Anurag Singh

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

More tracks ➡️ less congestion ➡️ more trains ➡️ faster journey

[Sushant Singh @sushant29xii]

This is the most heartbreaking video I've seen lately. 💔

[PenPencilDraw @penpencildraw]

Heinous crimes.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

First major win by Gen-Alpha

In UP's Fatehpur, students protesting for basic amenities school have been given written assurances for the following:

- Four fans will be installed in every classroom by tomorrow
- Electrical wiring will be repaired
- Desks and benches will be provided within one month
-An RO water cooler will be installed

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

More strict actions against paper leaks to come in tomorrow’s Cabinet!

[Bloomberg @business]

The Indian Space Research Organisation said it successfully conducted a hot test of its semi-cryogenic engine power head at 88% of its target thrust, marking a key milestone in the development of a new propulsion system https://t.co/RT0XLnU3w5

[प्रणव @PranavaBhardwaj]

Whatever your political ideology is, never be this cheap.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

'Unopposed' #Rajyasabha

[Subramanian Swaminathan @AskSubramanian]

While the news on the war against drug resistant bacteria is depressing, a new hope- from India!

[Anurag Singh @1_Night_Owl]

@harsh8848 yes, that is true. It would reduce effective interest. But it is not a naked short position without owning the underlying , as was the case in Gold SGBs.

[Anurag Singh @1_Night_Owl]

@deepakshenoy insurance cost is 1.5% in dollar terms. It will have to be borne by banks/NRI. So, hedging cost remains, albeit reduced and stable.

[Anurag Singh @1_Night_Owl]

@harshmadhusudan sits with the households. Accounting wise, that may provide comfort but in times of stress , do you think governmt can rely on those?

[Anurag Singh @1_Night_Owl]

@harshmadhusudan India does have a current account problem... it always had. It is not a mojor issue because our capital account always provided over for that( majority of the times). Whenver there is a net outflow , we are exposed. As far as gold is concerned, yes it is a investment, but that

[Anurag Singh @1_Night_Owl]

US 10yr yield looks threatning..

[Arvind Gunasekar @arvindgunasekar]

After spending 32 months in jail, money laundering case registered by ED against Director and Promoter of M/s Coastal Energen Pvt Ltd, Ahmed AR Buhari has been quashed.

Buhari has finally walked out of prison but he has lost his company.

Any guesses who acquired his company ?

[Tamal Bandyopadhyay @TamalBandyo]

What a heading! Goa State Commission for Women is set to get a new chairman

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

I was reflecting on the contrasts with China that the sorry, shabby Loomer episode illustrates.

The contrast I refer to is not about openness versus control. It is about attitudes toward hierarchy and self-respect in public life.

What Kissinger noticed in 1971 about India was was a tendency toward obsequiousness when confronted with Western power or proximity to it. That instinct has deep historical roots. The word “khushamd” in Persian and Urdu literally means flattery offered to please someone in authority. In everyday usage it shades into something darker: ingratiation, calculated praise, the art of pleasing those above you in the hierarchy. British administrators in colonial India became fascinated by the term because they believed it captured a social habit they encountered repeatedly in courtrooms, durbars, and bureaucratic dealings.

For two centuries the subcontinent lived under imperial structures in which advancement often depended on pleasing those above you in the hierarchy. The habits of speech that develop in such systems do not disappear overnight.

In a rigid hierarchy where power flows sharply from the top, people learn quickly that bluntness is risky. Survival and advancement depend on reading the moods of authority. Language becomes lubricated with praise because praise reduces friction. Over time this produces a political culture where deference becomes a technique.

China travelled through a very different historical arc.For most of its long imperial history China regarded itself as the civilisational centre. Foreign envoys were received within a carefully staged hierarchy in which the emperor’s court defined the terms of interaction. Visitors were expected to show deference to China, not the other way around. Even when China weakened in the nineteenth century, that cultural memory did not vanish. It remained embedded in the political reflexes of the state.

This difference becomes visible when modern outsiders arrive carrying the aura of Western political celebrity. In India the reception often slips, almost unconsciously, into a familiar pattern: excessive politeness, warm praise, eager listening, and visible admiration. Panels become stages of affirmation rather than interrogation. The visitor is not merely hosted; they are subtly elevated.
China almost never allows this dynamic to emerge.

Chinese officials may be courteous but the tone is controlled and emotionally neutral. Praise is sparse. Questions are disciplined. The visitor’s importance is carefully calibrated so that it never exceeds the authority of the host institution or the state itself. Even globally powerful figures encounter this restraint.

One can see it in how Chinese leaders treat Western visitors. They rarely flatter. They do not perform admiration. They project calm authority and expect the guest to adjust to that frame.
In other words, status flows inward toward the state, not outward toward the visitor.

In India the flow often reverses. The visitor’s celebrity radiates outward, shaping the atmosphere of the encounter. A social media provocateur can suddenly appear larger than the forum that invited them.

This is what gives the Loomer episode its uncomfortable undertone. The issue is not free speech or the right to host controversial figures. Democracies must live with those realities.

The issue is the tone of reception.
When a platform meant for national conversation begins to resemble a stage on which outsiders are indulged and admired, the imbalance becomes visible. It is the same imbalance that Kissinger detected decades ago when he described Indians as masters of flattery.

China’s instinct would have been the opposite. A confident civilisation listens, questions, and reminds the guest that they soeak on someone else’s stage.

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[Birender Dhanoa @bsdhanoa]

We are not only being served, we are being royally fooled...

[Nabila Jamal @nabilajamal_]

Unbelievable. Without CCTV, this abuse would never have seen daylight....who would believe a tea vendor over a cop?

🚨At Mathura Railway Station, a Govt Railway Police sub-inspector has been suspended after CCTV footage captured him assaulting and hurling obscene abuses at a tea vendor over a delay in preparing tea

He allegedly threatened the vendor, saying “I’ll pee in your mouth”

The vendor Suraj was cleaning his stall when GRP sub-inspector Vivek Kumar reportedly asked for tea around 8 am. Suraj said it would take a few minutes, the officer left and returned around 8:30am, furious that the tea was still not ready..Footage shows the officer slapping the vendor repeatedly abusing him