Mahakaal

Bengali Indian.

রাখো আশা , করো চেষ্টা,
আবার হবে নতুন ভোর।।

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

Peace and prosperity.

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

@Savvy_Garg @sidhant What kind of a take is this?

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@lokeshbag67 Equality by wanting reservation....

Nice irony

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@avijeet_writes True. Just look what his own image turned into.....

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@talk2anuradha The entire neet process starts by filling a form that asks the category and then every other formalities come with its consequences, be it registration fees, college councelling or fees structure......

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The CJP protest was illegal, held without permission and under active Sec 163, BNSS. Even so, the state might have overlooked the defiance had it stopped there.

But then came the violence, arson, and assaults on security personnel. It will be a shame if the state fails to hunt down every last rioter, punish them decisively, and publicize it for all to see.

You have to draw the line somewhere and assert the rule of law. Anarchy tolerated is anarchy empowered.

[Tum hass Kyu rahi ho yrr Dure @hainjeehaanjee]

😭😭😭

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

Old shabby buildings and places are not nostalgia, it's crumbling infra.

Better to demolish them and build proper infrastructure. Living in the past is of no use. The past for most was not great. Make the future worth living.....

[Shravan Venkataraman @theBuoyantMan]

People compare India to Samsung and ask “what happened to Make in India” as if building a Samsung is just about policy level changes.

Samsung wasn't created because of slogans.

Samsung is where it is right now because for 40 years Korea aggressively protected manufacturing, built supply chains, subsidized exports, invested heavily in engineering talent, and forced firms to compete globally.

India skipped industrial depth which is the hardest to achieve.

Most Indian companies optimize for distribution, regulation arbitrage, services, or financial engineering because that’s where returns were historically.

Manufacturing is brutal with low margins, massive capex, long gestation, infrastructure dependency, policy uncertainty, logistics costs, power costs, and global competition from countries that have already mastered scale.

Also, Samsung is not “just” a company. It is semiconductors, displays, batteries, consumer electronics, shipbuilding, heavy industry, financing, R&D, global distribution. In a nutshell, it's an entire industrial ecosystem compounding for decades.

People underestimate how hard it is to create that kind of end to end ecosystem.

And honestly, India’s strengths over the last 20 years went elsewhere:

IT services
pharmaceuticals
digital payments
software exports
startups
financial infrastructure

Those are real achievements too. They just don’t look like giant factories.

“Make in India” also started at the exact time the world was beginning to deglobalize. China had already captured manufacturing scale. Supply chains were set in stone.

Late entrants don’t get the same easy runway East Asian countries got from 1980 to 2010.

That said, the more important question is not “why don’t we have Samsung yet?”

The more important question to ask is

can India build globally dominant manufacturing ecosystems in semis, electronics, defense, batteries, industrials, EV supply chain, etc. over the next 20 years?

Because industrial capacity compounds slowly, then suddenly all at once.

Taiwan looked irrelevant before TSMC.
Korea looked irrelevant before Samsung.
China looked low end before Huawei/BYD.

Countries look weak right until the actual distribution and ecosystem starts working.

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

@IndianTechGuide My bottle is not leaking, it's just that the water is going out.......type argument.....

[do'o kappa @viprabuddhi]

This is Ewa Shallam, a rising Jaintia singer in Meghalaya 🇮🇳🐓

> She is a follower of the Niamtre faith, a Hinduized animist religion of the Jaintia people

> Here she is singing a song about pride of being follower of the Niamtre faith

> You can see the rooster symbol at the back, which is sacred to them. They consider the rooster as harbinger of light and righteouness

> This is during a Chad Sukra celebration in Thadmuthlong, West Jaintia Hills

> Chad Sukra is a festival to worship Ka Bei Rymaw (Prakriti) and falls around the same time as Bohag Bihu

[Sandeep Sunny Lakhina @slakhina]

“India is being run by Adani-Ambani. They get every project.”

The most over simplified, lazy take on Indian political economic discourse is actually is a universal feature of every industrializing economy.

A quick walk thru the pattern.

🇬🇧 Britain:
The original template as the Rothschilds financed governments and railways across Europe. Brunel and the railway barons built the rails. A handful of City of London merchant banks underwrote it all.

🇺🇸 Uncle Sam:
Carnegie owned American steel. Rockefeller controlled oil and ~90% of US refining. JP Morgan bailed out the US Treasury & consolidated GE, US Steel, AT&T into existence. Vanderbilt ran the railways.

🇩🇪 Germany:
Krupp & Siemens became national champions. Deutsche Bank was founded specifically to finance them - it underwrote Krupp’s bonds, brought Bayer to the Berlin bourse, and financed BASF, AEG, Mannesmann.

🇯🇵 Japan:
The zaibatsu - Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda formed Japan to a powerhouse. The Meiji state literally sold off state enterprises at concessional rates to bootstrap a private industrial base. Layer, the keiretsus took shape and shaped Japan to what it is today - Toyota, Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic grew inside cross shareholding. A few families. An entire industrial economy.

🇰🇷 South Korea:
The chaebols - Samsung, Hyundai, LG, Daewoo, SK sculpted much of a Korea’s ascent. - funded mostly by the state. Korea went from poorer than Ghana to OECD membership in one generation on this model. The chaebol families were the main executors.

🇸🇪 Sweden:
The quiet success story is of he Wallenberg family that has controlled large parts of Swedish industry - ABB, Ericsson, Atlas Copco, SAAB, AstraZeneca’s predecessors - for five generations.

🇮🇳 Now India:
Reliance and Adani capture a big chunk of the massive infrastructure push of the last two decades. The Tatas and the Birlas, the so called erstwhile cronies of the congress era, along with the Bharti’s, JSW, L&T, Vedanta, et al are a part of th 6-8 groups executing ports, airports, highways, transmission, refineries, telecom rollouts, semiconductors, data centres, green hydrogen, semiconductors, et al.

This is not a bug. This is what every growth-stage economy looks like.

The pattern nobody wants to admit:

- Markets are too thin for atomized capitalism to build a port. A $5 billion deepwater terminal requires finance, execution, political access, and 20 year horizons. There are 6-8 groups in India that can do this. Not 600.

- The state almost always picks winners. Explicitly (Korea), implicitly (US land grants), or via credit allocation (Germany, Japan). India’s PLI scheme, infrastructure bid pipelines, and bank credit flows are no different in structure - only in transparency, which is a fair fight to pick.

- These groups always attract moral outrage in their time. Rockefeller faced trust busting. Morgan was hauled before Congress. The zaibatsu were dissolved after WW2. Chaebol chairmen still go to jail periodically in Korea. Outrage is part of the cycle - it’s how societies eventually negotiate the transition.

- They leave behind the rails on which the next stage runs. Carnegie’s steel built Detroit. Krupp built the German industrial base. The chaebol built Korean semiconductors. Whatever one thinks of Adani or Ambani, Mundra port, Jio’s fiber, and India’s longest transmission grid don’t unbuild themselves.

The honest question is not “why do Adani Ambani exist?” The honest question is the bargain.

What does the state extract in return - infrastructure delivery on time, export performance, technology absorption, tax revenue, jobs? How transparent are the auctions? How independent are the regulators?

And critically, how cleanly does the country manage the transition when the economy outgrows the model and these groups need to be opened up to competition?

That’s the debate worth having. “Adani-Ambani chala rahe hain” is not intellectual analysis but a just an outrage meme.

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

@SudhanidhiB @NisithPramanik Giving odd ai brainrot vibes.....

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@Peoplepower08 Guess what the mosque was before 500 years.....

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@IndianTechGuide WTH does india have the strange affinity of seeing the problem of the developed world and then trying to address it here when we have the opposite problem here.

30 to 40k once but what about the responsibility of properly raising them.....

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@TimesNow Bkl itan kich hone he baad hi akal aayi....

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@WarMonitorINTL Om prakash mishra ko bhejo.

[Ashtray @CypherPunkCypu]

@dove_of_babylon That is one of my all time favorite political memes and it reminds me of this one.

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

@AninBanerjee This proves one thing tbh....

Capitalism is the king. And all ideologies are just different avatars of it.

[Mahakaal @Mahakaa56515400]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

VP Singh
Mamata Banerjee
Arvind Kejriwal

Three politicians whom people trusted to bring an end to evil empires, but who had no vision for governance!

To save his seat of power, Singh wrecked the future of meritorious youth by introducing, through the Mandal Commission, reserved castes that were so loosely defined that anybody could claim to belong to that category. From 3,743 castes claiming to be ‘backward’ in 1990-91, despite not being traditionally ill-treated, such castes number nearly 6,000 as of 2026. The measure increased reserved seats from a sustainable 21% for SCs and STs to 49%, including quotas for the OBCs, capped only by the Supreme Court, shrinking opportunities for talent. While his tenure was short-lived, Singh left an indelible stain on society’s fabric for all time to come.

Banerjee discovered cynically the winning combination of voters that kept the CPI(M)-Led Left Front in power for 34 years: Muslims + ruffians + intellectuals. It’s the third she couldn’t muster. However, empowered with the other two, she thought she could rule forever, without having to develop West Bengal, the conditions of which went from bad to worse.

Kejriwal’s idea of development was municipal-grade. All he knew was repairing roads, cleaning drains and offering electricity and water for free. In education, he knew school buildings should be passable, and teachers’ attendance must be ensured, but he had no idea what children should learn. In healthcare, he thought first aid qualified as medical treatment. The secret of his longevity for 10 years was only freebies, though. Once the people of Delhi outgrew the doles, unable to bear with the crumbling infrastructure, they ended his reign.

All three claimed to be honest. None proved to be so. Banerjee was the most evil of the trio. She was anti-industry; she condoned rape, officiated over a reign of corruption, drained the state exchequer with allowances that couldn’t be funded, and offered government protection to a mafia of criminals.

In all three cases, when they were elected, there was no competition. Unfortunately, it took the longest time for the people to find an alternative party to the Trinamool Congress, to whom they could hand over the reins.

Moral of the story:

You may be sick and tired of a long-running government that has been underperforming. Do not replace it with one that lacks ideology, has a blurry vision and no clear roadmap for governance. Your decision will prove to be a disaster.