Gautam Adani is a terrible billionaire and an absolute embarrassment to modern wealth.
For three years, his group faced the Hindenburg attack, a coordinated short seller attack, US DOJ proceedings and a relentless global media storm.
This was his perfect opportunity to behave like a modern billionaire. He should have done 47 podcasts with big YouTubers, given emotional interviews on all media channels and burned shareholders money.
It is deeply offensive. When the whole world is shouting at you to stop, you are not supposed to calmly wasting your time on boring things like:
• Building deep water ports that handle actual global trade.
• Building the world’s largest renewable energy parks in a barren desert.
• Stubbornly executing decades-long infrastructure projects because “India hasn’t paused.”
I saw Karan Adani’s post where he talks about how his father taught him to “keep doing the work” and “keep his word” during this time.
This is terrible parenting. When you have billions, you are supposed to teach your kids to abandon hard work. You tell them to pick a country, buy a $50M mansion, fly business class and just enjoy the inherited wealth while tweeting philosophical quotes.
That’s what everyone of us would do.
Imagine having enough money to never work again and still choosing to build things India will need 30 years from now.
Some people simply do not understand retirement.
Maharashtra shows the Way
Food safety is ultimately about people, not files, inspections or statistics.
Every safe meal is a family protected. Every action against unsafe food is a step towards protecting someone’s health, dignity and future.
Maharashtra’s experience reminds us that governance earns people’s trust when purpose is clear, action is fair, and compassion remains at the heart of enforcement.
Public service is, at its core, about standing with people; especially when they need the system most.
#TukaramMundhe #FoodSafety #PublicHealth #PublicService #GoodGovernance #People #Leadership #Inspiration
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In any house, the first question asked for an "Arranged Marriage" is:
“What does the groom do?”
Appa Rao’s family also went to see a girl for their son.
After tea, biscuits, and the usual small talk, the girl’s father finally came to the main point:
“Okay, what is your son doing now?”
Appa Rao adjusted his glasses, cleared his throat, and started:
“Our son is currently the Founder and Managing Director of an Agro-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) startup.”
“We mainly work in the Organic Health and Wellness sector.”
Hearing this, the girl’s father was 50% impressed already.
“Wow! So what’s your product?” he asked.
Appa Rao replied:
“In our portfolio we mainly have High-protein roasted legumes and traditional caramelized sweets.”
“We source raw materials directly from the wholesale supply chain, and dry roast them in our own thermal processing unit.”
“And the biggest highlight is… our packaging is 100% eco-friendly and biodegradable!”
Everyone in the girl’s family was amazed.
It sounded like some big multinational company to them!
The girl’s uncle couldn’t hold it in and asked:
“Where is your company’s main office? How many employees do you have?”
Appa Rao, without any hesitation:
“This is the modern lean startup era.”
“So we don’t have unnecessary expenses like shop rent, electricity bill, etc. We have one mobile retail outlet. It changes location every day depending on traffic and crowd.”
“All operations are handled by our son alone — he is a solopreneur!”
The girl’s father was totally confused now.
He didn’t understand a word of this English.
“Sir, I don’t understand this marketing language. Just tell me plainly, what does your son actually do?”
Then the boy’s close friend quietly said:
“Uncle… what he’s saying is…Our boy sells…Roasted peanuts from a cart near the highway. He roasts groundnuts in sand (thermal processing)… and wraps them in old newspaper (biodegradable packaging).”
The tea cup in the girl’s father’s hand fell and shattered.
You can imagine what happened after that…
Moral: The magic of marketing words is very powerful. With a strong presentation, even a simple peanut business can look like a corporate startup!
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The explosion comes after November (or before).
India's domestic market is already pricing it in. The rest of the world is still pricing the shock. Clearly, the Wall Street Algos are pitted against India's Salary Day.
Full story views @indiacharts
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WATCH | Large number of devotees gather early morning at the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on the second day of the holy month of Shravan to witness the special 'Bhasma Aarti'.
In 1997, a footballer accidentally proved a physics principle in a soccer game that had been invisible for 300 years.
Roberto Carlos lined up for a free kick about 40 yards from goal during a France versus Brazil friendly match in Paris.
The ball sat exactly where a free kick should sit, the French wall stood between him and the goal, and everyone in the stadium knew what was about to happen. Carlos was about to attempt something that shouldn't exist in physics.
He struck the ball with his left foot at an extreme angle, nearly perpendicular to where the goal actually was. The ball curved so dramatically through the air that French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez literally didn't move. He watched it arc impossibly wide, certain it was going nowhere, his body language screaming "that's out." Then the ball bent back toward goal like it was magnetized. It crossed the goal line before Barthez could process what his eyes had just witnessed. Goal.
The stadium went silent for a second.
Then chaos.
That moment became legendary not because it was a beautiful goal, though it was, but because it revealed something about physics that most people had never actually *seen* in real time before. The ball had broken the straight line. It had obeyed a force that existed entirely in the air, invisible to the naked eye, bending space itself through sheer rotation.
That force is called the Magnus effect, and it's been hiding in plain sight in sports for over a century. Every curveball in baseball, every spinning tennis serve, every banana kick in football, every slice shot in golf. They all ride on the Magnus effect. But Carlos's free kick was different. It was the perfect storm of velocity, spin rate, and distance that made the force so visually obvious that even people who'd never heard the word "Magnus" understood something supernatural had just occurred.
Here's what actually happened in the physics.
When you strike a spinning ball with enough velocity through the air, the rotation creates a pressure differential on either side of the ball. The side spinning with the direction of motion builds up a layer of fast moving air that stays attached to the ball's surface. The opposite side spinning against the direction of motion sheds that air layer and creates lower pressure. You end up with higher pressure on one side and lower pressure on the other. Bernoulli's principle then drags the ball toward the lower pressure region. The ball curves.
That's the Magnus effect in its purest form.
It's fluid dynamics.
But here's where most explanations stop and where most people fail to grasp the real picture. The Magnus effect is *proportional* to the spin. Double the spin rate and you approximately double the curvature. But it's also proportional to the surface area. A larger ball, all else equal, experiences more Magnus effect than a smaller one. And it's wildly proportional to velocity. Lower the speed too much and the curve becomes almost nonexistent. Add speed and the curve amplifies. This is why a baseball pitcher's curveball becomes more dramatic at higher velocities, why a tennis serve curves more than a lob, and why Carlos's free kick had to travel at a certain speed to work.
Carlos struck that ball at precisely the intersection point where spin and velocity aligned to produce maximum curve over that distance. Any slower and it lands straight in the wall. Any faster and it overcorrects and misses wide. The goal was practically a mathematical solution to an equation nobody needed to solve except his foot somehow did it perfectly.
The reason this moment matters beyond football is that it made visible something that had been operating invisibly in physics and engineering for centuries. The Magnus effect powers helicopter rotors. It's why airplanes have wings. It's why you can throw a frisbee and it actually stays airborne instead of just dropping like a stone. Every spinning object moving through air experiences it. Every sport that uses a ball depends on it.
Yet most people go their entire lives without consciously recognizing this force exists.
What Carlos did was compress a century of physics education into three seconds of visible reality. He created an experiment that couldn't be ignored or dismissed or explained away. The ball curved. The goalkeeper saw it. The universe didn't change. Nothing magical happened. Just matter responding to force across empty space in exactly the way the math predicted.
The interesting part isn't that it worked. The interesting part is that we'd organized the entire sport of football for decades without truly understanding why the ball did what it did. Strikers had developed intuition about how to make a ball curve, but that intuition was operating in the dark. They couldn't articulate the relationship between spin and speed and distance. They just knew that if you hit it a certain way, it would curve a certain amount.
Then Carlos made it visible.
What happened after was instructive. Within a few years, every serious free kick taker started studying the Magnus effect. Sports scientists began measuring spin rates with new technology. Training programs started including tutorials on precisely where to strike the ball, how much curve you could generate at different velocities, how wind affected the trajectory. The gap between top tier free kick takers and everyone else widened because now you could *understand* the phenomenon you were trying to exploit.
Science doesn't change physics. It just brings the invisible into focus.
That free kick lived in the gap between intuitive mastery and conscious understanding. Carlos had mastered the Magnus effect through pure repetition and feel. But once everyone else saw it work that clearly, you couldn't claim ignorance anymore. You had to reckon with what was actually happening in the air.
In some sense, that's what every great demonstration does. It takes something that was operating beneath the surface of our attention and makes it unavoidable. The double slit experiment did that for quantum mechanics. The Michelson Morley experiment did it for the aether. A free kick did it for aerodynamics, and most of the world never even realized they were watching physics.
The next time you watch a free kick curve perfectly into goal, understand that you're watching the Magnus effect in action. You're watching air pressure differentials, Bernoulli principles, and rotational velocity align perfectly. You're watching physics become soccer.
And somewhere, a physicist is probably jealous that a football player got to make it look more beautiful than any equation ever could.
Microcap investing has taught me a lot (still learning) over the past 30 years - about patience, conviction, discipline and Risk. I shared some of these learnings in my recent podcast with @kushallodha548 & talked about my learnings, mistakes, successes & failures in my Investing journey. Hope it adds value to fellow investors.
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'Lets not pretend some great principle involved here", says EAM Dr S Jaishankar, as he points how US asked India to buy Russian energy, then imposed tariffs, & then revoked them.
Terms Russia as a "steady" supplier of energy
Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.
Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.
After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.
This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.
Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.
USDINR monthly RSI has hit 83 - the highest momentum reading since 2002.
Is this the final curtain call for Wave 5 of the multi-year structural dollar bull run that began back in 2008? Let's look at the macro layout in the chart.
1/ The historic 2002 RSI reading actually peaked higher at 90, but remember: that occurred well before the doors were ever open to a freely traded currency market in India.
2/ Today, India is just a few structural steps away from transforming the Rupee into a highly reliable, freely traded global currency.
3/ Achieving full capital and current account convertibility just needs a few final refinements on the tax side, alongside continued policy measures to deeply expand the domestic bond market.
4/ Bottom line: With momentum hitting a 24-year high inside Wave 5, the structural ceiling for the dollar's long-term bull run is firmly locked in place. Watch this space closely.
#USDINR #Forex #Macroeconomics #TechnicalAnalysis #ElliottWave #Rupee