RadhakrishnanRK, PhD.

Film maker, Journalist and Academic. PhD @VUamsterdam. Teacher. South Asia, refugees, migration, mental health. This is my personal space

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

தூயசக்தி ஏன் மத்திய அரசிடம் இந்தக் கேள்வியைக் கேட்கவில்லை?

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

https://t.co/CyE4ocgbXr

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

The mess around Tamilnadu Chief Secretary Sai Kumar’s extension: No one told the @TVKVijayHQ government that the state government itself can give the Chief Secretary a three-month extension. On its own.
With the government writing to the Union government BEFORE giving this extension, it has forfeited the option of giving Sai Kumar a three-month extension on its own.
Now, the ball is in the Union government’s court. The three month extension is now not possible, because the government has already written to the Union government.
The Union government can decide as it pleases- regardless of the fact that the @BJP4India government routinely hands out extension to compliant officers, left, right and centre.
Now, let me come to the “no one told” bit. The TVK government, as soon as it came to power, realised that there were about 20 former HoDs who had been rehired by the DMK government on a contract basis (this number is only in the Secretariat).
The TVK government instinctively thought that these were all DMK loyalists, and terminated all of them in one shot. It’s not so. Given the state of finances, successive governments had not recruited enough officials. The system was being run on these rehired people - at a fraction of the cost of someone on that position (Additional Secretary and Secretary level).
After the sudden termination, there was no one to give sound opinion on many issues!
Vijay and his team should remember that all decisions have consequences. In government, what seems is not what is!
There are lots more governance lessons. Will continue this!

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

Breaking: Britain 🇬🇧 set for a leadership change with Andy Burnham wins Makerfield by-election.
BBC reports that Burnham was supposed to speak and then realised that he has misplaced his speech ! Great replacement, I guess!
His speech focused on “change” and immediately challenged Keir Starmer! “This is a final chance to change… there will be no second chance.”

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

Modi refuses to condemn or condole the Indian sailors who were killed by the US buccaneers in the Strait of Hormuz! Wow! He’s sitting next to Trump and endorsing the refusal to condemn the wanton killing!

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

So @shubhendu_ghosh was the only reporter to have asked tough question to Trump on Indian Mariners being killed by US. "Any words of condolences to the grieving families of Indian sailors"?

[Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) @KanimozhiDMK]

தமிழ்நாட்டில் இன்று ஒரே நாளில் மட்டும் பத்து சிறுமிகள் பாலியல் வன்கொடுமைக்கு உள்ளாக்கப்பட்ட செய்தி அதிர்ச்சியும் வேதனையும் அளிக்கிறது.

ஒவ்வொரு நாளும் இது போன்று தொடரும் கொடூர சம்பவங்கள் குறித்த செய்திகளைப் பார்க்கும் அளவிற்கு தமிழ்நாட்டின் சட்டம் ஒழுங்கு சீர் கெட்டு உள்ளது. எப்போது இவற்றைத் தடுத்து நிறுத்துவதற்கான நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்கப் போகிறது தவெக அரசு?

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@Pranesh_Balaaji Haha no way

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

Blocking Telegram is a business decision; it’s naive to assume that airlifting exam question papers using Indian Air Force or selective targeting just one media will stop paper leaks!

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

https://t.co/4Swk1qGOO0

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

Wow! Among other things, @realDonaldTrump said: @narendramodi is a killer!
Whenever the context, this is nonsense

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@rohindoss @AnanthAyyasamy Yes boss. In fact, from the very beginning of the budget exercise, I was aware

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@ArivaranB There’s no such mismanagement. There’s tax evasion. That’s a very different story

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

Simple funda how governments in welfare states work: governments are expected to spend; not show savings on projected budgets. This is where corporate types, including PTR, get it wrong.
All governments all over the world run on deficits. Welfare costs money. Wastage happens everywhere. The argument that welfare should start after wastage is curbed will get you claps in a middle class urban audience. It will kill vulnerable people.

[Akshita Nandagopal @Akshita_N]

TVK’s white paper on finances: highest debt incurred under the DMK govt in the last 60 years

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@yemmelvi Any party in power will borrow to the extent allowed by RBI.

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

No, you don’t need a PhD. It takes common sense though. When the state’s salary bill is ~ Rs.90,000 crore and the pension bill is ~ Rs.50,000 crore, it takes money from whenever to pay this. Yes, there’s a great solution though: dismiss all staff.
Read the executive summary of this report, may be? https://t.co/9jzxtYLlJw

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@Karthic1kumar True. The indicator for this is revenue growth. Is Revebue growing or tanking? As far as the numbers go, it is growing. So, the credit card analogy doesn’t work. The government’s job is to find fresh revenue streams. The question is: is it capable?

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@IndSivakumar How to make it less?
Salary - ~ Rs.90,000 crore
Pension - ~ Rs.50,000 crore

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@VasuNallasamy Not at all. I didn’t understand what you meant by man made disaster. Thank you for clarifying

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@radharep Yeah, sorry to disappoint you that I don’t live up to your standards.

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@gsaimukundhan Let’s split the atoms!

[RadhakrishnanRK, PhD. @RKRadhakrishn]

@ItDevvat Haiyyo. Seri pa. I surrender. You know better. Aala vidu