Sundara Rajan

An Automobile Engineer with sound background in After Sales Service and Parts Marketing Business.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

These anarchists are coming for the judiciary next.

If you lose elections, attack the Election Commission.

If a judgement goes against you, gun for the Court.

These people are preaching constitutionalism to us?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Stop the silly games, @elonmusk. India isn't going to be bullied. The nation that produced the cheapest mobile data and the most efficient payments network through fair competition doesn't take lectures from a man whose biggest factory is in China that banned Starlink.

My views:

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

@TVMohandasPai He is trying to instigate....all the efforts, whatever they are doing is just creating Chaos by any means and pulling the nation in to big disruption.....

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

@ShobanaRaviNews I hope she is arrested and FIR is lodged against her!!

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

See what was the question to Indira and what she replies

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Question: Why then was it necessary to imprison Mr. Morarji Desai, who then became Prime Minister of India? Was he an economic threat to the state?

Indira Gandhi: No, these were the people who were destroying democracy.

Question: Destroying democracy?

Indira Gandhi: Destroying democracy.

Question: How?

Indira Gandhi: Because, well, I'm sorry that you people have such short memories, but because they felt they could not win an election, they said, we must take the battle to the streets. Mr. Morarji Desai is on record in an interview having said, we are going to surround the Prime Minister's house, we are going to surround Parliament, we will see that no business is done. The Prime Minister cannot come out, nobody can go in. Another member of the opposition, now a minister, said that if we cannot win by the ballot, we shall win by the bullet. Somebody else incited the police and the army not to obey.

Question: Disobey illegal orders... why couldn't you have taken, why, could I just ask you, why couldn't you have used the law that you already had available to you to arrest these people if they were breaking the law?

Indira Gandhi: I'm afraid, you see, India is not a small country like the UK. It is a very big country and very complex problems. And in the whole country, they had created an atmosphere of extreme indiscipline, so that somebody like Mr. Galbraith said, it seems to be a functioning anarchy, but it was not functioning, it was becoming a non-functioning anarchy. And at that moment, if we had not stopped it, India would not have survived.

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If Rahul accepts, as he has to, his grandma Indira's logic, he has to offer himself for arrest.

Not wait for Modi to arrest him 😁😄😁

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

Happy Birthday to our honourable PM @narendramodi 💐🎂🎊🎈🎉 May God Bless you with good health, peace and more strength to lead, govern and guide us on continuous basis 🙏

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

🌈 TEACHER'S DAY SP. : *A Teacher presents the Past , reveals the Present, and creates the Future ~ Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.*

"Congratulations on Dr. Radhakrishnan's 138th Birthday"

💐_*Happy Teacher's Day* _💐
To all those Teachers who shaped me, my sincere gratitude 🙏

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

🦚💙 Happy Janmashtami! 🪈🙏
May Lord Krishna fill your life with endless happiness, peace, love, and prosperity. May His divine blessings give you the strength to overcome every challenge and the wisdom to always choose the right path.
Jai Shri Krishna! 🙏💙🦚

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳💐🫡

[Sundara Rajan @Sundara1702]

@AdityaDharFilms @B62Studios @jiostudios @AdityaSJambhale @yamigautam @pillumani Congratulations 👏👏👏 to the entire team 💐💐 Keep making such movies 👍

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Let's come together & create a drug-free society.

Join us in our fight against drugs!

#WTL_WhiteBandMonth

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[BALA @erbmjha]

India set up a fully functional field hospital in earthquake-hit Venezuela, thousands of kilometres away, simply to help those in need.

This won’t dominate timelines or rack up 50 million views. But let there be one racist post targeting Indians, and it spreads like wildfire.

Humanitarian work rarely goes viral. Hate almost always does.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Yes, we had a disappointing weekend in cricket.

But at the same time, I often find myself rubbing my eyes in disbelief at India’s growing competitiveness in sports where I never imagined we’d even be globally competitive.

Volleyball. Fencing. Gymnastics. Rowing. Athletics. The list keeps growing.

Yes, we’re far from the top step of the podium yet.

However, something’s clearly changing at the ground level.

Years of effort by governments, both state and central, (outstanding example being Odisha) along with private sector organisations like OGQ and many others, may finally be starting to pay off..

But it is the individual sportspersons, this new generation of champions with grit, resilience and self-belief, who are my #MondayMotivation.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

I love this. I wish I was as driven and resourceful as these IIT Bombay students at their age!

[Venkat G @IndusFarmer]

Bribing itself is not easy. It's too painful. One has to go through this suffering to understand this. Let me share some details around how the DTCP process works. This may hopefully help many who seem to have no idea of how these corruption networks work.

If @TVKVijayHQ wanted to make money, it was too easy for him to redirect the money flow towards his own people now. Instead, he chose to openly fight this out. I, one of the victims, have a sole responsibility to support this by coming out with the details. I really hope he is successful in this mission.

Many schools still run without full DTCP approval/compliance. The more they are not compliant, the more money can be extracted on continuous basis. No incentive for schools to come out and be compliant. Instead, the opposite is true.

In our school, we had a goal of making it 100% compliant in all aspects and started the DTCP approval process. I was given the responsibility to take care of the process.

I've interviewed 4 agents/middlemen over 6 months to decide who we go with. We've gotten offers from 80 Rs to 110 Rs per sqft. Most often it falls in the higher end of this spectrum based on experiences I gathered from experienced folks who have gone through this process.

Price alone is not sufficient to pick the agent. We need to evaluate the agent's reach to power, his experience in handling previous schools, etc. Finally, picked one to pay 65L total.

Building approval is finally given by the local rural/town authority. But the process is longer. The application has to go through the approval process first to the district office.

If the built-up area is larger, then the application is forwarded to the Chennai head office for technical concurrence. This is where the famous PF is collected.

I am still puzzled why a Chennai office is more qualified than a district office to verify the so-called technical details. Can't a district-level officer verify as per the norms? I know this is a novice question, as we know why things are structured this way.

We give bribe payment first—only way to make progress in this long application process. Paid full (total of 65L) and the application is stuck for months in the Chennai office. Can't rely on the agent for everything, as the stake is too high for me. Money was given, no response from gov, I need to answer other trustees.

After several months of waiting, I had to travel to Chennai and stayed in a hotel for a few days to get an appointment with the Chennai head.

I usually wear a dhoti. This makes it even more easy to ill-treat. Anyways, I waited patiently as I lost sleep for many days due to this.

Finally, about 2 minutes time to meet the GOD. I've begged explaining the financial state of the school, etc. Only one question was asked: "Was formality of #name# completed?" I said Yes. He asked me to leave after making a note.

This is how blatant the corruption network was. Officers behaved like gods as their political managers sought help from them to trace if money was properly paid for each application.

It was a hopeless time. I was fed up and never voted this time. Never imagined Tamilnadu people had a silent revolution in ballot boxes this time. hats off to them.

What I learned in the process is - money can travel alone to chennai for a fee - 3% through local agents deployed for this. This way, we avoid of the risk of carrying cash. 😢

As a keen political observer, I thought 1996-2001 and 2001-2006 were decent periods on corruption. After that, hell broke I guess. It was a non-stop nightmare until Mr. Vijay struck down this trend. Somehow I feel very positive that 2026-2036 will be great for TN and has a potential of truly a model state for India. I beg Mr. Vijay not giving up this "corruption free state of TN" mission easily.

@imrajmohan @svembu

@sekar_vembu If this process is decentralized/localized, the cost of this bribe may be very less even if we can't eradicate the corruption totally.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

போதைப்பொருள் பயன்பாட்டைக் கட்டுப்படுத்தினால் மட்டுமே, அவற்றின் புழக்கம் குறையும்.

போதைப்பொருள்களுக்கு எதிரான ஒரு போரை, நமது We the Leaders அமைப்பின் மூலமாக, ஒரு மக்கள் இயக்கமாக வரும் மாதத்தில் முன்னெடுப்போம். மக்கள் மத்தியில் விழிப்புணர்வை ஏற்படுத்துவோம். நமது அடுத்த தலைமுறைக்கு, போதைப்பொருள் இல்லாத சமுதாயத்தை உருவாக்குவோம்.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.

It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.

That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.

So how does anyone make money on this?

Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.

It wasn’t always there.

But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.

Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.

It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.

But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.

His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)

None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.

Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table

I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)

That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.

I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.

Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..

But I admit that we need to think differently.

A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads

A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.

I think that’s the work ahead of us now.

Not just more factories, and not just more parks.

Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.

Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.

We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.

We need to do it on purpose