Kosha Modi

Logic and poetry.
Economist - IMF, Columbia, ISI, Presidency.
All views are my own.

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

Hi everyone! I am thrilled to share that I have completed my Ph.D. in Economics from @columbiaecon and will be joining the International Monetary Fund this fall!

Endless thanks to my amazing advisors: Jennifer La’O, Jose Scheinkman, Matthieu Gomez, and @JSchreger.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The doxing of young women who protested at Jantar Mantar is a crime under existing law. The FIRs have been aimed at a schoolgirl instead.

August 1, 2026

Following the Jantar Mantar protest against paper leaks from 20 June to 25 July 2026, over the past week an online campaign to shame and doxx young women who were part of this protest has commenced. We condemn this online doxing and shaming campaign unequivocally.

Scroll's report dated 1 August records that Shradha Singh, a 23-year-old yoga instructor who attended the protest in support of the students, posted a seven-second reel gently mocking the colour-coding of the Rapid Action Force. Meme pages recaptioned it as abuse of the armed forces which it was not. Some online users then located her car's number plate in an older photograph and converted it into her mobile number and home address. The calls that followed promised to rape and kill her. Her mother's and friends' accounts were tracked down and pressured for her whereabouts. She has stopped leaving her house. In the same period, Instagram removed 33 of her posts documenting the protest and offered her no avenue of appeal.

The second case concerns a minor, and who used coarse language including cuss words on the Prime Minister. We do not name her, or any other child as this is prohibited by Section 23 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. Here pictures and personal details have been posted online and a coordinated doxing campaign was launched to identify her. Many of the cases lodged against her include purported offences which are completely inapplicable to the facts and the only proper recourse under law may be a case for defamation instituted by the Prime Minister themself.

Beyond moral and social justifications, defence offered for all of this that these videos were public and the criticism of a protester is also expression. The defence fails at every step, and it fails on authority. Coarse sloganeering at a protest sits well within the tradition of political expression and this has often even included the use of cuss words. There should be no FIRs, and no jail, for a meme, a reel or criticism of those who govern. In a democracy, every voice has the right to speak its mind, and neither the speaker's youth nor the coarseness of her words diminishes that right. A government confident of its mandate answers mockery with argument or with silence, not with the police.

Now juxtapose this what the online mob has done. Compiling or hunting a woman's address, telephone number and family tree, and publishing the file beside a threat, expresses no opinion and contributes nothing to any debate but is the construction of a target, and the threats that follow it are its purpose. This is the very definition of stalking under Section 78 of the BNS and in an order dated 28 February 2024, the Delhi High Court, dealing with a woman doxed over a tweet about a politician, held that victims of doxing cannot be left without remedy in tort and privacy law, and observed that doxing differs from other forms of online harassment because "the risk of putting the subject in physical danger increases exponentially". It would be dishonest not to discuss our present without looking at the precedent of the Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai apps, which we placed before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT in January 2022 that demonstrates a pattern where risk and threat for any online expression by a woman rise when they comment on social and political issues, specially when they challenge the state. Here, the objective is clear to shame and punish one so severaly that every other woman will watch, and withdraw.

In addition to this statement, IFF will be writing to the National Commission of Women and the National Commission for Child Rights to take cognisance of this issue and to commence immediate remedial action.

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@Wangchuk66 Thank you. The movement needed you.

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

“ significantly impact their academic progress and professional opportunities”

[University of Delhi @UnivofDelhi]

Dear students and faculty, your safety matters to us. Please note that any unlawful assemblies or demonstrations at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, which are strictly regulated as per the directives of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, may invite legal action. Such activities can also pose serious risks to students’ personal safety and significantly impact their academic progress and professional opportunities. Accordingly, all students are urged to stay away from Jantar Mantar and to prioritise their safety and compliance with the law. Furthermore, you are advised to exercise caution as a significant amount of fake and misleading content is being created and circulated to fuel the situation.

[Noah Dasanaike @dasanaike]

I want to up the ante on this. If you have a large document collection, I will digitize it for you, for free (you pay for inference), on one condition: that we make the data publicly available immediately.

[Harshita @viralbiryani]

Saw this and it shook me to my core

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@AbhiroopMukho @econometricsoc @GoIStats Amazing!

[“paula” @paularambles]

my mom just found a new use case for chatgpt

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

Always a pleasure to visit my Alma mater #EconISIDelhi and my mentor @AbhiroopMukho . Thank you for such a warm welcome Sir!

[Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay @AbhiroopMukho]

As usual, it is a pleasure to have an ex MSQE #EconISIDelhi student in my office - @KoshaModified between finishing her PhD from @Univcolumbia and joining the @IMFNews #EconTwitter

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@luchi_casal @juli_caunedo Congratulations Lucía!

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@GCAProject @_amandads_ Congratulations @_amandads_!

[Tarikua Erda @TarikuaErda]

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, climate, entrepreneurship & innovation

My JMP addresses a long-standing question in climate economics about the impact of climate change on physical capital (e.g., machinery, buildings).

I examine the impact of flooding on manufacturing firms’ capital and productivity. Do flooded firms/regions build back better? Or do their losses instead weaken their growth and aggregate productivity?

https://t.co/QVXjuKzIq7
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[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@mazzimon77 Thank you so much for the shoutout @mazzimon77 !

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@AbhiroopMukho Thank you so much for the shoutout Sir @AbhiroopMukho !

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@cosmiconomist Thank you so much @cosmiconomist !

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

Hi everyone! I am on the job market this year.
You can find more about my research here
https://t.co/ui5m6FZJSn

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@vediense @stlouisfed @mfariacastro Thank you so much for organizing the workshop @vediense ! It was incredibly helpful.

[bhadra Sinha @BhadraSinha]

One more stellar judgement from #SupremeCourt, reinforcing personal liberty jurisprudence. Short, crisp, to the point
‘Bail is rule, jail exception’ even under UAPA: In SC ruling, message to lower courts on ‘right to life’ https://t.co/J9VhZL90Wv via @theprintindia

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

@theliverdoc @hubermanlab cited some evidence on ashwagandha to promote sleep and it is also an ingredient in AG1 greens. Are there any side effects to ashwagandha use specified in the literature?

[Kosha Modi @KoshaModified]

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