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My special Column in the Economic Times dedicated to my intelligent, aware and brave GenZ students.
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If Indian parents stopped financially supporting their children after graduation tomorrow, the streets would expose a crisis no government is prepared for.
Millions of young adults survive because their parents quietly fund their education, housing, food, healthcare, marriages and even unemployment.
Indian parents don’t just raise children.
They subsidise society.
Governments and society should acknowledge how much this invisible family support system actually holds India together.
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चुनाव आयुक्तों की बैठक की तस्वीर में मेरा ध्यान पानी की बोतल पर गया. आवा ब्रांड का पानी है. आमेज़न पर इसका मूल्य 600 रुपये प्रति लीटर है, पर अभी 17% की छूट है. अब एक लीटर का दाम 499.50 रुपये है.
यह एक गुजरात स्थित कंपनी का प्रॉडक्ट है. इसे प्राकृतिक रूप से मिनरल वाटर बताया जाता है. इसमें कैल्शियम, मैग्नेशियम, बाइकॉर्बोनेट्स, सिलिका होता है.
इसे अरावली रेंज का पानी बताया गया है. एक और ख़ासियत है कि इसे शीशे के बोतल में बेचा जाता है.
केंद्रीय जल आयोग की 2019 की रिपोर्ट पर भारत सरकार की एक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति के अनुसार, “2021 और 2031 के लिए औसत वार्षिक प्रति व्यक्ति जल उपलब्धता क्रमशः 1486 घन मीटर और 1367 घन मीटर आंकी गई है. 1700 घन मीटर से कम वार्षिक प्रति व्यक्ति जल उपलब्धता को जल संकट की स्थिति माना जाता है और 1000 घनमीटर से कम वार्षिक प्रति व्यक्ति जल उपलब्धता को जल कमी की स्थिति माना जाता है.”
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Replug: As alumni of two different IITs, Rajesh Golani and I write on how discrimination operated within IITs.
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Cashless health insurance is legally sanctioned house arrest.
The doctor officially discharges you at 9 AM. You are fully recovered, your bags are packed and your family is ready to take you home.
Then the hospital administration steps in: "Sir, the insurance TPA approval is pending. Please remain seated in your room until we receive the final payment."
You then spend the next 8 to 12 hours held hostage in a ₹15,000-a-day hospital room.
You are no longer a patient but you are collateral. The hospital doesn't trust the insurance company to actually pay, the insurer is deliberately stalling to find a typo in your medical history to reject the claim and you are stuck in the middle of a corporate standoff.
We live in a country where UPI settles transactions in 300 milliseconds and automated trading algorithms move crores in a microsecond.
The system is designed to exhaust you. They want you so frustrated and desperate to go home that the next time you get sick, you just pay the cash upfront and file for a reimbursement which they will conveniently reject 45 days later citing "insufficient documentation."
If my policy is active and the hospital is in-network, the final discharge should be an instant and automated API settlement. Man I paid insurance company for this service.
Until we force insurers to adopt automated clearing, stop calling it a cashless facility.
Call it what it actually is: an extortion racket with a waiting room.
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Power cut off for 2+ hours and no idea when it will be back. Practioners of Disneyfied religions have long stood in the way of economic and social progress. Today they also conspired to destroy the contents of my freezer.
We have no electricity, for "safety purpose"... because the 'remover of obstacles' is processing through our neighbourhood en route to an already polluted city lake. #Hyderabad
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It's a backhand compliment to my colleagues at @reporters_co that a Rs 450 crore annual revenue newspaper @htTweets, in order to fill its page 1, has to plagiarise a story from a tiny newsroom run on citizens' donations.
Read the original story: reporters-collective.in/trc/…
Donate to support journalists at The Reporters' Collective, who help Hindustan Times pretend once in a while to have a spine: reporters-collective.in/supp…
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We have no electricity, for "safety purpose"... because the 'remover of obstacles' is processing through our neighbourhood en route to an already polluted city lake. #Hyderabad
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I like the way how younger leaders of CJP and people like Neha Bora are not calling any politician by ‘ji’.
Politicians are accountable to the people. False commanded respect like ji, maharaj and all such nonsense needs to stop in Indian politics.
Anzar Afaque
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From @TanushreePande 's explosive revelations during the Hathras case,Greeshma Kuthar's on Manipur, Poonam Agarwal on EVMs, Sukanya Shantha on Indian Prisons, Neha Dixit on illegal child trafficking, Jatinder Kaur on corruption in the military to finally @RitikaChopra__ 's EC exposé, i tip my hat to the fearless women investigate journalists in this country who routinely slay dragons after their morning tea. Kudos to all of you
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Bizarre response from the @AirindiaX bot
They cancelled my flight. I didn’t cancel my journey! I’m now travelling on @6Eindigo which remains operationally functional !
Lesson: @AirindiaX has operational AND comms issues
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Hi Rathin, we are truly sorry for the inconvenience and disruption caused by the cancellation of your flight. Please note that the cancellation was due to operational reasons, and your feedback has been noted. We understand that you opted to cancel your HYD-VTZ journey and requested a refund. We'll share further details with you over email on case ID 45912109. Thank you for your understanding.
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This is "Contempt of Court" in effect. If the Supreme Court does not step in to rectify this gross violation of due process and Citizens' Rights, it is not a functional institution in any sense of the term. And if so, one pillar of our Constitutional structure is now defunct.
Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.
Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?
We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.
Stay with me....
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अब समय आ गया है कि मैं तुम्हारे इस स्थान पर बैठने का अंत कर दूँ, उस स्थान का, जिसे तुमने हर सद्गुण का तिरस्कार करके अपमानित किया है और हर विकार का अभ्यास करके अपवित्र कर दिया है। तुम एक गुटबाज गिरोह हो, और हर अच्छी शासन-व्यवस्था के शत्रु हो। तुम किराए के नीचों का झुंड हो, जो एसाव की तरह अपने देश को दाल-भात के एक कटोरे के लिए बेच दोगे, और यहूदा की तरह कुछ सिक्कों के लिए अपने ईश्वर को धोखा दे दोगे।
क्या तुममें अब कोई एक भी सद्गुण बचा है? क्या कोई ऐसा विकार है जो तुममें न हो? तुम्हारे भीतर मेरे घोड़े से भी अधिक धर्म नहीं है। सोना ही तुम्हारा भगवान है। तुममें से किसने रिश्वत के लिए अपनी अंतरात्मा नहीं बेची? क्या तुममें एक भी ऐसा व्यक्ति है जिसे राष्ट्र के हित की थोड़ी भी परवाह हो?
हे नीच वेश्याओ! क्या तुमने इस पवित्र स्थान को अपवित्र नहीं किया, और प्रभु के मंदिर को चोरों के अड्डे में नहीं बदल दिया? अपने अनैतिक सिद्धांतों और दुष्ट आचरण से तुम पूरे राष्ट्र के लिए असह्य घृणा का पात्र बन चुके हो। जनता ने तुम्हें यहाँ अपनी शिकायतें दूर करने के लिए भेजा था। तुम स्वयं ही भ्रष्ट हो चुके हो! सो! उस चमकते खिलौने को वहाँ से हटाओ, और दरवाजे बंद कर दो।
"ईश्वर के नाम पर, चले जाओ!"
ओलिवर क्रॉमवेल, रम्प संसद को भंग करते हुए, 20 अप्रैल 1653.
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Policy economists know on the avoidance (not evasion) scale
Rental/capital assets>capital/labour incomes
So wealth/inheritance taxes = poor collection efficiency
Hence equal income taxation from all sources is policy target
Unless Nobels have a new asset tax design idea?
I want to briefly explain why I joined Abhijit Banerjee, Peter Diamond, Esther Duflo, Paul Krugman and Joe Stiglitz in signing the letter on the California billionaire tax: ft.com/content/94ec0fee-53ab…
In principle, I am not convinced that permanent wealth taxes would be necessary if the tax-transfer system were designed optimally.
But the US tax system is very far from optimal, and has been for decades. As I have documented in my research (for example, here: mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/…), labor income is taxed much more heavily than capital income.
This asymmetry creates two distinct problems.
First, it makes the tax system highly regressive at the top. The very rich, who receive much of their income from capital or can use accounting tricks to reclassify their income as capital income, pay remarkably little in taxes. For example, a business owner who runs their own company should receive a significant part of their income as labor earnings for their work as CEO. Instead, they can take their compensation in stock and borrow against those holdings to finance whatever consumption they desire, minimizing their tax obligations. Even their heirs may avoid paying these taxes.
Second, the asymmetry distorts automation decisions: it effectively subsidizes machinery and AI relative to hiring workers (for example, here: brookings.edu/articles/does-…).
These distortions have allowed a small number of people to amass vast fortunes without paying their fair share of taxes, and have fueled excessive automation.
The resulting inequality is a problem in its own right. It is all the more dangerous today because our institutions have become fragile, allowing the very wealthy to exert growing control over the political process.
A temporary wealth tax can therefore be justified on three grounds: (1) it partially reverses the effects of more than two decades of tax avoidance by the very wealthy; (2) it acts as a brake on their growing dominance over the political process; and (3) it may pave the way for more comprehensive tax reform at the federal level.
The California billionaire tax is not perfect. For example, a federal tax would lessen risks related to capital flight, and removing the rigid earmarking of the revenues for specific purposes would enable the proceeds to reduce the national debt. Nevertheless, with few other options on the table, I believe the California proposal deserves support.
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Today's #ECI story by @RitikaChopra__ finally blows the lid off the real reason for this insanely obsessive, urgent SIR push -- its not about a "purified" (curated) voter roll alone but a centralised, all-India voter list, available at the click of a button in Delhi, to be fully controllable from Delhi ONLY, cutting out local electoral officers.
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ये रितिका चोपड़ा हैं।इंडियन एक्सप्रेस की शानदार पत्रकार। जिन्होंने ज्ञानेश कुमार की पोल खोल दी।
रितिका चोपड़ा ने मीडिया नाम की मरती हुई संस्था को ज़िंदा कर दिया है।
इनके सम्मान में दो शब्द तो लिख दीजिए प्लीज़।
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The US has a long history of withholding UN dues, while receiving taxes from its many (tax exempt) US employees, which is reimbursed by the UN! Trump us only the most frank and extreme of a long line
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They have done what civil servants do - covered their own arses. If they were honourable they would not have been silent...
All morning with @RitikaChopra__ painstaking reportage on @IndianExpress today. ECs Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi seem to be honourable people. They will be doing this country a service if they have a press conference to explain these objections. And resign if it comes to that.
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