aditya gadiyar

The Ungentleman *Views are personal

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Reddit

[Josiah Johnson @KingJosiah54]

How the Spurs doing the Knicks in the NBA Finals

[aditya gadiyar @adygad]

@joybhattacharj What a game! I aged 7 years just watching it. Brain completely melted away at one point. 😂

[Kevin O'Connor @KevinOConnor]

One of the all-time great comebacks in the history of sports. Up there with Patriots 28-3 in the Super Bowl. I can't believe what I just saw here tonight at Madison Square Garden. I am like shaking, goosebumps all over. What a magical experience. Sports is the best thing ever.

[Jonah Bromwich @Jonesieman]

NYPost cover today is…

[Mayank Shekhar मयंक शेखर @mayankw14]

If there’s a person from history that actor Naseeruddin Shah resembles — you could, technically, go with Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad. It’s the role Richard Attenborough offered him in Gandhi.

Naseer was clear he’d play the Mahatma, or no part in the film. He has subsequently played Gandhi on screen (Hey Ram), and stage (Mahatma Vs Gandhi).

Hey, but how about JRD Tata?

It’s only when you watch the GOAT, Naseer, 75, with a slight droop, in light coloured suits, no prosthetic makeup, just his grey hair naturally gelled back, in the series, Made in India: A Titan Story (Amazon MX Player), you go — Oh my god, of course, Naseer = JRD!

The show’s lead writer, Karan Vyas, tells me, “He was our first and last option.” Centrally, A Titan Story isn’t so much the biopic of JRD as of his eccentric mentee, Xerxes Desai, who founded a watch-making start-up, within the Tata group.

Jim Sarbh plays Xerxes. He had, likewise, splendidly portrayed another fellow Parsee, Homi Bhabha, in Rocket Boys, an equally unlikely show on the building of public institutions of science, within the Indian government.

Titan is, essentially, a private concern, albeit started in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu state. Why are we so neatly drawn to its story?

Because popular shows on business/corporations generally tend to focus on the greed/rot/politics within the system that’s made for profit, and somewhat designed to profiteer.

Take the finest Indian series, Scam 1992, or the world’s greatest, Succession.

A Titan Story shines a light, instead, on the middleclass, Boomer Generation, of faceless engineers, MBAs, graduates; employees, in general — most of whom devotedly worked their life off in the same firm, with passion, loyalty, adding value to society, and raising their families, alongside.

That’s most desi dads, born between 1946-64, you’ve known.

What else?

Full column link in bio.

[PenPencilDraw @penpencildraw]

Uncle country.

[aditya gadiyar @adygad]

😂😂

[Roads of Mumbai @RoadsOfMumbai]

It's like telling someone that Chennai has better Chole Bhature than Delhi and Mizoram has better Idli Sambar than Tamil Nadu

Whatever is being sold in Gujarat is not Vada Pav, if they are selling it as mentioned by Axar Patel 🫡. Period.

[शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek]

Parents who can afford to need to start building an AI fund for their children.
This fund will take care of their children if AI makes them irrelevant.
This strategy is easier to implement than trying to figure out which degree will continue to keep their children relevant as AI progresses and keeps doing more and more things.
Control the controllable.

[aditya gadiyar @adygad]

Hunter Biden is the best thing to have happened to 2026 in what has otherwise been an epic shit sandwich of a year! Sample this 🔥🔥

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@AlexDelarge6553 I’m actually playing in the game- Wemby needs someone to pass him the ball.

[Divakar @ReaL_Dp14]

That too generated from AI

[Anupam Gupta @b50]

Massive respect for @TataCompanies for being open enough to tell the story of @titanwatches. I hope other business families take a cue. We need to know India's corporate history and the battles fought by entrepreneurs, families. Nothing is black and white. Still, the stories should be told. #MadeInIndia #ATitanStory @MXPlayer

[Chi Ossé @OsseChi]

MY MAYOR IS MUSLIM
MY BAGELS ARE JEWISH
MY CHRISTIAN DIOR
MY KNICKS IN FOUR

[Sanjay Gupta @_SanjayGupta]

Dear Bollywood, After watching Made In India: A Titan Story...
I am formally requesting that Naseeruddin Shah and Jim Sarbh be banned from sitting at home.
Their couches do not deserve them.
The audience does.
In ko dabaa ke kaam do.

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

Wemby is like AI's impact on the labor market

It feels inevitable but it's not happening quite yet

[Cartoonist Rakesh Ranjan @cartoonistrrs]

वो दिन दूर नहीं
यह शो बंद हो जाएगा
आईना दिखाने वाला शेखर सुमन
गद्दार कहलाएगा ।।।
Great job Shekhar sir 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[aditya gadiyar @adygad]

Terrible officiating. Tony Brothers is just a disgrace. We shouldn’t allow him anywhere near a court!

[बाहरी बिहारी @Bahari_Bihari]

मुझे लगता है कि खान सर को एक सुनियोजित ट्रैप में फंसाया गया है !

ज़रा पूरी क्रोनोलॉजी समझिए —

> खान सर अंजना ओम कश्यप पर हमला करते है,
> गोदी मीडिया और अंजना ओम कश्यप को चैलेंज
करते है
> जैसे ही गोदी मीडिया एक्सपोज होने लगती है,गोदी
मीडिया या सरकार का कोई बड़ा दलाल ज्ञान बिंदु से
संपर्क करता है,और फिर गोलीबारी,लड़ाई, झगड़ा
FIR सब चालू हो जाता है,
> सोशल मीडिया युद्ध शुरू होते ही वही गोदी मीडिया
और उसके समर्थक ज्ञान बिंदु के गुणगान करने लगे।
चारों तरफ जबरदस्त PR मशीनरी एक्टिव हो गई।
> खान सर अब खान सर नहीं रहे,मीडिया अब फैसल
खान बुलाना चालू कर दी है,

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