Sanjeev Sanyal
Writer, economist & collector of old maps. This twitter handle belongs primarily to the writer, and only occasionally to the economist. RTs are not endorsements
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The time has come to introduce the West to the joys of the Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction..... https://t.co/4XN7JPsAk4
An important way that bureaucracies perpetuate their power is the system of small favours. A small wrinkle in the rule book forces the common citizen to ask for a minor favour (a p...
An excellent dissection of how India's "intellectual" class have systematically tried to tilt the narrative against India to score political points. However, it is more than just a...
@svembu This is fundamentally flawed line of thinking. Tokyo is not a large city because of high rents, it has high rents and demands more infrastructure because it is a large city...
The Covid pandemic remains remarkably persistent in a few countries. The US is still seeing 128,000 cases/day and 400-500 deaths. The pandemic just refuses to go away. This is curi...
The Rupee hit 80/US$ today. However, it is appreciating against other majors: 80.2/EUR vs 88 a year ago; 0.58/JPY vs 0.68; 94.3/GBP vs 103.2; and broadly flat to 11.8/CNY vs 11.5...
Prannoy-Christie match is evenly matched at 8-8. Question - why do they almost always do short serves? In amateur training we are always taught to serve mostly long in a singles, a...
The US is still seeing 30-40k Covid cases/day and averaging 1200 deaths a day. This makes no sense after 2 years of vaccination and very high infection rates. Germany has 200k & SK...
As many of you are aware, @vikramsampath is constantly attacked personally by the Left cabal for the crime of writing a book about Savarkar. The latest is that he is accused of pla...
The #EconomicSurvey2022 has just been presented in Parliament. It comes in 2 volumes- the first looks at overall macroeconomic and sectoral developments, and the second is a revamp...
Decided to go looking for paleolithic petroglyphs recently found in the Aravallis, just south of Gurgaon. These are the ones near Kot (not to confused with the cave paintings found...
A major structural problem with Indian intellectual life is that it was taken over mostly by those who had collaborated rather than opposed colonial occupation. See attached letter...