Vijay Sapps

Unicorn founder |CEO-Ela Capital | Rare disease hunter | Geopolitics hack I Polo Lover I 🇨🇦 of 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 origin. Board @SappaniFDN @MLInstitute @Ashacanada

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Poverty & discrimination hit hardest in tough times — and in Canada, the most vulnerable always pay the heaviest price. We can look away… or we can act.

At the @SappaniFdn, we choose action. We help BIPOC girls in Canada break cycles of poverty through education.

In our 5th year, we’ve partnered with @CNIB to create an annual award for BIPOC girls with vision loss pursuing post-secondary dreams.

Meet our 2025 recipient: Keerthana Kelly
Blind + hard of hearing, yet unstoppable.
CICE student ✓ Church & community volunteer ✓ Mentor to others ✓ Pure resilience.

She reminds us exactly why this work matters.

If your company has a CSR program, ask yourself: where can your support change lives the most?

#Education #GirlsMatter #BIPOC #DisabilityInclusion #PovertyReduction

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

@UpdatesChennai Privatized with strong regulatory control is the way to go. The wholesale should be govt controlled and stores must buy 100% through the govt controlled wholesale only. Hope we can have Bangalore type elite stores. Now they are charging Rs 20 and cash only in most tasmac elite.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

No, Canada should stay calm and ignore the insults. The US is our largest trading partner and we are attached at the hip. The US needs Canada and its Americans paying the tariffs. Trump tantrums will go, so will he. Canada-US relations should remain strong.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Canadians should hit back at renewed 51st state insults https://t.co/127XqgwWjm

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

I would rather take a corporate dick like carney to be the PM than a career politician Pierre who is confused if he wants to be PM of canada or Khalistan or Governor of Alberta . Never seen a conservative leader pander to terrorist supporters like Pierre does .

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Carney's reputation for - there isn't a nice way to put it - being a dick - was well-known. I suppose his MPs at least enjoy the consolation of power, in return for being treated like dirt.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

The buck stops at the PM. @MarkJCarney is polling at 50% the historical highest and trying to end pandering politics that is brining 3rd world conflicts to Canadian cities . He is truly the greatest PM in recent Canadian times. These MPs should be thankful to him but yes speaking up is good.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

BREAKING: New reporting from @althiaraj reveals growing internal tension within the Liberal caucus, with MPs alleging that Prime Minister @MarkJCarney is tightly centralizing power and reacting harshly to internal dissent. 👇🧵 (1/5)

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

India has sent 96 people to America who started billion dollar companies. No one else is even close.

There's only about 5 million Indians in America. Almost one in 50,000 of them is a unicorn founder!

What a holy, special, beautiful people.

I will always fight for them.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

The reason for the markets taking a dip is not for domestic reasons and more intangible but the good things is FII sell off is absorbed by domestic investors and when rebound happens millions of Indians will see the gain. It is tough times only if you are looking to sell or on margin and it is good times for those looking to buy and hold . IMHO Modi is doing a good job considering the geo political situation.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

@IronyMeter The 40 rs / km , how does that compare to uber and Ola in chennai ? I assume this will compete with uber premium ?

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Canadian politicians should respect that of other countries too. Alberta politicians support Khalistan, Tamil Eelam and all global separatist/terrorist movements, calling it freedom of speech. One set of rules for Canada and another for others? @PierrePoilievre @MarkJCarney

[Aadil Brar @aadilbrar]

Canada should remain an independent and sovereign country. Period.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Or we can find a middle path that’s best for Canadians- form a EU style economic union between canada and US with no tariffs , no barriers on trade, one currency, citizens can work freely ( canada will then tighten citizens laws too) , Canadians will win with better products, prices and service

[Zachary Tisdale 🇨🇦 @ztisdale]

If Canada joins the USA we can finally ditch the British Monarchy.

We get U.S. currency and a booming economy.

We get the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

We ditch multiculturalism (very important).

English is the only official language.

What's not to love?

🇨🇦🤝🇺🇲

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

We need a " Immigrants for Free Alberta Movement" If the free Alberta movement is about joining the US as 51st state, then lot of immigrants will vote Yes for it. Then Pierre can be the Governor of Alberta and Prime minister of Khalistan . @RiseOfAlberta you need to learn about vote pandering from CPC in AB and use it to your advantage.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Canadian politicians will say one thing in a synagogue at 10am and the opposite at 11am in a mosque. Foreign feudal tribal conflicts were exploited for vote pandering by Liberals and overlooked that Canada is among the largest terrorist fundraising bases for Khalistanis, Tigers, and Islamists in the Western Hemisphere. To his credit @MarkJCarney has moved away largely from it and doing what’s best for canada over what’s historic vote pandering practice . Rae , Ignatieff didn’t do it , Trudeau was the worst and Pierre has matched him now .

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney tells immigrants to leave behind the feuds of their homelands:

"We don't welcome the world's hatreds"

"When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story - you leave behind your animosities"

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Jews are leaving Canada because of rising antisemitism.

Palestinians are coming to Canada because there's rising antisemitism in Canada.

Welcome to modern Canada.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

We saw one and we were lucky :) heard from many they didnt . We missed seeing a second one because there was a safari jeeps line-up and took us 45 mins to literally move 30 meters. Needs better regulation of movement so that everyone can enjoy. Yala has the highest concentration of leopards in the world, but too crowded. I saw more accidentally in Jim corbett buffer zone than in yala :) so far Kanha in MP is my favourite in Asia.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Udawalawe National Park in Srilanka is home to 400 + wild elephants and we saw about 18 of them ; the best elephant safari in Asia . Not crowded and was leisurely .peacocks, crocodiles, water buffalo, sambar deer, monitor lizards & lots more animals & birds you can see here .

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

@aravind We did both Udawalawe and Yala national park. Udawalawe was way better experience. Yala is too crowded and too much hype. This trip was mainly for kids. Also interesting conversation with ppl as we went around on current state of politics in SL, will share that separately.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Hello Canada ; can we deport the million illegal Indians in canada back to India please . India wants us to send them back; why are we not doing it ?

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | On reports of 30 Indian truck drivers being deported from the US, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, "India does not in any manner support illegal immigration. We cooperate with the US as and when cases of deportation are referred to us. We check the nationality. Once nationality is verified, they are deported, and we receive our nationals."

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

When a person is 18 and older and considered an adult, holding them to their parents or vice versa holding parents accountable for their kids career choices is unprofessional and undemocratic. Judge a politician by their work, not who they sleep with, where their children live or what degree they hold.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

Facts:
- India is top trading partner with SL ( neck to neck with China)
- India has FTA with SL and the expanded ETCA will give greater edge for India
- Indian traders can deal with Rupees with Sri Lanka for Import and export
- India does SME projects that creates jobs for SL and wide and spread across. China does mega projects that have created debt trap for SL.
- For AP ,opps in Pharma, Agro, IT/services , medicare etc

[Astro paal pandi @Astropaalpdv]

@VJsapps @naralokesh Srilankan market is very unstable and high inflation, low forex. Investing from AP or India is not ideal thats why they preferred chinese as their prime investors.
May be we can take their airports, ports etc other than that everything is a white elephant.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

This 👇🏽 India imports over $110B from China and $75B is electronics , electrical machinery etc ; things that can be Made in India. Indias imports from China is increasing in double digits every year . Make in India should be a ministry by itself reporting directly to shah or modi to weed out corruption and inefficiencies .

India needs to aggressively push on regulatory and corruption reforms to push Make in India, not just for domestic market but for exports too

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

This fan was 100% imported from China.

Now we've made it in India. 🇮🇳

In Jan 2025, I ordered this Chinese clip fan from Amazon.

I wanted to understand why India wasn't making them.

So we reverse-engineered it.

Indianised it.

Built it here.

And put it back on Amazon.

Today:

1,000+ sold in a few weeks.

#1 SELLING clip fan on Amazon India.

And the ONLY MADE IN INDIA clip fan on the platform

Lesson:

Indian manufacturing can win in categories everyone assumes belong to China.

[Vijay Sapps @VJsapps]

There is long standing Andhra - Srilanka cultural ties but there is huge opportunity for AP businesses to tap into Srilanka markets that TN will not touch due to domestic politics . TNs loss can be AP gain @naralokesh . AP should take a trade delegation to SL. Big wins for SME.

[Santosh Jha @santjha]

Reaffirming historic people-to-people ties between India 🇮🇳 and Sri Lanka 🇱🇰!

Visited Kudagama village, where the community members trace their ancestral roots back to #Andhra Pradesh. Learnt that there are more villages in Anuradhapura, Kandy, Vavunia and other districts of Sri Lanka with people of #Telugu ancestry.

The interaction highlighted the continuing desire of the villagers to nurture their Telugu roots for their future generations. Assured full support for this endeavour.

The visit highlighted yet another dimension of the deep historical and civilisational roots of our modern ties. 🇮🇳🤝🇱🇰

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