My take on the recent SC judgment on mandatory three years practice: 1. I can speak from experience that young, idealistic and extremely talented youth aspire to be adjudicators. Telling them to park the aspiration for 3 years and enter practice instead may hurt this aspiration

XKDR Forum is pleased to invite you to Seminar #13 of our seminar series on Indian Legal System Reform on the 13th of June, 2025 at 4PM. The event is hybrid and free, but you must register to attend. Register: xkdr.org/event/indian-l…

The wife decided we aren't sufficiently prepared for a baby So did what any sane person would do - scoured reddit and built an excel Mckinsey moms😅

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The district judiciary remains plagued by problems of opacity in dismissal, and a perpetual fear of HC judges, despite its key role as the first point of contact for most litigants in India. For this story, I spoke to T. Prashant Reddy & Paras Nath Singh for the ThePrintIndia

Just watched the new South Park. It's crazy they are able to do things like this without backlash. I doubt anyone here could do anything similar.

Why does arbitration fail without strong courts? In our new BIG IDEAS episode, Shubho Roy argues that promoting arbitration is the wrong way to fix India's justice system. A strong judiciary is not an alternative—it's the foundation. Link ↓

It was a pleasure to host fellow IIM Ahmedabad alumni Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 (of XKDR Forum) to discuss how we can leverage statistics to improve performance of courts in India. #policyreform #IndianCourts #Statistics Links: YouTube: youtu.be/rJgH4EFQANo Spotify: bit.ly/4fTC9Of

A new dataset of commercial cases at the Bom HC and IBC cases at NCLT lends itself to answering Qs on case durations, time to 1st hearing, etc. These Qs are elementary, but are often answered with anecdotes. In a data abundant world, we can do better. 1/2

Not surprising at all. If someone offers you Indri and you refuse, they shoot you

Vi Customer Care terrible international roaming service. Within a span of less than 1 hour, I got a report telling me that first 20% of my data has been used and then 50% has been used. Mind you, the first 20% was used after 5 days of travelling

Very excited to launch the native desktop app for Periskope today We were heavily limited by IndexedDB on the browser. Switching to local db on native apps makes it 1000x more performant on reads / writes It absolutely flies now!! Alpha release is available for download

OMG this was a really fun rabbit hole to get into - won't bother you with the details till I get my hands on an actual dictionary with PIE roots, but just the highlights of 3 specific detours in the next couple of tweets.

We had a fire on prod today! 🔥 A lot of people who aren't deep into the tech don't really get to see what really happens. So here's the story 1/ At 5:30 AM UTC today, our database CPU usage started to spike Normally, some spikes are expected and it goes back to normal fast.

Caseloads at Indian courts are miscalculated, often by large margins. In this article, Pavithra Manivannan, Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 & I demonstrate that the Bom HC overestimates its caseload by 66%. Plus, 6 case types account for >90% of the court's caseload 1/n: blog.theleapjournal.org/2025/10/beyond…

It is fucking annoying that Steam is down right now! Just when I was wrapping up for the day; Dota connector is offline

Thrilled to see Angad Daryani’s Praan Inc —an early Emergent Ventures winner—build world-class clean air tech. Their Hive is the best purifier I’ve seen, even by Bay Area standards. Ordering one for my parents in Delhi. This winter, I can finally go home, and survive Delhi.

I speak about the information asymmetry between lawyers & litigants in India, thanks to BCI's ban on lawyer advertising. This benefits repeat litigants who know the system, but harms the small litigant. A 7 minute talk for XKDR Forum 's Big Ideas series: youtu.be/vwlPDBjpuIY?si…