Hrid Bijoy

Urban Researcher | PhD @iihsin #Maps #GIS | @jnu_official_50 @TISSpeak alumnus

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

Essentially, there is nothing that can prove you are a citizen. It has to be decided on a case by case basis, for a limited period at a time, by the 'proper authorities' using their intuition and gut-feeling. Since no one can at any point of time be sure if they are a citizen or not, they need to, at all times, be propitiating the 'authorities concerned', so that whenever required, they may be granted a few drops of citizenship. Radical reinvention of the Constitution that we can all applaud. The next step towards progress could be to determine four hereditary hierarchies of citizenship.

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

Before you can govern a country, you have to know it. This excellent essay uses P.C. Mahalanobis and the Indian Statistical Institute to tell a larger story: how India learned to measure itself, how that machinery weakened, and why rebuilding statistical credibility matters today. Great work, both text and visual design, by @AlterMagIndia

[IIHS Institution Deemed to be University @Iihs_uni]

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[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Bizarro India, where "rulers are free to elect their people" with the help of Supreme Court.

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

Excl: Ground reality vs official records: Census fieldwork is throwing up data that differ from govt records on open defecation free villages, use of cow dung cakes/kerosene/crop residue for cooking in urban areas despite LPG connection, no electricity. Enumerators asked to revisit and review the “data discrepancies”.I ✍️

https://t.co/1LaYwpiiED

[nikhil wagle @waglenikhil]

Some interesting data...
Stalin - 1.02 lakh votes deleted in Kolathur constituency, he lost by 8,795.
Didi - 51,000 votes deleted in Bhabanipur seat, she lost by 15,000.
Kejriwal - 38,000 votes deleted in New Delhi constituency & he lost by 4,000. (2025)
Three prominent CMs of opposition were defeated by mass deletion of votes. If you still don’t see the pattern and believe they lost because of anti-incumbency then...

[Rosa @rosaabraham6]

A conversation with @MilanV on the State of Working India 2026 and our key findings.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I travelled through Great Nicobar today.

These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.

The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.

The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.

This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.

So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.

It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

[Hrid Bijoy @BijoyHrid]

Pink tickets introduced under AAP followed simple yet effective system of universal welfare. Same logic mirrored in free water - electricity schemes as well.

Targeted welfare justified for efficiency serves no meaninful purpose beyond finding purpose for paper pusher bureaucracy

[Abhishek Baxi @baxiabhishek]

Delhi government's move from pink tickets to Pink Saheli Smart Card for free bus travel for women mirrors a wider shift in welfare in recent times—from trust‑based universal access to documentation‑heavy systems.

And, as we've often seen, it leads to rise in exclusions.

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

From the first floor of a dilapidated, unmarked building in Kolkata, a 5-person research team parses a staggering maze of data to decode Bengal SIR, which has disenfranchised lakhs

‘We are Chitragupta of Bengal SIR’ Meet the @SabarInstitute_ team
https://t.co/5swAtW2ysK

[Ekta Chauhan @ekta2993]

Great Initiative to map the culture of urban villages of Delhi. Interesting list of villages to be mapped.

I hope they see the villages in relation to the expanding urban and not as isolated objects of fetish.

Heritage cell to survey villages to document culture, oral history https://t.co/EWT8FkKON9

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

Electoral maps of India are published as pdfs with no latitude or longitude not to allow anyone understand the borders by delimitation commission. I had to digitize that stupid pdf map and draw every border of all constituencies to understand the scale of manipulation in #Assam.

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

If you haven't already, please do read the State of Working India report on youth in the labour market. This fantastic work is led by @rosaabraham6, with an amazing team!

Picking some interesting graphs in the thread, read the report for more. 🧵

https://t.co/3h9K6rVp4H

[Sharon P K @sharonpkabo]

Worth revisiting this!!
The Raghav Chadha situation is a master class in what this piece is about… 90 second videos winning over GenZ, a slogan, instant tribes and nobody reading anything beyond that...

https://t.co/F1S6GMDoam

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

To be sure, this ISN'T like the mass exodus of 2020 triggered by the pandemic. At the stations, there was no panic, no sense of migrant workers fleeing.

As @ishiwrites found, workers had done the math and decided that staying no longer made sense.

What the city doesn’t show, the stations reveal.

Do read our special report (across trains, stations, and conversations) in today's edition:
(6/7)
https://t.co/72s6GoEsgM

[Aman Bhargava 📊 @thedivtagguy]

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. But why?

Our new data story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️

[Hrid Bijoy @BijoyHrid]

Interdisciplinary - Funded PhD at @Iihs_uni

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[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

This is such an excellent report. What makes it effective is that it refuses to lean on sentimentality. The methodical laying out of time, distance, money, the hard numbers do the moral work on their own. The last part gives the reporter's feelings away & it's entirely welcome :)

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

“I have raised five children through MGNREGA... If this work stops, it will be impossible for us to survive.”
(Babita Devi, Kairo village, Lohardaga, Jharkhand)
https://t.co/IEippPs4Do