Sravan Pallapothu

Program Manager @ @CEGISofficial | Former RA @working_India | Majored in economics at @isbf & @SSE_Symbiosis | Opinions are my own | (he/him).

[Anyayyy🦄 @_kawaaaiiii]

Inject this into my veins 💉
Manav Suthar, test debut against AFG.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Then why such a big fuss was made when rupee went to 60? Different yardsticks for different people?

Almost every celebrity in India commented or was asked to comment how horrible that was for the economy.

[Sravan Pallapothu @SravanP96]

But I hope this dashboard is useful for students, researchers, journalists. Please DM for any feedback! [5/5]

Please see here for more documentation: https://t.co/GiI00w7IoU

[Sravan Pallapothu @SravanP96]

Using Claude, I vibe coded this publicly available dashboard that lets you play around with the National Health and Family Survey (NFHS) data! (NFHS-6 included btw :) ). [1/5] https://t.co/kA6GvyxRuP

[Sravan Pallapothu @SravanP96]

There are still a few bugs I am trying to fix; I was not able to scrape ALL indicators from the factsheet (pdfs), the directionality of a few indicators (i.e. is a higher value better or lower value better) needs to be fixed! [4/5]

[Property Decoder @PropertyDecoder]

Some may hate Delhi NCR for many reasons, but one thing it gets right is that people from across India rarely feel like outsiders here, a true capital in that sense.

In other major cities like Mumbai, Bengaluru or Chennai, migrants still speak of regionalism or language-based exclusion.

Some even don't want to accept those who were born there and speak the local language fluently, just because they don't carry a regionally familiar surname.

Therefore, Delhi NCR, for all its flaws, still perhaps the only major city that genuinely offers that sense of inclusiveness.

And actually if you see, every major city is built by people coming from everywhere.

Growth itself is rarely a local-only story.

And ya not all are like this, but those who actually have no stake in building a "Maximum City" are often the ones with "Minimum Brains", dividing people on the basis of region and language instead of treating fellow Indians as their own.

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Well done, Arjun. ❤️
Proud of the way you’ve carried yourself through this season, always believing in your ability, staying patient, working hard quietly, and remaining positive despite having to wait for your opportunity till the very last match.
Cricket tests patience as much as skill, and you handled both beautifully today.

Keep your feet on the ground, and continue being in love with the game like you always have.

Love you always.👏

[ @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী @patralekha2011]

Today was insanely hot. My auto driver said he couldn’t sleep last night. He has a fan in his one-room home in Sangam Vihar. The night - time temperatures are also very high. His coping strategy - wipe the floor with water through the night and lie down on the bare floor. I walked about 3.5 kms this evening, much less than my usual. After 7: 30 pm. We have to talk more about high night temperatures. People are turning up for work, are driving, walking , all groggy-eyed. No sleep.
Only 8% of Indian households have air conditioning and even then very, very few can afford to run ACs 24/7. Less than 15% have an air cooler. Which means more than three quarters of India’s population are like the auto driver I talked to.
The only cooling device in face of extreme heat is a fan.

[Vijay Anaparthi @VijayCricketFan]

SRH have qualified for the playoffs for the 8th time and remember they have played 5 fewer seasons than most teams.

Most playoff appearances:
CSK: 12
MI: 11
RCB: 11
SRH: 8
KKR: 8

Now go bring home that 2nd 🏆 boys 🧡

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Beautiful list. One small problem: you forgot the context.

Sri Lanka’s opposition SUPPORTED their PM because Sri Lanka had a rationing SYSTEM in place.

Philippines had a structured 4-day week POLICY with compensation framework.

Egypt’s closures were MANDATORY government orders, not gentle appeals.

Modi made VOLUNTARY appeals to a nation that still has no fuel rationing system, no strategic reserve policy, and 85% crude import dependence after 12 years.

Same words. Completely different delivery mechanisms.

None of those PMs spent 12 years promising their country would NEVER need to be in this position.

Modi did. Every election. Every rally. Every chest-thumping speech.

The problem isn’t the appeal.
The problem is the gap between the promise and the reality.

Comparing Modi’s “please save petrol” to a functioning state crisis response isn’t defence, it’s embarrassment.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

This brouhaha over President Murmu's dinner served to the Vietnamese president's delegation reminds me of something that happened when I was doing my PhD at France. There was a Indian students association in my school (mostly business masters students, many opf them exchange students from various IIMs, in their early to mid 20s - I was the only PhD student and not a formal member of their working committee) that had about 20-30 people at that point and they wanted to have an "India Day" to showcase India to people from other countries.

Standard schtick promoting the usual Indian tropes - Bollywood song and dance, saree draping, mehendi stall, yoga demo, and a small meal of pulau, roti, gulab jamun, paneer/chicken in butter etc, sourced from the local Pakistani Tandoor Palace. This story is not about the food though.

There was also a proposal to show an Indian movie. So people kept naming Bollywood films. I timidly raised my hand and said, "Why Bollywood? Why not show a Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali or Telugu movie? Most of the people there were actually Maharashtrians, South Indians or Bongs."

They looked at me like I was a moron. "We must show something that EVERYONE understands!" I again timidly told them that nobody there understands any of our Indian languages, and it's all the same to them. But the best movies (even commercial ones) were not Bollywood anyway.

Anyway, they chose to play Dev D because it shows "the modern side of India." 🤡

The liberal reactions to President Murmu's dinner are the same. There are two underlying assumptions around much of the outrage:

a. That the food President Murmu is serving is "non-representative" of India's true diversity of cuisines, and she must instead serve butter chicken, veg kolhapuri, Kolkata aloo mutton biryani, butter naan, rasam, mango lassi and gulab jamun to truly represent India's rich culinary diversity and,

b. That President Tô Lâm toiled all his way to the top of the Vietnamese Communist Party just so that he could be like Delhi wedding guest who fasts all day so that he can pig out on butter chicken in New Delhi, and will be extremely offended if that is not provided to him.

I am in my 40s and an omnivore who eats most conventional meat, and I can barely eat any of the butter chicken slop in Indian wedding menus these days. I am pretty certain that older Vietnamese delegates will struggle much more.

Another nonsensical argument put forth is "Would you be ok if the Vietnamese forced Murmu to eat beef in Vietnam?"

No, I would not be ok with anyone forcing anyone else to eat something their religious beliefs prohibit. But last I checked, there is no tenet in Vietnamese philosophy that prevent President Tô Lâm from eating potatoes (unless he is secretly Jain), broccoli or dal. However, I do suspect that a severe lack of protein plus a dummy school education has impeded your ability to argue coherently - your argument is embarrassingly bad even for whataboutery.

Yes, there is a larger issue of India being portrayed as vegetarian, but that is what you voted for. Thrice since 2014 nationally, and regularly in most states. Electoral choices have consequences. Welcome to the real world.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Unpopular opinion. Basically you have no problem when cults deprive school kids of proteins by imposing vegetarianism in govt school midday meals. But god forbid a cult member president feed veg food to a rich foreign dignitary and you guys will cry foul and demand she feed butter chicken.

This is why we are backward. Campaign for proteins in schools. Foreign dignitaries can feed themselves.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

I have to push back on this argument. It is utilitarian on the surface. Underneath it is deeply problematic and immoral.

What it is actually saying is: Muslim political autonomy provokes Hindu consolidation, therefore Muslims should suppress it for their own safety.

That is the logic of telling an abused spouse not to anger their partner. The violence is not caused by the victim's behaviour. It exists independently. But the burden of managing it is placed entirely on the victim.

Hindu majoritarian consolidation did not happen because Muslims asserted themselves politically. It happened because of a seventy year ideological project by the Sangh.

Muslim political invisibility inside secular parties did not slow it down. It happened anyway. So the utilitarian calculation fails even before you arrive at the moral problem.

The moral problem is this. Every other community in India, Dalits, OBCs, Marathas, Jats, regional identities, built political assertion and identity based mobilisation.

Nobody told them it would provoke consolidation against them. Nobody asked them to make themselves invisible for the comfort of the majority. That advice is reserved exclusively for Muslims. And we should ask why.

The answer is not Muslim behaviour. The answer is the failure of Indian secularism to protect its own promise. That is where the finger belongs.

Please remember, Indian Muslims are capable of thinking for themselves. They literally live the lives they live. 90% of Muslims in India have voted for Hindus and non-Muslims continuously and kept doing so despite being marginalised within those very coalitions.

So this conversation is a direct failing of secularism in India. Let us point our fingers at where the problem actually lies. Not at the victims of the problem.

[Jofra Archer @JofraArcher]

Vijay wtf

[decodingmyroots.com - नित्यकर्म सर्वोपरि @MonaADhar]

Interesting DINK, getting more hate than ZINK ( zero income numerous kids).

When a couple labels themselves DINK, it’s often not a statement for others to judge - it’s a boundary.
A quiet way of saying: stop prying into decisions that aren’t yours to question.
You don’t know their story, their struggles, or their choices.

I remember a retired uncle on Quora writing something that stuck: when you ask couples why they don’t have kids, you’re stepping into deeply personal territory. Either they can’t, or they’ve chosen not to - both are valid, and both deserve peace.

Either way, the question doesn’t add value - it just disturbs it.

India isn’t going to be depopulated if 1% decide not to have kids, call them greedy all you want but they are silently paying for the extra kids others are having.

I’ve seen many DINK couples picking up extra load - at work and within families for those with kids. Not everyone is “woke” or selfish the way we often generalize.

I have seen more bad parents than selfish DINKs in my life.

[Sreya @darthdevi]

Beyond the realities of an unsustainable world and the rising cost of raising a child, there’s something else I’ve been thinking about as I move deeper into my 30s.

You can walk away from many things in life - a marriage, a job, a friendship, situations that no longer serve you. But you can’t walk away from being a parent. Once you choose it, it’s yours for life. There’s no undo button, no clean exit. And a commitment like that deserves real deliberation.

If someone decides they don’t want children, that’s not something to question - it’s something to respect. Because the alternative is far worse: bringing a child into the world and realising, midway, that you don’t have it in you. You can’t just opt out without consequence. And when people do, it often leaves behind a lifetime of emotional damage.

We’ve seen this play out across generations - people raised by parents who were physically present but emotionally absent, or who quietly carried the weight of a life they didn’t fully choose. Many of our parents didn’t have the space to make that decision consciously. They were expected to follow a path, not question it.

I often think about how different things could have been if they had that choice - if they could have decided freely, without pressure. Even if that meant some of us wouldn’t exist in that version of the world.

So yes, it’s a good thing that more people today are choosing not to have children - not out of fear, but out of clarity. Because they understand what it truly means. Because they know it’s permanent. Because they’re choosing responsibility over assumption.

And ultimately, that’s far more ethical than bringing a life into the world and not being able to show up for it. And have you seen the world we live in today? It requires being brave, and having strong will to raise a kid. And I truly applaud the folks who are doing it.

[Shrabonti Bagchi @Shrabonti]

This is why people should read more fiction.

How to make techbros understand that human happiness and fulfilment are not quantifiable concepts. You can't "name one upgrade" because you have not lived that life, you don't have that experience, and no two experiences within that are comparable. Each life is full and complete in itself, each choice unique and distinctive.

You can't measure these choices to see which one is an upgrade, like adding features to a new iphone. You make a choice and you live, as happily or unhappily as a thousand factors beyond your control and your own brain chemistry determine.

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Please feel free to fight in the comments

Eggs are PURE VEGETARIAN

They should be all-day, all-meal and all-class.

Make eggs a universal side dish like raita or pickle. Pickle for flavour, raita for gut health and eggs for protein.