Dhandhanomics

Investment Professional, Proud Indian

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

Excuse my insensitivity but let's stop this doglapan.

Just last week when rains were delayed once in a decade, everyone wanted to protect trees at all cost.

Now that rains themselves are uprooting dead trees (end of life) and killing children, we suddenly want BMC to do its job.

Also, now that rains are intense and the traffic is super bad, we're deep down wanting the coastal road to happen so that WEH is not cluster fucked.

But tomorrow when we'll try to make the same damn road, we'll be sharing reels saying save mumbai mangroves.

Everyone wants to take the moral high ground, and simply react to things happening around them. Wake up the next day and there's a hard refresh on how and what to outrage about. Rinse and repeat the process, and then keep blaming the authorities ki ya'll are useless.

First make up your own mind please.

[Dhandhanomics @BetaThanEver]

@gadekarjay30 Got into IIMA nonetheless due to a 99.9%ile in Logical Reasoning. Clearly that is not your strong suit. Go educate yourself on Amazon's policy rather than randomly throwing personal attacks at everyone. You're not helping yourself or your startup with this.

[Dhandhanomics @BetaThanEver]

@ActusDei Neil, what Abhishek said is absolutely correct: it makes no sense to say the transaction cost is effectively 1% due to Fx depn and stock gains. You were India's finest financial journalist at a time, and replying with personal attacks is in a very poor taste. Please do better!

[NiṣādaHermaphroditarchaṃśa (Mal'ta boy ka parivar) @real_mahalingam]

Do people realize just how insane it is to have an entire political faction (Left/Congress) that explicitly swears loyalty to foreign Islamist causes, to the point that they wish for their fellow Indians to lose their children for having the wrong opinion on "Palestine"?

In any normal country these vermin would be publicly executed for treason and anyone who refused to spit on their corpses would be given the same fate.

[Dhandhanomics @BetaThanEver]

@puneetiitm @zebulgar @sama @zoink @bryan_johnson @PalmerLuckey @cyantist @traestephens @micsolana BOTC is absolutely crazy. Plus there are alternate scripts also so you don't get bored even if you keep playing it

[VidurNeeti 🇮🇳 @vidurneetiX]

Virat Kohli, a Punjabi from Delhi.
Rajat Patidar (trace origins to Gujarat), from Madhya Pradesh.
Jitesh Sharma, Vidarbha, Maharashtra.
Venkatesh Iyer, Brahmin ancestrally from South but hails from Madhya Pradesh.
Krunal Pandya from Baroda, Gujarat.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - Uttar Pradesh
Suyash Sharma - Delhi
Rasikh Salam - Jammu and Kashmir
Swapnil Singh - Uttarakhand

Not mentioning the overseas players & head coach (Andy Flower, Zimbabwean legend).
Owners: A Jain & a Maheshwari Marwadi Baniya Hindu from Rajasthan, born in Kolkata & settled in Mumbai.

Reason for profiling the above greats is not to belittle their achievements but an answer to those who spread hatred of language - discriminate those who cannot speak, treat them like second class citizens in their own country, indulge in insider vs outsider divides & regional supremacists who proudly flaunt racism antithetical to the constitution of this country.

How many of the above pass in their checklist of who qualifies as insider & outsider? How many can speak the language beyond - "ee sala cuppu namade". But today they are yours, right? And RCB is just an example here as they are winners of IPL 2026, congratulations to them. But this disease among people to discriminate their own countrymen extends to every state.

Take another example: Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the young prodigy from Bihar not just brought laurels for his franchise - Rajasthan Royals (an "outsider") but for every viewer irrespective of their region/language/caste/etc. And from tomorrow the same social media will be back to spreading the same old hatred towards the same set states as - BIMARU, guthka, kind of racist slurs.

No culture/language dies because others don't follow it. It dies when its own stop following it. No job interview asks for your caste/region/language but your skills required to discharge those deliverables. Anyone preferring to put in harder efforts over others gets chosen.

Live & let live. Divides are created for the weak to remain occupied fighting while the strong, rich, & brokers of caste/language/regional divides run their shops, continue their work in peace. You want to remain part of the herd or grow in life decides if you want to get played by them or not.

And please don't get yourself trapped in some stampede in the days to come in case there is a public event to celebrate the victory. Those who played, won. Those who invested money, earned royally. You probably got "entertained" but that's not more important than your life. If you see a crowded space, step back instead of adding to it & later blaming lack of arrangements. There's something called common sense, exercise it sometimes instead of always blaming the system. Politicians will throw a few lakhs as compensation & media will carry a small column without even mentioning your name.

Again - stop being part of the herd & learn to rule the system, just like RCB ruled the IPL by working with the best sportsmen across India & made Bengaluru proud throughout India. We as countrymen can unite too & achieve greater heights for Bharat by putting aside our self-created divisions. Mocking ourselves with Vishwaguru jibes is easy, creating it is difficult, requires our efforts first.

VidurNeeti.
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[saket साकेत ಸಾಕೇತ್ 🇮🇳 @saket71]

In any sane nation, the news headline would be-
" Young sensation Meenakshi Goyat, daughter of a farmer from Chhabri village in Jind, defeats Vinesh Phogat, Congress MLA who gained notoriety for forcing her way into different weight category in Olympic and costing India her chance at medal. The short-lived victory of Meenakshi ended with her defeat by Antim Panghal, the youngest of the three (19). Antim is two-times senior Bronze medalist, and 2022 Asiad Bronze medalist. The young rising star from Haryana represents hopes for Indian women wrestling in times to come.

[Dhandhanomics @BetaThanEver]

@RahulChels Great reviews. Plus they gave us a white number plate car and police fined us for using a vehicle without permit (at least the rental company reimbursed the fine). One time my wife and I took a goa miles from Casino, some rando taxi driver started banging the door. It's a mess!

[Neil @neilshroff]

everyone into diet coke should 100% try sprite zero, almost equally crispy, no caffeine, no calories, and no scarcity

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Brave of @Nithin0dha to write this.

This is something that keeps me awake all the time. Collectively we don't seem to be showing any urgency as the privileged 1% to pull up the per capita income of the 99% in this country.

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Today met an affluent family that provided their daughter with the most elite education in a prominent boarding school followed by a well-known university where fee for ‘liberal arts’ course is Rs 6 lakh a year

Two years ago, the girl left home and told court that she is an adult who wants to live as per free will, and she needs protection from her parents

Top lawyers defended her in court

She has not contacted the family since then. Parents have exhausted their legal options to make her return or even meet them

I will soon do an interview with the couple. Today was an introductory meeting

While their daughter’s leaving them was a complete shock and came out of the blue, these are conversations she would routinely have with the parents:

- you are Brahmins and privileged scumbags
- gender and sexual identity is fluid
- ours is a dysfunctional family because you have screamed at me at least four times in these 20 years

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

If mangroves are the ONLY flood barrier, then I wonder why Marine Drive aka Queen's Necklace has never flooded.

Even during high tides and heavy rainfall, the sea tries its best, only to meet Tetrapods. And the following concrete embankment. At max a few waves splash through and kekdas end up figuring out ki BC dariya kidhar gaya?!

This entire narrative that we can't engineer anti-flood provisions is evil. All of SoBo is reclaimed land on backwaters. It has been like this for 200 years now.

The city is still here. Not just surviving, but growing. And we'll continue to push our limits.

Every mangrove in the way will be cut. Every tree will have to go. You are in a city. Not a jungle.

And despite all our greed, 1/3rd of our land is reserved and marked as a Forest (SGNP), where four dozen bibtyas (leopards) live in harmony with us. Monkeys, deers, gharial etc, all are still among us.

Stop your BS Greta Syndrome. We will build. We will build as much as we want. We will plow through your ecosystem to create a new one.

And we won't apologise for being normal. We have every right to be a first world city.

[Ankit Pathak @ankit_acerbic]

- Didn’t play victim card like Rebel Kid
- Didn’t blame anyone for his downfall
- Didn’t release 80 minute emotional video to whitewash his mistakes
- Didn’t insult any celebrity
- Just posted a simple apology and got back to work

People need to learn from Ranveer Allahbadia on how to behave when you make a mistake

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Ladies and gentlemen: India’s most moronic infrastructure project is happening. The pod-taxi in Mumbai - from Kurla to BKC.
₹1000 cr project. Service of 8.85km. Fare per passenger: ₹21/km.
We need to rid ourselves of the delusion that it has anything to do with infrastructure

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

All the best @AshwiniBhide!

I'm really hoping you'll be able to bring some actual change to the city.

Please focus on making the city encroachment free, pedestrian friendly, and add more buses on a war footing. You've got the administrative knack to revive BEST, please please please do it.

You gave us our London Tube equivalent, now cement your legacy with the iconic Red buses.

All of us have very high hopes from you.

[Dhandhanomics @BetaThanEver]

@Mdv110996 @district_india Peak Aditya Dhar detailing

[Devaiah Bopanna @devaiahPB]

Hardik Pandya has shown there is a coolness ceiling in our country for someone who comes from nothing and becomes incredibly successful. The hate he gets for doing seemingly normal rich person things is incredible. He exposes middle class envy like nobody else in this country.

How can a guy who looked like us and lived like us until a few years ago suddenly get everything in his life, despite paying for it with his raw talent and hard work? How can he enjoy his rewards? He is a chapri. How can he drive a Ferrari in his shorts? How can he colour his hair? How can he be so confident and cocky? And how the fuck can a guy who comes from nothing have any personality?

Why is he not humble? How can he always be in the company of the most beautiful looking women and show off his feelings so publicly?

We want to use the word humility, but it is actually just jealousy.

And this jealousy is only when someone relatable does successful rich person things that we as a nation get triggered. You see these firangs or star sperms or someone who comes from wealth in their big flashy cars, holding hands and celebrating their girlfriends, that is suddenly aspiration. That is cute. That is suddenly a lifestyle to emulate.

So we are okay with successful people, or people who are born into wealth, setting standards for love in this country. But when our boy has a good time, the whole fucking country has a meltdown.

Only foreigners, or the born rich, fair looking, well pedigreed, upper caste prince and royalty can hold hands, make love to their girlfriends in public, and maybe even go full 69 in public - and it will be looked at as aspirational. But a come from nowhere, hardworking dude has to behave and be humble in front of us without drawing ire from any quarters.

If you were born into it, we call it lifestyle.
If you earned it, we call it attitude or chapri behaviour.

I love Pandya man, and I hope more self made people flash their success in our faces daily to remind us that if we work hard, we can achieve our dreams. There is no fear in doing so. Because somewhere deep in our feudal, subservient psyche, we believe there’s a certain profile for who gets to enjoy life and if someone doesn’t fit that, we start calling them chapri.

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

Encroachment is encroachment.

Just because you put a Bhagwat Gita on a road (I'm Hindu, allowed to use the analogy), doesn't mean it is right and acceptable.

This is precisely how land grabbing works and gets legalised amid pressure after decades.

Stop using Saraswati as a weapon. Shame on you.