nilesh

Fintech Enthusiast / ex-PhonePe / Founder / VC

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

The moment cricket moves from a power game to one of skill and technique, India's women cricketers become a completely different proposition. They have absolutely dominated this test

[BCCI Women @BCCIWomen]

Creating lasting memories as the 1️⃣st woman to have her name etched on the Test honours board at Lord's 🥹

🎥 𝙍𝙖𝙬, 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡, 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 ft. Kranti Gaud 🤍

#TeamIndia | #ENGvIND

[Dr Arvind Virmani @dravirmani]

There is no FTA on offer from USA to India. In fact White House is signaling it's not interested in free & fair trade; By threatening to cancel the most successful FTA agreement it has itself signed, with Mexico and Canada. My friend @surjitbhalla, we cant 👏 with one 🤚🏽

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

And then there are gyanis who think grid-grade power storage is a solved issue and not too hard a problem anyway .... 🫡

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

If a salaried person wants to build a software application or digital services agency, the entry barrier is virtually zero.

They just need a laptop and an internet connection.

But if the same person wants to start manufacturing...

They need:
• Land
• Factory space
• Expensive machinery
• 6-12 months of approvals
• Huge upfront capital

My suggestion to the Government of India:

Build Manufacturing Parks for first-time entrepreneurs.

Instead of selling 10-acre plots, create buildings with 500-1,000 sq. ft. ready-to-use factory units.

Every unit should come with:
• 3-phase electricity already connected
• Pollution & fire approvals already cleared
• Shared CNC machines, injection moulding, testing labs & warehouses
• Common logistics and loading docks
• Month-to-month rentals instead of land purchases
• Single online portal to book a unit within 7 days

Let engineers keep their jobs while testing manufacturing on a small scale.

We built co-working spaces for software.

It's time we built co-factories for manufacturing.
@PMOIndia @PiyushGoyal @minmsme @NITIAayog

[Anuj Gupta @anujg]

Sharing some data from a @ShamikaRavi presentation. It is mind boggling that Rural Muslims were poorer than Hindus a decade back but are richer now.

Still the global and domestic narrative is of a Majoritarian Government against the interests of Minorities.

The divergence between the narrative and the ground reality is shocking.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

You can't but admire the coordinated, consolidated defence of the indefensible enforcement of a flawed policy. Pity it fell flat. Should've just said the quiet part: We in power, we do we. You powerless, you do Power 95. It has the same 20%, just costlier. Teehee!

[chacha monk @oldschoolmonk]

Ignoring public outrage and calling it politics is how Congress became irrelevant in 2014.
BJP is on the same path.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

"It is now well established that ethanol is even used in racing cars. Acceleration improves."

The minister is right. Kerosene is used in aeroplanes. But selling kerosene-blended petrol is a punishable offence. Why? Because the cars aren't made for kerosene, even though they can run on that fuel.

This strawmanning by strawmen has no feet. Nobody is asking you to scrap the ethanol policy. They just want the appropriate fuel for their cars. E10 for E10 compliant. E20 for E20 compliant. And E0 for non-compliant.

[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.

[Manish Tewari @ManishTewari]

After Pearl Harbour on 7 th December 1941 the US persevered till they obtained the unconditional surrender of Japan in 1945.

Post 9/11 the US chased the Al Qaeda and the Taliban to the gates of hell and back for twenty years including neutralising Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan in 2011 .

From 2003 -13 the House of Saud fought a secret war inside Saudi Arabia against the Al Qaeda before driving the remnants to Yemen and other places in the Middle East .

From 1999-2009 Russia fought a brutal campaign against Chechen separatists before finally triumphing.

The fight against terror requires firmness and steadfastness and the national resolve to stay the course.

How can people forget the Baisaran ( Pahalgam ) Massacre within 14 months ?

And the countless similar atrocities perpetrated over the past four decades that were state sponsored by Pakistan.

To some folks it seems that the misty eyed romanticism of a dialogue with Pakistan is far more important than the lives of innocent Indian Tourists who were identified on the basis of their faith and slaughtered in cold blood by terrorists who came from Pakistan.

Which is that invisible hand that is incentivising the push for a pseudo normalisation with Pakistan without any verifiable guarantees that Pakistan will dismantle the Military- Jehadi Complex ( MJC) they have spawned over the past 55 years?

https://t.co/gFVJwhsjR6

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

#Opinion | India's biggest experiment isn't happening in a laboratory. It's happening at fuel pumps, with 1.4 billion people as the sample. Welcome to the world's biggest fuel trial, where every Indian motorist is unwillingly, a participant.

Read in detail: https://t.co/uaPj22Rrm3
✍️ @yudhajit

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Vehicle buyers pay huge upfront taxes, fees, and cesses. In return, they deserve the basic right to buy the exact fuel their vehicle engines were designed to run on.

If the govt wanted to "experiment" with E20 fuel, they should have done it responsibly by either buying a sample fleet of second-hand cars to test in a controlled settings or invite willing citizens to opt-in using subsidized fuel.

Forcing a mandatory policy onto everyone first and checking if it damages their engines later is outrageous. Treating the entire public as involuntary test subjects is a massive overreach.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

I second @tehseenp and I am also open to any scrutiny of me or my accounts, raid my house or anything. I have been writing and speaking on this for over a year now. Please @nitin_gadkari, prove me funded by a lobby or JUST STOP THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT!

Here are my previous posts:
Mar 2024:
https://t.co/KcfGvzyuip
Sep 2024: https://t.co/325kLU2R62
Aug 2025: https://t.co/CXQRMvoXUD
https://t.co/AUfPxh4fzx
https://t.co/qMEewqZd4Z
Sep 2025:
https://t.co/NLqEyN2UGE
https://t.co/I6vbb8GaNn
https://t.co/sdRStBJ8vs
https://t.co/YdCTy22IcS
https://t.co/j0zPBbxnFu
https://t.co/Ni4UqBsUjW
https://t.co/KSrg52pg9W
Nov 2025:
https://t.co/lqBXAZtOvF
June 2026:
https://t.co/90KF71gr5M
https://t.co/DiDaiPGNCP

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

❤️🇮🇳

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive?

Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members?

Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now?

This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.