# Professor Aswath Damodaran's book, "Narratives and Numbers," is referenced

1 Faculty News March 5, 2017 ![Livemint logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/livemint%20feature.jpg?itok=nIqY0pI_)>

Excerpt from [Livemint](http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/ge3VqCmlfkOvz8PHr06MZN/The-narrative-in-postdemonetised-India.html) -- "As [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) says in his recent book, Narrative And Numbers, it would be a fallacy to look purely at numbers without understanding the narrative behind the numbers. Hence the commentary from Indian companies in their post-results analyst calls is probably more important than the reported numbers."

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