Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳

@bhargavizaveri @Preddy85 There's an interesting analogy to Kishore Biyani's India 123 markets. All d2c brands focus on a tiny Indian elite. And perhaps this carries I think to other sectors. The small world, small market problem. When you're more likely to bump into someone in an airport than a local.

@bhargavizaveri @Preddy85 Yeah makes sense. Their peers are not in district courts. Plus much harder to study, more diverse, less "newsworthy" cases.

Almost a year since we published this book on district courts. One big takeaway: Legal academics are surprisingly not that interested in the topic. Lawyers (not surprisingly) and economists (!!!) were the most engaged audience for this book.

India’s criminal contempt law creates a remarkable concentration of power: the court decides what speech offends it, whether contempt occurred, and the punishment. @GokulSunoj and I wrote about this last week in @ThePrintIndia as part of @theprofesseer's #CountingOnLaw series As if on cue, a day after this column was published, the Delhi HC initiated criminal contempt proceedings against @ArvindKejriwal and several @AamAadmiParty leaders. The larger problem is not one case, but a vague legal standard — speech that merely “tends to scandalise” courts — combined with the institutional difficulty of reforming it. Column: theprint.in/opinion/counti… Video explainer: youtube.com/watch?v=VekwPx…

@VinNarasimhan @meenaganesh Go on, you can run multiple subagents.

Claude Opus 4.7 has literally inherited the curse of Lord Hanuman. It has the raw power to move mountains and rewrite your entire codebase, but you have to sit there like Jambavan and remind it that it actually possesses tools to do it. "Oh wait, I have a Python interpreter?" Yes, you lazy genius, now jump across the ocean.

@theo Very annoying. Screenshot, scp, reference.

Just learned it's literally impossible to paste images into Claude Code over SSH. How do you CLI people live like this??

'India’s contempt law has three problems. Reform is difficult' Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah @bhargavizaveri, co-founder and CEO & Gokul Sunoj @GokulSunoj, associate at @theprofesseer, write #CountingOnLaw #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/counti…

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

Substack with a round-up of what kept @theprofesseer team and me busy in April. Covers the #CourtsDaily launch; PIL data v. PIL stereotypes; asset grabbing under FCRA; success rate of force majeure defence before Indian judges and RBI's NBFC de-regulation. open.substack.com/pub/bhargaviza…

What we’re working on next: • expanding court coverage • better filtering + search relevance • cleaner order access • fewer clicks to get basic case information Would love suggestions on what would make this genuinely indispensable for your workflow. /end

How does CourtsDaily help you? • Search Bom HC + NCLT from one place • Find cases using simple natural-language search • Access orders, simple summaries and chat with the case for instant answers • Track hearings, timelines and case progress ..and lots more. For free. 3/n

Who is this for? • Lawyers tracking matters across Bom HC + NCLT • Insolvency professionals • Researchers + clerks • Anyone tired of fighting captchas just to find a case Early days, but hoping this becomes genuinely useful for people doing legal work every day. 2/n

Case search in India is still stuck in the captcha era. We’ve built a simple alternative: CourtsDaily Search Bom HC + NCLT cases without needing CNR numbers. courtsdaily.info Early version — looking for feedback from people who actually access these websites. 1/n

Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. Don't just reset Codex rate limits for fun, it costs money. ... but the vibes are good ... I have reset Codex rate limits for ALL paid plans to celebrate a good week and allow everyone to build more with GPT-5.5. Enjoy

@CSMIA_Official Btw the security staff told us that the auto drop off point and the auto pick up point are not the same, and the board which directs us to the auto stand is incorrect.

Dear Siddarth, we regret the inconvenience caused. Our team is continuously monitoring the auto rickshaw stand, with active traffic management in place to ensure smoother flow and maintain queue discipline. Instances of ride refusal are being strictly addressed in line with applicable regulations. We are also implementing further measures to enhance the overall passenger experience. Thank you for your patience and understanding. Team CSMIA

Who the hell is managing @CSMIA_Official of late? Thought I'll take a rickshaw after a while because it'll be quick. And it's complete chaos and mismanagement. The security is simply letting autos refuse and the line keeps increasing. Really useless.

@law_ninja We do this today. Checkout TheProfesseer.com Launching something soon.

India's courts produce more data than most SaaS companies. It's public and Free. Still, nobody is using it. Every district court publishes cause lists daily. Every High Court puts orders online. Case status, hearing dates, adjournments, judge assignments. All public. All free. eCourts alone has data on over 20 crore cases. And what are funded legal tech startups doing? Building contract review tools for the 200 large firms that already have budgets. Classic. Meanwhile the most valuable dataset in Indian legal is sitting on government servers. Updated daily. Ignored completely. Every judge has patterns. I have seen judges in Saket who dispose of cheque bounce matters in 4 hearings flat. And judges two courtrooms away who take 14 for the same case type. Some adjourn freely on first ask. Some will chew you out for wasting court time. When a lawyer faces an unfamiliar judge, they call a senior. Ask the clerk. Walk in and hope for the best. But that judge's last 500 orders are on eCourts. How many NI Act cases did he dispose of last year? Average time to disposal? Does he grant interim relief without hearing the other side? All answerable. Nobody is answering. A client asks: how long will my case take? Every lawyer makes something up. Not because they are dishonest. Because they genuinely do not know. But 5 years of data from that court, that case type, under that judge, gives you a real answer. "14-18 months. Under Judge Sharma, closer to 12." Now here is the part that changes everything. You do not need a SaaS company to build this anymore. You do not need funding or a tech team. A single lawyer with a laptop can scrape a judge's last 200 orders, feed them into an AI, and build a personality model of that judge. How does he reason? What arguments does he find persuasive? What makes him dismiss an application on the first hearing? Then do the same for opposing counsel. Do they seek adjournments early? File bulky replies? Bluff on interim applications or actually follow through? Now your draft is not generic. Your arguments are written for the specific judge who will read them. Structured to counter the specific lawyer on the other side. Do this for an arbitrator before your statement of claim. For a tribunal member before your next hearing. Even for your own senior, so the draft you hand them already matches how they think and argue. At LawSikho, we are now teaching our learners to build exactly this. Not a product. A personal tool on their own laptop for the matters they are actually working on. The lawyer who walks into court with a personality model of the judge and a pattern analysis of opposing counsel is not just better prepared. They are playing a different game. The data is public. The tools are free. The skill takes weeks, not years. The only question is whether you learn it before the lawyer on the other side does. Would you like us to make a youtube video and put out on our channel?

'Indigo cancelling ~10% of flights was a national crisis… Courts operate with a worse mismatch every day… Nobody calls it a crisis because it's always been this way'… Watch @thriddas on why courts must move from queues to appointments youtu.be/XkxZz42TxCo

'Indigo cancelling ~10% of flights was a national crisis. Courts operate with a worse mismatch every day. Nobody calls it a crisis because it's always been this way'. Watch this column by @thriddas on why courts must move from queues to appointments youtu.be/XkxZz42TxCo

@pranaykotas Love it! Great initiative! Saw your parliament watch. Might be fun to dump into a db, add bm25/elastic and do tagging to enable search. Maybe a nice weekend project one of these days! As my first open source contribution!

The repo is here. Check the Contribution guidelines and I'll merge the changes. github.com/pranaykotas/In…

Many people are building cool stuff using AI for public policy use cases: visualisations, AI reports, analytical tools, etc. But there is no one directory which lists all these projects. So let's built one at aipublicpolicy.org cc: @acorn @pranesh

Thanks to @rhoiotaphi for his work on estimating minutes to disposal in the Supreme Court. Truly stellar work.