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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
‘Delhi High Court says it has no data on delayed judgments. We found it in a few hours’
Gokul Sunoj @GokulSunoj, associate and Siddarth Raman @thriddas, co-founder & CTO, at @theprofesseer, write
#CountingOnLaw #ThePrintOpinion
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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
Celebrating one year of @theprofesseer's database contributing to the public discourse on Indian courts, through our fortnightly Counting On Law column in @ThePrintIndia.
Happy Diwali 🎇
What an amazing piece of art. @NewYorker
"This shaky line is all that makes it mine"
Whoa.
The best thing on AI that I watched today. We just want to feel relevant humannessly, is'nt it ?
youtube.com/watch?v=EMSQtqUI…
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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
My Substack issue with a monthly round-up of what @theprofesseer team & I have been building and writing through October. This month's issue has information on how to join our Founding50 program and avail of its perks, and our columns in @ThePrintIndia on:
1. why the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Yes Bank case is more important for regulatory governance than it seems, by Harsh Vardhan and me;
2. a six year data review that reveals how the Supreme Court has typically dilly dallied in cases involving the Election Commission, by @GokulSunoj, @BhavyaSudhir42 and @SonOfRajkumar;
3. a review of 7K intellectual property suits that shows why Bollywood celebs prefer Delhi High Court over the Bombay High Court for protecting their personality rights by @NarainRashika, Rohan Talwar, Gokul and Srikanth.
And, of course, a plug on TheProfesseer’s Courts Data Lab. If you're curious about how you could use our data to help your practice or research, do read this and reach out to us!
Also, please subscribe to this Substack for a monthly update of our work. Delivered straight to your inbox. No spam and full exit rights through the Unsubscribe button.
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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
dcmap.us crossed 250k visits in the last 30 days. Pretty cool to see where it’s turning up (thanks @bot and @ChatGPT )
There’s been a lot more news coverage, from local reporting on individual projects to national and international stories about the AI buildout. Journalists have been using the map and data to look at land development, power demand, and what all of this means for nearby communities.
It’s also being cited in investment analysis of where capacity is being built, the opportunities in power infrastructure, and the grid constraints and political risks that could slow development. A regional planning agency has even built the data into its own planning tools.
I’ve been sharing data with researchers studying everything from local water systems and community health to employment, election participation and waste-heat recovery.
I’ve improved the data pipeline quite a bit along the way, largely through agents doing the research, analysis, deduplication and data cleanup. There’s a lot that goes into turning scattered announcements, filings and local reporting into something useful. And always another agent to spin up (and something to fix). It’s a bottomless pit for my ChatGPT and Claude tokens (and Grok and Muse contribute where they can)
It’s pretty humbling to see people using it in their own work. I want to make sure the data stays current and the details are right.
The research requests have grown too, and I’m terribly behind on getting back to people. If you’re waiting on me, thank you for your patience. Next on my list is an agent to help prepare the requested datasets and supporting notes, so getting the data to people doesn’t depend quite so much on my inbox.
ALT dcmap.us
In the next edition of jobless online outrage
"why do people insist on saying Schezwan when they know it's Sichuan? Is it because of some insecurity about China's dominance in manufacturing?"
I genuinely have a question to all those who still call the city as Bombay and not Mumbai.
It has been 30 years since the city is renamed as Mumbai. And still the non-native speakers insist on calling it Bombay. Some of the native speakers also go by the same name while speaking in Hindi or English. I see that in reels, filmy people conversations, college kids' conversations, and everywhere else too.
I don't really have an issue with whatever you wanna call the city but the insistence of calling it Bombay is like disrespecting the local identity and language and feelings of the original inhabitants. And though Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city, it has its own language, culture, food, identify. The local flavour needs to be RESPECTED.
And don't give me a political argument.... Some of you weren't even born when the politics around it happened. Apart from that, what is the reason?
Insane that every time reality beats theory, people don't react with "maybe my theory was wrong", it's always "whoa, this happened again".
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Courtfolio is the first step in providing useful self generated analytics.
1. What does your law firm's or company’s litigation portfolio look like? Which kinds of matters dominate your practice? How old are your pending cases, and how have disposed matters ended?
2. What do judge wise patterns in interim orders look like? Do timelines vary by bench or judge?
3. Can I see across the case family (main case, interim applications, lower court cases, appeals and tagged matters) all together in one place?
4. Can I group cases argued by a specific counsel in one place and see case patterns?
5. Can I group cases involving a specific company (say, Tata Motors) together and see their case patterns? Courtfolio, our new feature on CourtsDaily, lets you explore those questions using public court data. Save cases, organise them into Watchlists and receive email updates. Then generate a litigation profile for yourself or your company, showing patterns across case types, judges, outcomes and timelines. Update it and share it (or not!) with clients, peers and friends at the click of a button. 2/n
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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
Yet another case management system? Nope, we had something else in mind.
Tracking individual cases is useful. Seeing what they tell you together opens up a different set of opportunities: 1/n
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@bhargavizaveri @thriddas
In solidarity with IT support everywhere!
So rare to see the political class do useful communication that helps other professionals do their job.
高市首相のポスト、現場のエンジニアにとってこれ以上ない後方支援だったと思います。
普段、経営層やクライアントに「CVEが〜」と危険性を説明しても、「で、今すぐサイトを止める必要があるの？」と渋られるのが現場の常だろうけど、
このポストのスクショを1枚貼って「総理大臣から緊急要請が出ています」と言えば、どんなにITリテラシーが低い決裁者でも、一発で事の重大さを理解できるし、夜間作業やメンテナンス停止の稟議が秒で通る。
あと、サイトの一時停止という踏み込んだ選択肢を国のトップが肯定してくれたことも画期的（エンジニア側から最も切り出しにくい提案なのに）。
そして、何より記者会見みたいなプロセスを踏まず、界隈が最もリアルタイムに張り付いているXで
@cyber_forecast
への導線を添えて直接投げたのも、危機管理のコミュニケーションとして非常にスマートだったと感じました。
ありがとうございました。これを批判してる人がいるのは絶対におかしいです。
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Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
高市首相のポスト、現場のエンジニアにとってこれ以上ない後方支援だったと思います。
普段、経営層やクライアントに「CVEが〜」と危険性を説明しても、「で、今すぐサイトを止める必要があるの？」と渋られるのが現場の常だろうけど、
このポストのスクショを1枚貼って「総理大臣から緊急要請が出ています」と言えば、どんなにITリテラシーが低い決裁者でも、一発で事の重大さを理解できるし、夜間作業やメンテナンス停止の稟議が秒で通る。
あと、サイトの一時停止という踏み込んだ選択肢を国のトップが肯定してくれたことも画期的（エンジニア側から最も切り出しにくい提案なのに）。
そして、何より記者会見みたいなプロセスを踏まず、界隈が最もリアルタイムに張り付いているXで
@cyber_forecast
への導線を添えて直接投げたのも、危機管理のコミュニケーションとして非常にスマートだったと感じました。
ありがとうございました。これを批判してる人がいるのは絶対におかしいです。
皆様に、今夜に対応して頂きたい大至急のお願いです。
多くのウェブサイトで使用されているPHPに関し、PHPのセキュリティチームが、重大な２件の脆弱性に関する注意喚起を行っています。
公開しているウェブサイトでPHPを使用しているか確認し、今夜、10月21日午後11時（日本時間）に公開される修正パッチについて、可及的速やかに適用できるよう準備をお願いします。
修正パッチを速やかに適用することが困難な場合は、例えばウェブサイト等を一時的に停止させることも、リスクを低減させるための有効策の一つと考えられます。
国家サイバー統括室のXアカウントでも関係する情報を発信していますので、そちらも参考にして下さい。
国家サイバー統括室(注意・警戒情報)（@cyber_forecast） / X
Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
Everyone who tweets like this should be made to set out the specific points they find “repugnant,” with reasons. The institutional critiques he makes were all being made in the 1940s & 50s, including in the literal Constituent Assembly. Your historical amnesia is not his fault.
The issue is neither your pen name nor your right to challenge Sharjeel Imam’s views. I agree that his statements in that interview are deeply anti constitutional, anti secular and highly illiberal.
But the central issue is different- Do repugnant views justify prolonged incarceration and a delayed trial?
Anti constitution and anti secular views are espoused by countless people cutting across the political spectrum. Yet the Constitution guarantees fundamental rights even to those who reject its values. That is precisely the strength of our constitutional democracy.
You are perfectly entitled to challenge Sharjeel’s ideology and much of it deserves to be criticised. But ideological disagreement cannot become a justification for indefinite incarceration. Unlawful acts should be prosecuted but due process and personal liberty cannot be made conditional on the acceptability of someone’s political beliefs.
The real test of constitutionalism is defending the rights of those whose views we find most objectionable. Otherwise our commitment is not to the Constitution but merely to our own ideological preferences.
Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
From the appointment of Election Commissioners to the deletion of voters from electoral rolls, critical constitutional questions remain unresolved.
Our latest #CountingOnLaw column by @GokulSunoj @BhavyaSudhir42 and @SonOfRajkumar in @ThePrintIndia uses six years of Supreme Court cases to reveal a pattern of judicial deference, evasion and delays that often outlast the elections themselves.
Watch @GokulSunoj explain their findings in 5 minutes. 👇
youtu.be/VhzweUkmD-0?si=380h…
Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
Reading the SC's judgement in Yes Bank's AT1 bonds case. Really well written. 35 pages, issues clearly laid out, no unnecessary digression into why Banking Regulation Act exists, banking history, etc. Kudos!
Check out this link for the judgement, a graphical timeline of the case, chat with it, etc. here:
courtsdaily.info/case/356916…
And here's a scathing paragraph that sums it all up.
Siddarth Raman 🇮🇳 retweeted
If you want to understand India's land policies, don't miss our @puliyabaazi with @AnirudhBurman.
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Following the protest matters and Rahul Gandhi’s case against the ECI in the Supreme Court?
Here’s everything in one place, including the ability to simply chat with the case instead of wading through long SC orders with an endless list of lawyers' names, see bench changes as the case progresses, navigate to tagged matters, set up alerts for new orders, generate reports, etc.
Your One Place for Every Case:
courtsdaily.info/case/506977…
courtsdaily.info/case/530741…
The threat of contempt of court reminds me of ""यहाँ से 50-50 कोस दूर गाँव में, जब बच्चा रात को रोता है, तो माँ कहती है — बेटा सो जा, सो जा, नहीं तो गब्बर सिंह आ जाएगा।"
But what actually happens in contempt cases? @ruchichic's piece uses data to examine the impact of this bogeyman.
Say sorry, forgive and forget? SC contempt cases rarely end in punishment, court data shows
Ruchi Bhattar @ruchichic reports
#ThePrintLaw
theprint.in/judiciary/say-so…
When @bhargavizaveri and I started @theprofesseer, we had a bold thesis. Data has revolutionized every field, what makes the law so special. The idea was that citizens, lawyers, firms, court administrators, researchers etc would all benefit from this.
Feels really good to see journalists make good use of our data!
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@theprofesseer's data shows about 50% of the cases are just ‘disposed of’, another 31% dismissed and than 0.1 % allowed.
In 0.2% cases, the contemnor is held guilty but no jail sentence given. 1.5% of cases were closed as the court accepted an apology, while 98% of cases are +