Mahendra Yadav

PhD candidate, SIS, JNU | @IIMC_India 22-23 | IR, Political economy, Tech | Views personal RTs≠endorsement | ✍️ @TOI @EconomicTimes @ANI

[Mahendra Yadav @aigma_photon]

Visited temple of largest democracy of the world, The Parliament of India. It was great interaction with Hon'ble Speaker @ombirlakota Sir. Your lesson on debate, decorum and dignity of parliament will act as a lighthouse of our aspiring profession of Journalism.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

To understand Kafkaesque bureaucracy, it helps to read Kafka. But Jane Austen and H.G. Wells offer lessons for office life, too https://t.co/UGig62TFni

[Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta]

Subhash Kashyap's passing a big loss. Colleague at Centre for Policy Reaserch, encyclopedic command of the Indian Constitutional and Parliamentary History. Fun fact: first book "The Unknown Nietzsche" was a pioneering and acute study of Nietzsche's global influence

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

In a major reform, Government of India announces measures to deepen G-Sec market and facilitate greater Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) in equity segment.

Read more ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/EnPV76Jqno

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

Just thinking aloud. No claims made.

This is a Time Magazine Cover from 2011. I reposted @RahulSeeker's tweet yesterday.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this cover.

15 years ago, the world was watching two countries and genuinely could not decide which one would lead the future.

One of them does now. The other has spent the last decade and a half fighting over whose god is bigger.

I am writing this as a common citizen who grew up in this country, who continues to believe in what it is capable of, and who finds it genuinely dificult to explain the drastic economic downturn in these past years through poor governance alone.

India in 2011 was a country that had grown at consistently high rates for two decades, had a young demographic profile, and was positioned as a genuine superpower in the making.

We were leading the IT revolution at a time when the world had just figured out that technology was the new currency of power. An Indian spotted abroad was asked one common question: "Do you work in IT?"

It wasn't a stereotype so much as a signal. The world had noticed. It had clocked which direction we were moving in, and it had started to take us seriously. We weren't just a large country anymore. We were a country with momentum. And momentum, in geopolitics, is the most threatening thing of all.

And then there was the one thing that makes powerful nations genuinely nervous. India is an independent nuclear power. Not a dependent state. Not a country whose arsenal exists because someone else permitted it. Ours. On our terms. Answering to nobody.

A large, young, fast-growing, technologically ambitious, independently nuclear nation with a democratic mandate and a civilisational confidence. That is not a country you want going fully unchecked.

Putting on my tin foil hat, here is the thought I cannot entirely shake: that what has happened to India over the last many years is not simply the consequence of bad governance, corruption, or misfortune. (That of course, is a very real issue laughing in our faces every single day)

That some portion of it has been engineered, or at minimum exploited, by actors with a strategic interest in ensuring that India never becomes what it was projected to become.

There are powers that have done this before. They don't need to invade a country. They just need to find a wound in it and not let it heal - through tools of debt, dependency, tariffs, and narratives shaped by controlled media or manipulated social media algorithms. And then stay out of the way while it consumes itself.

"Just keep the wound open", as they say.

Mismanagement of a population's growth trajectory, and its basic needs which is this consistent and directional, feels almost scripted.

Let me also say - the fractures in Indian society are not new. Religious tension, caste hierarchy, linguistic division: these have existed for centuries. No government manufactured them from scratch.

A country whose population has been allowed to be preoccupied with questions of communal identity, whose minorities are economically anxious and politically marginalised, and whose civil society is increasingly reluctant to speak plainly, is a country whose productive capacity is diminished.

A nation fighting itself cannot look outward with coherence.

They couldn't tame the dragon. So they slowly fed the elephant poisoned food. Enough to keep it from breaking its own shackles. Enough for it to be grateful to be fed. The elephant didn't die. That was never the plan. A dead elephant attracts attention. It is still standing - tall above others, swaying, looking busy, occasionally making noise, hoping to get better, some day.

Someone needed only one new superpower to emerge. Not two. Someone did not want a second China.

And someone got exactly what they needed.

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

GDP was meant to be an umbrella measure to help nations design economic policy. But overtime for some nations it became an umbrella to hide failures. It is time to move beyond GDP. Read this essay by Mahmoud Mohieldin & also the UN Report Beyond GDP.
https://t.co/5a0GEMq9EO

[Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta]

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Dear students struggling with exam chaos and scams https://t.co/HNUyK5RfKl

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

भोपाल में बरकतुल्लाह विश्वविद्यालय का नाम वाग्देवी भोजपाल विश्वविद्यालय करने का प्रस्ताव कार्य परिषद की बैठक में पास हुआ है,बस जानकारी के लिये मौलाना बरकतुल्लाह भोपाली भारत की पहली निर्वासित सरकार के प्रधानमंत्री थे 8 भाषाओं के जानकार निर्भीक पत्रकार, प्रभावशाली वक्ता, और प्रखर राष्ट्रवादी

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

India’s monsoon prospects have been downgraded, adding to the energy and currency shocks the economy faces.

Read India Edition daily

(free read 👇)
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(Map courtesy IMD)

[Income Tax India @IncomeTaxIndia]

Kind Attention Taxpayers!

Online filing and Excel Utility for ITR-2 for A.Y. 2026–27 are now enabled on the e-Filing portal.

Visit:
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@nsitharamanoffc
@officeofPCM
@FinMinIndia
@PIB_India

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

When Atanu Chakraborty abruptly resigned on March 18 as chairman of HDFC Bank, citing “certain happenings and practices within the bank” that were not in “congruence” with his personal values and ethics, it didn’t ring many alarm bells across the banking establishment.

The bank’s newly appointed interim chairman, Keki Mistry, was quick to step in with a statement. “The bank has very strong ethics,” he said on March 19.

The Reserve Bank of India, too, moved just as swiftly. In a press statement the same day, it declared, “Basis our periodical assessment, there are no material concerns on record as regards its conduct or governance.”

What went undisclosed was that, just six days earlier, on March 12, the Audit Committee of the Board (ACB), under the chairmanship of M D Ranganath, had ordered a formal “Internal Vigilance Investigation” into payments totalling Rs 45 crore made to the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), a state government agency, during FY2024 and FY2025.

Read The Indian Express investigation now👇🏽

https://t.co/ZhKAejKLZR

[Ashoke Raj @Ashoke_Raj]

The Pioneer EXCLUSIVE and compelling interview with the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh, 🇧🇩 Sheikh Hasina — titled

“I Will Return to Bangladesh.”

A conversation filled with conviction, resilience, and political insight.

Happy reading, and happy Sunday, folks!
@TheDailyPioneer

Link: https://t.co/pPQdwFM84m

[Srikanth Kondapalli శ్రీ @Sri_Kondapalli]

Two new Peer Reviewed Academic Journals are being published by Manohar Publishers & Distributors

1. Comprehensive Security Studies.

2. Review of Global Studies

We welcome submission of manuscripts. Details are below.

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

With the Indian rupee losing value, here's how, with a little use of game theory, a government can stop currency from falling without losing foreign reserves:
https://t.co/pmU46h4hdO

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

US Secretary of State Rubio to visit India from May 23-26

Delhi
Agra
Jaipur
Kolkata

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Steven Rosenbaum, the author of “The Future of Truth,” acknowledged that the nonfiction book about the effects of A.I. on truth included misattributed or fake quotes concocted by A.I. https://t.co/QFkX5BqlKs

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: A financial group with ties to Donald Trump's family has set up a special-purpose vehicle that plans to raise $200mn to buy a business in Venezuela. https://t.co/q03GrUwIFv

[Income Tax India @IncomeTaxIndia]

Attention taxpayers!
The Excel utility and Online filing for ITR-1 and ITR-4 for AY 2026-27 has been enabled and is now available for taxpayers on the e-Filing portal.

@nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is planning to drop charges against India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, after a lawyer for the billionaire made an unusual investment offer. https://t.co/08sl331XCJ

[Sugandha Jha @jhasugandha10]

EXCLUSIVE: 2017 #JNUSU office-bearers are back on campus.

This time to serve court mandated punishment.

What happens to dissent when slogans end?

Read my report for @timesofindia 👇