outlets. Our work is defined by a single editorial commitment: every claim must trace to a named, publicly available source. That might be a Central Statistics Office release, a Reserve Bank of India monetary policy report, a state government budget document, or a peer-reviewed study from an Indian academic institution. We do not publish anonymous analyst forecasts presented as fact, and we do not tell readers what to buy, sell, or hold. Our coverage spans five beats — macro-economy, business, labour market, policy, and household budget — and is framed consistently through a South Indian regional lens. This means that when we write about the Union Budget, we ask specifically what it means for Tamil Nadu's fiscal position, for Andhra Pradesh's infrastructure pipeline, or for a salaried household in Coimbatore managing school fees and a home loan simultaneously. We serve readers who are engaged enough to want the real numbers but who do not have three hours to parse a government data release themselves. That includes small-business owners, state-government officials, policy researchers, journalists at other outlets who need a reliable reference point, and graduate students studying the Indian economy.
How the newsroom works — and what we do not do
A small team, strict sourcing standards, and an explicit editorial scope.
The Ekonomikons team comprises six full-time journalists and two data analysts, all based in Chennai. Each journalist covers a defined beat and is expected to maintain primary-source relationships — with state finance departments, industry associations such as CII and FICCI's southern chapters, academic economists at IIM Kozhikode, IIMB, and Madras School of Economics, and labour researchers at institutions including MIDS and Azim Premji University. Since our founding in 2019 we have published over 340 original articles and commissioned 18 original data analyses using government microdata. We are explicit about what falls outside our scope. We do not cover stock markets, mutual funds, or any instrument that could be construed as investment advice — that boundary is firm regardless of how large or newsworthy a market event becomes. We do not cover cryptocurrency or foreign exchange trading. We do not publish predictions about where any economic indicator will move in the future; we analyse what the data shows now and what comparable historical episodes suggest. Results in economics reporting depend on the quality of underlying official data, which in India is sometimes delayed, revised, or methodologically contested — and we flag those limitations openly. Readers who want investment guidance, market signals, or short-term forecasts will find Ekonomikons is not that publication, and we think that clarity serves everyone.
A reader's perspective
“As a policy researcher at a Hyderabad think tank, I rely on Ekonomikons when I need a quick but rigorous read on how a central government announcement translates to state-level fiscal realities. The December 2023 piece on Andhra Pradesh's capital expenditure shortfall cited primary budget documents I had not yet seen cited elsewhere. That kind of sourcing discipline is rare.”
— Priya Venkataraman, Policy Researcher, Hyderabad
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