Ashish

India first always!!🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳❤

Proud Indian🇮🇳,
Ex Air Force,
Lifelong learner, Sports enthusiast, Investor, personal finance

[Ashish @ashishkvn]

Choose your Heroes wisely!🇮🇳🙏🏼
#IndianArmy 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳❤

[Tathvam-asi @tathvamasi6]

Breathtaking visuals of Vande Bharat Express crossing Chenab Bridge. 😍

Engineering Marvel. Enjoy the visuals.

[Ashish @ashishkvn]

@kirtigaiyer 👍

[Major Pawan Kumar, Shaurya Chakra (Retd) 🇮🇳 @major_pawan]

Spare the soldiers

Wear the shoes of RR company commander for a day and you will get to know the reality of life

Nuisance from the civil administration is the last thing he has written in his field diary

Hardly he gets the time to speak back at home in an entire day
Other than facing terrorists, he is always standing there for you amid all the threats uncared about his own life, wife, kids, and parents

Spare him please
He won’t care if you don’t offer him a seat while on leave
But he and his boys will surely mind it if his own police harasses him and becomes a hindrance in his operational duty
Spare him
Because let him focus on his operational duties
Don’t drag him in courts just because you have a mightier pen and a ego bigger than Mount Everest

Spare him
If you don’t want another pulwama
Spare him
If you want a safe and a happy trip in Kashmir

Spare the soldier

[Karan Datta 🇮🇳 @Datta_karan]

Most governments struggle to point to a dozen transformative changes across a decade. This list runs to a hundred and it spans everything from a missed call getting you a gas cylinder to India landing on the moon.

Start with the things that changed daily life so quietly most people forgot what came before.

UPI payment. DigiLocker. FASTag replacing toll queues. Online bill payment. Jan Dhan bank accounts bringing hundreds of millions of people into the formal financial system for the first time. Aadhaar linking that made welfare delivery direct and cut out the intermediaries who had been skimming it for generations. Free rations reaching the genuinely hungry rather than disappearing into the system. Jan Aushadhi centres making medicines affordable for people who previously had to choose between eating and treating illness.

Then the infrastructure that will define India for the next fifty years.

Bharatmala. The Chinaab Bridge. The Jammu tunnel. The Rishikesh-Karnprayag railway. The Char Dham highway. The Pamban Bridge. 553 new railway stations. 1500 new overbridges. Roads being built at a pace that has left China behind in annual construction volume. Vande Bharat trains running on routes that previously meant hours on ageing rolling stock.

Then the institutions being rebuilt or built fresh.

Nalanda University reconstructed. 7 new IITs. 7 new IIMs. 16 new IIITs. 300 new medical colleges. 18 new AIIMS hospitals. 390 new universities. 9000 new schools. An entirely new Parliament building. The Kashi Vishwanath corridor. The Kedarnath reconstruction. The Ram Temple.

Then national security.

Surgical strikes establishing that terrorism now carries a military cost. Operation Sindoor redefining what an act of terror invites in response. Article 370 abrogated. The border fencing accelerated. The army given operational freedom against terror it previously did not have. BrahMos production scaled domestically. Assault rifles being manufactured in Amethi. Drone technology accelerated. The armed forces modernised at a pace not seen since independence.

Then space.

Chandrayaan. The Mars mission. Multi-satellite stabilisation capabilities that put India in a club of nations most countries will never join.

Then economic architecture.

GST implemented and then rationalised. Income tax relief at a scale that has no historical precedent. 12 lakh young people placed in government jobs. Over 8 lakh commercial licences issued. 5 crore new jobs created in private and domestic sectors. Mudra loans reaching entrepreneurs who had never had access to formal credit. The Ujjwala scheme putting cooking gas into homes that previously cooked on wood smoke.

Then the social transformation.

Triple talaq criminalised. Sukanya Samridhi giving daughters a financial future. Kanya Sumangala supporting girls from birth. Swachh Bharat building toilets for people who had none. Har Ghar Jal bringing tap water to homes that had never had it. 22 hours of electricity becoming the norm in regions where darkness was previously the default.

A hundred items. One decade. One direction.

Whatever your political position, the scale of change is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of record.

The India of 2026 is not the India of 2014. Anyone who has lived through both knows this. The question that history will eventually answer is how many of these changes compound into each other and what kind of country they collectively produce by 2047.

The list suggests the answer is being written right now.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

The path to financial security isn't achieved through senseless gambling for the vast majority of human beings on Earth.

More than likely that includes you, too.

What's a more practical path forward?

It starts with living below one's means.

Saving what isn't spent.

Investing a fair amount of that same savings.

For most, dollar cost averaging into an index fund is sufficient for the equity portion of such a portfolio.

Remember, the vast majority of people that try to get cute with markets get destroyed by markets.

You have to be a statistical edge case to actually succeed, particularly over longer time horizons.

If a lot of hard work just to *meet* your benchmark consistently doesn't sound like fun, look towards saving + investing as a more practical path forward.

The reality is that the majority of people flashing big profits, fancy cars and mansions on here are completely making it up as a part of their marketing.

Look past the holograms and find a path that suits the reality you want for your future. One that is grounded in what can be done, not an outlier possibility that relies on getting extremely lucky.

I say this because I see so much absolute bullshit out there and I'd rather see people not get their expectations high that there's a free lunch waiting for them. There probably isn't.

Stay smart out there, friends.

[Gabriela Sabatini @sabatinigabyok]

MESSI 🐐 🩵🤍🩵 #Messi

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

"MY POPULARITY IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN. I SUGGEST YOU FOCUS ON YOURS."

GEORGIA MELONI INSTA-SMACKS TRUMP AGAIN

[ThtKashmiriGuy @ThtKashmiriGuy]

Read this twice.

Palestine has never recognized Kashmir as an integral part of India.

Yet, with Gaza's medical infrastructure on the brink of collapse, they are begging & asking:

"If not India and Indians, then who will help us?"

Funny how those who spent years portraying India as the villain are now forced to acknowledge a simple reality:

When the crisis is real, they turn to Vishwaguru India.

[Dr Poornima 🇮🇳 @PoornimaNimo]

Donald Trump insulted the French President Macron when he mocked the French President's relations with his wife.

The whole of France unitedly attacked the American President and defended their President and country.

Donald Trump ridiculed the PM of Italy, Georgia Meloni in a statement.

All Italians including their opposition defended their PM and counter attacked Donald Trump.

Donald Trump favoured Pakistan and vilified India's claim of victory against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.

Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition not only amplified and supported the narrative, but also called PM Modi a coward who had surrendered before Trump.
For three months handles like Neha Singh Rathore, Dhruv Rathee, Amock, Supriya Shrinate, propagated and pushed this narrative across X, IG, YouTube, Media Channels internationally.

That's the difference between Patriotism and Treachery.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Classic Messi 🇦🇷

#FIFAWorldCup

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is exactly the point I keep making.

We Indians are the only people on earth who take a few bad apples and turn it into a verdict on our entire country.

Someone behaves badly in public, and within seconds it becomes "Indians have no civic sense, we give India a bad name."

We do not even wait for the world to judge us. We rush to do it ourselves, loudly.

So let me hold up the same mirror to the rest of the world.

Just two weeks ago, PSG won the Champions League. This was their second title in a row, beating Arsenal on penalties. A back to back European crown, one of the biggest things that can happen to a football club.

So how did Paris, one of the most cultured cities on the planet, celebrate?

They set cars on fire. They vandalised and looted shops. They lit fires in the streets. A group even tried to storm a police station.

Across France, 890 people were arrested in one night. More than 200 were injured. A young man died after crashing his bike into concrete barriers during the chaos.

France had to put 8,000 police on the streets just to manage a party.

And this was not even the worst of it. When PSG won their first title the year before, two people died, 264 cars were burned, and a police officer was hit in the face by fireworks and put into an induced coma.

Now ask yourself one simple question.

Did anyone write "the French have no civic sense"? Did anyone say France should be ashamed, that the French give their country a bad name?

No. Their own President tweeted "a new star is shining over Paris." The whole thing got filed under passion. Under joy. Under boys being boys.

Take another one. In February 2025, Philadelphia won the Super Bowl. Their fans ripped traffic light poles clean out of the ground and carried them down the road. They set fires in the street. They climbed on dump trucks. They threw bottles at police. Dozens were arrested. And at the playoff celebration just weeks before that, an 18 year old fell off a lamp post and died, and that same night there were shootings, a stabbing, and a car that drove straight into the crowd.

This is one of the richest cities in the richest country in the world.

And again, nobody said "Americans are uncivilised." Nobody said America should hang its head.

It was reported as a wild, passionate, beautiful night. Everyone moved on.

When a Western crowd burns cars, tears down public property, and people actually die, the world calls it energy, love, raw emotion.

When an Indian does something far smaller, the world, and worse, we ourselves, call it proof that a billion people have no manners and no culture.

I am not saying bad behaviour is fine. It is selfish, it is annoying, and you should call it out, firmly. Bad behaviour is bad behaviour, in Delhi, in Paris, in Philadelphia.

But the rule has to be the same for everyone. If burning cars and storming a police station in Paris is just passion, then a small bit of celebration in Vietnam is, at absolute worst, a small bit of inconvenience. It is not evidence that our civilisation has failed.

Other countries guard their self image fiercely.

A French fan burns a car and still calls his people the most cultured in Europe. An American tears down a traffic pole and still walks around certain he is from the greatest country on the planet.

And then we find one bad clip and use it to confirm a sad little story we have somehow been taught to believe about ourselves.

So the next time you see one Indian behaving badly and feel that urge to say "this is why we are a third world country," stop.

We do not need the world to look down on us.

[Aviation @xAviation]

You know what they say: the best seat on an airplane is in the cockpit.
📹: dave.stratos(IG)

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

5 US Open titles. 22 Grand Slams. A true legend of the game.

Happy Birthday, Steffi Graf 🎉

[Vijay Kedia @VijayKedia1]

The power of compounding belongs not only to professionals.
It belongs to every disciplined citizen willing to think long term.

Not everyone can fly a plane. But everyone has the right to fly.

Similarly, not everyone can analyse stocks.
But everyone deserves the opportunity to benefit from the power of compounding.

Consider this:
Suppose a person invests Rs. 10,000 per month for 20 years.
If the post-tax return from an FD is 5%, the corpus grows to about Rs 41 lakh.
If the post-tax return from equity is 10%, the corpus grows to about Rs. 76 lakh.

Same person. Same monthly investment. Same discipline. Same 20 years. Yet the difference is Rs 35 lakh.

The difference between 5% and 10% is not 5%.
It is the difference between Rs 41 lakh and Rs. 76 lakh.

Yes, higher returns come with volatility.

But for a disciplined long-term investor, volatility is not merely a risk - it is also the price paid for the possibility of superior long term compounding.

Volatility is the price of admission. Compounding is the reward.

A nation prospers when its citizens don't just save money.
They own a share in the businesses that create wealth.

Equity investing may not be for everyone.

But the power of compounding and business ownership should belong to everyone.

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

One day to go… @FIFAWorldCup 2026 ⏳🤩

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Tonight, a prayer for the mother of Sepoy Janjal Pravin Prabhakar receiving her son’s Kirti Chakra. Young Sepoy Janjal was killed in action in July 2024 after killing 2 terrorists in Kulgam, J&K. 💔🇮🇳

[Planesanity @planesanity]

How future pilots are made👨‍✈️

[Abhishek @MSDianAbhiii]

Indians have reason to support Argentina 🇦🇷 in FIFA World Cup