NishantS

A joy not cried, a sadness not smiled, a mistake not regretted, moments not felt, a fate not survived, a friendship not valued...A LIFE not LIVED

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@sreemoytalukdar Hmmm, more interesting is the contrast in how the supposedly ‘independent’ media aligns so very well with national interest whereas here there is likely a competition to sell to highest foreign bidder.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@RShivshankar In a nutshell, salaried taxpayer is a clown, he is making that assertion in case we have gotten numb. So, govt. blends ethanol in fuel paid for by taxed income & with added taxes from state. Then pays ethanol share to farmers whose income is non-taxable.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@odmag With chip fabs and E85 & E100 dreams like this, India will be accelerating to a perpetually water deficient future. What are the sources of ethanol and how much water they use per litre of desired quality of ethanol?
Guess we will shift from importing crude to water or ethanol.

[Anmol Jain @teanmol]

There is one premium advanced fabric India quietly knew how to make at scale, and that the rest of the world is now coming to want.

H&M, Zara, Decathlon and Marks & Spencer have all committed to it. So has the European Union, in its incoming sustainability rules.

It is called lyocell, and chances are you have never heard of it.

The fabrics in the clothes you wear come from three families. Cotton from a plant. Polyester from petroleum. And a third group called regenerated cellulosics, made from wood pulp, is what Europe is now restructuring its textile import market around.

Among cellulosics, lyocell has the kind of chemistry older ones like viscose never had. Where viscose's toxic chemicals get dumped into rivers, lyocell's get recaptured and reused — 99% of them.

The fabric is biodegradable, and the wood comes from sustainably grown trees. Plus it is stronger than cotton when wet, holds dye well, drapes like silk, and breathes like linen.

So lyocell is premium and sustainable.

Only about a dozen places in the world can make it at commercial scale, and Aditya Birla's plant at Kharach in Gujarat was one of them.

For once, India was a producer of an advanced material that the world was coming to want.

Then the Chinese came in.

On the morning of 13 March 2026, a factory in Shandong, China, produced its first commercial bale of lyocell. The factory is owned by a company called Sateri.

Six years ago, Sateri didn't make lyocell at all. Today, this one plant, on its own, will eventually outproduce what the entire world made in 2023. It already makes twelve times more of it than Birla does.

The price too has collapsed in step. Lyocell, as premium fibre that was meant to sell above cotton and viscose, now sells in China below both.

Lenzing, the Austrian company that invented lyocell and ran the global market for decades, has lost 80% of its stock value since 2021. It scrapped a big US expansion. It is quietly walking out of the commodity end of the business.

Birla is doubling down. A new 55,000-tonne plant is coming up at Harihar in Karnataka, with a second phase planned. Even at full build-out, Birla will have about 110,000 tonnes. Sateri makes four times that today.

Three months before Birla announced Harihar, Tamil Nadu signed an MoU with the same Sateri's parent company for a 150,000-tonne lyocell plant at Thoothukudi. One foreign-owned plant on Indian soil will produce more lyocell than the whole of Birla's Indian operation.

In January 2026, India and the EU finally signed a Free Trade Agreement, after nineteen years of trying. The agreement removes the 8-12% European import duty on Indian textiles. China doesn't get this advantage.

While this trade deal buys India the right to compete for Europe's fastest-growing fibre market, it won't provide the means or the factories to make the most of it.

I write for @SwarajyaMag on the lyocell fibre, the price collapse, the Thoothukudi MoU, the Rules of Origin trap, and what Indian industrial policy is still missing.

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[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

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[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal First, thanks for not embarrassing us by putting in a performance that had moments where the game could turn. We need to be lethal. Now City goes in front and that is not bad. Let’s be honest, we’ve been woeful leading this year. City will show how it’s done. Good Luck.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@TikiTakaConnor Seems like he is content with what @Arsenal have achieved already. That explains the display from the team. It also screams that he is out of his depth now, this game is too tactical and he is not up for that fight with Pep and other coaches poking holes in his plans.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@premierleague @ManCity @Arsenal Well, this is it. If not the game, this week, next two games will tell who Arteta is and what his team are capable of. They should remember, they overcame the darling of UCL, Real Madrid, last season. Find that mojo, QUICK

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal The only player that can help win the PL title from here on is GOOD LUCK! Arteta does not have the means or tact to get more out of this team, the players don’t appear to have the hunger to go on and win it for club & fans. @AFTVMedia
#ARSBOU #RUNIN

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal There is no pride in this team and they look spent & bottomed out. Bad games will come, but they show no signs of improvement. It’s clear, neither manager & his asst staff nor the players can move up the gears now that it’s crunch time. Hard to believe this team defended so well.

[AFC_Adi @AFC_Adi06]

Arsenal - Cheap giveaways in possession vs Man City

Appalled by the technical level on display. Outclassed and outchoached in every department. The occasion clearly got to us. For a team built on discipline and control, we completely lost composure.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal This is a very nervous, fearful team, devoid of any calmness & composure with the ball, receding without it. It’s clear now in several b2b games now. Passes are horrible & mostly going back, turned around easily in mid & unable to deliver kill shots. Something is OFF #BHAARS

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal We’ll see. We’ve brought it upon ourselves and bigger teams in key matches will press this team to get at them. The mentality on display suggests we will fold. Better find the match winners soon, the team & manager didn’t want it enough today. All the desire & fire was in ManU.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal Do these players & the manager REALLY want it? That’s the question. Except Declan making those forward runs, the rest just didn’t turn up! There better be an answer soon because it will happen in matches that matter. Who are the leaders & go getters in this team with 🔥 in belly

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@HandofArsenal This is why this Arsenal team is not champions until they are. The side can have bad days, but great teams have characters who turn it around. Imagine this display in a knock out game and it’s all lost.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal Amazing that he was complaining about dense fixture calendar incessantly last 2 weeks. Six seasons at helm, he needs to demand more from his team, staff and himself. This time is busy for everyone, mentality suffers when manager starts the excuses just as fixtures line up fast.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal Saka was offside in each of the better chances for us. Cash was onside for the one chance he got and made it count. That is why title is very much a dream for this side. There is a lot these players need to account for. Rice brilliance on display should inspire others.

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal This is why you need to completely cancel out the noise/praise being sung all around for this team. You surely will loose if this game was flipped, with 10 men at home and no Gabriel and Saliba.Stay humble & keep learning, this will happen again. #CHEARS

[NishantS @PhoenixUno]

@Arsenal What was expected was an improvement over an already great performance against @realmadrid in #UCL last season. What was on display was a tragic version of players prioritising penalty, free kick and corners even when having clearly better scoring options in free play. PATHETIC!