No dear PM @narendramodi, hardwork is not more powerful than Harvard.

Harvard generally means hardwork + knowledge. You must have learned this, albeit painfully, through the effects of demonetisation.

Your contempt for knowledge will hurt our country badly for a long time. 1/n

You made fun of every economist who said India's economy will suffer because of that foolish decision of demonetisation.

Not only did you make fun, but also ridiculed their education & the value of education itself. Coming from Prime Minister, that was highly disappointing. 2/n

Why am I saying all this after 3 years? Well, back then it was a crisis that you made, right now it is a crisis that you have to deal with. But what is constant is you & your contempt for knowledge & expertise. I am worried if we are all going to pay now as we did back then 3/n

Dear @narendramodi, this is not a time to find safe space in what comes natural to you. By that I mean motivational speeches & theatrics. This is a time when you have to go beyond your comfort & start understanding the complications of the disease. And also address the press. 4/n

Look at your fellow leaders world around. They are taking questions, trying to answer and in the process learning & educating countrymen about the uncertainties of the future that covid-19 entails. Your aura as a person who knows & has a solution to everything will backfire. 5/n

You have given 3 televised addresses to the nation after the lockdown began. Not a single one with facts or figures on any measures that the government was doing. Instead, you delegated that job and you found your comfort once again in that election/campaign speech category. 6/n

This is where I am afraid, your contempt for, or rather I should say, your lack of comfort with, knowledge and expertise could prove costly to the nation.

Hey, hey.. sorry don't go away. Today's briefing is on something else. On our 'exit' strategy from this lockdown. 7/n

First of all, dear PM @narendramodi, ask MHA to immediately take back this letter. Once you have directed that inter-state travel is banned, your govt should take a step back and let the respective state governments handle the situation as per their analysis and decision. 8/n

Even as a strategy this is bad, because you won't want to put all your eggs in one basket. Okay okay. All your tomatoes.

Let there be variations on exit strategies. We don't know what works and what won't. So shed that we are the bigger government here attitude. 9/n

Hey.. come on. We had a briefing on this like 3 weeks back. On the importance of decentralising while dealing with such an uncertain crisis. Don't tell me you forgot all of it. 10/n https://twitter.com/naukarshah/status/1244135962285756423?s=20

We'll discuss more on exit strategies later. But for now, may be you can recite this,

विद्या शस्त्रस्य शास्त्रस्य द्वे विद्ये प्रतिपत्तये ।
आद्या हास्याय वृद्धत्वे द्वितीयाद्रियते सदा ॥

And repent for devaluing education & the educated in a country that always valued knowledge