Sidharth Sonawat

ADB; Ex-MSDE; Social sectors; Public Policy; Research; Government Advisory; Portfolio investments as hobby

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

INDIA 🇮🇳 NEEDS A MASSIVE CIVIC MOVEMENT.
Even as the largest growing major economy, India continues to be one of the filthiest nations with corrupt, non-functional municipalities, terrible urban infrastructure, shockingly bad civic and traffic sense, and no punishment for treating the country like a dump yard, either for officials or citizens.
Unless civic governance and civic sense is fixed, I’m afraid we will remain the Third World.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

USA: The whole world is laughing at your president.

[Shrija @plot_twistttt]

If you want to live peacefully in India

- Avoid roadrages

- Avoid teaching civic sense to strangers on road

- Avoid public transport

- Avoid discussing politics in public place

- Say sorry with folded hand and move on

People have became impatient and violent specially here.
This is the new epidemic which no one is talking about

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries.

We lose $200 billion dollars a year with the European Union. If I didn't trade with them, we would lose nothing.”

Dumbest. President. Ever.

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Pakistan: Grave concern over the alleged enforced disappearance, torture, & extrajudicial killing of Imran Ali in #Balochistan. UN experts urge authorities to conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the circumstances of his detention and death.

https://t.co/XNiaz5h01R

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

You could have easily prevented this disgrace for the US military by not cowardly voting "yes" at Hegseth's confirmation 18 months ago!

[Latha Venkatesh @latha_venkatesh]

I counter former finance secretary Garg’s accusation that GDP growth is overstated. I explain all the methodology changes in computing GDP that led to revising last year’s Q1 GDP lower.

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

We lost another good officer, IAS Divya Mittal, today.

She resigned.

I still remember the case where people in a UP village were dependent on tanker water for 75 years. Villagers requested the MP and MLA many times, but nothing was done.

Then she brought tap water to the village. But she was transferred just because she didn’t invite the local MLA for the inauguration of the water project. After that, the pipeline supplying water to the village was vandalized by some goons.

It feels like our system is designed to punish honest officers.

She left her London job to serve the people of India. But today, she resigned.

I don’t know the reason for her resignation, but I am sure her honesty must have played a role.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump just posted this AI video of himself replacing the Lake Ontario sign with a “Lake America” sign.

I’ll never understand how 77 million people voted for this buffoon.

[Ricardo Hausmann @ricardo_hausman]

Secretary Marco Rubio: You have just lost any trust Venezuelans ever had on you, and it will come to haunt you. You opted to use US power, not to free Venezuelans, but to go to bed with our oppressors. You opted to push an asset grab, an unconstitutional deal with an illegitimate oppressive government, instead of using US leadership to re-establish constitutional rule and democracy first, and then deal with a legitimate government that could have made credible long-term commitments, in due course. This announced deal will not stand. Delcy, contrary to what you boss just stated [see below] is not "highly respected" by any Venezuelan I know, or by any American outside of the Mar-a-lago kleptocracy. She has no legitimacy or constitutional power to commit Venezuela to any such deal. Venezuelans will not respect this illegitimate deal and no major US oil company will take it seriously because they know it will not last. No wonder you are using wanted criminals - like Alejandro Betancourt - to make this shameful deal. You are also preventing our leader - Maria Corina Machado - from returning to Venezuela, and you have conspired to delay elections and the return to democracy. Shameful.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump has returned the United States to the 19th century. We are now acting like a typical imperialist empire from that century. His Venezuelan oil deal is just that- straight-up imperialism, using military force to seize the assets of a country in the south.

Deeply regrettable. Hope this approach will change quickly in 2029.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Thanks PM Carney. Rest assured… the vast majority of Americans will never refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.” Just like we will never call the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” There are still many of us who think of Canadians as our great friends. 🇺🇸🇨🇦

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

No, President Trump. The American people don’t want to rename Lake Ontario Lake America.

They want affordable healthcare, childcare, housing, education & nutrition assistance — all of which you have massively cut in order to pay for your $1 trillion tax break to the top 1%.

[sandip sabharwal @sandipsabharwal]

Interesting series of tweets
I have always wondered at zero or almost zero making jewellers

[Lisa @Limare64]

@HormuzLetter Trump and his administration do not have the intellectual capacity to handle the situation they’ve created.

[Sidharth Sonawat @sid_sonawat]

@chokhani_manish @MahindraAnand @harshgoenka Much can be attributed to their vocational education system!

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I was just in Mumbai, and I have to give them credit for the progress they’re making on infrastructure. The new Aqua Line metro is phenomenal. But the amount of work India still has to do on basic cleanliness and sanitation and it is hard to understand until you see it yourself. Would love for more westerners to go just to understand how wealthy they are, but that's a different point.

Mumbai is completely surrounded by water, yet there are almost no places where people can actually enjoy the water. The beaches are filled with trash, the water is badly contaminated, and almost nobody swims, even when it’s brutally hot outside. Walking on the beach is just mud and trash meeting filthy water on the horizon.

There are much poorer places around the world where people can still use the beaches. This is not just about money. India has gone decades without adequate trash collection, sewage treatment, or enforcement for a population of more than a billion people. At this point, the scale of the problem feels almost impossible, and the oceans around the world are paying the price for Indias garbage output as well.

I like the direction Modi is taking the country, but India needs to treat cleanup like a national emergency. Stop with the small campaigns and organize a full scale blitz.

Offer unemployed people paid work picking up trash, clearing drains and waterways, cleaning beaches, and maintaining public spaces. Give them proper equipment and supervision. Then build the collection and waste processing systems needed to stop everything from becoming filthy again a week later.

India has shown that it can build metros, airports, highways, and digital infrastructure. Clean streets and usable water should be treated as infrastructure too.

Mumbai should have one of the greatest waterfronts in the world. Instead, it's has basically an irrelevant feature of the city and feels surrendered to sewage and garbage.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk spent $290M to elect Trump. Now he wants to spend up to $200M to buy a Senate seat in Texas and keep Republicans in control of Congress.

That’s not democracy. That’s oligarchy.

End Citizens United. Ban super PACs. Get billionaires—from both parties—out of elections.

[sandip sabharwal @sandipsabharwal]

The biggest eye opener for me from the #FDA crackdown on restaurants is how openly Analogue Paneer, Cheese etc was being used even by prominent restaurants
It's a complete fraud on consumers and these products not only cost 50% or lower than genuine products but are also unhealthy.

I have never seen any analogue product being sold openly. That means it's an industry setup for fraud on consumers only. Should be permanently banned.
@MoHFW_INDIA @jagograhakjago