A technical analysis of the Sen-Bhagavati debate

The entire debate on India's development policies with Sen and Dreze and Bhagavati and Panagariya on one side and the Supercraponomics research desk on the other has been watched by the world-wide economics community with great interest. We do however notice a dangerous trend of half-baked economists trying their hand at a simplistic interpretation of the debate. Sen's book titled 'India - an uncertain glory' is large and hardbound, especially if you go for the hardback edition. Bhagavati's on the other hand is available as free download illegally on some .ru website. But is that all there is by way of differences in their positions?
We will now show, through an in-depth and highly technical analysis, that the differences between the two theories are deep-rooted and sinister. Bhagavati's oft-stated position is that our population growth is a pre-requisite for happiness, while Sen believes that this growth cannot happen without some basic human capabilities, supported by healthcare. If you apply the same positions to per capita income growth, the results can be viewed simply as this self-explanatory diagram below.

Bhagavati envisages a red ring while Sen seems to have come up with an ellipse or something. It should be clear to economists now that both models have their merits that require careful consideration.

Chris Gayle 175* staged by BCCI

Chris Gayle made 175 runs off 66 balls on April 23rd, 2013 as the world watched. Or did he? We at Supercrap know better than to believe that someone's capable of insane hitting like that. As we started snooping around and digging up old unrelated images, the mystery was unravelled slowly but surely.

We cannot possibly present all of the evidence here but here's a sampling. The pic to the left has the only two people on the pitch at that time. If that be the case, who took the photo?

Well, zoom is definitely a very good answer.

Moving on.

This, to the left, is a picture of the ball when Gayle hit it for a humongous six, supposedly, and the space vehicle sent to retrieve it. Well, it's also a picture of the night sky, ain't it?

Then tell us one thing, BCCI - why are there no stars in the sky in this photo?

Clear fake.

That's not all, there's a radiation belt that the ball would have crossed called, well, dangerous radiation belt (working title), that would have melted and vaporised it clean. But no, in BCCI's magical world, the ball returned, seemingly unharmed, only to be dispatched again by Gayle.

If you are a statistics aficionado, here's another perspective. Kapil Dev scored 175 off 138 balls and the guy's what, six foot tall and weighed 80 kg in 1983. If we were to do a quick pro-rata calculation on what Chris Gayle's dimensions would be, capping his height arbitrarily at 10 feet, we have a 10 foot tall, 100 kg monster.

Nice try Gayle and BCCI, but not good enough.