Dilip Cherian | From Trade To Tirade: How One Tweet Rocked The Customs Boat

And this is why the episode has legs far beyond Chennai port. International investors read these signals closely. If the moral of the story appears to be “keep quiet or face the music”, that’s not the kind of investor-confidence campaign India wants to be running

xIt started, as many big stories do these days, with a tweet. A blunt social media post by a mid-sized trading firm announced that it was shutting down its India operations after weeks of alleged harassment by Chennai Customs. Not a formal press release, not a court filing, but a post that instantly set off ripples.

The finance ministry then intervened with its own tweet, stating that an inquiry would be held. Before long, a well-known analyst was hinting that the exercise was less about justice and more about warning others aga