“I had tasted 12–15 hours of freedom.”
Late Gp Capt Dilip Parulkar (Retd) VM ,VSM
The war had ended.
Their story had not.
THE GREAT INDIAN ESCAPE CONTINUES
A Limited YouTube Series
Episode 1 | 26 January
Watch the trailer:
https://t.co/53NCG88B2u
#TheGreatIndianEscape #TGIEReturns #RepublicDaySpecial #OfficialTrailer #ComingSoon #JaiHind
🚨BREAKING: THE AI BUBBLE HAS STARTED TO BURST
MICROSOFT JUST TOLD 100,000 ENGINEERS TO STOP USING CLAUDE BECAUSE THE BILLS EXPLODED.. UBER BURNED ITS ENTIRE ANNUAL AI BUDGET BY APRIL..
Microsoft invested $5 billion in Anthropic.. gave 100,000 engineers Claude Code access.. encouraged adoption.. watched usage explode.. then the invoices arrived.. and issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool..
the company that bet $5 billion on Anthropic just told its own engineers to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much..
Uber rolled out Claude Code in December 2025.. by March 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it.. 70% of all committed code was coming from AI.. heavy users burning $500 to $2,000 per month each.. the CTO spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo.. they built internal leaderboards gamifying AI consumption.. and blew the entire annual budget by April with eight months remaining..
then Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning said it out loud.. "for my team the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees".. a VP at the company that sells the chips said using AI costs more than paying humans..
but here's the part that broke my brain..
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030.. Gartner says even as per-token prices drop 90% total enterprise AI costs go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task.. the more powerful and useful the AI becomes the more expensive it is to run at the scale that makes it transformative..
every CEO for two years said the same thing on every earnings call.. AI reduces headcount and cuts costs.. the stock went up every time.. workers got fired.. stock went up.. AI strategy announced.. stock went up..
$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech..
and the first companies to actually deploy these tools at real scale are already pulling back because the invoice arrived before the productivity gain was large enough to cover it..
the gap between what the earnings call said and what the invoices say..
is the most important number in markets right now..
and nobody on Wall Street has priced it in yet.
France moved 129 tonnes of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Paris between July 2025 and January 2026. Every ounce of French sovereign gold is now stored on French soil. The Banque de France sold non-standard legacy bars held in New York at record prices and simultaneously purchased equivalent compliant bars in Europe, booking a capital gain of 12.8 billion euros without changing its total reserves of 2,437 tonnes by a single gram. The transaction was described as operational, not political. But the outcome is political regardless of the motive: a founding NATO ally has removed 100 percent of its gold from American custody.
Germany did this between 2013 and 2017. Now France. The pattern is consistent: Western central banks are bringing their gold home from New York, quietly, without fanfare, while publicly maintaining that the moves are routine. Nobody repatriates 129 tonnes of sovereign metal across an ocean because the storage fees were inconvenient. They do it because the world that made New York the safest vault on earth is the same world that froze $300 billion in Russian reserves in 2022, and every central bank on the planet watched.
China has purchased gold for 16 consecutive months. February 2026 was the latest: one tonne, modest, disciplined, bringing total reserves to 2,308 tonnes valued at $387.6 billion, approximately 10 percent of total foreign exchange reserves. China has simultaneously reduced its US Treasury holdings by $638 billion. The buying is not speculative. It is architectural. Every tonne purchased and every Treasury sold moves the centre of gravity of China’s reserve portfolio from an asset that can be frozen to an asset that cannot.
India repatriated 274 tonnes to domestic vaults, bringing 66 percent of its gold home. It reduced US Treasury holdings by 18 percent in 2025. Poland added 20 tonnes in February alone and is targeting 700 tonnes total. Uzbekistan added 8 tonnes. The structural bid from central banks that watched the 2022 freeze is running at 863 tonnes per year with no sign of slowing.
Then there are the sellers. Russia sold 6 tonnes in February and approximately 15 tonnes in the first two months of 2026, the largest drawdown since 2002. The country that triggered the global repatriation movement by getting its reserves frozen is now selling gold to fund the war deficit that the freeze was supposed to prevent. Turkey sold 8 tonnes in February and utilised approximately 50 tonnes in March for lira defence and liquidity operations. The irony is precise: the war that proves gold’s value as a sanctions-proof reserve is simultaneously forcing the countries most exposed to sanctions to liquidate their gold to survive the war’s economic consequences.
The net global position remains positive. Central banks added 19 tonnes in February despite Russia and Turkey selling. The buyers outweigh the sellers. But the composition tells the story. The buyers are countries building sovereignty: China, India, Poland, Uzbekistan. The sellers are countries defending survival: Russia funding a war, Turkey defending a currency. And the repatriators are countries hedging trust: France and Germany bringing metal home from the vault of the ally whose financial weapons they watched deployed in 2022.
Gold is at $4,676 tonight and down 8 percent from its January high. The correction is the trade. The repatriation is the structure. And the structure says that the world’s central banks, collectively, have decided that the safest place for sovereign gold is no longer New York. It is home.
#CSK sometimes makes me wonder was it just the #MSD aura that carried them through the years. They don’t even look like a team, fielding lapses, batting lapses and a drought of decisions on the field. Would love to say what a comeback but truth hits hard. Disappointed 😞
@MMMOCL_Official@oberoigarden1 can we have the Oberoi Garden City Footover bridge joining the metro station to the bridge opened? It has been ready for a year now and will be a great convenience. Currently one has to climb up and down both ways to crossover #oberoigardencitymetro
Happy Republic Day 🇮🇳 Jai Hind.
In 2019 we relased the THE GREAT INDIAN ESCAPE with a theatrical release and 3 years later on YouTube. Sinnce then 2.3 million viewers have watched it across the globe. We were pleaseantly surprised with the respones andseveral people asked why did we end the story where we did.
Now in 2026 after a lot of hard work and deliberations we answer that with a limited series as narrate originally the real war heroes to u in their own words.
We are live now with the first episode of THE GREAT INDIAN ESCAPE CONTINUES — S1E1 | “Pal Bhar Ki Azaadi”
https://t.co/iF1WkcVPGB
Do watch, share and send us your feedback. It will motivate us to do more such episodes. @kikbuttent
A very sad day. He will be remembered with great affection in India. There was a time when his very name, his trademark voice meant professionalism in media. RIP
“I had tasted 12–15 hours of freedom.”
Late Gp Capt Dilip Parulkar (Retd) VM ,VSM
The war had ended.
Their story had not.
THE GREAT INDIAN ESCAPE CONTINUES
A Limited YouTube Series
Episode 1 | 26 January
Watch the trailer:
https://t.co/b4bOYcsEyz
#TheGreatIndianEscape
Some stories waited 50 years to be told.
The Great Indian Escape Continues brings the voices of India’s 1971 POWs to the forefront — in their own words.
Trailer with Wg Cdr D.S. Jafa (IAF) out now.
Episode 1 drops 26 Jan 2026.
🇮🇳 Jai Hind. @kikbuttent
https://t.co/i3mheU1gA5
Sharing something special — our new EP “The Great Indian Escape Continues” is now released and streaming across all music platforms
Would love for all of you to give it a listen and share with anyone who may enjoy it 🙏
@kikbuttent
Spotify link: https://t.co/Yh2olqLdxX
In 1971 they escaped.
In 2026, their story continues.
Pal bhar ki azaadi…
and a voice from home:
“Ghar kab aaoge?”
The Great Indian Escape Continues
Episode 1 releases 26/01/2026