Who am I?

I’m Tejas, and I’m a second-year student at Stanford studying economics. I’m interested in animal welfare, South Asian politics, and effective altruism, and I write about a wide range of adjacent things; I plan to start writing here in December 2023 or January 2024.

My Twitter is @TejasReal and my personal website is tejassubramaniam.com. You can contact me through my website’s contact form.

I also spent a lot of time in high school reading and thinking about gender violence, and plan to edit and put up a bunch of drafts I wrote from that time.

To get a sense of who I am, I recommend some of my old writings and Twitter threads:

• An explanation of why minimum wages might be efficient under monopsony

• Why India’s beef bans might have hurt animals, on net

• A reframing of the “torture vs. dust specks” problem that helped me think about it more clearly

• How a Kuznets curve for meat consumption might mean rapid growth is preferable for animals

• Why child labor bans might backfire, and cause increases in child labor

I also like competitive debate an unhealthy amount. In high school, I competed for Team India at the World Championships, and I continue to debate in the British Parliamentary format for Stanford.

If you’d like to hear me talk about debate, check out this interview I did for the Structural Reasons podcast, and this lecture I gave on debating animal welfare.

I’m supported by Emergent Ventures.