Dr. Vidhu Shekhar

Did you know farmer suicides in J&K fell from 31 in 2019 to just 1 in 2020 post 370 Abrogation? My latest piece in @bsindia tells why Mandi monopoly is literally killing people. Reforms are must! business-standard.com/opinion/specia… @sanjeevsanyal @swati_gs @Sanjay_Dixit @CTRavi_BJP @total_woke_

Huge respect to these real heroes 🧡🫡 This is 3rd out of the 12 jyotirling they are cleaning up 🔱 Cheer them ; Support them & tag biggies who can lend more help in this initiative 🙏🏽

@ShamikaRavi Updated Paper link: Shekhar, V., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2026). Unstable Evidence, Stable Conclusion: A Critique of the GDP Overestimation Thesis of Anand, Felman, and Subramanian (2026). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

@ShamikaRavi The full paper: spjimr.org/faculty-resear…

Another scholar calls out the snake oil econometrics of Arvind Subramanian et al. Gelman would be proud of this growing tribe of researchers👍

Here's an update on our previous video.

1/ Owing to high barriers to entry, India’s lodging and hotels industry has become a cartel that raises prices at will and fleeces customers. India’s luxury hotel average daily rate (ADR) in Mumbai and Delhi now rival those of New York and London. Absurdly enough, the financial press sometimes celebrates this as some triumph of Indian hospitality. It is nothing of the sort. High prices are the unmistakable stamp of a supply-constrained market in a low income country, which should actually have a very competitively priced and deep pool of lodging options. The hotel industry is a structural failure being hyped as a success.

“The single strongest personality predictor [of conspiracy thinking] is narcissism. Narcissists are particularly prone to conspiracy theories because they have a strong need for uniqueness, are prone to paranoia, and can also be remarkably gullible.” stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-ev…

Thiis is how the day begins in South Indian homes

We need more and more such social media influencers ❤️

🚨Fact-check : Oxfam report follows no logical methodology that they have published. In simple language, their number is made up. Actual GST calculation based on NSSO data shows bottom 50% Indians contribute 9.6% GST. You are a journalist. You should know for poor people to pay more consumption tax, they will have to spend more than rich people. It is a logical impossibility.

Anxiety is not your personality. You just never dealt with your problems @naval nailed it here: 1. Stress happens when two desires conflict. Name them, pick one, and it loses its grip 2. Anxiety is just a mountain of unresolved problems you never stopped to deal with 3. Any moment you're not fully present, you missed it. It's gone forever 4. Your gut is the real decision maker. Your brain just rationalizes it after the fact 5. Every bad decision you ever made, you already knew. You just wanted it to be different

The river's name is Iravati. Literally it means that she surrounds the earth because of her meandering nature. River Iravati meets Asikhni who literally means one who is brown colored. This brown color is due to sediment rich water . This is incorrectly called Chenab. Other river Vipasha who is incorrectly called as Beas joins them. Vipasha is called so because Vipasha means unrestrained. This is because she is fastest river among five rivers that feed Puncha Aap. Literally Five Waters in Sanskrit. Another river Shatudri is called so because she has 100 tributaries. She is incorrectly called as Sutlej by invaders who do not know Sanskrit. Then up north we have river Vitasta also incorrectly called Jhelum. Vitasta is called so because she is one Vitasta wide at the source. These names are meaningful and allow us to reconnect with mother nature. Please use native names for Bharat's rivers. I have written about this earlier. Thanks.

The Oxfam study has been debunked several times already. They were accused of being intellectually dishonest and fudging of data Linking an article where the study has been ripped apart. newindianexpress.com/opinion/2024/O…

Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics. Then there is econometrics!

@RMantri Full Paper: spjimr.org/faculty-resear…

Arvind Subramanian is an intellectual streaker - he runs into the playing field like a streaker every now and then to assert his existence x.com/rmantri/status…

@ShekharGupta Hum bhi likh sakte hai? Kidhar bheje?

Aap ThePrint par bhi likh sakte hain

@deepakshenoy Yes. Have calculated the exact figures... x.com/i/status/18435…

Gross abuse of statistics, cherry picking, wrong assumptions, invalid conclusions. The oxfam report is basically like someone told them find something to say the poor give more gst than the rich and they ignored all the data that didn't fit.

@niravstoons A Prof at SP Jain has published a research paper showing that bottom 50% of the population pays less than 10% of total GST @profvidhu : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Based on my experience of seeing students become the toppers, I can tell you: - you have to be very good with content - you need to consume the content in an organised way - if it’s haphazard, done randomly, where you consume some and don’t know if anything else remains, you are making yourself really vulnerable - then testing yourself over and over to see if you can really use the content well - seeking course correction of your journey whenever you feel lost It’s a long journey It’s a journey of becoming the best version, first of yourself, and then of the world Do it Sit down and DO IT We run Sleepy only and ONLY to do this And we’ll continue to do it ✊

@saswataecon @chaitanyatalrej @the_hindu

The apparent low official inequality in India conceals more than it reveals. @chaitanyatalrej and myself shared our preliminary reflections in @the_hindu yesterday: thehindu.com/opinion/lead/u… For some of the key points: linkedin.com/posts/saswata-…

@NasirHussainINC @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @kharge @kcvenugopalmp @priyankagandhi

The Modi government cannot claim inclusive development merely through rising GDP figures while inequality deepens across classes, regions, and sectors. Recent inequality analyses based on NSSO’s Household Consumption Expenditure Survey show that urban India is becoming sharply more unequal, with the richest sections accounting for a disproportionately large share of non-food consumption, while informal workers, small farmers, and agricultural labourers continue to lag behind. The top urban decile spends nearly nine times more than the bottom rural decile. This exposes the limits of the BJP government’s growth model, where prosperity becomes increasingly concentrated while millions remain dependent on debt-led consumption, welfare support, and precarious livelihoods. The widening gap between affluent urban India and struggling rural households reflects a deeper failure of distributive justice. At a time when rural distress and informal sector insecurity continue to grow, the weakening of MGNREGA and dilution of labour protections have further reduced economic safeguards available to vulnerable communities. Policies that should have protected livelihoods are instead being steadily weakened by the BJP government. Economic growth without social equity weakens democratic stability, social cohesion, and long-term sustainability. India needs policies that strengthen labour protections, support rural livelihoods, expand opportunity, and reduce structural inequality rather than deepen existing disparities further. #EconomicJustice #MGNREGA #LabourRights #SocialJustice #InclusiveGrowth #IndianEconomy #DistributiveJustice #WorkersRights

@SaibBilaval x.com/i/status/18435…

Good evening.