Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan

Building the Creator Economy @myQyuki, erratic angel investing. Prev Sci/Tech/Biz journo on TV/Web/Print. Pastafarian, Navy brat, Bombay townie in a (gud) gaon!

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

"the media is filled with incompetent, self-admiring dipshits": @Gawker in 2012 on why journos are no longer heroes https://t.co/Z1ywBfFQ0R

[Mekin @_mekin]

I call BS …

- I led Flipkart Tech in 2009!!

[Ashish Dixit @dixashi]

you know what is tax terrorism. i got a call from GST officer in etawah that your vehicle is siezed. i asked the reason so he said because you sold this monocarton box at rs 8.4 while market price should be rs 10.
it is a total harassment. too much for ease of business in india.
@GST_Council How do you calculate the market price of customised item. he asked me the bribe of Rs 25000. i have a recording of entire conversation. Name of the officer is S K Tripathi. this gentleman is asking for bribe again n again.

If action is not taken against him i seriously dont how to run our industries.

@nsitharaman @nsitharamanoffc @myogiadityanath @myogioffice @narendramodi @PMOIndia @Uppolice

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

A water pipeline burst near a tree in Pune and local folks started worshipping it thinking it’s some divine miracle. A country that’s in such deep pits of superstition and quackery, I’m perhaps okay with a slightly rude and provocative rationalist calling out pseudoscience.

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

@nicochristie @Fundamental Looks interesting pls share

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

Remember that in the Lion Air 737 MAX accident Boeing PR went overboard trying to blame the Commander of the plane - Bhavye Suneja, an Indian - for the accident. But when the truth about MCAS emerged, the company never apologised to his widow for this.

[Shubhangi Sharma @ItsShubhangi]

The Trump administration may have forgotten this gem from former ISI chief Asad Durrani. Lay with Pakistan at your own peril.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Vijay Mallya is once again proving to the world, that In India, as long as you speak polished English, you can get away with anything.

To all the people who think Vijay Mallya is a saint, a victim of circumstance and political vendetta, here are some things you should think about.

Point no 1

The basis of any law is intent, and you are a criminal if you willfully break it.

Vijay Mallya willfully, deliberately, with a sound mind and body, broke the law.

In fact, he blew thru it in an armored Humvee at 300 kmph.

When he ran away, he was a Rajya Sabha MP with a diplomatic passport. If he was so sure that the cases that were filed were wrong, he could have stayed back and fought them in a court of law.

He didn't. Deliberately.

And if you deliberately break the law, you are a criminal. Period.

Point no 2

You can come up with all the legalese, limited liability, corporate separation etc etc, to acquit Mallya of all his salary liabilities.

And you are probably right. And wrong.

Are you telling me that a man like Vijay Mallya, who could go to London on a "pre-planned" trip and then stay there for 10 years, who turn and twist the Indian aviation policy to favour him, one who also ran India's biggest alcohol company, was so helpless that he couldn't pay Kingfisher employees?

This is a guy who used to wantonly pledge UB shares to raise money for Kingfisher, that too without informing UB Shareholders. He even sold 8% of UB without informing the stock exchanges.

He treated UB as a bank to fund Kingfisher when it was having good times. So, why suddenly talk about limited liabilities when things got sour?

Then there is always his personal / generational wealth.

In 2015, when Kingfisher employees were without salaries for 5 years, some even committed suicide, he had a party to end all parties in Goa. The cost of the party alone would've exceeded the annual salaries of the bottom 30% of his employees.

This was when he was already neck deep in legal troubles.

Now If he can manifest money for that jamboree, couldn't he have found some money for Kingfisher employees?

He could have. But he didn't want to.

I agree, it is his money, and he can choose to spend it however he wants.

But if he wants to spend it on parties and lifestyle, then he should not shed crocodile tears on PR podcasts, give apologies as honest as Byjus account statements and say there was nothing he could do.

If the bugger can transplant a palace 500 feet up in the sky, sure he could have found a way to pay those poor people.

Point no 3

Some people said, all he did was run a business badly, surely it was no act of crime.

First, he collected PF and Tax from employees, but didn't give it to the government. And the fact that he did it deliberately, is criminal act 1.

He deliberately didn't pay fuel costs, airport handling costs, maintenance costs and all the other Kingfisher Airline operational costs. That is criminal act no 2.

So many small scale vendors, ones who provided food, the guys who stitched those beautiful uniforms, the ones who provided cleaning staff etc etc, were also defaulted on payments. Many of them even shut down. That is criminal act no 3.

Insider trading, not informing exchanges, diverting shares from one corporation to the other, the list of wrongful activities goes on and on.

You get the drift.

The most damning indictment is the fact that Mallya has not come back after a spending a decade abroad.

He knows what criminalities he has done.

The fact that he is hiding away in London and is making extra efforts to stay there, itself points to his guilt.

Point no 4

Some say that Govt has recovered his money. So, what is the problem?

The problem is that if you willfully default a loan and the banks sell your assets to recover the amount, you still are a criminal under Section 420, 406 and 409.

They cover the clauses of obtaining loans through false promises/documents and misusing loan money.

Now one of the documents our man submitted to take a loan was something that valued the "Kingfisher" brand at $500 million.

Safe to say, he is guilty of that one.

Point no 5

Mallya keeps saying how he wanted to settle the loan but the govt didn't allow because of Vendetta.

Kingfisher went belly up in 2011. He fled in 2016.

If he so wanted to settle, he could've paid at least one tranche of his owed money and then sat for negotiations

The fact he didn't pay a single paisa and forced the banks to attach his assets, shows he had no intention to ever pay or settle.

To summarize, Vijay Mallya can do everything to presents himself as holier than thou businessperson, who was simply unlucky.

The fact remains he intentionally ran away, intentionally avoided the law, intentionally refused to pay and intentionally avoided paying his dues.

He thought nothing could happen to him.

Which, sorry to say, makes him a criminal.

P:S:

In July 2022, the Supreme Court sentenced Vijay Mallya to four months in jail and imposed a fine of ₹2,000 for contempt of court because our man transferred $40 Million dollars to his kids, in violation of court orders.

$40 million translates to around Rs 350 crores.

If he had the ability to transfer such a large sum of money to his kids, by circumventing Indian law, he surely could have given some of it to his poor ex-employees.

[6529 @punk6529]

this is going to be the Super Bowl of shitposting

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

How is this not the biggest news story in the world?

[gabe @allgarbled]

Really really bizarre vibes. Extremely self-indulgent.

What did I just watch?

[Rahul Singh @rahulsinghx]

Failed Marshal.

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

@ketave12 @avataram Blinding may indeed not be the "only" way or even always a foolproof way but it is definitely a key tool to test for statistical bias and one of the things that distinguishes science from "debates". RIP Dr JN

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

Maybe @avataram will accept the study out come since Narlikar was (the only Indian?) Senior Wrangler at Cambridge - a title that has yielded (many) more future Fields Medalists than JEE single digit rank 🙃

[Swapnil @Brahmonaut]

In the 2010s Naralikar, Dabholkar and 2 others(I think) ran a famous experiment through the paper Sakal. They devised a statistical test of astrology. They took horoscopes of the 100 scholarly students and 100 of those with learning difficulties. 1/

[Maj Manik M Jolly,SM @Manik_M_Jolly]

Last time a Pakistani General declared himself a Field Marshall, Bangladesh was created within five years.

Come on Balochistan, your time has come 👍 You can even speed up the process !

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

*outcome

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

It will not be a bad idea to have a 'National Defence Bond' issued soon. Low interest rate but make the returns tax-free. Not that the government needs the money right now, but the public mood is such that there will be massive subscription to such an issue.

[Rohit Agarwal 🇮🇳 @ragarwal]

Entire division has been mobilized

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

I hope India remembers what the biggest stars who sell patriotism on screen did when India was attacked, especially in comparison to what Pakistani stars did.

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

@Rainmaker1973 First ever X subscription after a decade of following... thanks

[Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan @abhi2point0]

@agrawalmanindra @SridharanAnand @stellensatz The quality of the hatt doffs is itself an achievement by association! Congrats