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Monika Halan 🇮🇳

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Monika Halan 🇮🇳

@monikahalan

New Delhi

Joined June 2009

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Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
May 28
Delighted to meet Hon'ble FM @nsitharaman in her beautiful, natural light filled office yesterday. Last time, after I presented the Hindi edition of #LetsTalkMoney, she asked: “Why not other Indian languages too?” Yesterday, I was proud to deliver on that: the Malayalam, Tamil
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@monikahalan
Jan 28, 2021
An entire ecosystem was waiting for one bullet to be fired. By not firing it, despite being battered, broken and bruised, the @DelhiPolice has delivered a unique victory. 🙏🏻
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Jan 29, 2022
Where in the world does it take two days between a passport appointment and the document reaching home? Non tatkal. No calls to anybody. Just the process that works for everyone. #onlyinIndia
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Aug 18, 2021
You need to be radically messed up to equate Taliban with Modi and the RSS. The word 'unhinged' comes to mind. There is no exit from this narrative corner that those who are making this absurd comparison are backing into.
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Apr 7, 2021
So corporates are bad for 'farmers' but good for vaccinations. What am I missing?
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@monikahalan
Aug 23, 2020
As an author I am shocked that a publisher says it will 'withdraw' a printed, about to be published book, because it had issues with who released the book. @BloomsburyIndia is off my list hereon. The @advmonikaarora I know for many years will fight on.
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Jun 13, 2025
Catching a flight back to Delhi. The plane is delayed (a lot) due to an engineering issue. Gate change. Long wait. Not one raised voice. Not one passenger tantrum. Totally silent and somber faces. No crowding at gates.
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@monikahalan
Jun 14, 2022
Note for those from India travelling to the DLDCs (digital less developed countries) that would be most of Europe and UK, either carry some cash or access to cash through a forex card. Also carry smaller notes of 10s and 20s rather than large denomination ones.
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Nov 19, 2021
Farm law repeal is a slap on the face of reforms. Brokers, not farmers, have won. @narendramodi has lost.
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
May 31, 2021
For all those opposed to the central vista project on grounds of expense during covid, ever thought of the number of people employed by the project? Should the government stop all non-covid spends? Farm subsidies for example. Is each of us stopping all non-covid related spends?
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@monikahalan
May 10, 2022
The more I read about the 70s and 80s with a policy hat on, the more I remember growing up in those decades of a supply-starved nation. One landline phone in 30 service class homes. One car in 50. Short supply of milk. Water. Everything. The disaster that is lived socialism.
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Sep 30, 2025
Met a factory owner at a party yesterday. Me: Do you face harassment by inspectors in the factory? He: No no. Not at all. It is very smooth. Me: Really! (Hope beginning to find green shoots) So they don't take bribes? He: Of course they do. But then it is smooth. And we don't
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@monikahalan
Nov 23, 2022
The great South Indian supremacists They threw out the others. @ARanganathan72 @vikramsampath @smitaprakash @Iyervval
Monika Halan 🇮🇳
@monikahalan
Aug 25, 2024
Work, people, work. Work for the salaries of govt employees. Work for their pensions. Work for their medical benefits in and after service. And that's not enough. Work to pay the bribes they need to work. Work, people, work. #thepensiondeform
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