Nitin Guatam

Wanderlust | news follower | cricket enthusiast | Movie buff | TV series fanatic | history lover

[Narendra Nath Mishra @iamnarendranath]

लखनऊ अलीगंज कोचिंग सेंटर आग में अब तक 13 मौत की पुष्टि। कई और फंसे हुए हैं।

अब इस घटना के बाद फायर सेफ्टी -ऑडिट के नाम पर लंबी लंबी मीटिंग होगी। खाना पूर्ति के लिए एक्शन होगा। और आपको ऐसा लगेगाही कि क्या पता इस घटना से सरकार सीखे,एक नया हादसा आपको जगा देगी कि मुर्दा सिस्टम मुर्दा ही रहेगा। इन्हें ऐसे हादसों के बाद चेहरा बचाने को एक्टिंग कला आती है।
कभी खाने जा रहे लोग रेस्टोरेंट में जल कर मर जा रहे हैं। होटल में टूरिस्ट जल कर मर जा रहे हैं। कोचिंग में पढ़ने जा रहे स्टूडेंट जल कर मर जाते हैं। कभी इमरजेंसी में इलाज करा रहे नवजात बच्चों की मौत जल कर हो जाती है।
और सरकार har बार जीवन बीमा बनकर कुछ पैसे मुआवजा देकर और शोक के कॉपी पेस्ट बयान देकर अपनी जिम्मेदारी को निभा लेती हैं।

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

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[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

Virat Kohli keeps asking the same question & the critics keep running out of answers. Since 2023, he has scored 2365 runs in 51 IPL innings. He has been dismissed for single digits just 3 times in his last 40 innings (On average, 1 single digit score per season).
13 of his last 15 innings crossed 25, 11 went past 40, 8 cleared 50. While everyone else chased highlights, he built a floor of consistency so high that failure became a stranger.

Critics called him an anchor. They said T20 had moved past him, that his method was built for a slower era. So he changed the physics. The bat that used to come down straight & still started moving before the bowler released. Up, down, tap, hover. R Ashwin called it potential energy. Rest of us called it freedom.

Then 2025 happened. RCB won their first title in 18 years. Kohli made 657 runs that season, nothing flashy, just a man holding his nerve while the world wobbled. The title did not relax him. It unlocked something.

2026 brought the real transformation. He quit Tests. What remained was just a batter. No format switching, no need to keep one part of his brain defensive while the other attacked. This season he hits a boundary every 4.9 balls. He strikes at 160 in the powerplay, 140 in the middle, 200 in the death.

Dale Steyn watched the opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kohli hit 69 not out off 38 balls, 5 sixes, a chase of 202 done in 15.2 overs. Steyn said he was hitting aerial shots time & again. A man who had stopped fearing the fall.

The attacking shot percentage tells the story. 40.6 percent in 2021. Almost 75 percent in 2026. He steps down to spin now. He lofts over long on. He was the cover drive man, the wristy flick man. Now he is something messier & more dangerous. Striking at 163 this season. Averaging 54.6, which is technically a dip from his overall average of 56 since 2023. That is the level he has set.

No other batter has scored more runs than him in the last 4 IPL seasons. Not Gill, Not Jaiswal, Not Buttler, Not Samson. He has also hit more sixes than all of them since 2023. The man they called slow is out-hitting the generation that was supposed to replace him. He is not surviving T20 anymore. He is still defining it.

Critics will find something new. Kohli will hear them, fix what needs fixing & keep asking what is next. The bat is still moving, The red jersey is still his. And somehow, impossibly, he is just getting started.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

NASA just released a stunning picture of earth taken by the Artemis astronauts. And someone said it was our latest group photo.
It was, all of us, that's all of us other than the 4 in Artemis and 10 in the International Space Station. Iranians and Americans, Arabs and Jews, mothers and daughters, dog lovers and cat fanciers. Musicians and mechanics, microbiologists and merchandisers...
That's all we have together.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

6 YEARS: FROM COVID TO IRAN
TIME FOR SOME PAINFUL TRUTHS 🚨

Six turbulent years from Covid to the Ladakh standoff to Ukraine war to Trump’s tariff offensive to the current Iran war have exposed a hard truth. India remains dangerously dependent on the world for things a serious power should control at home.

Energy first, since that’s on everyone’s mind right now. India imports about 85% of its crude oil and roughly 50% of its natural gas. We depend heavily on overseas supply chains for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel that will power the next generation of batteries and energy systems. Any disruption anywhere from the Strait of Hormuz to sanctions on major producers immediately ripples through LPG prices, electricity costs and inflation. The current LPG anxiety during the Iran war is just the latest reminder of how exposed we are.

Defence is worse. Despite decades of rhetoric about indigenisation, India still imports roughly 45 to 50% of its major weapons systems, making it one of the world’s largest arms importers, if not the largest. During the Ladakh standoff with China (which is still on) the country had to rush through emergency purchases of munitions, drones, artillery shells and winter gear because either we don’t make those items or domestic capacity could not surge quickly enough. A country facing two nuclear adversaries should never have to scramble for weapons in the middle of a military standoff.

Pharmaceuticals reveal another uncomfortable truth. India is known as the pharmacy of the world, yet around 70% of our active pharmaceutical ingredients come from outside, including China. During Covid this vulnerability became obvious as India scrambled for oxygen, PPE kits, ventilators and key medical inputs.

Technology dependence is the most alarming of all. More than 90% of advanced semiconductors are imported, most high end AI chips and servers are foreign made, and critical digital hardware depends almost entirely on global supply chains. In an era where AI will define both economic power and military capability, this is a profound strategic vulnerability.

Add fertiliser precursors, rare earths, electronics components, solar modules and specialised machine tools and the list becomes even longer. Each time the world experiences a shock (Ukraine, Iran, Azerbaijan, Covid) whether it is a pandemic, sanctions on Russia, a war in West Asia or rising great power tensions India is forced into code red emergency management mode.

The uncomfortable reality is that true strategic autonomy requires historically painful decisions. Building domestic capacity in energy, weapons, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and AI will demand huge investment, long term industrial policy, and years of political risk. It may mean accepting higher costs and slower returns in the short term in order to build resilience for the long term.

But India’s election to election political cycle rewards short term thinking. No government wants to take decisions that may, beyond a point, take a decade to pay off. The decisions these crises compel from a country like India will mean a total dismantlement of our politics as we know it today. It will mean a generation of turning the country on its head.

Yet the alternative is worse. As things stand India remains structurally vulnerable. A country that has to scramble every time the world shakes cannot claim true strategic autonomy.

From COVID to Iran, the last six years have made that painfully clear.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Four options for Zionists + America now

1) Massive land invasion
Iran is completely prepared, and waiting. Outcome will be mass casualties of American soldiers. Unacceptable to the American public. Eventual withdrawal. Total loss of face.

2) Keep fighting aerial battles (no land invasion)
Will hobble the world economy to a point of no-return, and harm everyone. Unacceptable to capitalists funding Trump, AI firms, and the American public. Will destroy GCC nations. Harm India immeasurably. Destroy the jobs market in mid-term.

3) Nuclear option
Attack Iran with nuclear weapons. Will lead to a point of no-return everywhere, and casualties beyond imagination. Israel will be wiped out permanently.

4) Declare victory and withdraw
Best option for Trump. Do what you did when the Houthis whacked you hard. Declare victory and withdraw. Will lose Presidency, but most humane option. Israel will be vanquished, hence will not allow (so Epstein files will resurface hugely).

No matter what Trump does, he has lost already. Zionists have lost already. Iran did not surrender post Khamenei murder, and that changed the game.

We all will pay the price no matter what. Tragic.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Everyone is watching the oil, not the water.

Kuwait gets 90% of its drinking water from desalination plants. Oman 86%. Saudi Arabia 70%. There is no aquifer, no river, no rainfall. The entire Arabian Peninsula drinks water that is manufactured from the sea.

One drone. One plant. Millions without water.

That is not speculation. A 2009 US diplomatic cable concluded: Destroy the desalination infrastructure and you could force the evacuation of the Saudi capital within a week.

Iran has not hit desalination plants yet. That restraint is a choice. It's also a card.

Iran's navy is gone. Its air force is degraded. Its Supreme Leader is dead. Its missile rate has dropped 70%. Every conventional military option is being systematically closed.

What remains is asymmetric warfare against infrastructure that the entire Gulf coalition cannot function without.

You do not need to win an air war to win an asymmetric war. You need to hit the thing your enemy cannot replace on any timeline that matters. Oil can be rerouted. Gas can be replaced. Water in the Arabian desert cannot be improvised.

The GCC has built redundancies since this vulnerability was identified. But redundancies are not immunity. And Iran knows exactly where every plant sits.

The oil war is being priced. The water war has not even entered the model yet. If it does, this conflict has a second act that makes the first one look contained.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

You can’t count the number of ways you can die in this country even in peace. So when you dunk on an infinitely better looking, better functioning, and better organized nation for getting hit in a war it had no reason to expect on its shores…you sound like salty little fools.

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Making fun of people who shifted to Dubai and using Dubai’s attack as an example to claim that Dubai is unsafe and India is safe is the last thing people should do today.

By the time you write a post mocking Dubai and wait for reactions, some people may have already died from poisonous drinking water, from dog bites, from adulterated food, or because a speeding car crushed a pedestrian.

Let's fix things at our end before mocking others.

[Sahil Rajput @_sahilrajput]

2003 - Satyendra Dubey, IIT Kanpur grad, wrote to PM Vajpayee exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral project. Begged to keep his name secret. Shot dead on his 30th birthday.

2004 - Manjunath Shanmugam, IIM Lucknow grad, sealed a petrol pump selling adulterated fuel under PM Manmohan Singh’s govt. 6 bullets. Dead at 27.

2005 - Narendra Kumar, IPS officer, seized illegal mining trucks in MP under CM Shivraj Chouhan. Crushed under a tractor. Dead at 30. His IAS wife was pregnant.

After these deaths, Parliament passed the Whistleblower Protection Act in 2014.

It has NEVER been activated. 12 years. Not a single day.

PM Modi’s govt said it needs amendments. Then introduced amendments in 2015 that actually gutted the law, making it illegal to expose corruption if it touches the Official Secrets Act. That bill failed and lapsed. Govt said okay, original Act is fine then. Still didn’t activate it.

100+ RTI activists killed since 2014. No party is innocent.

Modi’s govt has sat on the protection law for a decade.

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

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@DanielLatto @SamaHoole Mg/dl.. also have a history of having undergone 2 stent procedure 6 years back at age of around 36... Lp(a) just got tested now..

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

@chiragbarjatya Home gymming and very visible difference in how body look. Proud of myself. This from a heart patient with 2 angioplasty 4 years back. Clocking 12K + steps almost 5 days a week & very satisfying blood markers n RHR.

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

@Schandillia Sometimes its just impossible to disagree with you...not even an iota of it...

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

@theskindoctor13 @Flipkart @Flipkart has to be worst ecommerce platform now. Completely stopped ordering from them after multiple botched deliveries in past. Their delivery guys are worst & @flipkartsupport is just useless.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The layoff wave tells two stories, not one.

Tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are cutting to fund GPU purchases. Their revenues are growing. Their stock prices are climbing. They're firing people to free up cash for compute. This isn't cost-cutting during a downturn. It's a forced reallocation from payroll to datacenter capacity. The math is brutal: every percentage point of headcount reduction funds another batch of H100s.

Meanwhile, UPS, Nestle, Ford, and Target are cutting for the opposite reason. They've already deployed AI tools that work. Customer service automation, supply chain optimization, generative design systems. The productivity gains are real and compounding. These companies don't need to buy massive GPU clusters. They're renting inference from hyperscalers and cutting headcount because the math finally works.

Both sides are feeding the same beast. Tech companies are buying the shovels. Everyone else is buying the gold those shovels dig up. Semiconductor companies sit in the middle, collecting rent from the entire value chain. TSMC, NVIDIA, and ASML are printing money while employment craters on both ends.

The timing matters. We're at 10% enterprise AI adoption, heading toward 50%. History says this phase moves fastest and generates the most wealth. But that wealth is concentrating in compute, not labor. The gap between market cap growth and wage growth has never been wider. This isn't a recession. It's a rebalancing. And most workers are on the wrong side of it.

[Nitin Guatam @clicknitin83]

Scary !!!

[Neha Nagar @nehanagarr]

You Own Nothing. You Owe Everything.

Meet India's new middle class.
Tech professionals. MBAs. Consultants.

Combined income: Rs 15-20 lakh.
Savings: Zero.

THE NUMBERS DON'T LIE:
- 2019: 12% carried multiple EMIs.
- In 2024: this number increased to 43%.

33% of salary goes to EMIs in Hyderabad.
& 45% across Bangalore's tech corridor.

3.5 lakh people carry over an Rs 30,000 monthly EMI burden.

India's household savings:
5.3% of GDP - lowest in five decades.
Household debt: 42% of GDP - highest ever.

You're not building wealth.
You're building a house of cards.

Your get any medical condition. Hospital bill: Rs 3 lakh. One EMI bounces. Credit score drops. Bank calls. Recovery agents arrive. Second EMI defaults. Game over.

Or simpler: Company restructuring.
Major IT companies announced 20,000+ layoffs last quarter.

Average survival time without salary: 37 days
After that?
First default.
Asset seizure.
Bankruptcy.

Middle class in 1990:
Owned assets. Had savings. Survived shocks.

Middle class in 2024: iPhone on EMI. Bike on EMI. Vacation on EMI.

No assets. Just 36 months of obligations.
Look around your office. Everyone is 30-60 days away from crisis.