Sherbir Panag 🇮🇳

📸 #GurindervirSingh clinches the gold medal in the men’s 100m event at the 2026 Athletics Federation Cup, with a new national record timing of 10.09 seconds. #IndianAthletics #AthleticsIndia #AFI @YASMinistry II @MIB_India II @PIB_India

The ITBP has shown more gumption to stand for their own than the Indian Army did for Colonel Bath.

Miracle escape for a Major General & 2 other officers in Cheetah helicopter crash. The Army has tried to replace these copters for virtually the entire duration of my career as a defence correspondent (21 years). One of the biggest stains in our defence procurement priorities.

#BreakingNews Delhi High Court allows Vinesh Phogat to participate in Asian Games trials; terms WFI action vindictive Read here: barandbench.com/news/litigatio…

We’ve seen this before. Indian leftists opposed factories, nuclear power plants, GM crops & even the IT industry. A lot of this was “imported thinking”, our left liberals copy-pasting Western fads on Indian policy. We shouldn’t make the same mistake with AI and data centres.

And just like that, it’s been 9 years since we started the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy. Be part of the 10th. 👇🏽

@Rezhasan The exception doesn’t alter the mean unfortunately. But I will concede to some good folks.

@Sherbir This is such a strange take when I know IFS and IAS folks who are slogging their asses off for our country.

This rebuke would stand for the entirety of our bureaucracy especially the IAS, IRS and IPS. The bureaucracy defeats the government’s agenda everyday, and not as a constitutional check but through sheer inertia, lack of imagination and abysmally poor implementation - over and above the corruption. India grows inspite and despite its bureaucrats.

Dear @RBI: Do not let the psychology of Rs 100 per dollar determine your policy response. 100 is just a number, like 99 and 101. Whether the oil shortage is short-lived or long-lived, the right response at this moment is to let the rupee depreciate. 1/6

@losnewf That’s fair and I agree.

@Sherbir Fair point. We need to have ironclad rules about protecting patients privacy. However I wish we had more psychiatrists speaking about Suicide prevention than have this Trial by media.

All these doctors including that plastic surgeon who wears scrubs and keeps putting out pictures of celebrities and the surgeries they’ve done - need to be proceeded against. This below is a breach of the most sacred privilege between doctor and patient.

@losnewf Even if it was leaked - why would you acknowledge it and confirm ? The little disclaimer that I’ll acknowledge my help was sought and then say something different doesn’t work.

@Sherbir I mean, there isn't any HIPAA violation here, No? I am uncomfortable with the disclosure that she sought his help, but I'm presuming that that had already been leaked by the media. He is allowed to share generic information about Suicide prevention or complex causes of suicide

Till such day that a colleague at the Bar is “my junior” and “my senior” we will remain parochial and mediocre. All sides need to get rid of this ingrained servility.

@Mallufideintent 🫥

I think it would be more befitting if the ADC, when adorned with the ceremonial regalia of his office, came astride a horse, instead of a bicycle.

This is racism. In extremely poor taste.

Possibly the only such instance of a former judge candidly admitting to being "biased" on the bench. theprint.in/judiciary/form… @ThePrintIndia

"We have a constitution"- MEA shuts down Norway reporter in Viral Video by Foreign Ministry's Sibi George- Breaking it all down with @happymonjacob @sherbir & @ramindesai. Thought this was an excellent conversation on the 'clash'. Must watch in full youtube.com/watch?v=THst-c…

@jyotsnamohan Lack of training and lack of anticipation. Both of which they should be taken to task for. Randhir Jaiswal would have been a far better choice, but protocol and seniority must have won.

MEA’s Sibi George reminded me of the excitable kid who sat in front of Amitabh Bachchan in KBC. He was a kid but coherent in his responses. What is MEA’s excuse to put such petty arguments on the international stage? #Modi #Norway

1. Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. My latest #NationalInterest, looks at how Pakistan has historically conducted warfare with India — tactically brilliant & strategically disastrous. That’s the reason it has lost every war after beginning strongly, sometimes even spectacularly.   2. The revisionist history of every war or skirmish is a popular subcontinental phenomenon. Just that in Pakistan it’s carried out at industrial scale, school textbooks included. Take the 87-hour skirmish. All of Pakistan believes it won this round. That this was followed by Trump’s embrace was seen as an endorsement of this self-proclaimed ‘victory’.   3. Fact is, Munir had planned this. The visit of Steve Witkoff’s son Zach & the crypto deal took place just 4 days after Pahalgam & nearly 2 weeks before Op. Sindoor. When he set up Pahalgam, Munir knew India would retaliate. The killings were his tactics to draw an Indian response. To reopen the Kashmir issue, with Trump sewn up, was his strategic objective. The first worked, the second failed.   4. Let’s look at the post-Pulwama story. Since the initiative of launching a terror provocation is always with Pakistan, they knew IAF will be used for retaliation. That’s how Op. Swift Retort, involving more than 26 PAF aircraft to bait the IAF into a scrap where they didn’t have the numbers or the range, was planned & rehearsed. They’re still celebrating shooting down an IAF MiG-21. Even if that’s a tactical plus, strategically, Indian deterrence lasted 7 years. Until Pahalgam.   5. The same story has played out earlier. Op. Gibraltar (about 10,000 regulars in mufti infiltrated the Kashmir Valley), followed by Op. Grand Slam to take Chhamb, then Akhnoor, cut off Kashmir & grab it with ease. Tactically, this was brilliant but somebody in Pakistani GHQ had to be extraordinarily dumb to think India would simply keel over & not expand the war to the Punjab plains.   6. Whatever the reality of Op. Sindoor, the Pakistanis have taken the wrong lessons from it. This will be compounded by the delusions of a rising diplomatic stature. India has to keep that in mind & anticipate a new provocation earlier than what we may have imagined 6 months back.     Read #NationalInterest: theprint.in/national-inter… Watch #NationalInterest:    youtube.com/watch?v=u-A-dc…