Subri

Retired Banker. Willing to assist in Wealth creation for the Rich and the Poor. Interested in Financial Inclusion. My personal ID is [email protected]

[Subri @Subri]

@suchetadalal
How is it right to increase FCNR deposits from NRIs by banks giving loans and covered by Standby LCs from the banks which hold deposits. Only RBI will lose as they cover currency risk. All others make money. Financial re-engineering! Why is RBI and Govt allowing ?

[Subri @Subri]

#CMJosephVijay please bring back metered autos in Tamil nadu. It is difficult after so many years but it is a must for ease of living. Mumbai Auto minimum is Rs 26 and you get autos easily. Fir shirt distances. No bargain!

[Subri @Subri]

@MadrasMobile We used to see the Sriram's videos on Chennai

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The world is being reordered by those who act and those who define. If India wishes to be counted among the latter, it must ensure that its silence does not speak louder than its convictions.

We are living through a moment when the rules of the international system are being rewritten in real time. Assassinations of leaders, the killing of civilians, open assertions of force—these are no longer aberrations but instruments. In such a world, silence is not neutrality. It is read, interpreted, and often misread as consent.

India has long claimed a distinctive space in global affairs—not as an appendage to power, but as a voice shaped by its own civilisational experience and its history of speaking for sovereignty, restraint, and balance. That voice mattered because it was consistent, even when inconvenient. Strategic autonomy cannot mean adjusting our language to the hierarchy of power.

Restraint has its place. Calibration is necessary. But when fundamental questions arise—about sovereignty, about the limits of force, about the protection of civilians—India cannot afford to be silent.

A moral compass is not an ornament of foreign policy. It is its direction. Without it, realism drifts into accommodation, and autonomy into ambiguity.

This war has damaged India’s interests in almost every practical sense. It has raised costs, narrowed diplomatic room, stressed shipping, complicated Chabahar, and injected fresh instability into a region vital to India’s economy and external strategy. Even if New Delhi can cushion the blow, it cannot plausibly claim that the blow itself serves India.

The deeper question is whether India is willing to say so with sufficient clarity.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

A bankrupt island nation of 22 million people just taught every great power on Earth a lesson in leverage.

Sri Lanka’s President Dissanayake stood before cameras on 6 March and said: “We are neutral but also humanitarian. Sri Lanka is a free and non-aligned nation. We do not favour any country. We treat every human being equally, whether Iranian, American, or Israeli. We jealously guard our non-aligned policy while ensuring that humanitarian values and the saving of lives remain our top priority.”

Then he granted free one-month humanitarian visas to all 236 Iranian sailors, the 32 survivors pulled from the wreckage of the IRIS Dena and 204 crew evacuated from the disabled IRIS Bushehr. He described sheltering them as “the most courageous and humanitarian course of action a state can take.”

The United States, which sank the Dena using USS Charlotte (SSN-766), a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine firing Mk 48 heavyweight torpedoes 19 to 44 nautical miles off Galle, is pressuring Colombo through a State Department cable to retain the sailors under conditions favourable to American intelligence access. Washington wants the 32 survivors who witnessed classified US submarine engagement tactics.

China, which holds Hambantota port under a 99-year lease 90 kilometres from the sinking site, says nothing publicly. The debt speaks for itself.

India, which hosted the Dena at its MILAN 2026 exercise weeks before the ship was sunk by India’s closest strategic partner, has not uttered a single word about any of it.

Iran is broadcasting the rescue footage across every state media channel. Eighty-seven dead sailors and a neutral nation that refused American demands.

And Sri Lanka, sovereign-defaulted in 2022, currently under IMF conditionality, owing billions to Beijing through Belt and Road, dependent on Indian goodwill for regional security, and sitting at the intersection of every great-power pressure line in the Indian Ocean, chose international law.

UNCLOS Article 98 required the rescue. Geneva Convention II Article 17 required the internment. Hague Convention XIII prohibited allowing the sailors to re-enter combat. Sri Lanka followed every obligation to the letter. Uruguay did the same during the Falklands. Switzerland did the same throughout World War II. The law is unambiguous. The politics are not.

This is the same Sri Lanka that founded the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. That hosted the fifth NAM summit in 1976. That proposed the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace in 1971 and got the UN to adopt it. And that is now pursuing BRICS partner status under India’s 2026 chairmanship, with Prime Minister Amarasuriya calling membership “strategically appealing” on 6 March, the same week her government was sheltering Iranian sailors against American objections.

Every major power assumed Sri Lanka would fold. Washington assumed economic leverage would force compliance. Beijing assumed debt would ensure silence. Delhi assumed proximity would guarantee deference. Tehran assumed sympathy would guarantee solidarity.

Instead, Colombo followed the law, issued the visas, sheltered the sailors, and told every great power exactly the same thing: we are neutral, we are humanitarian, and we do not take sides.

The weakest economy in the Indian Ocean just demonstrated the strongest foreign policy.

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[Subri @Subri]

@pravchak @suchetadalal What is the role of Opposition? Why are they not taking it up in the Parliament?

[Subri @Subri]

@srinivasiyc @suchetadalal Why don't the regulator slap indigo with a fine of Rs 100 crs for not meeting their guideline and for faulty customer service. RBI penalises banks for non adherence to the rules and guidelines.

[Roads of Mumbai @RoadsOfMumbai]

How about No Smooth Roads, No Taxes/Tolls in the state to be strictly enforced statewide?

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Make her famous. It is our duty to stand by the rare officers who dare to do their job fearlessly. She has put her future on the line for us. Let us reciprocate by standing with her!! 🫡🙏🙌🏽🙌🏽

[Subri @Subri]

@andymukherjee70 @suchetadalal Or who have not invested in HDFC bank shares!

[Subri @Subri]

@ActusDei Still not functioning

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

Nippon India Mutual Fund was hit by a cyber attack a week ago & the website still hasn't recovered! What on earth is going on!
https://t.co/CmdaaoGh5c

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Here's an idea.

If BookMyShow removed Kunal Kamra from its app.

Why don't we all uninstall the BookMyShow app from our phones?

1. They are exercising their freedom; we must exercise ours.

2. If they censor what we like, we should censor what we dislike.

[Kumar Manish @kumarmanish9]

Sometimes it feels like the system around us has turned into a giant machine- cold & emotionless.

A little girl…running with her books clutched tightly to her chest, trying to escape the home that’s about to be reduced to rubble. 😭

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

CBI gives a clean chit to Rhea Chakraborty in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. It'd be interesting to see the reaction of Godi Media anchors who declared her 'guilty' on live tv!
This cartoon was created in 2020 for @gulf_news #RheaChakraborty
#SushantSinghRajput #GodiMedia

[ReserveBankOfIndia @RBI]

Monetary Policy Statement by Shri Sanjay Malhotra, RBI Governor- February 07, 2025, 10 am https://t.co/mkTluoMAZX

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

"Kuch Din To Gujariye Gujarat Mein, The corruption capital of India"

[Samir Arora @Iamsamirarora]

Dear Ajay:

You are a friend.

This is a very wrong take away.

Shorts provide valuable research and information and then readers/public may choose to agree/act or not or even take advantage of any fall, if they think price action is unjustified.

We need more people willing to write negative reports, short stocks etc for better price discovery.

[𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐝 @sidd_sharma01]

Can someone kindly tell how do they arrive at such figures!!!

4 Crore took a Holi Dip in Sangam - How does one arrive at those figures?

Population of Mumbai is around 2.2 Crore & double the population took a Holi Dip in small sangam!!!

What’s the mechanism to arrive at such figure!!!!

And likewise how do they arrive at the figure of earnings projected to be generated from #KumbhMela2025 #Kumbh2025 #KumbhMela