Bhavyang Oza

Mumbai, India. Account used only for personal views. RT's are not necessarily endorsements

[Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense]

As a kid I read a chacha Chaudhry story
It said :
A thief was caught and given a choice:
Either eat 100 onions or receive 100 shoe-beatings (sau jute).

Thinking onions are easier, he starts eating them. After a few onions, the burning becomes unbearable, so he switches to shoe-beatings.

After a few shoe-beatings, he finds those even worse and switches back to onions.

He keeps changing his mind until, in the end, he has eaten all 100 onions and received all 100 shoe-beatings.

Moral : Failure to commit to a difficult choice makes things worse.

[Char @cqc_coffee_guns]

This is straight out of the North Korean playbook.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Very nicely done. Amitabh Bachchan as Tywin Lannister please.

[Nikhil Mehra @TweetinderKaul]

What's changed at @SwarajyaMag ? The content is incredible. It is sharp and insightful. The uptick in quality is quite astounding. What gives @prasannavishy ?

[Harsh Gupta Madhusudan @harshmadhusudan]

India's population is about that of all the Americas (North and South) together combined with Western Europe. Almost five dozen odd countries together have say 1.4-1.5 billion people, same as just India.

Now imagine if you wake up and read about all the terrible news in the entire Western Hemisphere (ex-Africa, but also adding some regions). Murders, rapes, accidents, scandals etc. And you form a view basis that.

This is what is happening to people who are consuming too much news off social media where virality needs are pushing algorithms (no Indian oversight here, only American - and for TikTok, Chinese) to accentuate the bad.

Please get a perspective. An accurate one, not a ugly one or rose-tinted one. Just a balanced and contextualised one. And please take care of your mental health.

[Mountain Rats @mountain_rats]

After " Super Bali ", Indonesia is now developing five new destinations designated as Indonesia’s Super-Priority Tourism Destinations (SPTDs): Lake Toba, Borobudur, Mandalika, Labuan Bajo and Likupang.

This is to ensure change from quantity-driven mass tourism to higher-value quality tourism.

We can’t develop one Goa properly !

[Arappor Iyakkam @Arappor]

வடபழனி தபால் நிலையம் எதிரில் வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள பந்தலை சுற்றி இரவோடு இரவாக சாலை அமைத்து பந்தலுக்கு ஆபத்து ஏற்படும் வகையில் வாகனம் ஓட்டி செல்லும் நபர்களுக்கு கண்டனங்களை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம். பந்தலுக்கு ஆபத்து ஏற்படாத வகையில் சா��ையை உடனடியாக அங்கிருந்து அகற்ற கேட்டுக் கொள்கிறோம்.
இப்படிக்கு
அறிவு கெட்ட சமூக விரோதி.

@CMOTamilnadu @ChennaiTraffic @chennaicorp @sameerangs @TVKVijayHQ

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I'm never sure if transferring an official is a punishment to the official, or a punishment to the people in the area he gets transferred to.

[Uday Kotak @udaykotak]

Google which is cash surplus, just announced an additional capital raise of $80 bn.
Google annual profit is $160 bn, last quarter $62 bn, and market cap $4.5 trillion. That is close to total profits and market cap of all Indian listed companies put together.
It’s a wake up call to all companies to invest into the future, whatever the present maybe.
Now that IPL is done and dusted, time for India to focus on business of business.

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

Even before Mumbai’s ambitious pod taxi project in Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) has properly taken shape on the ground, the project has already undergone a major behind-the-scenes transformation. The UK company whose technology helped win the bid has quietly left the project, with the concessionaire replacing it with a Dutch firm through a little-known tender clause, The Indian Express has learned.
https://t.co/8PbfqtNp8x

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

2013 - INR went frm 55 to 68.5 in maybe 3 mths. CAD was 5%, fiscal deficit was 5%. Professionally managed.

2026 - CAD is 0.9%, fiscal deficit is 4%. Not "managed well".

[Mountain Rats @mountain_rats]

A 'pearl of wisdom' from Achin Vanaik quoted in AlJazeera article ---
1. "India needs to make a distinction between non state actors and the official armed forces of Pakistan "
2. " India could seek punishment of specific armed groups through international mechanisms ,such as the UN.
3. He also urged India and Pakistan to establish a 10km demilitarized zone on both sides od of LC supervised by an international peace keeping force .
And he is a political Scientist ,a retired professor of International Relations and former Head of Political Science Dept.
No wonder he had criticized Indian nuclear test in 1974 and " foaming from mouth " in 1998. He is an active member of Coliation for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace .

Trump needs to recruit him for talks with Iran instead of Munir .

[Manu Joseph @manujosephsan]

The best thing about business class is economy class
Manu Joseph

'People who fly business class are not the super-rich. They are the mere millionaires, even the upper middle-class—the merchant, the lawyer, a Marxist finance minister, the essayist whose heart beats for Naxals.
The billionaire, by not being in competition for the business class seat makes it more affordable for the millionaire, whose encroachment on coach increases the price of economy seats.
As in an aircraft, so in life, the millionaire is a bigger perpetrators of inequality than the billionaire, even though they lead laments about the evil. The millionaire occupies the same spaces as coach travellers, usurping opportunities in education, media, start-up culture, finance, arts, while the billionaire is in his own orbit, chiefly competing with other billionaires.'

Read free on my Substact. The link is in the comments.

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Paid #VIPdarshan at #Hindu temples is wrong and discriminatory, #Madrashighcourt remarked on Friday. It said no such practice is followed in churches and mosques. "Let ministers and MLAs not think that they could walk into a temple any time and that God would be waiting for them. Why do we need VIP darshan at all? Everyone is equal before God," observed a vacation bench of Justice G R Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayanan.

Read here 🔗https://t.co/AdGPuXBv9j

[Gavinly @Fengyi1811]

第一次看到彩虹的诞生，这个摄影师好厉害。

[ᴋᴀᴍʟᴇsʜ sɪɴɢʜ / tau @kkstau]

Indian groups going abroad for vacations should undergo a week-long civic sense course before being allowed to travel.

Nearly every tourist-friendly destination has developed hostility towards all Indians because of the uncouth and loutish behaviour of many of them.

[Zahack Tanvir — ضحاك تنوير @ZahackTanvir]

This Eid, I celebrated in #Yogi-ruled Uttar Pradesh. The mosque where I offered Eid prayers held two congregations and two sermons in order to avoid blocking roads or praying on them. The venue was provided police security, with both male and female personnel present.

The recent #Qatari propaganda through Al #Jazeera claiming that Indian Muslims are not allowed to offer Eid prayers is absolute nonsense. Also, I believe the flexibility and maturity shown by Muslims help create a positive domino effect.

[Sanghi Prince 🚩 @SanghiPrince]

There are a lot of unreserved people waiting for the bus. So I stopped reserved passengers and gave their seats to unreserved people to resolve the issue, says TN Transport Minister

Effect of giving the Transport Minister post to a “traffic cop actor” from Vijay’s movie.😂

[Janhavi Jain | Building SKIPD @janwhyy]

The Delhi High Court just ruled against Google in a trademark case that every Indian founder needs to know about!!

Hindware sued because searches for "Hindware" returned competitor ads - Cera, Grohe, above their own listing. Customers looking specifically for Hindware were being intercepted at the moment of highest intent.

The court ruled it trademark infringement. Competitor keyword bidding on your brand name is now legally actionable in India.

Search your brand name on Google right now.

If a competitor's ad appears before yours, you have a case, and your competitor has a problem.

This reshapes performance marketing in India. Keyword bidding on competitor names is standard practice across every category - beauty, fintech, edtech, D2C.

The brands doing it most aggressively are also the ones most exposed to this ruling. Let's see how this pans out.

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Reforms are over-rated. Competent management is underrated. Execution trumps strategy, every day of the week - but our reforms-wallahs dont tire of adding to a wishlist where outcomes frm fulfilled areas never get assessed...