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Surjit Bhalla

@surjitbhalla · New Delhi, India · joined 22 Jan 2013

Former Executive Director, IMF for India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. Economist, cricket junkie, policy wonk, and film (all woods, old and new) enthusiast

69 593Followers
682Following
7 189Posts total
631.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

GDP data has been uplifted to a mega talking point with #SubashGarg1960 assertion that GDP growth had collapsed in 2027 FQ1; My article was written before his "intervention" & has a radically different conclusion! But You be the judge, jury & executioner https://t.co/MwMdpiqW62 13.8K views · 243 likes · 67 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →
And you should add that the so-called controversy is about the quarterly estimate for 2025 Q2 according to a 15 year old base year estimate and the new 2022-23 base year estimate - Only in India does the media entertain such vacuous debates - #ONLYININDIA 26.3K views · 446 likes · 110 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →
All the elements point to "Only in India" 10.4K views · 58 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
15 yr Delhi boy Vandal Sawai, jet-lagged, reluctantly enters an online chess tournament because his parents push him to. He beats World No.1 Magnus Carlsen in 50 moves, plays two more games, says “I’m done” and goes to bed. His parents discover next day on https://t.co/wg4739hecB 347.2K views · 8.1K likes · 923 reposts · 74 replies Open on X →
By criticizing Indian TV you are not mocking India - just statement of fact that India TV news is mostly not watchable 53.7K views · 340 likes · 36 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →
Sergio Gor slams Indian TV news shows. "At 6 PM you've 8 people arguing on the show. At 10 PM, there're 12 people who are all talking at same time" Agree. Too annoying. But less annoying than ur joker Trump blows empty trumpet & talks nonsense. Isn't it, Mr Ambassador? Bharat 129.8K views · 962 likes · 171 reposts · 51 replies Open on X →
A courageous man who did the right thing, in my opinion. After that, I knew he was the G.O.A.T; today, everyone agrees. @IMSahilBhalla 37.4K views · 99 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
"The Road to Viksit Bharat: The Impossible Math?" https://t.co/OXQNoDBRyS Download it - all free. Intro: This is, by my own count, my fifth attempt at starting a Substack. The previous four died the same death: a column was due, and a Substack was not. What changed my mind is 12.7K views · 63 likes · 15 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views31 864this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %45.79%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.85%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post31 86492434.5×
Reach (views ÷ followers)45.79%3.62%12.7×
Engagement rate0.85%1.52%0.56×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.7K17 Aug
37.4K20 Aug
129.8K24 Aug
53.7K
347.2K27 Aug
10.4K
26.3K3 Sep
13.8K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.68%17 Aug
0.30%20 Aug
0.93%24 Aug
0.77%
2.62%27 Aug
0.60%
2.16%3 Sep
2.34%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes83.2%10 267 in total
Reposts10.8%1 334 in total
Replies1.5%186 in total
Quotes0.5%66 in total
Bookmarks3.9%482 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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