Mallesh Bommanahal

here to ask questions, why?

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 @Pawankhera]

As I filed my nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha today, I did so with deep gratitude and a profound sense of responsibility.

Doing so from Bengaluru was particularly special. It offers a glimpse of India at its best - cosmopolitan, vibrant, and inclusive, yet somehow still able to make everyone feel at home.

Karnataka's rich legacy of social justice, innovation, and democratic values is an inspiration to keep working towards a more just, compassionate, and united India.

I hope to get the opportunity to serve with humility, sincerity, and unwavering commitment to the ideals of our Constitution, and to honour the faith that has been reposed in me by the leadership.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@banglani I remember meeting you over breakfast at Powai. It was a good meeting, you were paying way more attention and asking relevant questions than so many other VCs I have met in their fancy board rooms. I also learnt about smoked salmon from you.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

Pitched Language model for converting documents to structured data, to a VC in 2019. He laughed, “ I am Stanford CS - don’t tell me there is some shit that’s not real”.

Today the same guy says he is the best AI investor as he is Stanford-CS

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Two of our worst VC stories:

1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄

2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been a clue. I thought it was just a casual meeting. He thought it was a pitch and brought the whole @a16z partnership team. Hilarity ensued. 🤪 At one point one of them said: “You don’t seem very prepared.” Which was true because I wasn’t. I framed the rejection letter they sent.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@GabbbarSingh Same in India until 2000 internet/ software boom. I had Several seniors who were IIT graduates, most of the Directors of Aerospace labs in india are IIT graduates. LCA, Brahmos, PSLV all lead by iitians

[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.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@Shalini70856041 This was fairly common at IIT. Some people designed board games, played 3D chess, created puzzles for international puzzle/sudoku championships

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

UK has lost it!

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Mohammed Fahir Amaaz and Muhammad Amaad have been cleared over the alleged assault of a male police officer at Manchester Airport

Two juries failed to reach a verdict and no further trial will take place

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@puneetiitm There is huge difference between the skills required and R&R of an FDE versus an IT services engineer. I would say, barely 5-10% engineers from IT services will be able to transform into an FDE role. I have been working on building tools to help Services to work like FDE

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.

May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?

Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?

In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?

The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.

It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.

Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.

Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?

India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@HelleLyngSvends Who designed this freedom
Index? Who is the jury? Do they have understanding and iritation to communication styles and semantics around the world?

Why is it necessary for PM of another country to respond to you?

[Maha @0xMahalakshmi]

gotta learn from BLR airport on new ways to make life miserable.

not only does one of the largest airports in India not have metro connectivity, they've now kicked out cab services to OUTSIDE the airport, needing a 5 minute bus ride to reach.

they really don't want people coming here eh

[Revathi @revathitweets]

IT TAKES A LOT TO BE REVATHI…!!!

While the whole country is celebrating the landmark judgement of death penalty for the NINE policemen in the Santhanakulam custodial torture and murder of Jeyaraj and Bennix, you should know about Revathi.

Revathi was a constable in Santhanakulam police station in 2020 when the gruesome incident took place. She was the key witness and the sole reason for all the arrogant officers getting punished today.

The police men involved in the brutality were all big men, Revathi was a small time constable. But she stood unperturbed.

When Magistrate Bharathidasan, who initially investigated this case, arrived at the Santhanakulam police station he had no clue that constable Revathi will help close the case.

"Sir, I will tell you everything, every detail, the truth that is being hidden. But I am the mother of two young girls... can you guarantee the safety of my children and my job?", she had asked the magistrate.

Revathi was on night duty when the cruel incident took place. She witnessed the brutality being inflicted on Jeyaraj and Bennix and narrated every single detail.

She told how SI Balakrishnan, inspector Sridhar and SI Ragukanes, kept beating the father and son with whatever they found, and how they also stomped on their private parts with their shoes.

She remembered their screams. She saw how the officers took pause only to sip alcohol while the victims withered in pain.

When the father and son were semi-conscious, unable to bear it, Revathi asked Jayaraj if he needed anything. She gave him coffee which the officials spilt it immediately.

Revathi couldn’t stand the brutality but being a woman constable there was only so much she could do. She then offered water to the victims.

The so called policemen then stripped Bennix naked, tied his hands and legs separately, and beat him up. They did the same to Jeyaraj. Revathi couldn’t bear the pain of their screams, she left the place.

According to the postmortem report, their entire back was skinned, iron rods were inserted and they bled from their rectums.

When the case was being discussed by the media, when even the CM of Tamil Nadu tried to brush it away, Revathi knew the truth.

The police officials, cleaned up the station of any DNA evidences, erased the CCTV footage and warned everyone to shut-up and not try to become heroes.

But Revathi didn’t just narrate the entire ordeal in exact detail…she even helped the investigating officials obtain other crucial information.

Despite everything being cleaned, Revathi gathered DNA of the victims in crevices of the walls and floors, on furniture and other objects.

She was questioned, threatened, intimidated, bribed and even abused. She stood by justice. She had to go against her colleagues for justice of comman man.

In the time when police force is often looked upon with reasonable suspicion, there are people in uniform like Revathi.

Today court could pronounce death sentence to nine police officers - only because one woman decided she will stand by truth!

Kudos to Revathi, an amazing woman and an absolutely fabulous police officer.

The world is a better place because of her courage.
Salute ma’am 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[Karthik Reddy @bykarthikreddy]

Have no words about the road in front of India's most prestigious institute - The IIM-Bengaluru.

You will never find such things around Vidhan Soudha, and Sadashivnagara (carefully guarded) because their wives and kids are healthier enough to go watch IPL with free tickets.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@NSDL_Depository @CimGOI Being harassed by NSDL using system generated calls. Received about 50calls asking me to pay dues for a company that I no longer work with. Gave them the right phone number but this harass enemy continues @TRAI

[Rohit @Iam_Rohit_G]

News Articles on Indian Rafale going down during Operation Sindoor (Without Proofs) :

The Washington Post : 7
The New York Times : 8
THE WIRE : 15
Al Jazeera : 12
The Independent: 6
Reuters: 11

News Articles on 16 American Fighter Jets going down during Epic Furry (With Proofs) :

The Washington Post : 0
The New York Times : 0
THE WIRE : 0
Al Jazeera : 0
The Independent: 0
Reuters: 0

Do you see the double Standards!!

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@ParveenKaswan More like Aham brahmasami

[Anurag @Jhunjhunuwala_]

Nehru awarded the first CEC the Padma Bhushan and later made him Vice-Chancellor of Burdwan University

Indira Gandhi awarded the second CEC the Padma Vibhushan

3rd CEC acted neutrally during Congress infighting, so no award for him

4th CEC received the Padma Vibhushan

5th CEC received the Padma Vibhushan for his tenure during the Emergency

7th CEC received the Padma Bhushan and was appointed by Indira Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi later made him Governor of Gujarat

10th CEC, T. N. Seshan, contested the 1999 Lok Sabha election on a Congress ticket against L. K. Advani from Ahmedabad

11th CEC, M. S. Gill, was a Congress Rajya Sabha member from 2004 to 2016

During Manmohan Singh’s tenure, he served as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs

12th CEC conducted Youth Congress polls

15th CEC recommended the removal of the sixteenth CEC, Naveen Chawla, 2 month before the 2009 Lok Sabha election, yet Congress appointed him

16 CEC, Naveen Chawla, was flagged by the Shah Commission report, which stated that he was unfit to hold any office

After this controversial appointment, followed by the failures of UPA-2, Congress’s pattern was exposed

Congress always used the post of CEC as a partisan instrument, never as a level playing field.

Post 2014 appointees are not quid pro quo.

Every CEC before Gyanesh Kumar was appointed solely by the Prime Minister. His appointment, involving the opposition for the first time, makes him India’s most democratic CEC.

So, Sit down Gandhgay.

[Mallesh Bommanahal @Bmallesh]

@LauraLoomer @sardesairajdeep @IndiaToday It’s time to retire @sardesairajdeep, you have been on a different trajectory which has not thing to so with reality for a few years, now you have lost it.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

.@sardesairajdeep you attacked me today during my panel at the @indiatoday Conclave, and you accused me of “racism” and “Islamophobia” for speaking the truth about Islam.

How can you accuse me of being racist when 10 days ago, you had no problem allowing for Islamic jihadist and Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece @mehdirhasan to come on your show even though he has referred to non-Muslims as “animals and cattle”?

Here is the video of Mehdi Hasan calling non-Muslims animals and cattle. 👇🏻

Do you think Hindus are Kaffir like Mehdi does?

@sardesairajdeep, It appears to me that you are an Islamic sympathizer. Even worse, Mehdi previously said he wants to see more planes crash in America.

Did you ambush him and ask him to apologize for calling for acts of Islamic terrorism with planes in America? Or do you only raise your voice at women, the same way Muslim men speak to women?

Why did you allow this jihadi who has been condemned by the Trump administration for supporting jihad to come on your show?

Double standard! It’s time for you to stop siding with those who wish to kill you in the name of Islam.

Also, I’m not going to take advice from a man who has been begging @ZohranKMamdani the Jihadi Ugandan to come on his show. Mamdani is a communist.

Are you a communist?

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

As you look at the horrific pictures of the bombed Iranian school…

Pause for a minute and think..

Indian Air Force and the Army were given 2 and 7 terror targets respectively to hit on the night of May 6-7 in Op Sindoor…

Each was fully destroyed…

On the morning of May 8, the IAF carried out extensive air defence suppression using long-range kamikaze drones…

On May 9-10 the IAF targeted 14 PAF bases or radar stations/missile batteries…

Destructive evidence of almost all these strikes cane up in satellite pictures…

All strikes were carried out by precision munitions from long distances…

Not one missed aim or strayed to harm civilians… no school, no village or city, no hospitals. None…

This despite not having a fraction of the US military weapons, sensors or surveillance ability…

And in a furiously contested air space against near-peer PAF and its Chinese air defences…

Let’s give credit where due. To our armed forces in this case…