Saikat Lahiri

Human. Indian. Atypical Bangali. Trying to be rational.

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[Saikat Lahiri @essayl]

@kaushikcbasu I took this one on May 25th 2024.

The gull (or a different one) was in place. 🙂

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@kaushikcbasu It says Kirkcaldy in the background. So maybe Kirkcaldy ?

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@apar1984 Bravo.

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@charmyh It's not the same though.

Nadda was only 14 when the emergency started and 16 when it was lifted. He was a minor, a school boy and according to him, was repeatedly arrested. Not fair !

[Saikat Lahiri @essayl]

@abhijeet_dipke Well. If Nadda was arrested during the emergency that is very very serious issue! He was after all a minor. 14 when the emergency was imposed and 16 when it was lifted.

Indira Gandhi must answer.

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@sandygrains Best wishes for a full recovery.

Followed your work since your print days, and have always admired your scientific temperament and fortitude.

Forza!

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@Cockroach4India Maybe your next campaign could to be abolish ALL VIP privileges in India.

At risk figures, such as the PM, should be given adequate security WITHOUT any right of way or movement privileges.

Without such a change, netas and babus will never be accountable to the people.

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@lofITechie @nkda_mar @paulagnimitra1 The Main Arterial road has potholes in several spots. There was repair work done 7 days back, but of such terrible quality that the potholes were back in a 3 days.

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@kaul_vivek @newslaundry @MnshaP @MANJULtoons Great read Kaul Saab.

You are always in your element when writing about broader economic trends, and not just finance.

The entire Takshashila gang (no shade on them) together can't produce the insights you can. 🙂

Glad to read you on NL again.

[शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek]

Gen Z is protesting. Here is the economics behind the rage

Or how we went from Papa Kehte Hain Bada Naam Karega to Papa Kehte The Bada Naam Karega

My essay @newslaundry @MnshaP

Illustration @MANJULtoons

Student protests across India are being seen as a law-and-order problem triggered by leaked exam papers. They are not.

The leaks are merely the spark. The real story is economic.

For two decades, India has celebrated its demographic dividend. It educated millions more young people and raised their aspirations.

But it failed to create enough good jobs. Instead, many young Indians have ended up in gig work, disguised unemployment, reluctant self-employment, or endlessly preparing for government jobs that may never come.

When the few pathways to secure employment are repeatedly disrupted by paper leaks, the anger is about far more than an examination. It is about a broken economic promise.

A generation that did everything it was told to do – study harder, get a degree, acquire a few skills – has discovered that the promised rewards often don't exist. Aspirations have risen. Opportunities haven't.

Gen Z is protesting because it has inherited an economy where opportunity hasn't kept pace with aspiration.

The demographic dividend that was supposed to power India's rise is in danger of becoming its biggest missed opportunity. Or probably already as.

The promised acche din never arrived. They have now been postponed to 2047.

https://t.co/W7Wek5DZ4U

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@Tara_Deshpande Assuming these schemes are good, he was doing his job. He got paid and lots of perks.

We don't pay them just to sit around and take videos.

That does not absolve Pradhan of responsibility for the mess in education. And in petroleum for that matter.

Good riddance.

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@KanwalSibal If there were life threats (very likely not), that is questionable.

Abuses for Modi are absolutely acceptable. In fact, abuse of political leaders is a good way of cutting them down to size. It's common in functioning democracies.

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@ranjona "Bad language".

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Inse Miliye, Ye hain Satyam Pandat, Rashtriya Hindu Veer Sena ke Rashtriya Adhyaksh. Chhote Baccho pe apni Mardangi dikhate hue...

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@free_thinker I hope you're right.

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@AdityaRajKaul

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@SDhawan25 A good citizen must always scrutinize government and ask for better. Never trust, never accept unquestioningly. No "bharosa".

And where institutions are systematically degraded in service of political ideology, we must treat every institution with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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@smitaprakash

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

What the SIR Case says about the Supreme Court —

https://t.co/v6fUkJoC1X

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A major Sky News investigation into the attack on a primary school on the first day of the Iran War has found that all the evidence points towards the US being responsible, contrary to Donald Trump’s claims.

Watch the full documentary here 🔗 https://t.co/cs513Zsxbh

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@seemay Even more concerning is judges happily overlooking laws and precedent and accepting the position that absence from voter rolls puts citizenship in question.