Aashay S. Doshi

Director at Bloomfield Agro; President @carnegiemellon Mumbai Network; Chairman @IMC_India Agri & Food Processing Committee

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

5% youth is actually brilliant, who are actually building something.

95% youth is either addicted to Govt job entrance exams or increasing followers on Instagram.

[Treeni @treeni]

CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke :

> fights Typhoid on social media in the morning

> celebrating and partying in the night

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Worth a read. Bernard Arnault responds to the press.

@X has shifted the balance of power away from the media and back to the people.

Thank you @elonmusk!

[@Steven_Strauss @Steven_Strauss]

Life goals

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

If your demand stops at the edge of convenience or loyalty, then it was never about accountability to begin with.

Exposing those who demand transparency from others while shielding their own, on @News18India with @AmanChopra_:

[BIRABAR NANDA @brknanda]

Resignation of Mr. @dpradhanbjp is a victory of the anarchists, goons, and leftists, and It is deeply concerning.

I am yet to find out how can he be held responsible for the mistakes done by an academician who set the question and leaked it. I am a student of science and it baffles to see the arguments provided by many in favor of Mr. Pradhan's resignation.

If they set such parameters for resignation, I dobut if we ever can form a stable govt which is a basic necessity of a developing country as ours.

The kind of foul language, and vulgar display that was demonstrated by the so called Gen-Z, and the way they were encouraged to do so, by the old school urban naxals, is matter of concern.

Their dream was to see Nepal and Bangladesh type instability. These people cannot create a small thing, but are apt in breaking down things.

[Rubika Liyaquat @RubikaLiyaquat]

Kuch bhi… I receive threats too. Almost everyday. Simply because my point of view doesn’t suit a section of people.

Stop celebrating as if democracy has suddenly been restored!

What you really miss is not democracy.. you miss monopoly. You miss ur narratives, your cultural approval.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

“Awaaz nahi aa rahi”

[𝐊𝐨𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭!𝟎𝐧_👑🚩 @bholination]

If you're happy with Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation but don't care about the resignation of the Education Ministers of Punjab and Karnataka for the same paper leak issue, then you're a hypocrite. It suggests that you were never fighting for accountability, but were instead pursuing your other biased agendas against the government.

[Aashay S. Doshi @aashay_doshi]

Actually building and running things is messier than making reels! @siddarthpaim @ankitnagori27 @harshmadhusudan @RMantri @ManCityKD @vishalamlani

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

My vote after this goes to @narendramodi & @AmitShah in 2029 ! Earlier i was undecided but now 💯i will go vote for them irrespective for what happened today or tomorrow. Because i cannot stand the Leftists, gangs of Congress or AAP who do not mind to burn the country down to get back to power ! Period.. You win or lose you have my vote @RSSorg 🙏🏼

[Ratan Sharda 🇮🇳 रतन शारदा @RatanSharda55]

All good deeds of #Modi govt
get drowned in Left propaganda.

[Rishabh Mukherjee @rishabhm]

Millennials experienced the fag end of the pre-liberalisation era of economic supression/repression that our population was subjected to. It was 100% by design and would have kept going had dire circumstances not arisen. Consecutive INC govts artificially restricted access to every human comfort like telephones, gas connections, scooters, various electronics. They constrained the production of goods. Most of India had no water, electricity, healthcare, or sanitation. Starvation was common. Ordinary people were living like animals.

Almost every single person who romanticises the pre-1991 era was from a well-to-do family. Life was hell for the average Indian.

It took that family being temporarily sidelined for PVNR to work towards change. And the change was big and instant. Hundreds of millions were shocked that all it took to move out of that darkness was a policy change. Every Indian asked the question - "Why the fuck were we living like this till now?" It has been no coincidence that the INC has been in secular decline ever since.

People who lived through those times and saw an action replay during UPA 2 now form the bulk of the electorate, and enough have vowed to never vote for the INC come what may because of those experiences. Just like enough voters in Bihar have sworn off Lalu, and it seems like more recently, Bengal is done with Mamta. You cannot reduce people to penury and then be surprised when they decide to permanently vote against you.

People like Vir Das have never bothered to understand this lived reality of hundreds of millions of Indians. It's hardly a surprise that they keep coming up with drivel like this below and can't figure out why people vote the way they do.

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

Narender Modi ne kya kr diya? Ye kr diya.

& this is not coming from so called Godi Media but a prominent English Media page.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

India should ban social media for young children too.

I believe young children should read physical books, play in the dirt under the sun and stay away from social media!

[LALIGA @LaLiga]

✍️ Apunten su nombre: 𝐻𝑢𝑔𝑜 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑜

@FCBmasia | LALIGAFCFUTURES

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

Millennials are now sandwiched between a generation that believes everything they read on WhatsApp and a generation that believes everything they see on Instagram.

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Forget Sonam Wangchuk. Forget Abhijeet Dipke. Forget the CJP.

Did the exam papers leak? Yes.
Do they leak frequently? Yes.
Did many students commit suicide? Yes.
Do papers leak for other exams as well? Also yes.

The Government seems to suggest that a successful re-exam was undertaken, and the criminals have been punished - so what’s the problem?

The problem is that it doesn’t stop the next paper leak.

Putting some low level criminals behind bars and throwing money at the families of the dead isn’t the permanent solution. How many senior administrators and bureaucrats have faced the wrath of the law in the last 10 years?

It’s a post-facto reaction after the leaks have already taken lives.

Exam paper leaks in India are not confined to one state, one government, or one type of exam. In fact, the situation is even worse in State exams.

The attitude, by-and-large, seems to be, jaisa chal raha hai chalne do..

We’ll pick up a few people here and there, give away some money, do a re-exam and move on to the next cycle. Itna toh kiya, aur kya chahiye?

But the students have gotten restless. They are fed up. You see it in TV interviews after every exam that gets cancelled at the last moment. Police recruitment. Teacher recruitment. State Govt recruitment. Again and again. Year after year. Too many students have all hopes pinned on these various exams. It is their ticket out of poverty, to make a life for themselves and their families.

Why should they just “get on with it”?

Another line of argument seems to be that there were more paper leaks in the Congress era. And that this government has done better than its predecessors. And so people need to be ‘sensible’ about this issue.

Ok, but why should that be relevant to a 20-year old today?

She didn’t live in the Congress era. She is living and studying in 2026.

It is an argument that would perhaps resonate with millennials and older folks who have lived through both regimes. But the very young don’t have that old reference (and it’s a good thing) - they have the reference of social media.

This is a social media native generation, they don’t consume traditional TV or news. Social media gives them access to what the world is like, right on their screen, 24X7. And they will increasingly ask - why can’t we have the good things that the world has?

If Ethiopia can have decent roads, why can’t India?
If Sri Lanka can be clean, why can’t India?
If Vietnam can conduct exams well, why can’t India?

And this restlessness expresses aspiration.

To demand more. To want better. To want it quickly.

Chalta Hai.. is not going to cut it anymore.

Take the counterfactual - if there was no hue and cry, do you believe anything would change? There would be another paper leak somewhere in another month. Another series of suicides. Another round of compensation.

It may very well happen even now, but the students have expressed their rage and fury- that it can’t be business as usual.

“Chalta hai” is the defining attitude of India.

Road after road after road has potholes.. but chal raha hai.
Exam after exam after exam gets cancelled.. but chal raha hai.
Kachra on every street, highway, station… but chal raha hai.
Corruption in every other government service.. but chal raha hai.

The young (thankfully) don’t carry the baggage of the past. The older you get, the more cynical you become - that this is how the system is, and how things will always work. But the young, with their (hopeful) naivety, at least have the ability to dream of a different tomorrow.

In my early 20s, I wore the Anna cap and went around the area sloganeering with a bunch of other young people during the IAC movement. Nothing came out of it, and in hindsight I felt stupid for having supported any of those people. But the sentiment that it came out of - the frustration with rampant corruption - that was genuine.

As I’m sure, the sentiment is genuine with thousands of students who have been part of these protests.

I hope your movement has a more fruitful end than the one I supported.

PS: Is this movement foreign funded? Are there other forces involved? I will let people with far more experience than me on security and intelligence matters to comment on that. But I will say this - the issue has been genuine, and it has resonance among the public. Grifters will always find a way to latch on to popular issues and try to hijack it. We must not lose sight of solving for the core sentiment.

[a16z @a16z]

Ben Horowitz says the difference between a great idea and a great company is the entrepreneur:

"If you look at Tesla, what you would see is big oil, big auto, big government, were never going to let that happen."

"They would kill you. But the reality is, Elon Musk, he's hard to kill. He by himself kind of decarbonized the American auto industry, which is unbelievable in retrospect."

"If you listen to the politicians now, they're like 'oh, he didn't build Tesla, he just struck a gold mine and is pulling the gold out, all the people built it.'"

"Why didn't all those people build another Tesla? Because there's only one non-fungible, very rare person in that equation who could do that. That's why there's only one SpaceX."

@travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg