Over the past few days I came across interesting research pieces by @TheOfficialSBI and the insightful @capitalcalculus on India's rising prosperity. I have cited these works and shared a few thoughts on @LinkedIn. Do read... linkedin.com/pulse/indias-ri…

Jharkhand Minister Dipika Pandey Singh's daughter Trisha was among four people killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a stationary truck in Jamshedpur city. Visuals from the spot showed that the truck was parked on the right side of the four-lane highway close to the divider with a small tree branch placed in its rear, indicating that it was stranded after a breakdown and could not be moved. However, no reflector signages were seen on the road. The car was seen in a mangled condition behind the truck.

There is an intriguing puzzle in India’s economy: how have a segment of MSMEs remained so resilient despite six years of repeated shocks? Whether, it be covid-19, inflation, supply-chain disruptions, geopolitical conflict, Trump-tariffs, this cohort has managed to buck the worst. Indeed, this is very counterintuitive as MSMEs are the most vulnerable cohort in the Indian economy. The latest Sumpoorn index compiled jointly by @jocatagrid and @sidbiofficial offers some clues. @sumitakale helped me unpack this puzzle. Sharing a teaser. Link to the full telecast: piped.video/watch?v=RbhqrC3c…

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In 2007, Kerala's Vigilance department opened a corruption case against a police officer. Over the next 19 years he was promoted again and again. He became Additional Director General. Then Director General of Police, the highest rank in the state force. He retired at the top in 2023. Last week a court convicted him. His name is Tomin J Thachankary. The Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau registered the case in 2007, after a complaint by an anti corruption activist named Bobby Kuruvila. The allegation was that between January 2003 and July 2007, Thachankary had acquired houses, flats and other property worth far more than he could have earned. The chargesheet was filed in 2013. That is 6 years to write it. By the time it was filed, he had already been promoted to Additional Director General of Police. He challenged the proceedings and asked to be discharged, saying some of the properties had come to him through family partition and through gifts. The court rejected that and the trial went ahead. While the trial ran, he kept rising. He reached the rank of Director General of Police, and he retired in 2023 with that rank. On 17th September 2026, the Vigilance Court in Kottayam found him guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act. It held that he had amassed assets worth about 64.70 lakh rupees that he could not account for. He was sentenced to 4 years of rigorous imprisonment and fined 30,84,892 rupees. If he does not pay the fine, he serves 2 more months. The court said something specific when it sentenced him. Because he had held a top post in the state police force, he was not entitled to any leniency. He was taken into custody and moved to the Central Jail in Thiruvananthapuram. He is the first officer of Director General rank in Kerala's history to be convicted and sentenced in a corruption case. One detail matters for what happens next. Because the sentence is longer than 3 years, he cannot get bail from any lower court. He has to go to the High Court. The public prosecutor made one remark afterwards that is worth keeping. He pointed out how difficult it is for investigating officers to build a case when the accused is a serving senior police officer. Think about what that means in practice. The men investigating him were police officers. He outranked almost all of them for most of those 19 years. At various points he would have been in a position to influence their postings. It still ended in a conviction. 19 years, one activist's complaint, and a man who reached the top of the force before the case caught up with him.

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