MarvellaS 🇮🇳

Systems Integrator, Social Entrepreneur, Productive Energy Services enabler , Coffee Blender, Tea-Totaller, Middle Path believer.

[𝙍𝘼𝙅𝙀𝙎𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙃 @imacuriosguy]

This is the tale of two tables.

The first was posted by the OP.
The second by a responder highlighting what he sees as the NDA’s below par performance.

Both tables contain facts, half truths and misleading conclusions.

More importantly, they are arguing about different things.

One measures arteries.
The other measures blood flow.

Roads, airports, ports, railways and power lines are the arteries of an economy. India has undoubtedly built many of them.

But arteries alone do not create prosperity.

The blood is private investment, factories, exports, jobs, skills, innovation and rising productivity.

The uncomfortable questions are these:

If the arteries have expanded so dramatically, why has manufacturing’s share of GDP fallen? Why are exports underperforming? Why is private investment still nowhere near the boom years?

A significant part of recent investment growth has come from government capex, much of it financed through borrowing, while private capex remains far less robust than many had hoped despite one of the largest corporate tax cuts in Indian history in 2019.

Government spending can build assets. It cannot permanently substitute for entrepreneurs risking their own capital.

A shiny airport is not economic success.
A factory operating at full capacity is.
A six lane highway is not economic success.
Thousands of trucks carrying goods to global markets are.

Airports, expressways and bridges make for spectacular drone footage. Schools, hospitals, research labs, courts and skill development centres rarely do.

Yet history suggests these unglamorous institutions are what ultimately separate rich nations from middle income ones.

The difference between a rich nation and a nation that merely looks rich is usually found in its schools, hospitals, courts, laboratories and factories, not its airport terminals.

[Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) @dibakardutta_]

#Important: Just learnt that TISS student Shrutika Baranwal was one of the victims who passed away in this tragedy. She was just 26 years old.

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@GermanSimply_ Don't tell me all F letter words are pronounced with V sound . WTV

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@itsKajolD We thought it was Kashmir all along. It was Poland ? Cha u ki matra banaya sabko .

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@_SupportAnimals @KalamCenter @TVKVijayHQ Also , the extremely radicalised groups anywhere in the world are usually the most educated . Education itself doesn't mean anything without social checks and balances .

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@peeleraja This whole vegetarian cuisine push is perceived as a RSS- Brahmin lobby pressure , but in all probability it's more a Jain /Marwari influence . Many Brahmins across India eat non-veg , meat,fish etc

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

'India 1' according to the Blume Report is some 140 million people - the size of Germany. Why do we keep harping about exports like it's 1980 and we need the forex?

Invest in supply chain & cold storage Mamaji 🙏

There is enough market for fruits and vegetables within India if quality doesn't degrade from harvest to retail.

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@Aunindyo2023 Mamta ekla cholo re . Raaste me kuch ho gaya to merko bachao re

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@AMIT_GUJJU What is wrong with Saurav is meeting leaders from the BJP? Or joining it if he chooses to . BJP is not a party from Mars .

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@SanSip Also due to the juxtaposition by the Haemoglobin In the Atmosphere, because Bengalis are sophisticated rhetoricians, intoxicated by the exuberance of their own verbosity

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@Aunindyo2023 Hindi has always been the aspirational language in Odisha too, especially in college campuses . Thanks to the Mumbai film industry and the popular film songs . Nothing to do with recent political maneuvers

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

Congress should have supported Mamata

Muslims should have supported Mamata

Left should have supported Mamata

Meanwhile, Mamata had no obligation to support anyone, except herself.

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@tavleen_singh What bureaucracy ? Hasn't everything been centralized ,reportedly , under the PMO?

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@JyotiDevSpeaks This rowdy language is being applauded ? Coming from a leader who is still young & in the making .

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@SauravDassss We must copy the American norm of not more than 2 terms for any elected CM/ PM to break the self serving coteries & personality fiefdoms that inevitably come about if someone is perennially in power. Of course elections have to be fought fairly & not like wars.

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@vinodkapri From my limited interactions with upper , middle class urban folk in Kolkatta it appears that they are likely to switch this time . Not sure about what the rural mood is and also how the big city sentiment affects the aggregate voting outcome of the state

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@sathyaonX @san_x_m I didn't know until now that she is SM Krishna's daughter

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@KanojiaPJ Even Tendulkar for that matter . I think he got Bharat Ratna also a bit too soon.

[Prashant Kanojia @KanojiaPJ]

I never understood why this Harbhajan Singh was in Rajyasabha? I never saw him speaking in parliament or taking part in any discussion.

He could have spoken about Punjab farmers, but was busy playing an irrelevant league with Afridi.

Mostly such irrelevant people in Parliament are for a couple of reasons.

Security/Bunglow in Lutyens
Red Passport

He will always remain the Gaddar of Punjab !

[MarvellaS 🇮🇳 @Esskayemo]

@sabeer India votes mostly on emotional issues that appeal to the tribal basic instincts -caste ,religion , group etc. Rarely ever on issues that affect our daily lives viz green jobs clean water/water/food. These crop up only if there is some corruption angle attached to the subject