Shreyas

Legal and policy researcher | @mercatus

Formerly @PRSLegislative and Supreme Court of India

[Shreyas @shreyasnarla]

Privilege of a lifetime to build this project, working with & learning from some of India's finest people. The 1991 moment & this archive are our shared heritage. Takeaway- people with competence, good ideas, & intellectual humility can change governance outcomes for the better.

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

📢Thirty-five years ago, on July 24, 1991, in his Budget speech, Dr. Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” The idea was economic freedom for Indians. It meant dismantling the License-Permit-Raj, allowing market prices, free trade, and pursuing rapid economic growth in a country plagued by poverty and self-imposed shortages. 🧵1/n

[Kumar @kumarpolitician]

One major cause of congestion at the TIDEL Park signal!

Vehicles coming from SRP Tools either turn right towards Thiruvanmiyur or go straight towards Madhya Kailash.

Some right-turning vehicles occupy the left-side lanes and wait for their green signal. This blocks vehicles going straight, even when their signal is green.

In this video, an MTC bus intended to turn right (see the indicator), but positioned itself in the leftmost lane well before the junction.

The bus blocked the entire lane, bringing all straight-moving vehicles behind it to a stop and creating avoidable congestion. 🧵

@ChennaiTraffic @chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @AadhavArjuna @sameerangs @UpdatesChennai @OMRupdates @ArchitectSam76 @omjasvinMD @rajeshamlw @jvidyasagar @reclaimchennai #chennai #omr #traffic #tidel #tidelpark #thiruvanmiyur

[Kumar @kumarpolitician]

Why is crossing the Chennai One signal on Radial Road a nightmare during peak hours?
Traffic queues extend for more than a km, and commuters can take 10–15 mins just to cross the signal.

I used drone footage to identify where the traffic gets choked, what causes these bottlenecks, and what practical solutions could improve the situation.

Let’s look at the root causes. 🧵
@ChennaiTraffic @chennaicorp @sameerangs @CMOTamilnadu @AadhavArjuna @UpdatesChennai @OMRupdates #ChennaiOne #omr #radialroad #chennai #traffic

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

So good, this. And this sentence is the keeper: “When it gets easier, it’s time to hang it up.” Not because difficulty is virtuous for its own sake, but because every serious story presents a different problem of structure, knowledge, trust and moral authority. @pamelacolloff calls each story a new Rubik’s Cube, and that feels exactly right! Bonus, I just realised her new book is out. Amazon time!!

[Shaurya Sinha @shaurya_sinha7]

This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"

$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.

Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.

[TheProfesseer @theprofesseer]

🚨 Launching India's first live court website downtime tracker.

Every 10 minutes, the tracker checks whether the most-used sections of Indian court websites are actually working. Because every lawyer has asked this question at least once:

"Is the website down, or is it just me?"

Built by @TheProfesseer in collaboration with @barandbench.

[Revana Sharfuddin @R_Sharfuddin_]

In this piece, I critique Acemoglu, Autor & coauthors’ claim that lower birth rates raise GDP per working-age adult and wages without harming aggregate output.

🔗 https://t.co/3tvCAmlkuy

[Ideas of India @IdeasofIndia]

In the latest episode, Shruti Rajagopalan (@srajagopalan) speaks with @shreyasnarla and @kadambari_shah about The 1991 Project, how it grew from a simple educational initiative into a public repository on India's economic reforms, the oral histories of the 1991 reformers, preserving India's policy history, and building a community of researchers to carry the reform agenda forward.

Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/jfJYq9mfb4

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

📢Thrilled to continue the young scholars series on the @IdeasofIndia podcast at @mercatus, where we invite scholars entering the academic job market whose research focuses on India to discuss their work. We have a handful of 30-minute recording slots for 2026. Please spread the word!

To be considered, please use this google form (takes about 5-7 minutes).
https://t.co/G9DxkDiYFv

Applications are open until August 10, 2026. All submissions received by the deadline will be considered together. We will make our decisions by August 18 and send out invitations thereafter. Recordings will take place in August and September.

Past editions of the series have featured some fantastic scholars across disciplines.

The 2025 series featured Kartik Srivasatva, Sunny Rai @snyrai_  Chetana Sabnis, @asad__tariq, Karthik Narayan @asknarayan, @nayantara_ Biswas, @Lavanya__Ammu

The 2024 series featured @RollyKapoor, @DeepikaPadmanab, @sukrit_puri, @deepti_sharma8, Steven @BrownstoneEcon, Aarushi Kalra @chidiya_, Abishek Choutagunta @kaapi_croissant, @Kushagr_Bakshi, Atanu Chatterjee @atanu_xahs

The 2023 series featured @rajatkochhar, Vani Swarupa Murali, @KartikeyaBatra, @kumar_rithika, @Vanisha49, @dunc_webb, @i_sarathpillai, @vatsalecon.

The 2022 series featured Khushdeep Malhotra, Anoop Jain @Fruit_noops, @aliz_toth, @raamadhok, @mahimavasishth, @BanerjeeShweta, @nish_vats.

The 2021 series featured @arkdevghosh, @tiwari_chhavi, Gaurav Mittal @geo_mittal, Bhumi Purohit, @AshishKumarSed1, @karsha, @Dr_NehaG, @KaranBabbar19, @KimFeCramer, @ArchanaDang1, @apuravbhatiya, @radhi_jain.

And it all started in 2020 when we featured work by @vaishnavisur, @RohitTicku, @tanu_kumar1, @DrRayProma, @VaidehiTandel, Kunal Mangal @mrgunalan.

I answered a few questions related to the job market series in 2024 (Please take note of points 1 and 3). Here’s the link https://t.co/trduJkPmae

[Shreyas @shreyasnarla]

Back on @IdeasofIndia to talk to my favourite people about all that we do, why we do it, and what it means to run The 1991 Project at @mercatus. I hope those running or setting up their own public history initiatives find it interesting: Pls do share your experiences too!

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

In the latest episode of @IdeasofIndia @mercatus I spoke with @shreyasnarla & @kadambari_shah about The 1991 Project. We discuss how it started, about building a public repository, recording 50+ hours of oral histories, and much more.

Audio+ transcript: https://t.co/L9WGrIqDKB

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

Labor of love. Superb @srajagopalan

[Shreyas @shreyasnarla]

@menakadoshi @srajagopalan @kadambari_shah @DinkarAnkita Thank you so much @menakadoshi!

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

Superb stuff. Post-independence history is so interesting. And we need so much more of initiatives like this.

[Niranjan Rajadhyaksha @CafeEconomics]

We have added a few more essays on distinguished Indian economists from the past. And will keep adding in the future as well.

[Pushkar Chaudhary @Yaayaavara]

The Long Memory is now open for submissions.
If you have an original idea related to an understudied chapter of Indian history which deserves a wider audience, pitch it to us at:
📩[email protected]
Check out our wesbite for more details
https://t.co/bngbimUQfE

[Prakhar Misra @PrakharMisra]

.@reachlastmile and I, in @DeccanHerald , argue that governments are organisations. The key to improving outcomes is to improve org functioning. Using Meghalaya’s experience, we show how better routines, incentives and monitoring increases governance o/c. https://t.co/wngnHcg5tk

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

In 1924, the year this picture of the Grand Canyon was painted, Gunnar Widforss exhibited a large group of works depicting scenes from US National Parks. An art critic at the time considered Widforss as 'possibly the greatest watercolorist in America today.'

[Shreyas @shreyasnarla]

Protesters aren’t just called goondas. States have actual goonda laws enabling detention w/o trial—talk abt real decolonization, if anyone’s paying attention. WB’s new govt brought one into force on July 13 & used it during student protests. More on this:
https://t.co/LLZxcSiGtD

[TheNewsMinute @thenewsminute]

Narendra Modi's first major experience in mass politics came through Gujarat's Navnirman movement, a student-led protest against corruption and rising prices. #LetMeExplain by @PoojaPrasanna4

Watch: https://t.co/bLZpadV5UO

[Niranjan Rajadhyaksha @CafeEconomics]

Kudos to the brilliant @srajagopalan and her team at Mercatus for releasing the transcripts of their oral history project, part of the bigger project on the 1991 reforms. A true public good.

[Mercatus Center @mercatus]

Five years ago, @srajagopalan and The 1991 Project set out to document how India tore down decades of government control over prices, production, and trade. On the 35th anniversary of the 1991 reforms, we're sharing new oral histories and video conversations on what that history means today. 🧵