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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I am just making a common-sense point on the Apple alert issue. Just read the language of the notification. It is full of loaded language like "because of who you are or what you d...
New paper in Science magazine concludes that "Indo-European" languages emerged 8k years ago i.e. 3k years before earlier linguistic theories. It also suggests southern origin in Mi...
What is unsaid is that these are the descendants of language, sociology and anthropology departments that were used by colonial powers to deconstruct and delegitimise indigenous cu...
Facebook has just informed me that my post on 26/11 Mumbai attacks is against their "Community Standards" on spam........ really??? And how is it spam? or "false advertising"? http...
My working paper on why opinion-based global indices on issues like democracy & freedom have reduced India's rankings/scores since 2014. The paper investigates three well-known Wes...
Delhi AQI is running at 500-800 range. In fact, one can actually smell the ash particles in the air. The burning of crop residue is the single biggest source. So why did farmers in...
This is the front cover of a Deutsche Bank report that I co-authored with @mgspencerhk in 2002 (20 years ago!) on "Will India Challenge China?" At that time it was a totally radica...
Just finished an amazing trip to Mumbai. Some incredible infrastructure being built - much of it to be finished in 24months. 13 metro lines, coastal road, new international airport...
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...