His argument is that in a world where the flow of information can no longer be controlled some powers are trying to get control of the second and third order by controlling the kind of Data that is being released and controlling its authentication.
Sanyal, who made a series of tweets, said there is even an index on direct democracy that is meant for a small country like Switzerland and while India and the US get a zero, even Afghanistan does better.
The working paper 'Why India does poorly on global perception indices: Case study of three opinion-based indices' written by economists Sanjeev Sanyal and Aakanksha Arora, looked at three indices - Freedom in the World Index, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index and Variety of D