T. Prashant Reddy

My new book with @j_chitrakshi, Tareekh Pe Justice: Reforms for India's District Courts, is going to be available from March 13th. Many thanks to @d_s_thakur for bankrolling this project and to @eliofkottayam at @SimonSchusterIN for publishing us. Link: amzn.in/d/2QuABrx

Buffoons.

At this point am not even surprised by the language used by this CJI. Disgraceful.

An average NRI has a per capita income 7-8 times that of an average Indian. India's #1 strength is its hard working, intelligent labour force. Especially NRIs. They move countries & build a life from scratch in a foreign land. Dealing through numerous challenges along the way. They are naturally inclined to invest in India. Give them a sensible reason. Don't give talks on high GDP growth, stop buying gold, stop using Petrol, stop traveling. If this is an economic plan, then we better shut down a few ministries and save a few 100 crores. On the one hand we ask them to fill 7 forms to withdraw their own money. On the other, we want their deposits by pushing nationalism. See the problem? Understand that we are dealing with decently educated savvy folks, who can see through the crap. Don't treat them like brain-washed fools. Build a sensible plan, money will follow.

Furthermore, in the Hindu's In Focus podcast, it's clear that neither the interviewer nor Prof. Khera actually knows how social media companies use your data for serving ads. They seem to think platforms anonymize and sell datasets to advertisers. But that's not how it works!

Compromised PM ने trade deal नहीं, अडानी की रिहाई का सौदा किया।

@NalinisKitchen 'Save footpaths campaign' has to be launched. Govt authorities,municipal Commissioners,Mayors have no sympathy for pedestrians. In times of fuel crisis & extreme heat,shaded footpaths are a must in cities. Most markets are occupied by extended shops & two wheelers. #urbanindia

A headline from 2026, not 1926

Or worse, LIC?

Having only every eaten Alphonso growing up, I believed mango to be an overrated fruit. Was only very recently introduced to Banganpalli & Himam Pasand and my god! I have wasted 30+years of my life!! Alphonso is just entry level of India mangoes.

Prof. Reethika Khera argues that you shouldn't be able to give up your privacy in exchange for a service/fee, just as you're prohibited from selling blood or organs. This would mean most "free" websites (incl. news portals) would be subscription only. ijme.in/articles/data-…

#BREAKING: JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA TRANSFERS THE CBI-ARVIND KEJRIWAL EXCISE POLICY CASE TO A DIFFERENT BENCH! “Any other court can hear the matter but only this court can draw contempt proceedings,” Justice Sharma said.

And it becomes amply clear why the IAS lobby wants to get rid of RTI. It’s not the politicians but the bureaucrats who stand to gain the most by the watering down or removal of acts like RTI - a full carte blanche to go back to 1980s style corruption with no checks or inquiry.

But who will trust a country which imposes retrospective taxes?

The symbolism of this......gun, the bald eagle and a neurological sickness.

I roll my eyes hard when even educated desis with advanced degrees say things like "xyz food has a cooling effect and abc food has a heating effect." Pseudoscience is so ingrained in us! PhD holders will still push vaat pitta kapha nonsense.

India's 2047 Roadblock: Failed Education NITI Aayog Report Shows Reality 1. 2014-2024: Math/Sci: Zero improvement; 60% students below avg 2. 42% kids drop after Class 10 3. 85% teachers below std 4. Edu System: Marks = Self-worth; Rank = Identity; Exams = Destiny INSIGHTS: NITI Aayog Report: Grim Reality a. 232-page report released last week. All data is from government agencies only; surveys covering hundreds of districts, thousands of villages & cities, lakhs of children. b. “Access to schooling has not translated into quality learning or continuity of education (beyond Class 10).” c. World Bank data (cited in the report): One additional year of schooling leads to 0.37% increase in GDP growth. So, education is the foundational driver of "Developed India 2047" goal. d. Overall enrollment in Indian schools (govt & private schools combined) has gone down every year for the last 4 years: FY22: 26.52 cr FY23: 25.17 cr FY24: 24.80 cr FY25: 24.69 cr e. Enrollment is high for primary education, and then kids start dropping out of the system. Total 42% students drop out by Class 9/10. “This trend has remained largely unchanged from 2015 to 2025,” says the report. [Zero Improvement] f. Class 9: Students with below-average performance nationally: Science: 60%; Math: 63% of the total enrollment. g. Reading Skills: Decline: In 2014, 74.7% of Class 8 students could read a Class 2 text; by 2024, that figure fell to 71.1%. h. Math Skills: Near-Zero Improvement: In 2014, 44.2% Class 8 students had basic math skills (can do division). In 2024, the figure was 45.8%. At this rate, it will take 339 years to reach 100% Class 8 students with basic math skills. i. PARAKH 2024 Findings: “Students are good at Rote Learning, but struggle with real-world application. Classroom learning remains overly procedural, with limited transfer to problem-solving beyond the textbooks.” j. Drop-Out Rates Increase in U.P./Bihar: From 2015 to 2025, in Bihar, secondary school dropout went up from 2.98% to 9.3% (3X). In U.P., it went up from 0.52% to 3.0% (6X). Gujarat, M.P., and 3 NE states had the highest drop-out rates (above 5%) in 2025. k. 14% of planned teaching days across India are lost to non-academic work, such as elections and surveys. l. Teacher Competency: 85-90% of the teachers across India fail to meet the qualifying threshold of TET/CTET exams. “Many teachers fail the competency test in their own subjects, which they teach.” m. NITI Aayog report sums it up beautifully: “As India prepares for 2047, its progress will not be measured by the number of classrooms, but by what happens inside those classrooms.” Building on a Weak Foundation a. “Originality” in the Indian education system is penalized as “answering out of syllabus.” Failure creates lifelong trauma. But innovation IS a series of controlled failures. In technology-driven nations, failure is a badge of honour. b. Coaching in India produces the smartest competitive exam takers in the world. But it steals curiosity. In China, roughly 50% of the students go into vocational schools compared to India’s 1.3%. c. In India, education is a lifelong “shield,” providing a stable IT, bank, or government job. In China, education is a “sword,” providing the ability to build, innovate, and solve. d. The Indian system is optimized for test-takers; the Chinese system is optimized for builders. As a result, China accounts for 30% of the global manufacturing output; 50% of global patent applications; and IP ownership of leading-edge technologies. e. An Indian student can solve 500 physics problems and still freeze when faced with a real-world engineering challenge. The Indian education system is designed for certainty. In real world, the outcomes are uncertain. f. Indian education system is built on humiliation and shame. As a result, the Indian mind is conditioned against fear of public mistakes. To avoid mistakes, even the next gen of a billionaire sells ice creams. The Bottom Line India’s education system is still preparing students for a world that no longer exists. The crisis is not in Indian talent. It is in the Indian classroom. @arabicatrader

This is being covered by the @FT while there is little in the Indian media.

India is desperate for stable foreign capital. INR is in a virtual free fall. Yet, there is an *absurd* bottleneck nobody talks about: the RBI’s FIRMS portal — mandatory for FC-GPR filings and therefore for receiving FDI share capital — has been down for weeks. As a result, inward remittances for legitimate equity investments into Indian companies are getting stuck because founders literally cannot complete regulatory filings. At a moment when the country needs every dollar of productive FDI it can attract, this is exactly the kind of invisible bureaucratic friction India should not be imposing on itself. @RBI @RBIsays @NITIAyog @nsitharaman

If convoy sizes can be cut down overnight, then why were we waiting for an energy crisis to do it?

The Indian salaried class has been methodically stripped of every single inflation hedge available to it, one budget at a time. You tried crypto. They slapped a 30% flat tax on gains, allowed no set-off of losses, and added 1% TDS on transfers. You tried equities. Budget 2024 raised STCG from 15% to 20%, raised LTCG from 10% to 12.5%, increased STT on F&O, and also killed indexation for most other long-term capital gains. You thought fine, I’ll diversify some savings abroad through LRS. They put 20% TCS on remittances above 10 lakhs for investments abroad. You tried Sovereign Gold Bonds, because surely a government-issued, government-backed gold hedge would be the one clean instrument they would not mess with. Then Budget 2026 came along and removed the capital gains exemption for secondary market buyers. And now the final insult. The Prime Minister has publicly asked you to avoid buying physical gold for a year in the “national interest,” because gold imports use foreign exchange. So let me get this straight. A middle class wagie earning in depreciating rupees, watching FD rates hover around 6.5% while real life inflation keeps eating his purchasing power, has now been told: Crypto is taxed like a vice. Equities are more expensive to hold and exit. Foreign diversification gets hit with TCS. SGBs are being wound down and tax-narrowed. Buying physical gold is now unpatriotic. Basically, every single exit from rupee depreciation has been systematically curtailed. You are expected to hold your savings in instruments the government controls, at returns the government sets, for a currency the government is rapidly inflating away. Does this sound like Amrit Kaal to you?