@rishibagree At one point-BBC reporter questioning Bangladeshi why will he not consider returning? Bangladeshi still responds he won't as that's the reality that he came illegally. Shame on BBC!
@VishnuNDTV Agree the Evisa portal has these minor issues-however am amazed at the speed of processing Evisa's. The Indian Authorities work 24/7 and approve visas mostly within 24 hours. Last week only-had applied Evisa on a saturday barely 72 hours to the flight, got approval Sunday. Kudos!
@sagarikaghose Incredible! Delhi feels like one big happy family this morning. Strangers smiling at each other, morning walkers hugging. Hope it lasts:-)
Dear Bibek Da @bibekdebroy@DebroyBibek,
As a distinguished economist, scholar, and author, you have left a legacy that touches every one of us lucky enough to have known you. Your commitment to intellectual rigor, the pursuit of reform, and the preservation of our cultural heritage was not just something we witnessed but something we felt deeply in each conversation and every insight. Your work across so many fields will continue to resonate with us, shaping how we think, act, and strive to make a difference.
I found in you a thinker who dared to challenge orthodox views, which resonated with me powerfully. Through your policy work, you always advocated structural reform, market liberalization, and economic growth strategies centered on deregulation and reduced government intervention. Your prolific authorship blended deep analysis with an easily accessible language to make complex topics understandable to a wide audience. Your extensive writings have become cornerstones of economic scholarship in India.
Our professional paths crossed during a critical phase of India’s economic history. During this phase, I benefited from your invaluable guidance, which combined your depth of knowledge with a clarity of thought and vision that I found rare. Your insights into the process of persuasion in policymaking provided critical inputs that benefited me enormously. Not only did I feel the warm glow of an elder brother guiding me, I also saw firsthand your unwavering dedication to the betterment of India through thoughtful, effective policy reform.
What amazed me was that while your body of work in economics and economic policy would make any scholar proud, your intellectual pursuits were not confined to economics alone. As a respected scholar of ancient Indian texts, you brought India’s timeless scriptures to a contemporary audience through your translations of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and other Sanskrit scriptures. Your influence is seen in the fact that my 19-year-old son has also read and admired your translations, which are meticulously faithful to the spirit of the originals. That a youngster enjoyed reading your translations clearly demonstrates that you made India’s profound thought accessible to a modern audience even while preserving their deep wisdom and cultural significance. Your contributions bridged a vital link between India’s cultural heritage and its modern identity, underscoring your compelling belief in the relevance of ancient wisdom in today’s world.
As you did with all your profound pieces, written at such a prolific pace that few could match even as readers let alone as writers, you have left me pondering even with your last piece. “What if I am not there? What indeed?” These words force me into deep reflection. Neither your pieces nor your company ever made me feel melancholic. In fact, in one of those meetings, you suggested reciting the Arghala Stotram to deepen my connection with Devi Maa. That advice has left an indelible impression as I continue implementing it especially during Navratri. Today though, reflecting on these words “What if I am not there? What indeed?” after hearing about your loss makes me contemplatively melancholic!
Your last words force me to ask, “what is the purpose of human life?” The Vedantic thought that “anything temporary is unreal” resonates with me together with the unpleasant counter-thought that this is just the feeling of “Shmashan Vairagya”, the feeling of renunciation itself that is possibly fleeting, and therefore “unreal.” The thought and counter-thought makes me wonder why the unreal world of ephemerality enchants enough to draw one away from the constant pursuit of the real, one that is permanent! How does one work oneself to reduce and eventually resist the temptation of the unreal? Will it ever happen in this life?
As time is the most precious, scarce resource that we all have and it continues ticking relentlessly every moment, your last written words motivate me to ask how is the time left in one’s life best spent? How does one best prepare for the inevitable outcome of death? Investing by doing only intense sadhana for which I seem not to be ready yet? Will that prepare me best for old age so that I can remain happy and in good spirits despite disease and weakness that is likely in old age? Or will seva prepare me in the best manner possible for the last days and moments of life?
Befitting the service that you did to humanity with your scholarship, you have served us a very important reminder about the scarcity of time. In the cosmic scheme of things, none of us ever can provide a satisfactory answer to your question “What if I am not there? What indeed?” But, by laying out that question as your last words, you have made sure that these profound questions will resonate with many of us who knew you well. Thanks so much for that last service of yours. In that thought that will remind us as well of our impending mortality, Bibek Da, you will live among your many admirers.
Pursue your soul’s journey with the valuable reminder that you left us richer with your thoughts and your scholarship. Om Shanti!
@bibekdebroy A man with kindness abound,
A rare celebrity trait to be found,
To read his limericks, always a joy,
Would miss you sorely, Sir Bibek Debroy,
Om Shanti!🙏🙏
@theskindoctor13 AP & TN were prime losses for NDA-TDP-5 Seats, AIADMK-0, BJP-0 in these 2 States. Even with 20-25 seats swing, NDA would’ve cobbled a Govt. BJP-138 was just 7 less than Congress’s 145.
@mimansashekhar@Shraddh56141048 We just watched the episode again yesterday-Utpaljj stole the show. Wished-the ending would’ve shown his reaction post Diamond being recovered from him-nothing was shown of his character.
The 2019 US Congressional hearing on Kashmir, in Washington DC was an enlightening moment in my life—I was finally able to put faces on the criminals who had till then, hidden themselves in the plain sight, and whose truth I had long ago figured out on my own in Kashmir while working there for almost two decades. The picture was now complete and the 360 degree truth was crystal clear.
The hearing was a trap, laid against India by the highly corrupt US Democrats, in connivance with Pakistani Army and ISI and their Indian stooges— @BradSherman@Ilhan@PramilaJayapal@ChatterjiAngana@NitashaKaul & Co.
In the end, it did not really matter that it was a fight between 9 versus 1 or an assault of wolves on a deer in a jungle. What mattered was that I fought like no one else in the history of Indian media and that too on the American soil. Not only did I survive but I cracked the Matrix in that battle. The details of that significant story is for future.
What is amazing is that as I walked out of the US Congress while processing the revelations, Nitasha Kaul escorted by Pakistani and Kashmiri Muslim ISI agents in the US, followed me. After her orchestrated performance for her allies at the hearing, she looked sheepish and wanted to make peace with me. I refused to shake hands with her and told her that she should instead take a good look in the mirror. She is culpable for the very cause (human rights violations) she has been delusionally espousing. I told her to get lost. Red in her face, she left. A black limousine had come to pick up Nitasha and her aides who were holding umbrellas. I stood there, waiting for a cab in the rain, fully liberated.
Few days ago, the UK based pro-Pakistan activist Nitasha Kaul was denied entry in India and since then, she has been crying hoarse. Not sure, why! Those who are part of the Cabal funded by the corrupt Globalist Elite, the US Military Industrial Complex and the Jihadist machinery, shouldn’t be complaining. You chose your side. Long ago.
@vivekagnihotri Kudos Vivekji-What a movie # VaccineWar. Gripping, Factual narrative of Indian Scientists fight against Time & Media! Audience clippings reverberated the theatre- AMC East Brunswick-NJ!
🚨 NRIs will soon be able to make payments in #UPI without having to get an Indian mobile number!
@NPCI_NPCI says NRE/NRO accounts from select countries can access UPI using their international mobile numbers.
To begin with, NRIs in these 10 countries will get UPI access ++