Aravind Subramanian

Probabilistic Risk Assessment Consultant. Inquisitive. Proud Indian.

Life is not black and white. It is a million shades of grey.

[Indian Air Force @IAF_MCC]

#OperationAmistad

Responding with speed, reach and compassion, two #IndianAirForce C-17 Globemaster III aircraft completed a demanding 23-hour flight to Venezuela, covering an aerial distance of over 14,000 km from Delhi to Caracas.

The aircraft landed at Maiquetía International Airport, Caracas, carrying 66 tonnes of humanitarian aid- including an Indian Army Field Hospital, over 35 tonnes of relief supplies, medicines and medical equipment, and two BHISHM Cubes—demonstrating India's capability to deliver hope across continents whenever called upon.

This transoceanic deployment reaffirms India's growing role as a responsible first responder and a reliable humanitarian partner.

#HADR #HumanitarianAssistance #HarKaamDeshKeNaam

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[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

Operation Amistad underway in Venezuela.

Army Field Hospital giving a caring hand to those impacted by the earthquake.

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

Raghav Chaddha,Kumar Vishwas, Prashant Bhushan, Yogendra Yadav, Kiran Bedi & Swati Maliwal all part of the fraudulent RSS backed IAC & key members of Kejriwal’s little gang AAP. All out because of zero ideology except power seeking. The two Gupta’s in RS gave “resources” but don’t follow the party whip. Harbhajan Singh & latest money bags don’t even mention AAP in the bio. Ideology, loyalty & credibility matters. The people you cosy up to reflect you. Kejriwal has poor judgement & is a pure opportunist

[Salman Soz @SalmanSoz]

I feel bad for BJP. They keep scoring self goals. Spreading misinformation about oil bonds has been used as a cover by BJP to extort huge amounts of funds from Indian citizens. Let us get to the bottom of this.

If we take the data BJP has shared, this is what it says:

Average cost of crude oil (per barrel)
2005-2014: $86 (MMS)
2015-2025: $67 (Modi)

Average cost of petrol (Rupees per liter)
2005-2014: 54 (MMS)
2015-2025: 82 (Modi)

Crude oil was 22% cheaper under BJP, yet petrol was 52% more expensive!

What happened? Taxes are a big part of the Modi government's petroleum strategy (other factors impact prices too).

BJP will keep misleading the public about oil bonds being a reason for high fuel prices but they hope that you don't find out the full picture.

Keep reading!

BJP's oil bond figure of 3.23 lakh crore (more on that later) should be seen in the following context.

Between 2015 and 2025, the petroleum sector has generated 66 lakh crores in revenues for the exchequer. According to the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (or PPAC), the Central Government collected 40 lakh crores of the total. 34 lakh crores were in taxes and duties. While 6 lakh crores were dividends.

The BJP wants you to believe that your high petrol and diesel prices are because of the 3.23 lakh crores of principal and interest payments associated with oil bonds issues by the UPA government (and the Vajpayee government). Total silence about taxes and duties!

So, you have to praise the Modi government because they spent 3.32 lakh crores out of the 40 lakh crores they collected from all of us. If you are not outraged by this, then you are only interested in supporting BJP blindly. That is your choice.

But, the story doesn't end there. There is another twist. The 3.23 lakh crore "credit card bill" that the BJP claims as UPA's legacy is a half truth:

1. The first oil bonds were issued by the NDA 1 government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee (9000 crore).

2. The UPA Government paid interest of 53,163 crores between 2009 and 2014. This interest was on the bonds issued both by the Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh governments. I bet you didn't hear Dr. Singh constantly complain about the Vajpayee government's oil bond.

3. That means the amount of interest and principal repaid by the Modi government is much less than 3.23 lakh crores.

But we paid 34 lakh crores in taxes and duties for the central government alone. Add to that taxes and duties for state governments and the dividends issued mostly for the central government and you begin to fully understand how the fleecing of the Indian consumer and taxpayer is engineered under the cover of UPA oil bonds, which are a tiny fraction of the oil sector's Rs. 66 lakh crore contribution to the government exchequer.

Don't let BJP get away with fake narratives. Time to reclaim the truth...and the country.

[Mohan மோகன் Kumaramangalam @MKumaramangalam]

7 new high speed rail projects announced. 2 for my home state of TN. So excited. Must be a huge budgetary allocation to NHRCL this year no? Err...

Actual 24-25: 16000 Cr
Budget 25-26: 19000 Cr
Revised 25-26: 15,500 Cr 😲
Budget 26-27: 15,000 Cr 😡

Note: Total budgetary estimate of India's first high speed rail between ahmedabad and mumbai is now 1.9 Lakh Crore. It is running 4 years late.

AIIMS Madurai, here i come!

[Suresh Sambandam @sureshsambandam]

Gujarat or Tamilnadu ? Which is the #1 state of India.

[Karti P Chidambaram @KartiPC]

Big Brother will take over our phone & pretty much our entire private lives. This is Pegasus++

[steve @bagshaw2112]

Be careful we have had a mm of #snow in the uk

Be careful today #snow

It snowed last night...
8:00 am: I made a snowman.

8:10 - A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn't make a snow woman.

8:15 - So, I made a snow woman.

8:17 - My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman's voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.

8:20 - The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.

8:22 - The transgender man..women...person asked why I didn't just make one snow person with detachable parts.

8:25 - The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.

8:28 - I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.

8:31 - The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .

8:40 - The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.

8:42 - The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.

8:43 - The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.

8:45 - TV news crew from BBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied "Snowballs" and am now called a sexist.

9:00 - I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.

9:10 - I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.

9:29 - Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.

By noon it all melted

Moral:

There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes

[Rashi Pandey @rashi__pandey_]

Average conversation between a millennial and a GenZ 😭

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

@bruce_barrett This ain't scamming the priority boarding system. Elderly parents visiting children abroad use wheelchair service so that they have help to navigate foreign airports. Airlines should have a "unaccompanied elders" service like "unaccompanied minors" to avoid this misuse @airindia

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

@kiranshaw Elderly parents visiting children abroad use wheelchair service so that they have help to navigate foreign airports. Airlines should have a "unaccompanied elders" service like "unaccompanied minors" to avoid this misuse @airindia

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

@sumanthraman Elderly parents visiting children abroad use wheelchair service so that they have help to navigate foreign airports. Airlines should have a "unaccompanied elders" service like "unaccompanied minors" to avoid this misuse @airindia

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

This ain't scamming the priority boarding system. Elderly parents visiting children abroad use wheelchair service so that they have help to navigate foreign airports. Airlines should have a "unaccompanied elders" service like "unaccompanied minors" to avoid this misuse @airindia

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

Air India says 30% of passengers on India-US flights ask for wheelchairs.

Most are able bodied travelers scamming the priority boarding system.

Real disabled passengers get left short.

[Nick Touran @whatisnuclear]

I know Jim Waldo. Jim Waldo is a complete and utter badass straight out of the first nuclear era. He started up the famous EBR-II SFR. He operated the FFTF SFR. He's helped design many reactors currently under development. And look at what he has to say!

Big thanks to @ANS_org for publishing his letter in this month's Nuclear News!

*Disclaimer: I promise to love and support any and all small reactors that get built. I just think the national priority should be like 80% expanding our workhorse fleet and 20% trailblazing new options and markets. Right now the focus seems to be like 1%/99%

[Rachit Seth🇮🇳 @rachitseth]

Once upon a time Dr Manmohan Singh got us a Nuclear Waiver from the US. They changed their Laws for us.

Now, Modi ji, for all the “Namaste Trump” events got us 25% Tariff, despite so many Ministers camping in Washington for months!

[Bharatiya Junta Pod🇮🇳Newsein aur Thoughtein @BhaJaPod]

"Middle class" Indians will prefer to give up all their fundamental rights than get alarmed by even credible concerns raised by RG. The reason being they shared an "RG pappu hai" joke 10 yrs ago, and how could I admit to ever being wrong.

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

@nistula https://t.co/lMPc85Opkr

[Arvind Gunasekar @arvindgunasekar]

I think Rahul Gandhi meant Land Acquisition Act, 2015.

[Aravind Subramanian @aravindsubbu]

@milindmghosh @AryamanBharat https://t.co/lMPc85Opkr

[Arvind Gunasekar @arvindgunasekar]

I think Rahul Gandhi meant Land Acquisition Act, 2015.

[NEIL PARIKH @npparikh6]

How will they handle such a large AUM?
- look at fund level AUM and not scheme level AUM as individual stock limits are at fund level, not scheme. So the best stock idea can have good allocation in one scheme instead of allocating the same idea in multiple schemes- basically dilute your best idea with multiple equity schemes. Our overall equity AUM is still less than 5% market share of total MF equity AUM. So this is not a concern. What will change is that there will be a longer tail of small cap stocks so number of stocks may increase over time.

Can they continue delivering the same kind of returns with all this new money?
- Only time will tell 🙂

[ORF @orfonline]

Globally, clear warning labels on food packaging have proven effective in promoting healthier choices. Countries like #Chile saw significant reductions in High in Fat, Sugar, and Salt (#HFSS) consumption post-implementation: @shoba_suri https://t.co/EYz6X2kmal