Apan Singhal

India belongs equally to all Indians.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

When the poorest people get access to education, healthcare and a basic income to live a dignified life, they can improve their lives rather than just surviving and living in anxiety. Unless your idea of development is depriving poor towards desperation for cheap labor.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@tmkrishna Indian elites have learnt this from the decolonial discourse that has been taken up across all non-western cultures where any critique by westerners is dismissed as white/colonial gaze, disregarding the power imbalances in one's own societies.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@OrevaZSN It would be more sensible to argue that these things are not worthwhile to have, than dishonestly and uselessly argue that nobody wants these.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@arash_tehran Most of left projects any sort of patriotic feelings as bourgeois, but in practice the rich can imagine themselves anywhere in the world, the poor and middle classes only have their own nation to count on (which is not the same as status quo political system).

[Maqsood @Maq_one]

"Hindu-Muslim ki rajneeti" suggests that two equally formidable groups are squabbling.

Muslims are a marginalised 15% minority who are subjected to lynchings, pogroms, home demolitions and daily hate mongering.

Call it what it is: Anti-Muslim bigotry.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@Boenau Distributing wealth for something whose use doesn't require access to wealth is indeed socialism. Distributing wealth for something whose use requires access to wealth/capital is indeed capitalism. What's the irony in this.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@NathanJRobinson This is also a key distinction between colonialism/imperialism and fascism.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Very little of the world's suffering is caused by "hate." Most of it is from devaluing other people's lives. Bush didn't hate Iraqis, he was just willing to kill half a million of them

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

Yes AI companies are 'stealing' all the world's knowledge and not paying anyone who created it. And even if this is addressed by paying everyone who does, it doesn't solve for what about everyone else. Neither making it about capital, nor about labor has the solution to this.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

In fact skill has only been mostly accessible to the wealth. If anything the selling point of AI is that you don't really need much wealth to get access to skill. The key challenge with AI is not this, but what happens when skill gets devalued because it is available to all.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

This level of hate is not even seen in fringe in other countries.

But in India, even a major ruling party politician can arbitrarily ruin the lives of children just based on identity.

What India is going through right now is not normal even benchmarking to very low standards.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

And the ridiculous solution India is seeking is to turn Andaman Nicobar into Mauritius because the native inhabitants of these places do not matter to our government and society.

[Shankar Sharma @1shankarsharma]

I am willing to lay the opposite bet.
I was with the 3 foreign tourists recently in India for a few days. When you look at it from the lens of F2 tourists, barring Taj Mahal & Rajasthan Palace Hotels, there is nothing else that they want to see here with they cannot get anywhere else. ( And of course the approach to the Taj ,less said the better)

International cards don't work in many many places.

They don't want to carry a lot of cash around because of safety.

The dirt, squalor ( just outside beautiful Deer park in Delhi, there is a dump truck permanently parked and never cleaned.

Non existent roads and payments in most parts
Terrible driving ethics whether it is on red light or coming the same way in a one way road whether it is within the city or on highways
People who are not cultured or polite or even with basic manners of holding doors open or saying thank you

Eg, Goa could have been our Bali , Phuket. But for that we need a swinging liberal culture not moral policing. And yes we need garbage free roads.

Out of the 90 lakh tourists every year that come, I am counted a minimum of 20 times because I visit India that many times per year. NRIs are probably 40- 50% of that number.

Genuine F2s, F2- esses are probably half.

Other countries have not stood still and they have executed. People want amazing places to spend money on. Bali has 80 lakh tourists. Happening night life. Super cheap. Phuket too. Vietnam.

Here we only talk and that's where it ends.

But yes, this opportunity is a permanent past , present and future opportunity

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

I was at a conference and an Indian uncle came up to me proudly extolling 10-minute delivery as an example of Indian innovation. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that delivering shampoo and chips faster is logistics optimization — not innovation. Innovation is creating things the world has never seen before.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@waitbutwhy https://t.co/GwefXXPwBu

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

In the red versus blue poll, let us make a slight change. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. Otherwise whatever number of red buttons were clicked, that exact number of people chosen RANDOMLY from all people survive. Which button would you press?

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

In the red versus blue poll, let us make a slight change. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. Otherwise whatever number of red buttons were clicked, that exact number of people chosen RANDOMLY from all people survive. Which button would you press?

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@waitbutwhy https://t.co/EsamUhOUo4

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

@yhdistyminen https://t.co/9I1MfdvJJJ

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

Liberalism can be critiqued for many things but it's a positive and sensible aspect of liberalism that it doesn't overreach in trying to explain everything and that it can accommodate openness to even critiques of itself, thereby aiding its survival.

[Apan Singhal @apansinghal]

Liberalism can be critiqued for many things but it's a positive and sensible aspect of liberalism that it doesn't overreach in trying to explain everything and that it can accommodate openness to even critiques of itself, thereby aiding its survival.

[antifa honeypot @mformorphine]

must be so blissful being a lib, no ideological framework for why things happen, no coherent understanding of history or economics, just individual issues that you interpret solely based on vibes

[Shivam Singh @singhshivam3011]

quite a damning graph! china’s manufacturing wages grew roughly 7x between 1981–2005, while india’s grew about 2x over the same period. within india, real wages per worker declined from the early 1990s through 2010, and labour’s share in manufacturing value added also fell.

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Fact check:

What this BJP spox is saying is false.

There is no citizenship test in Bengal's SIR at all.

And deletions under the so-called logical discrepancy/adjudication list have nothing to do with documents at all. Even people with passports have been deleted.

The algorithm used is unknown. In the few cases decided by tribunals till now, EC is unable to provide deletion reasons at all. All that's known is that this opaque logical discrepancy method has deleted very high numbers of Muslims.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

West Bengal SIR Pattern:

MANIKCHAK (Malda District) : Hindu voters: 50.2% Muslim voters: 49.4%.
Voters placed Under Adjudication: → 97.4% are Muslim → 2.3% are Hindu.
Total adjudication rate: 25.7%

MOTHABARI (Malda District): Hindu Voters : 30%, Muslim voters: 69.5%.
Voters placed Under Adjudication: → Muslim: 97.4%, 2.3% Hindus.
54.2% of all Muslim voters flagged.
Total adjudication rate: 38.7%.

SAMSERGANJ (Murshidabad district) : Muslim voters: 82%, Hindu Voters : 18%
Voters placed Under Adjudication: → Muslims: 98.8%, Hindus: 0.9%.
More than half, that is 55.1%. of every Muslim voter in this constituency has been placed Under Adjudication.
Total adjudication rate: 45.7%

Now here's where it gets interesting.
BAHARAMPUR constituency (Murshidabad district)
Muslim voters: 26.9%. Hindu Voters : 72.1%.
Share of adjudicated voters who are Muslim: 61.6%, Hindus : 37.3%
Total adjudication rate: 4.7%

Now Look at the 2021 results:
Samserganj → TMC won by 26,379. Voters under adjudication: 1,07,663.
Mothabari → TMC won by 56,573. Voters under adjudication: 78,797
Manikchak → TMC won by 33,878. Voters under adjudication: 65,421

In all 3 TMC-won seats: adjudicated voters outnumber the winning margin.

Baharampur → BJP won by 26,852. Voters under adjudication: 11,088
The one BJP win in our sample is also the one constituency where adjudication is lowest.