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Reporter. India. Tracking energy, environment and the national/international processes shaping both. Author of 'Despite the State'.
Joined July 2018
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RT @mrajshekhar: Reportage: Trump's demanding highly problematic concessions from countries seeking tariff reductions. In this report for @….
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The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions sought by the USA, and think creatively
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RT @mrajshekhar: And so, the question. How should India respond to Trump's 50% tariffs? As I learnt while working on this report, instead o….
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RT @mrajshekhar: On Independence Day, a new threat. "Trump is using tariffs not just to boost US manufacturers’ access to foreign markets….
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The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions sought by the USA, and think creatively
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RT @thewire_in: Pandit Nehru’s historic August 15, 1947 speech, ‘Tryst with Destiny’. Jawahar Lal Nehru’s iconic midnight address in Parlia….
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RT @chhuti_is: Assam’s Naskara Lower Primary School headmaster Tazem Sikder, his colleague Nripen Rabha, and Class 3 students Jiarul Ali Kh….
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Some chickens are really coming home to roost right now. In diplomacy, in global competitiveness, and in domestic consumption.
The lack of attention on R&D + complacently assuming India is bound to gain from "China + 1" + the disdain for scientific work/temper which leads us to assume all technologies are available off the shelf will now exact its pound of flesh as we seek new markets.
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The lack of attention on R&D + complacently assuming India is bound to gain from "China + 1" + the disdain for scientific work/temper which leads us to assume all technologies are available off the shelf will now exact its pound of flesh as we seek new markets.
Everything is interconnected. We cannot have concentration of capital + high energy costs + unregulated gig economy + underfunding of MSMEs + farm crisis + high fertiliser prices + more and then expect the domestic market to step in and replace the US consumer market.
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Everything is interconnected. We cannot have concentration of capital + high energy costs + unregulated gig economy + underfunding of MSMEs + farm crisis + high fertiliser prices + more and then expect the domestic market to step in and replace the US consumer market.
For such calls to work, the government has to boost local purchasing power. As @Jayati1609 told me, “If we boosted India’s median income by 5%, we would have a much larger domestic market.” In other words, the govt has to address widening precarity. See:
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For such calls to work, the government has to boost local purchasing power. As @Jayati1609 told me, “If we boosted India’s median income by 5%, we would have a much larger domestic market.” In other words, the govt has to address widening precarity. See:
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The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions sought by the USA, and think creatively
Modi says: “The need of the hour is to take a resolve for building a strong India … I want our traders, shopkeepers to display boards for ‘Swadeshi’ products”. Comment comes days after Trump's tariffs sparked calls to boycott American goods in India.
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RT @NobelPrize: "Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was award….
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RT @nilanjanaroy: 1942, Quit India: with Gandhiji, Nehru and top leaders in jail, Aruna Asaf Ali raises the tricolour at Gowalia Tank, brav….
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RT @MayaramArvind: On this Independence Day 🇮🇳 🌹. Let me say again- To be truly free, let every mind speak its truth, every faith worship i….
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RT @Jairam_Ramesh: This was Independent India's first cabinet, in Nehru’s own handwriting. Dated August 14, 1947
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RT @joybhattacharj: Bhagat Singh's last petition. To:.The Punjab Governor.Sir,.With due respect we beg to bring to your kind notice the fol….
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RT @joybhattacharj: Justice Broomfield: Mahatma Gandhi's trial, 1922."Mr. Gandhi, you have made my task easy in one way by pleading guilty….
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And so, the question. How should India respond to Trump's 50% tariffs? As I learnt while working on this report, instead of rushing to renegotiate, we have to take the short-term hit and diversify trade beyond the USA. Trump's demands are too onerous to justify anything else.
On Independence Day, a new threat. "Trump is using tariffs not just to boost US manufacturers’ access to foreign markets, he is also forcing countries into trade agreements which, as with colonialism. are extractive and impinge on citizens’ wellbeing."
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On Independence Day, a new threat. "Trump is using tariffs not just to boost US manufacturers’ access to foreign markets, he is also forcing countries into trade agreements which, as with colonialism. are extractive and impinge on citizens’ wellbeing."
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The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions sought by the USA, and think creatively
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@carboncopyinfo And now that we are talking, the latest instalment of Energy Trends -- our weekly newsletter on energy, climate and India -- is out too. Much attention last week focused on Trump's 50% tariff. Our book pick, however, is a superb new history of the Aztecs.
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Reportage: Trump's demanding highly problematic concessions from countries seeking tariff reductions. In this report for @carboncopyinfo, I discuss potential costs and argue India shouldn't buckle. Do read:
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The country has to set short-term pain against the long-term costs of the trade concessions sought by the USA, and think creatively
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