Ashish Raj

Manufacturer of Gear Boxes and Gear Motors.

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[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

Our house in indeed the calmest place for us!

It's just that we have made our houses pigeon boxes. If our houses are properly ventilated with trees around it, it is the best real estate in the world.

If our city is clean and green, it is the best city for us.

[Pankaj Arora 🇮🇳 @Panks_Arora]

Every single place in India is just so overcrowded.

- Want to go to a park? Hundreds are already there, not enough space.

- Want to go to a temple? You won’t even get five minutes of peace.

- Want to visit a hill station? Not a single hotel is available.

- Same with Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and everywhere else.

It feels like the calmest place is your own house.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

When cars are running at 120 Km/hr, such lane violation can be catastrophic. And then they drift from one lane to another. I have myself personally experienced this on expressway. Can you imagine what just a small nick at 120 Km/hr will do to your car!

#roadsafety #expressway

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

@PKakkar_ Is this sarcasm?

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

@bs_frr Frankly speaking, if my son had even half the opportunity he is having in USA, I would have kept him here, by my side.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

@aparanjape Aircraft scrapping through the roofs is a huge security risk!

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

If you are blaming the rising oil prices only for our weak rupee, you are missing something BIG.

Most of the businesses, including exporters are facing some sort of legal penalties. How do you expect them to grow their businesses?

#rupee #business #India

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

If you are wondering why Indians who have built Artificial intelligence in USA, can't build the same in India? Here is the answer - The law would finish them even before they start.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #India

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India.

If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved.

We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on.

The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

Imagine a life, you book a cab, the cab comes exactly on location without calling you three times. The cab arrives super clean. No smell. No random unwashed sofa cover on the seats. The AC is on full blast. You don’t need to ask bhaiya ac on kar do. The driver is not eating ghutka. No religious music is playing. No next cab booking siren is blaring on his phone. The driver doesn’t honk or abuse the car ahead of him. You sit in peace. The destination arrives. You say thank you. Driver says thank you. Just imagine.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

Can somebody Please provide off the grid #solar power solutions with good after sales service support.

This may be a cheap and environment friendly solution to the power supply problem.

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

I dread opening factory WhatsApp group. Absolutely pathetic power situation. One of India’s largest industrial town struggling with power everyday. After 75 years and every possible government. All the dreams of Vikshit bharat will remain just that.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

@venkat_fin9 Because the government has no business to be doing business. It's job is to govern.

If it's such a good company, let the people own it. If it's bad business, why should the government own it...

[𝙍𝘼𝙅𝙀𝙎𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙃 @imacuriosguy]

One of my strongest takeaways and observation from Norway came while standing in a queue to buy an ice cream in Bergen.

A little girl, perhaps 5 or 6 years old, was standing with her father. Excited by all the flavours on display, she instinctively stepped ahead of me to get a better look.

Very gently, her father reminded her:

“Your turn will come. Please stay in the queue.”

I smiled and offered them my place.

The father politely declined.

What struck me was not the child’s behaviour. Any excited child would do the same.

What struck me was the lesson.

“We wait because everyone else is waiting. The rule does not change because someone is being kind.”

From a very young age, children are taught to respect shared public spaces, rules and the rights of others.
Not through punishments.
Not through lectures.
Through thousands of small corrections like this by their role models who happen to be parents, the best role model a kid can have.

High trust societies are not built by governments alone.

Thousands of such tiny corrections, repeated over years, create societies where people automatically queue for buses, stop at pedestrian crossings, return library books on time and generally trust strangers.

In India, children are also taught kindness, family values and hospitality exceptionally well, but public space behaviour receives far less emphasis.

I wish that would improve.

#norway

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

@thekaipullai True, they had one more thing - conducive environment to invest their money.

Now, many people have that money. And we have vehicles to pool money to make such investments. Can we offer them the risk adjusted returns to make them invest their money?

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

Do we still have a shot?

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

Just thinking aloud. No claims made.

This is a Time Magazine Cover from 2011. I reposted @RahulSeeker's tweet yesterday.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this cover.

15 years ago, the world was watching two countries and genuinely could not decide which one would lead the future.

One of them does now. The other has spent the last decade and a half fighting over whose god is bigger.

I am writing this as a common citizen who grew up in this country, who continues to believe in what it is capable of, and who finds it genuinely dificult to explain the drastic economic downturn in these past years through poor governance alone.

India in 2011 was a country that had grown at consistently high rates for two decades, had a young demographic profile, and was positioned as a genuine superpower in the making.

We were leading the IT revolution at a time when the world had just figured out that technology was the new currency of power. An Indian spotted abroad was asked one common question: "Do you work in IT?"

It wasn't a stereotype so much as a signal. The world had noticed. It had clocked which direction we were moving in, and it had started to take us seriously. We weren't just a large country anymore. We were a country with momentum. And momentum, in geopolitics, is the most threatening thing of all.

And then there was the one thing that makes powerful nations genuinely nervous. India is an independent nuclear power. Not a dependent state. Not a country whose arsenal exists because someone else permitted it. Ours. On our terms. Answering to nobody.

A large, young, fast-growing, technologically ambitious, independently nuclear nation with a democratic mandate and a civilisational confidence. That is not a country you want going fully unchecked.

Putting on my tin foil hat, here is the thought I cannot entirely shake: that what has happened to India over the last many years is not simply the consequence of bad governance, corruption, or misfortune. (That of course, is a very real issue laughing in our faces every single day)

That some portion of it has been engineered, or at minimum exploited, by actors with a strategic interest in ensuring that India never becomes what it was projected to become.

There are powers that have done this before. They don't need to invade a country. They just need to find a wound in it and not let it heal - through tools of debt, dependency, tariffs, and narratives shaped by controlled media or manipulated social media algorithms. And then stay out of the way while it consumes itself.

"Just keep the wound open", as they say.

Mismanagement of a population's growth trajectory, and its basic needs which is this consistent and directional, feels almost scripted.

Let me also say - the fractures in Indian society are not new. Religious tension, caste hierarchy, linguistic division: these have existed for centuries. No government manufactured them from scratch.

A country whose population has been allowed to be preoccupied with questions of communal identity, whose minorities are economically anxious and politically marginalised, and whose civil society is increasingly reluctant to speak plainly, is a country whose productive capacity is diminished.

A nation fighting itself cannot look outward with coherence.

They couldn't tame the dragon. So they slowly fed the elephant poisoned food. Enough to keep it from breaking its own shackles. Enough for it to be grateful to be fed. The elephant didn't die. That was never the plan. A dead elephant attracts attention. It is still standing - tall above others, swaying, looking busy, occasionally making noise, hoping to get better, some day.

Someone needed only one new superpower to emerge. Not two. Someone did not want a second China.

And someone got exactly what they needed.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This genius AC needs no electricity and delivers cooling like 5 AC units combined.

[Oxygen 💨 @WhateverVishal]

Our Country Looks Ugly for a reason

To save some chindi amount on cleaning leaves

They cut down perfectly grown Bougainville

The overall lack of aesthetic sense is appaling

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

Can you imagine the kind of pollution and foreign exchange we could save if only fast train service was easily available every hour between most of the cities with 50% walk in seats available?

#train #pollution

[B @purisubzi]

Each time I am forced to fly between Chennai and Bangalore, keep cursing Indian Railways for leaving so much money on the table. Honestly no flights for this distance should exist.

Trains every hour, with 50% walk-in seats available across all classes of travel would so amazing.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

These are not one-off lapses. Meanwhile, shareholders, including retail investors, keep paying for repeated governance failures.

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

1/ Coal India Ltd has been repeatedly penalised by NSE & BSE for years for non-compliance with SEBI corporate governance norms.

But the disclosures mostly hide the real issues behind regulation numbers.

https://t.co/5E6GfrVkHy

[Ashish Raj @ashishdadevil]

3/ Coal India’s own filings show cumulative penalties running into crores across multiple quarters.

And then comes the classic PSU defence:

“The non-compliance ... was neither due to any negligence/default by the Company nor within the control of CIL’s management...”