Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein

A quirky, liberal take on all that's farcical, absurd and depressing in India or as some call it Aryavart, the land of acche din. (Small India Radio production)

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

EPISODE ALERT- Aditya and Raj are joined by Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis to talk about the newfound global popularity of the Indian tourist. The reasons behind it and what could be done about it.

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[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

This!

Cute inocuous tone me regressive baatein bol jaatey hain Tauji.

[Kaustubh Naik @mundcar]

That Kamlesh Tau of Teen Taal is more dangerous than 10 Sudhir Chaudharys put together.

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

Me after buying a 3bhk on 12th floor for 4Cr. Then finding out fire brigade can water only upto 6th floor.

[PCCI Podcast @PCCIpod]

Welcome to chaos programming ft. @BhaJaPod
@DiscourseDancer
@devellix

It's called Trishul, Homeopathy & The Joy of Watching Sport

https://t.co/Qpg8TXap9G

[CoachKnapovic 🇮🇪🇩🇪🇰🇷 @CoachKnapovic]

Originally, I criticised the game's graphics when I first watched the trailer. Since then I have reflected on my original comment and feel somewhat embarrassed by my instant move towards negativity.

Gaming has lost its way and has become too focused on the wrong things. At the end of the day all we should be looking for is a game we enjoy. No game will ever be absolutely perfect.

It's too easy to blame negativity on having a rough time. There really isn't any excuse for being negative about a game before it comes out and you play it extensively.

I'll definitely be giving this game a proper go and if it is as fun as the trailer suggests it will be, then that's great! I know a lot of gam devs and teams work very hard on these things and we should show a bit more appreciation for what is an incredibly difficult job.

Come June 11th give it a go! #FIFAWorldCup2026

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

At some point in the near future, some techbro will suggest using AI to check and grade exam papers, and Vishwaguru will consider that as a viable option.

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

In the absence of these fundamentals and good uni education that encourages the art of questioning, you will keep picking a new fad to invest on, and keep playing catch-up every time. You invest in fundamentals, it will take time but eventually produce something genuinely novel

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

India will not produce anything innovative unless we invest in fundamentals in both natural and social sciences. Need STEM education that develops critical thinking required to come up with interesting questions in fundamental science instead of going after the latest fad.

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

India will never produce an NVIDIA, and it has nothing to do with talent. R&D is the purest form of investment, and the central bank has spent decades making investment the dumbest thing you can do with a rupee.

I've been surfing the semiconductor wave for a while now, reading 10-Ks for fun. Spent last month in the Bay Area and the gap between India and the US is not a gap; it's a different universe. Conversations about agentic AI and the next decade of hardware, with my boomer relatives Waymo-ing around SF and self-driving home on Tesla FSD like it's normal. Nobody there thinks any of this is remarkable; they already live in the future.

NVIDIA spends nearly twice as much on R&D as every listed company in India combined. Silicon Motion, the world's leading maker of NAND flash controllers and around since 1995, ploughs 29.7% of revenue back into R&D. Micron runs 10.2%, NVIDIA 9.9%, on revenue bases that dwarf anything we have. India Inc? 0.85% of turnover, and half our listed companies report zero R&D at all.

The easy move is to lambast our promoters and the dhandomaxxing capitalist class, or the foreign MNCs running India as a glorified offshoring unit, or the babus who fund nothing useful. Satisfying. But Wrong. The reason no rational Indian founder pours money into frontier R&D is that there is genuinely no payoff at the end of it. Why?

1. R&D compounds, and compounding punishes laggards. At the edge of science a 1-2% gain is a moat; Intel spent 20+ years performing impossible physics every 24 months because Moore's Law was the business model, and that consistency makes them one of the goated companies of all time even after they got mogged recently. NVIDIA lives the same way today: invent at the limit or cease to exist. If you're 50% behind, no quantum of innovation closes that. You never touch the high end. You stay a mass-market producer of things that already exist. India is precisely there.

2. The supply side is the real thesis, and it's monetary. Two decades of high inflation, high money-printing, high nominal rates. That regime subsidises consumption and taxes patience. R&D is the longest-duration, highest-variance bet on the board; it is the first thing a 8% risk-free rate kills. Frontier R&D only ever gets funded two ways: a psychopathically risk-tolerant capitalist with cheap capital, or a state with Stalin-grade control. The USSR took agrarian peasants to the first man in space in 20 years; China built its own version. India has neither the state capacity, the political will, nor the balance sheet to do that. So nobody does it.

Talent was never the bottleneck. Capital structure was. If you want a SpaceX or a TSMC born here, you need an environment where a conglomerate can deploy $10B and sleep at night: a low-rate regime that makes long-duration investment rational, IP and patent courts that actually function, and policy that doesn't get rewritten every 2-3 years on a minister's whim. Stability is the input. Innovation is the output.

Bay Area versus Bombay, we are several universes apart, and you cannot print your way across that distance; you can only compound your way there, and we've spent years optimising for the opposite. The gap won't be bridged. With luck, it narrows.

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

You cannot call any basic research that's not immediately profitable as a waste of tax payers money and then expect the same pool of people to produce path breaking innovation. Without fundamentally good physics, chemistry, math or biology there will be no gamechanging innovation

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

By this logic, Nandu, Amit bhai and his son should all have been forced to do Wren n Martin crash courses before they assumed any office of power.

[Lost in Paradise 🇮🇳 @Lost_human19]

Did offered ?

RIP grammar.

And they want to change the education minister..
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[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

BJP should just bulk purchase 70% of all MPs and MLAs from every opposition party and claim they are the BJP-allied faction of these parties get the party symbol.

Guha can then write a followup piece in a few years where he says people do not have time for 5-th gen dynasts.

[𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢 @Amar_Bharti_]

I was waiting for this episode for so long. Very interesting!

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

Accompanying piece-

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

"China's tourism problem emerged from sudden prosperity. Ours emerges from sudden prosperity filtered through a society shaped by hierarchy, scarcity, low trust, and an intensely transactional relationship with status." @DiscourseDancer https://t.co/32rUi4eGTy

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

EPISODE ALERT- Aditya and Raj are joined by Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis to talk about the newfound global popularity of the Indian tourist. The reasons behind it and what could be done about it.

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[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

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[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

It finally happened. 😁

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Towards the end of this, I go into a lot of detail about how much I think Colombia can teach India. How visiting Colombia just a month before my India trip made me think of a lot of Indian problems in a completely different way. And it continues even with Pablo hippos & Vantara.

[Niraj Deokar @nirajdeokar]

@BhaJaPod @gauravsabnis My favourite twitter friend on my favourite podcast.

[Shubha Dutta @ShubhaDutta11]

@BhaJaPod @gauravsabnis Finallllllyyyyyyyy.... Yessssssss.

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

@shenoy_vishal https://t.co/83OZphl2Nv

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

Melody khake ye episode sun lo friends

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

EPISODE ALERT- Gang gets together to talk about the Norwegian mood that the PM found himself into and then of course the whole Melody saga.
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