Day 3 of the Elon India meltdown. 🍿
Day 1: Crime against the people of India.
Day 2: Is Ambani the real boss? plus a thank-you to Rahul Gandhi.
Day 3: An open letter to Prime Minister Ambani.
This isn't strategy, Elon. It's a tantrum..
Let's talk about this monopolist you're so scared of. In March 2025, YOUR company signed a deal with HIS company to sell Starlink in India. You called Jio a partner then.
Now he's an exploiter? What changed?Oh right. Jio announced its own 1,600-satellite network, with India's space regulator calling the plan technically sound. Its proposed capacity over India is 4.5–5 Tbps. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps.
Suddenly the partner is the villain.
And a lecture on monopolies from the man who owns over 10,000 of the satellites in low-earth orbit? That's rich, even by your standards.
Ambani controls India?
Ambani wanted a spectrum auction. India gave satellite spectrum by administrative allocation, the exact thing YOU lobbied for. If he's the boss, he's losing to you.
Saving lives in disasters?
Tell that to Ukraine's navy. In 2022, you personally refused to extend coverage near Crimea and their drones died mid-mission. That's the problem, Elon. You decide when Starlink saves lives and when it doesn't. No sovereign country hands that switch to one moody billionaire.
Children's education? Your own India site briefly showed ₹8,600 a month and a ₹34,000 dish. Indian kids are learning on ₹349 phone plans right now.
You have the licence. The spectrum framework is headed to Cabinet. All that's left is a security review, which you earned after your dishes turned up with militants in Manipur and in Iran without a licence.
So stop crying online and sit through the check like everyone else.Insecure isn't a good look on the richest man in the world.
Keep this in your mind LOUD and CLEAR
Starlink is a military deep-state project designed for info war in the Asia-Pacific
Indian Intelligence has put its foot down and stopped it
@narendramodi
US bans Huawei. Calls it a national security threat. Nobody blinks.
China blocks Starlink. Builds its own. Nobody blinks.
India asks Starlink to finish its security clearances first. Suddenly it's a crime against the people of India.
Make it make sense.
Look at what this tech has already done.
Ukraine ran around 47,000 Starlink terminals. Drones, targeting, comms, everything. Then in 2022 one man refused to extend coverage near Crimea. Ukrainian sea drones lost signal mid-run and drifted in useless. The Pentagon had to start buying terminals directly because a private businessman held a veto over a war.
Iran. After the protests, Washington reportedly pushed thousands of terminals into the country. 100,000+ people stayed online after the state cut every normal connection. Tehran's answer was to make owning one a crime, with death on the table if it's tied to spying.
Manipur, December 2024. Army raids a militant cache. Next to the rifles: a Starlink dish.
Now tell me India is being paranoid.
The MHA studied Iran closely. The question was never "fast internet for villages." The question is: in a crisis, who holds the switch? An office in Texas? A White House mood swing?
SpaceX agreed to store Indian data locally and allow audits. Good. But India wants one more thing: a guarantee that nobody abroad can flip coverage on or off over Indian soil. That isn't protectionism. That's sovereignty.
And look at the timing.
Months of street pressure. A meme party turned into mass mobilisation. Now opposition MPs marching on Jantar Mantar demanding the CEC's head. A new crisis every week, each one amplified abroad within hours.
Some of the anger is real. NEET leaks were real. Kids paid for them. But real grievances are exactly what get hijacked.
The playbook is the same everywhere. Find the crack. Flood it with outrage. Pre-load the illegitimate state story. Then hand people a communication channel the state can't touch.
India is not Venezuela. India is not Iran.
1.4 billion people. Elections that actually throw governments out. An army that answers to Delhi, not a satellite constellation.
Fight the CEC in Parliament and the Supreme Court. Protest your exams on the street. That's democracy.
But the country's communication backbone doesn't get outsourced to a man who already showed he'll switch off a war when it suits him.
Starlink can come. On India's terms. The kill switch stays in Delhi.
Nobody in India is against villages getting internet, Elon.
India is against one man holding the off switch.
You already showed us how that works. Ukraine was running tens of thousands of your terminals in a war, and you personally refused to extend coverage near Crimea. Their sea drones lost signal mid-mission. A sovereign country's military operation, cancelled by a businessman's mood.
Then Manipur, December 2024. Our army raids a militant cache. Sitting next to the guns: a Starlink dish. You said the beams were never on over India. Fine. Then explain how your hardware keeps turning up with smugglers and insurgents.
And yesterday you called India's delay a crime against the people of India and blamed unnamed oligarchs. No names. No proof. Just pressure.
Starlink isn't banned. It already has its DoT licence and space regulator approval. What's left is spectrum and security clearance. That's not a conspiracy. That's a country doing its homework before letting a foreign satellite network bypass its own communication controls.
So yes, bring Starlink to that village. Gladly.
On India's terms. Data stays here. Audits happen here. And no switch in Texas decides what works over Indian soil during a crisis.
That's not anti-progress. That's what sovereignty looks like.
Gloves are off now, Elon.
Still no licence? Wrong. Starlink got its Unified Licence with GMPCS authorisation from the DoT in June 2025. You know that. Your own VP posted about it.
Ambani is the real boss?
Ambani's Jio lobbied for a spectrum auction. India gave you administrative allocation, the exact thing you asked for. Then you signed distribution deals with Jio and Airtel. If Ambani is blocking you, why is he your reseller?
Five years of complying?
In 2021 you took pre-order money from Indians with no licence at all. The DoT had to order you to stop and refund people. That was your first move in India.
India's home ministry reportedly froze clearances after Starlink terminals showed up in Iran, where you aren't even licensed. Before that, our army pulled one out of a militant cache in Manipur. Your own company says talks are active and productive. So which version is true: the one your VP tells Delhi, or the one you tell 200 million followers?
The spectrum rules were cleared last month and are headed to Cabinet. You're weeks from the finish line, and you're throwing a tantrum in public to rush a sovereign country's security review.
India isn't a market you can bully on X. Wait your turn.
@Ayushkagrawal If by online, they mean netbanking, UPI, credit card, debit card. So, in simple terms, they are avoiding the MDR for all online modes. And out of all, UPI is the cheapest at 0.4%. Typical tax evasion.
And here you are, a fearmonger of the worst kind for engagement.
Pure class! 🇮🇳
She definitely wasn’t in a Gold Medal position when she received the baton. But from there on, she proved she belongs to a different class.
What a finish! 🔥
Proud of all four. Proud of you, Vithya. ❤️
You made the difference! 🇮🇳🏆
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I may be silenced forever in the next few days.
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I expect at least this from you guys🙏
Jai Hind.
Agree with the first sentence. But that's because India isn't a dictatorship like China, where:
- reforms and development get steamrolled through,
- protests get literally crushed with tanks,
- merit actually gets rewarded,
- and their journalists sell China to the world with polished news packaging.
They don't spend every day tearing their own country down with propaganda, mockery, and nonstop pessimistic coverage the way some Indians do.
If they tried, the state would crush them too. Even hunt them in the US and the West. Why don't people like you ever talk about this?
Because, as Trump put it, the media like WSJ have become the "China Street Journal." A lot of Western reporters have become sell-outs to the CCP literally or ideologically, pushing narratives that puff China up while pulling India and the West down.
Now imagine India suddenly becoming a dictatorship and Modi getting Xi-like powers:
He doesn't need to win elections, can purge anyone, squash protests like cakes, ban foreign-media and social-media, feed Indians only positive news every day, pass reforms with zero pushback, make everything merit based, and build industrial capacity to hack, steal, obtain tech from the west.
I can assure you India will close the gap with China in just ten years. And who would be the first in line to cry, protest, and petition the world writing articles about it every single day?
People like you.
Now, this is where I disagree with the second sentence. There's actually meaningful race between India and China in 2026. A race that China seems afraid of and is activating every resource to stop asap.
Because 2026 marks the year where China has continuously lagged India for a decade in growth (except the years of Wuhan virus, a word which people like you will never utter), and India is rapidly expanding infra, industrial and manufacturing capacity to catch up with China.
Same market
Same crude prices
Same logistic route
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It is depressingly apparent that to find reasonable commentators on global affairs today, you need to look outside of Europe.
Below, former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN, Kishore Mahbubani, dispels the propagandistic narrative that @MishalHusain can't help but defend.