ARVIND BISHNOI

Stands with what I feel right. Country first.

[ARVIND BISHNOI @BishnoiArvind]

So Apparantly, one ges discount on Medicines purchased, only if they share their Mobile numbers with the Pharmacy team. Otherwise, Zero discount. What kind of scam is this
@ApolloPharmacy ?

[Tushar ॐ♫₹ @Tushar_KN]

Let's start the day with morning Aarti at Puri Jagannath Temple 😊

ଜୟ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ 🙏

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Honest feedback for the GoI to consider, offered as a well-wisher:

1. E20 is a massive issue. Just because people aren't protesting in the streets doesn't mean it isn't. There is a simmering anger everywhere.

2. The root cause of this mess is singular: someone decided it was acceptable to ignore the National Policy on Biofuels 2018's plan to introduce E20 in 2030, which would have allowed older, non-compliant vehicles to phase out naturally. Instead, E20 was rolled out despite the fact that most vehicles on the road are not calibrated to run on it.

3. There is no "lobby" behind this public frustration. If the govt believes there is, they should expose the nexus and let citizens decide for themselves. Otherwise, ministers and spokespersons are only making things worse by using "lobbies" and "deep states" as defensive arguments.

4. Vehicle performance is suffering. Drivers are experiencing a drop in mileage and damage to parts. After months of denial, even Nitin Gadkari and Hardeep Puri have acknowledged "some issues" with Ethanol.

5. If the goal is true energy security, the focus and push must shift toward EVs, alongside exploring nuclear energy as a primary power source. The govt should encourage and incentivize EV adoption through subsidies and a robust infrastructure network. Ethanol, in the way it is currently being implemented, is doing more harm than good.

6. The solution is to provide a choice between E0 and E20. If the current fuel infrastructure cannot support both, E20 should be rolled back to E10 until 2030. This will allow older cars and bikes to be phased out naturally before moving forward. And also, do not introduce E27 or whatever is next till the new fleet is E27 compliant and all E20 cars are phased out, unless there is an infrastructure in place to dispense both in future.

[kapil bishnoi @Kapil_Jyani_]

पेट्रोल में जब तक इथेनॉल मिलाया जा रहा है…

तब तक ठीक हैं…

क्योंकि पेट्रोल गाड़ियाँ रखने वाले शरीफ़ लोग होते हैं…😂

ऑल्टो, वेगन आर, स्विफ़्ट, आई 20, क्रेटा वग़ैरह वग़ैरह….

अगर डीज़ल में इथेनॉल मिलाने के बारे में सोचा भी…

तो तुम्हारी सोच लेना…

क्योंकि डीज़ल गाड़ियाँ रखने वाले बड़े ख़ूँख़ार लोग होते हैं…

थार, स्कॉर्पियो, फ़ॉर्च्यूनर वग़ैरह वग़ैरह…!!

और डीज़ल इंजन केवल इंजन नहीं होता…

ये ग्राहकों का Passion होता है, emotion होता है…

उसके साथ छेडछाड बर्दाश्त नहीं की जाएगी…😎😎

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

I know an employee.
I'll keep his name hidden.
He's been working for the same company for six years.
He's never been late.
He always helps the team.
He likes to work overtime without being asked.

But when the performance review came out?
His grade was only "adequate."
Because manager said, "The target hasn't been achieved."
He kept quiet when he heard that.
But what never shows in the numbers—
are the nights he spent working on projects that failed midway.
It's the breaks he traded to help his coworkers.
It's the mentality he maintained to keep his team from breaking apart.
He just said quietly,
"So all this time, it's just numbers that count, huh?"

His manager didn't answer.
Because in the appraisal system,
there's no column for "loyalty," "empathy," or "fighting tooth and nail."
On a spreadsheet, he's just a row.
But in real life, he's the backbone of his team.
And therein lies the problem:
Human performance can't be fully measured like data on a dashboard. Sometimes the most valuable things are the things that aren't recorded in the evaluation report.

[Ido Halbany @IdoHalbany]

What a mistake October 7 was.
How stupid those Palestinians are.

Think about it - their insane thirst for Jewish blood, led by Yahya Sinwar, drove them to carry out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

And what did they achieve? Nothing at all.
On the contrary - they woke the sleeping giant and reminded it why it exists.

Those horrific events on that cursed Saturday led Israel to change the Middle East forever:
* Yahya Sinwar - eliminated *
* Mohammed Deif - eliminated *
* Mohammed Sinwar - eliminated *
* Marwan Issa - eliminated *
* Ismail Haniyeh - eliminated *
* Hassan Nasrallah - eliminated *
* Hezbollah’s entire leadership - eliminated *
* Senior commanders of Radwan Force - eliminated *
* Senior Houthi leaders - eliminated *
* Senior figures of the Islamist regime - eliminated *
* Senior commanders of the IRGC - eliminated *

Gaza is destroyed, the US is more involved than ever in the ME, Assad is no longer in Syria, and Iran’s nuclear program is in its final moments.

And today, at last, Ali Khamenei - the dictator, the murderer, and the financier of terror - has been eliminated. Hopefully, the Iranian people will take their country back, and in time, make peace with Israel.

All because the Palestinians couldn’t restrain themselves and chose to murder, rape, and kidnap Jews.

One stupid decision that ensured there'll be no Palestinian state, and that Israel will remain here forever.

What a mistake.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Some people borrow your money
and don’t return it on time. No message. No update, unless you ask, and they feel no bad about it.

And then there are people who feel awkward even asking for their own money back.

Strange contrast! One feels no discomfort owing money. The other feels guilt demanding what’s theirs. Psychology is funny like that: shamelessness comes from low conscience, while hesitation comes from too much of it.

Excessively conscientious people are genuinely good people. They have strong inner morality, empathy, and a deep sense of responsibility. They don’t need supervision to do the right thing. In a high-trust society, such people become the backbone of social order.

But in a low-trust society like ours, the same traits turn into vulnerabilities. When others operate with entitlement, weak accountability, and opportunism, morality becomes asymmetrical: one side carries guilt, the other carries none. As a result, goodness gets exploited.

Moral: Being kind with the kind is important, but being shameless with the shameless is even more important. Empathy without boundaries is an open invitation to exploitation.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Azharuddin was loved by Indians and was made captain, but moment he got caught in match-fixing:

“I’m targeted for my religion.”

Hamid Ansari stayed at top posts, later became VP. Nobody objected. Moment his tenure completed:

“Musalman dara hua hai.”

Sanjay Dutt, a top actor, loved by the masses. The moment he got arrested in the 1992 Mumbai blast–related cases:

“I’m targeted because my mother was a Muslim.”

Aryan Khan, a superstar’s son. Living a private life, loved by superstar fans. The moment he got arrested in drug-related cases:

“He is targeted for being a Muslim.”

AR Rahman, one of the most loved composers in India. The moment his work dried up because his kind of music faded and he didn’t put in enough effort to catch up:

“I think I get less work for communal reasons.”

All the achievements are only theirs; failures aren’t. Failures are of the people who “target them for their religion". Bro, you were of the same religion when people were loving, celebrating, and supporting you. If religion were an issue, you wouldn’t have got the fame, money, and idolatry, but you never acknowledge that. When everything is going right, religion is invisible. It appears only when accountability begins.

[ARVIND BISHNOI @BishnoiArvind]

@cadalukaanubhav Interested

[Kunal Bahl @1kunalbahl]

Saw this 500 yr old Italian map of India (referred as "Indostan") in a Florence museum from the Medici collections.
What struck me wasn’t the accuracy, but the mindset behind it.
It reflects a time when India was seen as something to understand and trade with, not something to rule.
It’s shown as a civilisation made up of many kingdoms, rivers, and cultures. Look harder and you can find mentions of Gujarat, Orissa, Deccan, Bengal, Malabar. Remember, this is a 500yr old map.
No borders. No rulers. No “ownership”.
Just geography, trade, and prosperity.
Maps tell you how the world sees you.
This one reminds you that before colonisation, India was already seen as vast, wealthy, and complex.
It also reminds us how much our country hasn't changed.
History often begins earlier than we are taught.
And, it repeats itself.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[प्रत्यंचा अमोघ 🚩🇮🇳🇮🇳🚩 @Pratyancha007]

मुझे तो उल्टा ही पता था..!! 🤦‍♀️
लेकिन सभी से शादी वाले वीडियो में लगा देते हैं...!!

[Balu Gorade @BaluGorade]

Ford EcoSport:

- Launched in 2013
- Safe, spacious, fun to drive
- Sold 40-50k units a year
- Total sales 5.5 lakh
- Created the sub-4m SUV segment

But once Nexon, Brezza and Venue took over, EcoSports sales dropped fast.

Ford couldn't keep the India business profitable, losses kept piling up for years.

Finally, they shut operations in 2022.

Still, EcoSport is a hot seller in the second hand market.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

The year is 1948. India has just become free and is trying to have a tryst with destiny. And in a country with endless possibilities, you are a 27-year-old man from an affluent family.

You have also studied in prestigious institutions like Loyola College and College of Engineering Guindy and have been given a scholarship from the Govt of India to go to the USA and study Dairy engineering.

You go to the USA and realize that studying metallurgy and nuclear engineering is more useful and interesting than studying techniques of extracting milk from cows. You follow your instinct and successfully complete your course.

You are now a nuclear engineer. And in a world that has just gone nuclear, the opportunities you have are limitless. The world is at your feet.

Then the Govt of India becomes a reverse Lannister calls in its debt. They want you to work for them for a limited period as an obligation to whatever they did for you.

You have no choice but to come back.

You hope you are sent to glamourous locations like Bombay or Madras where you can spend your obligatory time in comfort and luxury. You are an America Return Nuclear engineer after all.

But the Govt of India cares as much about your designations and qualifications as a Nokia 3310 cares about a drop. So, they play a cruel joke upon you.

They send you to a small decrepit town in Gujarat which doesn't even have electricity. Your accommodation is a rundown Garage and the only sign of life around you are the mosquitos, who are trying to taste your blood.

The town is called Anand. And the only Anand you have there is its name. Else it is all despair.

You, an affluent gentleman from south India, who doesn't speak a word of Gujarati, who has never lived in a village, are now stuck in a god foresaken village in the middle of nowhere. And You want to get out of this god forsaken place on the first chance you get.

Then something happens.

You start going around the town. You start speaking to people. You understand their way of life. You understand what they want. Without you realizing you start falling in love with the place. You want to do something for them.

And then you create a revolution.

A revolution that has changed the face and fate of India.

A revolution whose gifts we are still reaping 65 years after it started.

And You are the one who started it all.

You are Dr Verghese Kurien.

Operation Flood was, is and will be one of the greatest movements India has ever had.

We went from a country that used to import milk powder from New Zealand and other countries to becoming the largest milk producing country in the world, in 30 years.

It gave livelihoods to close to more than 100 million farmers over the years and has lifted more than 50 million people out of poverty and starvation. If you count the people emancipated by Operation flood, it would be the 30th largest country in the world, ahead of Spain, South Korea and Argentina.

Today, we move the global dairy market and it is singularly because of Dr Kurien.

And he didn't stop at dairy.

He realized that India was heavily dependent on Southeast Asia for its edible oil needs. So he got all the oilseeds growers together and started Dhara, India's own edible oil brand.

He so thoroughly disrupted the edible oil industry that for a brief period of time, he significantly reduced our dependance on palm oil.

Unfortunately, our babus intervened and as they usually do, destroyed it all. But that's the story for another day.

When Karnataka's Cocoa farmers went to him to seek salvation from Cadbury's oppression, he created Amul Chocolates and created a big dent in their market share. He also ensured Cadbury treated the farmers with a lot more respect and fairness, now that the farmers had option.

When Indira Gandhi complained about farmers not getting fair price for their vegetables, he started Safal, a vegetable selling co-operative under the NDDB umbrella and made it a success.

Now most of this is known.

But what we don't know more about was Dr Kurien the innovator.

Dr Kurien and his friend JJ Dalaya were the first in the world to synthesize buffalo milk and convert it to powder. This allowed us to store and supply milk during times of deficiencies.

He was the first to create condensed milk or as you call it, Milkmaid / Mithai Mate, from buffalo milk and ended Nestle's monopoly in this segment for good.

He was also the first to pack a dense substance as oil in a Tetrapak, something that their own Swedish engineer's thought was impossible. He made it possible.

I can keep going on and on.

In today's world, words like Legend, GOAT, superstar are thrown around very very loosely.

People who hit balls with a stick, give useless expressions on a giant screen and make cringy unwatchable 30 sec videos on some apps or crack some vulgarly unfunny jokes are given these epithets today.

So, what would you call a guy who saved India from hunger and starvation? What would you call a guy who prevented India from malnutrition and stunted growth? What would you call a guy who made a basic commodity like milk, accessible to a billion people?

We don't have words for that. Maybe we need to invent some.

One more very commonly misplaced word today is disruption.

Anything and everything are disruption now. The development of an app, delivering grocery or food in 10 minutes or writing an additional line of code are all what passes off as disruption today.

That is not disruption.

Disruption is where you create something that changes the lives of people forever. Disruption happens when what you create, rewards people for Generations.

Disruption is where you help poor farmers break the vicious circle of poverty and throw them 354 steps up the economic ladder

Disruption is not how you change how people do certain things; Disruption is when you change the people themselves.

Dr Kurien was India's first and the greatest disruptor.

Dr Kurien is India's true GOAT.

So, Happy Birthday Dr Kurien. India is grateful that we had you walking on our soil. Thank you!!

P:S: The attached image is that of the recreated Garage that Dr Kurien first stayed. Garages have a unique connection to the world of tech, as a lot of tech companies started from there and are worth some bajillion dollars today.

This is a Garage that lifted 60 million Indians out of poverty.

With all due respect to HP and Google, this is the greatest Garage of them all.

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

Manoj bajpayee is literally everyone who is born before 2000

[CA Paaras Gangwal @ThetaVegaCap]

Amazon Prime is no More Prime

They are showing advertisement in every 10-15 min

It’s time to stop their subscription

#AmazonPrime

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Watched Lakshya again today.

We talk about Swades flopping despite being a great film, Lakshya deserves the same conversation. It remains one of the finest films made in India, and it still bothers me that it didn’t work.

A brilliant coming-of-age drama, great acting, outstanding music, and none of the forced melodrama typical of Indian war films, yet it still wasn’t enough.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

17 wickets fall in a day at Eden Gardens, India: terrible pitch, what a shame, this is not what cricket lovers want to see.

19 wickets fall in a day at Perth, Australia: true pitch, what brilliant bowling, this is exactly what cricket lovers want to see.

[CA Paaras Gangwal @ThetaVegaCap]

Life of Elder Son !!

#Life

[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

Children are abroad. Parents are in India.

Parents in their late 50s and 60s are enthusiastic to visit kids abroad. They do trips once a year or perhaps once in two years.

Everyone is happy - both parents and kids.

Enter parents into their early 70s, they don't have that much patience to travel for so long. Also, now grandkids are older and busy with their studies. Their son/daughter and their spouses are busy with jobs. They feel lonely abroad. But they still make trips, a bit grudgingly now......

Enter parents into their late 70s, they refuse to leave India. By then they have some health issues and they don't want to burden their children by becoming unwell abroad. Add to this health costs above. Travel becomes like a big task. They are happy to be in India and ask kids to visit them.

Some kids visit, some don't. Perhaps visa issues, perhaps job issues, perhaps other problems....

Kids' life abroad continues as usual.

Parents in India quite lonely.

This is the common scenario nowadays in Telugu speaking states.

#elderlycare