Sandeep Hasurkar

investment banker, author, columnist.
Never Too Big To Fail: The Collapse of IL&FS ('20); Dance of The Elephant, Walk of the Dragon : China-India economies('24)

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

30 years for a report.. for one of the most important kings.. is ASI a hobby horse for those who draw salary for this? Is an apology enough? And where are all the bombastic civilisational ''vishwagurus'? @narendramodi @gssjodhpur @PMOIndia @MinOfCultureGoI https://t.co/jtG0WOh5Z7

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[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

The Death of The Joke: When Offence Masquerades as Humour https://t.co/BbKzX9MAUu

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

THIS 18-YEAR-OLD DID NOT BLINK 🔥

RAJDEEP: CBSE says TCS quoted around ₹951 crore, Coempt Edutech around ₹384 crore. Lowest bidder wins, so rules were followed.

SARTHAK 🎯: My question is not whether CBSE followed the rules. My question is why CBSE changed the rules.

RAJDEEP: People say you are batting for the opposition.

SARTHAK 🔥: In a democracy, opposition parties are pressure groups. If someone supports me, I am thankful. If someone ignores me, I do not care.

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

The economy is stalling, even as the government remains obsessed with markets and nursery rhymes ..

.. my take

“To Market, To Market We Will Go”: The Nursery Rhyme Economy

https://t.co/KKe2Qr2JGf

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Way back in 2019, I reported extensively about the Globarena Intermediate marks fiasco in Telangana.
In fact, I had run a major campaign on my media company Mojo TV. We were the first TV channel up pick the story too.

23 students died by suicide, I spoke with all their families and it was truly heartbreaking.

I remember one particular case where a single mother who worked as a farm labour was very proud of her bright daughter. The entire village came to support her education, everyone pitched in with books, commute and all expenses. When the Globarena marks mess up happened, she cried the whole night. Her mother told her it is okay, and she can go for reevaluation or write the exam again, morning the mother wakes up to see her daughter hanging in the middle of the house.

I had demanded blacklisting Globarena, arresting the officials. But I guess companies like Globarena are pests that never die, they just transform into something bigger and dangerous and come back to haunt.

Globarena now has become Coempt Edu Teck that messed-up the CBSE evaluation.

Globarena in 2019 messed up results of 9.74 lakh students in Telangana. Out of this total, approximately 3.8 lakh students failed. 23 suicides were reported. Back then too Globarena failed to provide the answer sheets.

After all this, Globarena transforms into Coempt Edu Teck, messes up the future of 18.5 lakh CBSE students across the country.

It is almost like they got rewarded for bad behaviour.

The officials who were giving approvals for CBSE just 74 days prior knew the history of Coempt Edu Teck. They knew the company is incompetent, but still decided to go ahead and give them the tender.

Yes, the Globarena/ Coempt Edu Teck guys are fabulous at landing tenders. The names and associations of Coempt Edu Teck board now seem to run pretty deep in the highest offices.

Unless the rot is burnt right from the root level, this won’t stop. All board members, directors, CEO, investors, government employees that tweaked the system to ensure Coempt Edu Teck got the contract should be dragged to the courts & never should be allowed near any business again.

But in this country that is so much in love with corruption, I doubt if this will ever change. Coempt Edu Teck may soon get the tender for all exams across the country.

PS: To all the students, one exam is not the end. Kudos to your fight. Keep fighting, never ever give up.

And if you are feeling low, speak with friends and family or reach out to any helplines.

Roshni Helpline, Telangana
[phone]

[OpinionFactoryLtd @SauravS61756219]

Watching this student speak, do you ever wonder whether this investigation should have been done by your newsroom instead of by frustrated candidates on social media?

Journalism is supposed to hold power accountable, not wait for victims to collect evidence, connect the dots, and ask the questions that reporters should have been asking all along.
If students are doing the reporting and journalists are merely moderating the conversation, something has gone seriously wrong.
@anchoramitaw
@navikakumar

[sundeepkhanna @Sundeepkk]

@TimesNow Amazing, the anchor is asking the young boy who's exposed the irregularities to respond instead of asking the education minister to do so!

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

Reposting from 2 months back.

Though such instant karmic proof of a thesis is rather unusual even by banking standards 🙄🫤

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

Spin overtime?

Beyond governance is culture.

& there is a big culture problem.

& its hardcharging, edgy, too-clever-by-half style may, sooner than later, land it in trouble.

There's cleverness. & there's wisdom.

Better to smell coffee in time, than roses in the graveyard?

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

RBI's supervision, on evidence, seems only good enough for scolding poor PSU bankers?

Faced with glib talking, aggressive private bankers, seem to give clean chits rather easily

HDFC Bank’s alleged Rs 45-crore camouflage puts marketing audits under lens https://t.co/QZ0Pf6XA21

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

As SBI auctions Ruia promoter guarantees for floor price of Rs.200 crore.

Against still outstanding dues of about Rs.13,000-odd crore that remain after auction of Essar Steel to ArcelorMittal.

Smoke, mirrors, and the chimaera of promoter guarantees - https://t.co/533ILOTm9C

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

Natural Capital or Natural Legacy?

Markets or Mythologies?

The increasing financialisation - and monetisation - of Nature.

A piece I had written exactly 5 years back that unexpectedly popped up on my time line today ..

Relevant then, relevant now.

https://t.co/kOh0DFct3E

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

Delhi Gymkhana, R.I.P.

https://t.co/mCKST17M1z

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

Banks-public & pvt-speak endlessly of tech, efficiency, governance. But for many super-senior citizens, banking today means endless branch visits, indifference, humiliation. My public letter to the RBI Governor.
@RBI @FinMinIndia @nsitharamanoffc
@PMOIndia
https://t.co/yEmG6I4f2z

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

For an administration that particularly claims pride in helping discover and highlight Bharat's glorious past, a shameful state of affairs.

Archaeology - neglected then, neglected now.

@gssjodhpur @OfficeOfGSS @ASIGoI @narendramodi @PMOIndia

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

1/5: When PM Modi inaugurated the grand new Greater Noida campus of the ASI’s Institute of Archaeology, he said a “New India” was being created. Seven years on, the institute that honed India’s most illustrious archaeologists since the 1950s looks like a ghost campus.

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

@bhatnaturally It was not the college. It was a student club.

Organised, run, and messed up, by the students.

Yet this prima donna outrage.

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

@PDesh_ @rupamurthy1 Like their parents don't, their college doesn't, but this lady will? They will learn what they need to learn because life will teach them by way of consequences.

Not by anybody or everybody trying to act as faux custodians of everybody else's life.

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

@pratyasharath Sure, if a person of her purported public stature has nothing better to do than squabble with teenage student clubs on social media? 🙄

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

@PDesh_ @rupamurthy1 & btw it was invite from a student club. Not official invite from college.

Apology's also from student club.

So this is what head of a news agency's been reduced to?

Media tantrum on lack of student discipline, demanding their apology.

Speaks more of person than offenders.

[Sandeep Hasurkar @SandeepHasurkar]

@PDesh_ @rupamurthy1 Think Emergency. Most students are young, idealist, & most importantly, have nothing to lose, prone to challenge authority.

Its a student club. Demand & they give, as you say, "didley squat".

Modi gets crowds. Hangers on don't.

It's free market. Respect is earned not demanded.