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India won 2nd gold medal in Asian games in 10 m air pistol mixed team ie suruchi and kamaljeet.

Total lift of 198kg (87kg snatch + 111 clean and jerk) for her maiden podium finish at the Asian Games.

India's August export numbers are difficult to square with the "dead economy" narrative.

Total exports of goods + services rose 25.4% year-on-year, from $66.0 billion to $82.7 billion. Merchandise exports rose 26.1%, from $34.7 billion to $43.8 billion. In rupee terms, export growth was 37.6%.

More interestingly, engineering and electronics exports are showing strong growth, with electronics exports reportedly up sharply.

Of course, one month doesn't establish a trend, and exports alone don't tell us everything about employment, consumption or household incomes. But exports are ultimately actual transactions with foreign customers — Indian firms producing something competitive enough for someone abroad to pay for.

So perhaps the better question is not whether the economy "feels" good in a particular neighbourhood, but what exporters, manufacturers and workers in export-oriented industries are actually experiencing.

What do people here make of the numbers? Is this the beginning of a sustained export acceleration, or is August an unusually strong month?