Raj Janagam #

Entrepreneur. Dog Father. Story Teller. Shaping Better Public Policy through Education, Technology, Political Strategy, & Dialogue. Followed by @BarackObama

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

When you’re going to change the world, don’t ask for permission.

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

Keep your head down. Build the business.
The politics will be there when you have the resources to be heard properly.
Full essay: https://t.co/iamyjEhYRj

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

Don't pick a side before you build power.
A short thread for the MSME owner and the startup founder building in India right now

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

A word for startup founders specifically.
Stay politically guarded. More than you think you need to.
I have watched investors whose own ideology quietly shape their deal-making. A founder who has visibly picked a side can lose a round before the first meeting.

[serish @serish]

The culture of impunity and lack of accountability will continue as long as we lack collective memory. The screenshot is from the NTA site.
https://t.co/3kHVp8uhzC

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

MORE SHAME: now the WFI stops @Phogat_Vinesh from competing in the 53 kg category trials and tells her only this morning on the day of trials that she can compete only in 50 kg category! PURE VENDETTA being carried out against a world class athlete only because she took on the ‘ESTABLISHMENT’. Will anyone from GOI, sports ministry or our sporting fraternity speak up? No wonder we can never be a great Olympic nation: too much politics, too little sport.😡

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

1/3. They’re back! India’s 224 billionaires have recovered to cross the $1 trillion-mark in terms of cumulative net worth. Heartening to learn from the Forbes live list that as of May 27, all our beloved billionaires have shrugged off the ill-effects of the annoying war in West Asia. That conflict briefly pulled India’s Billi Brotherhood down to a humiliating 980-billion dollar rung. Now they’ve bounced back. Could it be that the austerity of others feeds into the opulence of the Brothers?

With a little bit of help from their friends, the Brotherhood have returned to an honourable cumulative worth of $1011 billion, or just over a trillion dollars. A saga of stunning endurance, and a demo of how to keep raking it in when most other Indians reel under repeated blows and show no spark of resistance.

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

I did not to go to the Supreme Court today to hear its order in the SIR case.
As a litigant in this case, and as someone who was given the honour of addressing the court, I should have been hopeful, anxious, or at least curious. I was not. The case was decided long ago. We were only waiting for the transcript and its fine print.

The course of this case was settled in August last year. Having heard arguments against SIR for three days, the court moved away from examining the constitutionality of SIR and effectively converted itself into a Consumer Forum, focused on grievance redressal and arbitration, rather than constitutional principles.

The case was effectively decided when the apex court allowed the ECI to rush through the Bihar elections without first deciding the matter, and without requiring the ECI to rectify even the most glaring defects in post-SIR rolls.

There was little left of this case once the ECI proceeded with the second and then the third phase of SIR, while the Hon’ble Court leisurely heard arguments about its constitutionality. SIR had become a fait accompli. Any remaining doubt disappeared when the Hon’ble judges observed in open court that no one would be allowed to obstruct SIR.

The final nail in the coffin of this petition was hammered during the hearing of another petition before the same Bench, when an Hon’ble judge remarked that millions denied their right to vote need not fret, since they could vote in the next election. At that moment, the court abdicated its constitutional responsibility.

Shorn of legalese, the simple truth is that the highest court of a constitutional democracy has already authorised the disenfranchisement of millions of citizens — at least 59 million so far, could go up eventually to 100 million.

It was inconceivable that the court would now declare SIR unconstitutional and annul all post-SIR elections. The lawyers were waiting for the the exact legal reasoning deployed to arrive at a conclusion that was already known. Such legal gymnastics did not interest me. Some friends were looking for some crumbs in the hope that the court might at least wish to save face, if not save the voters. Eventually that too did not happen. Polite noises apart, the Court has handed over a carteblac to the ECI to do what it pleases with the voters list.

ADR vs Union of India (2026) is to our times what ADM Jabalpur vs Shivkant
Shukla (1976) was to the previous assault on our democracy. We must hope that the SIR judgment does not mark the crumbling of the last constitutional wall, as ADM Jabalpur once did. We must believe that one day this constitutional abdication by the guardian of the Constitution will be recognised for what it was. And reversed.

Jai Hind!

[I am Sumati @iamsum80]

Actually laughed out loud at this

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

BIG: SC upholds @ECISVEEP power to conduct SIR. What the apex court still hasn’t addressed: what happens to the LAKHS of LEGAL Indian citizens who were left out of SIR. Do they lose their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote and welfare benefits only because SIR was conducted in undue haste and by including a ‘logical discrepancy’ algorithm? When will SC address the elephant in the room?

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

This is not new actually, I've been sharing the levels of corruption or cash movement that happens through banking channels is insane.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Corruption is no longer in suitcases full of cash.
It is now structural, institutionalized and "legal".
That is why most Indians fail to see it.
#NewIndia #corruption

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Photo from Mumbai’s Marine Drive:

This is what happens when you plan public spaces without any tree cover, @mybmc.

[Capitano Jacko @CapitanoJacko]

@Freyy_is The sign of AI writing is when someone who you know sucks at writing suddenly sends you something that is half decent.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Dera Sacha Sauda chief) granted parole once again, this time for 30 days. It’s the 16th time he has been out on parole since his conviction in August 2017.
He is serving a 20-year sentence for rape. Meanwhile likes of Umar Khaled have stayed in jail for almost 6 years without even a trial commencing. Yeh hai JUSTICE system: Wonder what our Lordships would pontificate on next! 🙏

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

A woman ordered a sexual wellness product - most likely a vibrator -from @letsblinkit. Delivery agent opened the package and asked why she was "using these things. She could use him instead". he knows where she stays. women aren't safe from men - across class, caste, religion.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Insidious, hate-filled propaganda everywhere.

This is in the Mumbai Metro, with millions travelling.

[Tanmay Kashyap @TanmayKOfficial]

Dear Cbse... I'm your Class 12 student and I'm replying with tears in my eyes

You keep saying "committed to fairness... but I just lost my friend because of this result. He couldn't handle the pain after seeing his marks. How many more children have to die before you truly understand our suffering?

Website crashing for days, payments failing, overcharging lakhs of rupees, blurry OSM copies, harsh checking... lakhs of us failed despite giving our everything for two years. We are crying nonstop, families are broken, dreams are finished.

Please... I beg you with folded hands... award grace marks of 15-20 in ALL subjects this year for students who failed due to this OSM disaster. This will save 50-60% of us.

We are not numbers. We are your children. Don't kill more of us.

@EduMinOfIndia @dpradhanbjp
@PMOIndia @narendramodi
@cbseindia29

#CBSE2026 #GraceMarksForCBSE #Cbse #JusticeForCBSEStudents #CbseStudents #OSMControversy #OSM

[Raj Janagam # @Janagam]

Slavetech.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Love how startups constantly innovate in the slavery space.