Saneet Chakradeo

PhD candidate @AU_SIS | Indian IR/FP | Ex Brookings India and @CSEP_org | @LKYSch and @bitspilaniindia alum | Mostly found at the archives

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

The clearest and most accurate statement put out by a celeb of reasonable influence yet. A template for others to follow.

[Mohammad Kaif @MohammadKaif]

As a father it pains me to see students being roughed up by police for protesting over flaws in education. Kids getting beaten with lathis on the streets of Delhi should stop. I hope a solution comes up very soon

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Outlook Says Its Reporter Was Hit by Pellet-Like Projectiles During Delhi Protest
https://t.co/yjUVn1w0sY

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

An Outlook India reporter was among those injured during the police crackdown, with medical records documenting pellet wounds even as Delhi Police deny using the weapon.

https://t.co/QTVNJismPe

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

In a first, pellet guns, shock-batons used against protestors in Delhi. Part of RAF’s gear for crowd control measures, pellets were last used during 2024 farmers protest in Haryana, Manipur (2023) and Kashmir (2016). Pellets can potentially blind the target.
Though police denied and CRPF did not comment, at least one among 80 protestors injured during CJP march was operated upon at a govt hospital, pellets removed from under his eye and neck . @ButaniAshna and I ✍️

https://t.co/2cIrxS0BcD

[vishal dayama @VishalDayama]

cigarette ki factory ke maalik cancer ke mareezon se milne hospital pahunche

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

Lol, these are considered "serious" voices in the policy space.

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

If you think what's happening is "organic", then I have a small white marble building in Agra to sell you.
What's even more worrying, is how fake news is being weaponised through social media.

[Vandana @vandana_menon]

Tear gas being fired into the crowd indiscriminately as police try to break up crowds surging towards Parliament. This is one round of dozens over the past two hours, just being released to disperse calm crowds #संसद_मार्च

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

A few days apart, an Indian state govt recommends releasing an unrepentant Hindu nationalist who burned a Christian missionary & his two children alive, & Pakistan's Supreme Court acquits a fanatical Muslim mob convicted of burning a Christian couple alive. One nation theory

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

@ahsanib Congrats Prof!

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

“Humanity is a privilege that is not granted to people like me.”

Umar Khalid remains in jail while the police investigation goes on without any clear end, and no trial date in sight.

“Six years down the line, I must say that I am really disappointed and even feel isolated,” he said. “This silence – of opposition parties, of civil society groups, of celebrity activists who have made a career out of piggy-backing on people’s movements – emboldens this regime to go after further dissidents.”

https://t.co/mxtblJP2pO

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

An intriguing feature of the Indian American diaspora is the prominence of “Modi Democrats.” New paper w/ Devesh Kapur @kharibiskut asks whether IAs hold more liberal views on policy issues in the US & more conservative views on comparable issues in India https://t.co/Oo5tAEMFbL

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

BREAKING: Seats where SIR deleted more names also tended to be those where BJP gained relative to TMC.

Thorough data breakdown of the SIR and its impact on the Bengal results by academics Bhanu Joshi and Neelanjan Sircar.

Notably, no such relation exists in Bihar. The data unequivocally shows the EC's SIR in Bengal (remember "logical" discrepancy) was different.

READ: https://t.co/usAWLSVN1T

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

Are Indian Americans more liberal in the US & more conservative in India? @kharibiskut, Devesh Kapur & I have a new @PolBehavior paper asking whether people hold fixed political attitudes across different contexts or if they shift based on relative status https://t.co/Oo5tAEMFbL

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

while maintaining the facade of democratic norms

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

This is a typical attribute of modern forms of democratic backsliding (Nancy Bermeo's influential 2015 paper is essential reading). Unlike coups and impositions of martial laws etc of the past, last 20 years has seen the gradual erosion of democratic institutions (elections etc)

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

India’s democracy does not face the extinction that democratic theory once associated with coups and juntas. It faces something subtler and, in some ways, more insidious: the gradual conversion of its electoral machinery into an instrument of incumbent entrenchment, even as elections themselves continue. Voters still go to the polls. Parties still campaign. Winners are still declared. But the field in which competition occurs is steadily being tilted, and the institution designed to ensure fairness has become, in key respects, a partisan actor.

@GillesVerniers writes: https://t.co/xZKCewyNPg

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

@pliticalyincrkt @thecaravanindia @GhoshAmitav Yes, but this is also the standard trajectory of modern democratic backsliding. Some research links rising socio-economic inequality (which in turn is a result of neolib reforms etc) to conditions being ripe for a backslider to come to power through populist means.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

A booth in Bengal's New Town with 88% Muslim voters recorded 97% votes for BJP, handing BJP the seat. CPI(M) got 1 vote, TMC 5.

'This is an impossible result, where did our votes go?' ask locals. @shinjineemjmdr @Onkeyta_ & @Holytripper heard them.

https://t.co/SM8Tbvi20v

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

📷Saroj Meshram in Nagpur. He was 17 years old when MS Golwalkar died and was part of the Dalit Panther group that marched across the city.

“We don’t celebrate death,” Saroj Meshram, now 70 years old, said. “But Golwalkar was different. He was the foremost advocate of chaturvarnya”—the fourfold caste system—“and we could not hold back our joy on the news of his death.”

Read how the Dalit Panthers forced the RSS into changing its language on caste: https://t.co/QpHtVS9lHs

[Saneet Chakradeo @saneet91]

I am 100% sure this was tweeted without understanding that the study being discussed analyzes *Indian* attitudes on FP between 1959-2001 by using a hitherto unused resource. It is a valuable contribution to what *India* thinks about its FP. Classic RW ineptness/IC on show here.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

Perhaps actually having an Indian working in India in the field comment would be useful? No shade on the scholars now in the programme but would there be such a programme about how Americans think about the world without any American working in America on it? Almost certainly no.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Have been writing this for a while, but worth reiteration:

Maharashtra is the country’s most polarised, dangerous communal tinderbox right now.

These visuals you see are a result of a careful, orchestrated campaign, led by BJP leaders.

Links below.