Ajay Bhandarkar

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Longest night of my life. Thank you for everything once again!

[Dr Monika Singh @Dr_MonikaSingh_]

बात है 2005 की..जब डॉ. मनमोहन सिंह प्रधानमंत्री के तौर पर अमेरिका की यात्रा पर थे। एक प्रेस कॉन्फ्रेंस के दौरान, एक विदेशी पत्रकार ने बड़े व्यंग्य भरे अंदाज में डॉ. सिंह से पूछा "प्रधानमंत्री जी, आप इतने शांत क्यों रहते हैं? क्या आपकी कोई महत्वाकांक्षा नहीं है?"
वो दौर भारत के लिए बहुत अहम था। एक तरफ भारत-अमेरिका परमाणु समझौते पर काम चल रहा था, तो दूसरी तरफ अंतरराष्ट्रीय मीडिया की नजरें भारत पर जमी थीं।

जब विदेशी पत्रकार ने बड़े व्यंग्य भरे अंदाज में डॉ. सिंह से पूछा उस समय पूरे हॉल में सन्नाटा था। सब यह देख रहे थे कि प्रधानमंत्री क्या जवाब देंगे। डॉ. सिंह ने कोई गुस्सा नहीं किया, कोई आक्रामक भाषण नहीं दिया। उन्होंने बस एक हल्की सी मुस्कान के साथ बहुत सादी भाषा में कहा:
"देखिए, मैं एक अर्थशास्त्री हूँ। और अर्थशास्त्री यह अच्छी तरह समझते हैं कि शोर मचाने से बाजार या नीतियां नहीं सुधरतीं। काम तो ठोस नीतियों से होता है। शोर मचाने के लिए तो वैसे भी बहुत लोग हैं।"

उनके इस जवाब ने वहां बैठे दिग्गजों को चुप करा दिया। अगले दिन अखबारों की हेडलाइन बनी— "The Quiet Diplomat" (शांत कूटनीतिज्ञ)।

डॉ. सिंह का वह कार्यकाल जिसमें उन्होंने करोड़ों रुपये खर्च करके अपनी छवि नहीं चमकाई, झूठे वादे नहीं किये, हर समस्या के लिए विपक्षी पार्टी को जिम्मेदार नहीं ठहराया, आज भी आर्थिक सुधारों के लिए याद किया जाता है।

#ManmohanSingh

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.

10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.

6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.

But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

Imagine how every taxpayer in this country must feel when watching this video.

The way they mock us, our hard work and money. It gets more brazen everyday.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

The reason why they blocked us.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

By blocking the Cockroach Janta Party's X account, the Indian government has proved its critics right.

What's the point of being the world's largest democracy if you silence your own youth?

They've withheld my posts before too.

A confident government doesn't fear criticism. It answers it.

Develop a thicker skin. Let people speak freely.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

You thought you can get rid of us? Lol

[Mohammed Futurewala @MFuturewala]

Stop this theatrics of travelling in public transport in India… It is embarrassing and already exposed Nitin Gadkari ji… Instead focus on your promise of providing fuel for 15-20 rs a litre, chalo chhodo try 60-70 a litre…

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Valid question @Dev_Fadnavis, Please direct your question to the current PM @narendramodi.

[Ram Subramanian @iramsubramanian]

Instead of giving up foreign travel or buying gold Indians can give up voting for Narendra Modi, it will save more than the economy.

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — the world is one family. That was India's trajectory since 1991. An embrace of the world after 44 years of controls. Easier imports, easier investments. An opening up.

But now we seem to have shifted back.
Swadeshi has replaced Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. The desire to curb foreign travel, gold, imports. What begins as a speech becomes a diktat. Blamed on the US-Iran war, called "temporary." But things that are called temporary often become permanent.
Gold customs duty raised overnight from 6% to 15%. Overseas remittance curbs likely next. The nation is turning inward — import substitution over export competitiveness, fortress over freedom.

As Churchill said in 1946 - "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Another one is now descending. This one of our own making.

I raise a toast, ladies and gentlemen. To our vanishing economic freedoms.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

@ShivAroor Time for India to abolish the Governor post.
Governors cost the public over ₹700 crore annually & live in the biggest palaces of any state.
They serve NO function that cannot be handled by existing institutions.
End this colonial nonsense. 😀

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

🧠 Smart Risk-Taking Principles for Traders according to N. N. Taleb:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (former options trader & author of Antifragile, Skin in the Game, The Black Swan) doesn’t preach “risk management.” He teaches smart risk-taking: survive at all costs, love volatility, and stack asymmetry in your favor.

1. Never risk ruin
First rule: probability of total wipeout must be exactly zero. One blow-up ends the game forever. Protect your core capital like your life depends on it (it does).

2. Use the Barbell Strategy
85-90% in ultra-safe assets (T-bills, cash equivalents).
10-15% in extreme high-convexity bets (small, asymmetric upside).
Skip the “mediocre middle” entirely. This is how you stay antifragile.

3. Demand positive asymmetry (convexity)
Only take positions where downside is capped and upside is unlimited. Think long options or tail-risk hedges—not symmetric bets or leveraged long/short where you can lose more than you risk.

4. Skin in the Game
If you’re trading other people’s money without personal downside, you’re not a trader—you’re a risk-transfer artist. Real edges come from bearing your own losses.

5. Build antifragility, not just robustness
Don’t just survive volatility—design your book so shocks make you stronger. Small, repeated stressors (hormesis) compound into edge. Fragile systems break; antifragile ones improve.

6. Seek optionality
Pay small premiums for flexibility. Keep multiple paths open. Tinkering beats rigid plans. Every small convex bet you can afford to lose is a free lottery ticket for positive Black Swans.

7. Via Negativa > prediction
Stop trying to forecast. Instead, subtract fragilities: cut leverage, kill complex models, avoid anything you don’t deeply understand. What you remove is more powerful than what you add.

8. Distrust models & “risk management” theater
Fat tails dominate. Gaussian assumptions are intellectual fraud in trading. Study real risk-takers who’ve survived multiple cycles—not theorists with no skin in the game.

9. Tinker with many small convex risks
Take lots of cheap, high-upside bets that can’t hurt you much individually. Most will lose small. The rare winners pay for everything + more. This is systematic “risk-loving.”

10. Precautionary principle on steroids
When uncertainty is high (always), be hyper-conservative with size and leverage. The blow-up you fear won’t look like the last one. Prepare for what you can’t predict.

Bottom line (Taleb’s style):
Smart risk isn’t about avoiding volatility—it’s about positioning so volatility becomes your edge. Survive long enough, stay convex, keep skin in the game, and the market eventually pays you for being antifragile.

[copwatchindia @copwatchbharat]

This is how the Police Frames individuals who questions them why they aren't following the law

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGupta325]

This is how NDA has steadily burdened investors and traders layering taxes, increasing them budget after budget.

FIIs keep pulling money out, the currency keeps weakening and yet, the FM says, "Humara rupaya theek kar raha hai".

Keep hoping, shock absorbers!!

Pic- @Niftee50

[Drunk Journalist @drunkJournalist]

Crude oil was $65 for like the last 3-4 years.

Indian Basket - $65 per barrel
Discount from Russia - $10

Available to India - $55.
1 barrel =159 litres.

Per litre = ₹31

20% Ethanol Blend = 25+ 3 = 28

Refinery+Freight+OMC = ₹9

Price to the petrol pump = ₹37
Dealer's commission = ₹4

Petrol price to the consumers pre-tax = ₹41

How much the govt charged you? ₹100.

The govt never passed the benefits when the Crude was oil was low and we also got discount from Russia.

and now the govt is shamelessly claiming they haven't changed rates when the crude oil has gone up to $110 when we have already been paying fuel prices at the same rate as Crude Oil prices at $120 for the last few years.

[Suraj Kumar Bauddh @SurajKrBauddh]

"Goonism of a girl." 😡🚨

A girl from Jaipur brutally damaged a boy's bike with her helmet and stone over a minor touch, even after he apologized.

She also threatened him in front of cops and said, "Police can't do anything to me."

Is she right? Why isn't police arresting her?

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Much of this traces back to the vision of @JayShah who was 19 years in 2008. whose career in cricket started in 2013 by becoming the joint secretary of the Gujarat Cricket Association.

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

https://t.co/B1O8IhGQdC

[Yazz LFC @YazzLFC]

DO NOT question my loyalty to this club ... EVER!!!

Half of you don't know this feeling 😤