Director, Journalist Programmes @risj_oxford I Political Economy, Climate, Gender I Chevening Fellow I TEDx Speaker I Raisina I AIYD I Tweets are personal
Jul 22 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The Economic Survey is throwing up some real time WTAF moments. I am genuinely shaking my head in wonder. #EconomicSurvey2024 Thread here:
1) AI casts huge pall of uncertainty over impact on workers across skill levels, low, semi and high: Is the govt shooting from AI's shoulder to absolve itself of the deep jobs crisis? Are we seriously at that inflection point with AI in India, across industries?
Mar 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Quick thread on 2022, Ukraine and India
Q: Why does it feel like everything's falling apart since Ukraine ?
A: Things were already pretty bruised. Ukraine has ripped the band-aid off 1/n
A short thread on Crude again. Aside from the jokes about filling your tanks now (really solves nothing), the problem with crude is not that retail prices will rise at $115. That is happening worldwide. 1/n #Crude#PriceHike#inflation
The problem is that 1. Election tactics will squeeze a very large increase into a very short window causing stress to people 2. What have we done with policy? Last time crude was $100, then RBI head Raghuram Rajan suggested deregulating diesel - nothing done . 2/n #Crude
Mar 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 8 min read
A thread on my piece on the RBI. Full story link here:
But the central ( pun unintended) question here is, what should the Reserve Bank be doing in this environment, and is it doing what it should/could ? 1/n #inflation#RBI#UkraineRussianWar#CrudeOil scroll.in/article/101869…
Last RBI meeting saw inflation being termed as not a big worry and that action will be taken when necessary. Let’s examine what has happened with some of the elements that add to the inflation/ cost pressures of a household 2/n #inflation#RBI#UkraineRussianWar#CrudeOil
Feb 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on my piece around fuel price hikes. Come 10th March, sharp fuel price hikes are coming. How sharp ? $1 increase in Crude leads to a 50 – 60 paisa/ litre increase in retail fuel prices. Total increase could be as high as Rs 10/ litre. 1/7 scroll.in/article/101748…
Govt & Oil Companies say they're protecting consumers. Guess what ? April '20 -Crude fell as low as $9.12/ barrel. What did Oil firms do ? Stopped price revisions for *82 days*. In May 21, we saw 16 fuel price hikes. Consumers were hit by no benefit & then record high prices 2/7