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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Influencers love pushing "morning routines" to flush out toxins after a weekend of heavy eating and drinking.
​Medically speaking, what is the best way to DETOX?

A) Warm lemon water
B) Apple cider vinegar
C) Green juices
D) Detoxing is a scam

[GC @BotoPython]

@prakdadlani Give him pros and cons and let him make the decision

[Major Pawan Kumar, Shaurya Chakra (Retd) 🇮🇳 @major_pawan]

Why is national media not covering this horrific incident which happened in Ganganagar, Rajasthan

A 13 YEAR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN GANGRAPED BY 30 MEN FOR FIVE DAYS

Hello @BhajanlalBjp ji If I were the Chief minister of Rajasthan I would have ordered my police to gather all these 30 bastards at Jawahar Circle in Jaipur and would have ordered police to first chop off their penises and then hang them upside down till they die so that nobody else can even dare to touch any girl

Set the norm now
It’s now or never
Kill all of them

#BetiBachao

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

A daycare employee at Capgemini's Bengaluru campus couldn't bear the abuse of the kids at the centre.

She reported it to supervisor, but instead of taking action, they fired her. She then became a whistleblower and leaked videos that exposed the abuse.

In the videos, toddlers were made to sit inside the drum of a front-loading washing machine, had water sprayed into their mouths using a toilet jet spray, were locked inside bathrooms, and were forced into narrow, water-filled pipes to frighten them. The videos triggered outrage, forcing authorities to act.

Today, according to media reports, the police have arrested the whistleblower only for allegedly "leaking sensitive videos." Lol! What a system! A poor woman with a clear conscience stood up to the powerful and went public, not for personal gain or with any malicious intent, but solely to protect those children. And she's the one who gets arrested.

[News Arena India @NewsArenaIndia]

Andhra Pradesh mechanic builds homemade escalator to help wife climb stairs.

A 65-year-old mechanic, Satti Siva Narayana Reddy from Arthamuru village in East Godavari district, has designed and built a homemade escalator to help his wife, Satyaveni (58), climb the 21 steps leading to the first floor of their house.

He added that the idea had been planned two years ago but was completed recently.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

In 2000, 3 days before Christmas, 3 LeT jihadis opened indiscriminate fire at the Red Fort and killed 2 soldiers of the Indian Army and 1 security guard.

Three days before Christmas.

By Christmas, one of them was in police custody. Paki Muhammad Arif, alias Ashfaq, was picked from an apartment more than 11 hours away by road. Along with a pistol and live rounds.

Much is said and written of police lethargy in this country but how often do you hear of such swift aprehension?

By March 2001, a chargesheet was already in with Arif and 21 other names.

Know when the trial began?

September.

Not for all 22, but only 11.

A Lashkar terrorist is caught with evidence and trial takes 7 months to even commence. When do you think the verdict could’ve come?

October 31.

2005.

Thankfully, the verdict is in favor of the State. Death penalty for Arif, Jail for his wife Rehmana Yusuf Farooqui (bitch is Indian, by the way).

So at least one jihadi is hanged. Finally!

Not so soon.

We have a “rule of law.” Jihadi goes to High Court.

Remember, more than 230 witnesses have been recorded in support of the verdict at the trial court. Of course the higher court would agree. It does. But takes two whole years.

Hang him now?

Nope. Supreme Court.

This one agrees with the verdict too. But takes...hold your breath...4 years to say so.

We’re in 2011 now. Second half. Anyway, Supreme Court says you should hand, so you should hang, no?

Nope. Review petition, curative petition, yada yada yada...by the time we’re in 2014, the whole legal paradigm has shifted. A foreign terror convict (not accused, convict) who should have been hanged...has been made the basis for a change in the very SOP of Indian judiciary. Allow me to explain:

Earlier review petitions were heard in a closed-door setting inside judges’ chambers. No oral arguments were allowed. The judges would simply read the written files and pass an order. This is called “hearing by circulation” because the case papers are literally “circulated” among the judges rather than argued orally.

In Mumahhad Arif’s 2014 hearing, the SC ordered that this be changed to “open court hearing” for death row inmates.

The whole process was reset. Typically, a review or curative petition is only allowed once, that too within 30 days of the verdict. This ruling practically rendered all past reviews in the case immaterial and allowed a fresh petition for an open court hearing.

The highest court of the land just offered the terrorist a lifeline.

The lifeline is grabbed.

A fresh review petition is filed. Heard. And dismissed once again. But now we’re closing 2022.

Hanging finally?

Nope.

There’s still a final ace left to be played: The President of India.

A mercy plea is filed with Ms. Murmu. She rejected the plea (thank goodness)...

TWO YEARS LATER.

So trial lost, HC lost, SC lost, two reviews lost, President lost...NOW can we hang him finally?

Nope. Now it’s back to SC with a curative plea.

Just for the plea to be heard, we go from 2024 to 2026.

Jan 21 this year the SC agreed to examine a fresh curative plea from Arif based on “evolving jurisprudence regarding the death penalty,” putting his execution on hold once again.

As of this tweet, the Pakistani jihadi who opened indiscriminate fire at random unsuspecting Indians at the heart of its capital...

Remains as far from the noose as he was two decades ago.

The story of Indian judiciary.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

People get fined for overspeeding, wrong parking, no seatbelt and many other violations.

But no government official is ever punished for robbing citizens of their basic dignity on the road.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

Very very sad to see this sorry state of a national champion - Bulti Roy

Appeal to @YASMinistry to kindly support

cc @mansukhmandviya ji @SuvenduWB @OfficeOf_MM 🙏

[GC @BotoPython]

@Intrinsic_cycle Exactly what went through my mind while watching the series

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Doctors per million Indian population: 931. NGOs per million Indian population: 2357.

There are more NGOs in India than there are doctors.

[GC @BotoPython]

@BaluGorade

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

Yasin Malik’s men didn’t stop at raping the 27-year-old Kashmiri Hindu nurse Sarla Bhatt. They then murdered her, engraved the acronym ‘JKLF’ on her body, and mutilated it out of sheer contempt for her Hindu identity. After that, they issued multiple warnings to her family against cremating her remains according to Hindu rituals. The family still went ahead with the cremation, defying the threats. When they went to collect her cremated remains (asthi) later, a mob of around 200 Islamists descended upon the crematorium and stomped over them.

They didn’t stop even at that. They then bombed her family home with a grenade.

Do you really think all 200 of those monsters who showed up at the crematorium were foreign infiltrators, Pakistani terrorists, or JKLF members? These are the questions that make many Kashmiri Muslims very uncomfortable. The moment you raise these issues, especially when they present a narrative portraying their community as victims, they label you an Islamophobe or resort to similar accusations.

I have seen all kinds of Islamists, but the tribe in Kashmir is the craftiest. Many of them pretend to be atheists in private, yet their public behaviour and political leanings tell a completely different story. Very hard to take their words at face value.

[𝐁𝐚𝐚𝐩𝐮 𝐁𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚 @BapuBommaSpeaks]

In Presidium school, sector 31, Noida a 10 year old Girl child has found dead, and sedatives found in her organs.. no explanation.. no action.. no FIR for 23 days.. this mother is fighting alone..
a desperate mother asking the right questions.

WHO GAVE A SEDATIVE TO MY CHILD?
WHY WAS THE REPORT HIDDEN FROM ME FOR MONTHS?
WHY ALL 16 CCTV OF SCHOOL NOT WORKING ?
WHY IS EVERYONE SILENT?
WHY NO ARRESTS WERE MADE IN TEN MONTHS?
WHO IS BEHIND THIS?

Hello @noidapolice @UPPViralCheck @Uppolice @myogiadityanath @NCWIndia is this how you save girl child? When are you going to answer to this murder?

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Sharing something before I head to sleep.

Out of the 100s of DMs I receive and the conversations people have shared with me, one thing has stood out.

Many men are living a lonely life within their marriage

This generation of men is trying to do much more than what their father did. They’re working harder to earn more, helping with household responsibilities, and making a conscious effort to spend more time with their children.

I’m not saying this to glorify or compare them. I’m simply saying that many are genuinely trying.

Yet, many also feel that the recognition they receive within their own family has gone down. They feel reduced to a paycheck. Criticized for what they do, and criticized for what they don’t do.

Most husbands are only 3 or 4 years older than their spouse, yet they’re expected to make every major decision for the family. They haven’t seen much more of the world either, but they’re carrying enormous responsibility on their shoulders.

Speak with the men in your life.
Many of them are crumbling quietly.
Many of them are feeling deeply lonely.

[GC @BotoPython]

@Jansant @Ostrov_A Genocide the population should reduce but it keeps increasing in Gaza and arsehole sis u say anything when innocent people in Israel border were killed. U sow u reap

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The global chemical giants were smug. The multi-billion-dollar conglomerates of Europe & America looked at a newly independent India and saw a permanent, captive market. The narrative was unyielding: Developing nations can harvest crops, but they do not have the brains to manufacture the complex molecules required to protect them. India was forced to import vital agrochemicals & dyes at astronomical, monopolistic rates, draining the nation's wealth.

They did not account for a fiercely stubborn, eccentric Parsi man who possessed a manic obsession with chemical formulas & zero respect for Western monopolies.

This is the story of Dr. Keki Hormusji Gharda: the "Father of the Indian Agrochemical Industry." A man who used nothing but a rented shed, a wooden drum & raw intellectual defiance to orchestrate a molecular revolution that broke Western chemical empires forever.

In the 1960s, Western conglomerates like Sandoz, Bayer & Hoechst ruled the global chemical landscape. They guarded their patented chemical processes like nuclear launch codes. If an Indian farmer needed a specific pesticide to save his crop from devastation/a local textile mill needed high-quality dyes, they had to pay whatever extortionate price the Western giants demanded.

Keki Gharda was an anomaly. He had finished his PhD in the US on multiple prestigious scholarships & American university labs were practically begging him to stay. But in 1964, he returned to a struggling India. He did not have millions in venture capital. He did not have a grand lab.

With just ₹2 lakhs pooled together by his mother & sisters, Keki rented a small, primitive shed in Dombivli, near Bombay. The setup was so barren & crude that he literally used an empty wooden drum as his office table & a heavy chemical carboy as his chair.

The Strategy was reverse-engineer the world's most complex, patented molecules, bypass their expensive processes & manufacture them using cheap, indigenous "jugaad" chemistry.

Gharda directly took on the global monopoly of "German Blue" (Phthalocyanine) pigments & high-end pesticides. The European giants claimed their synthesis processes required rare, expensive catalysts & highly specialized infrastructure that India simply did not possess.

Keki locked himself in his sweltering, fumes-choked shed, working up to 16 hrs a day. Neighbors would literally ask his wife, Abaan, if Keki had a mistress because he never came home before midnight.

Her legendary reply? "Yes - Chemical Technology."

Through sheer genius, Gharda shattered the Western molecular blueprints. He invented entirely new, unpatented pathways to create the exact same high-performance molecules. In fact, he made them purer, cleaner & at a jaw-dropping fraction of the global cost.

When Gharda Chemicals unleashed its indigenously manufactured agrochemicals into the market, the global giants were pushed into absolute panic. MNCs that had ruthlessly controlled prices for decades were forced to slash their rates by 50% to 70% just to survive the "Gharda Effect."

He single-handedly democratized the Green Revolution for the Indian farmer.

The Western powers were so flummoxed by this 1 man demolition crew that in 2004, the American Institute of Chemists did something unprecedented: they awarded Keki Gharda the prestigious"Chemical Pioneer Award", making him the 1st Indian & the 1st Asian, to ever receive it. Global behemoths like DuPont eventually came knocking on his door, offering a staggering ₹1200+ crore to buy him out.

Keki looked at the mountain of Western money & walked away.

Why? Because his life was not about the ARR/personal luxury. Keki lived economically & wore simple clothes. When he passed away in late 2024, he did not leave his massive empire to corporate sharks.

He transferred 99% of his personal holdings & wealth into a philanthropic research trust dedicated to upgrading rural India, transforming his life's work into a permanent engine for public good.

Keki Gharda proved that true sovereignty is not just about drawing lines on a map; it is about owning the molecules that feed & protect your people. He showed the world that a brilliant mind sitting on an empty chemical carboy in a rented Indian shed could out-innovate the greatest labs of the Western world.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

[Parimal @Fintech03]

I am not saying any1 is 100% perfect, but the sheer amount of useless SM hate Bhavish receives is ridiculous! I am certain he does not care even a bit! The real estate on sovereign soil matters, the real estate on an algo means nothing.

I believe that if you constantly criticize this country, call it a difficult place to do business & move your parent HQs to Delaware/Singapore/Dubai, you can easily claim to be part of the elite Lutyens/Silicon Valley crowd.

Bhavish does completely opposite. He maintains his financial resources here, builds factories here, names his AI project Krutrim & actively brands Western tech monopolies as data colonizers.

To the self-loathing, colonized segment of Indian SM, being openly proud of India’s manufacturing potential is seen as cringe/nationalistic marketing. They track his delivery delays/software bugs with psychotic joy, praying for his downfall just to prove their own pessimistic view of India right.