Girish Korde

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[Shubham Gupta @ShubhamGupta_SR]

Blinkit, please explain yourself.

Abheer Bansal ordered a game.
The game arrived.
The goti did not.

What follows is a customer grievance that deserves your full attention. 😂👇

#Blinkit #CustomerComplaint #KidsSayTheDarndestThings #JusticeforAbheer @blinkitcares @deepigoyal

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[Nityānanda Miśra (मिश्रोपाख्यो नित्यानन्दः) @MisraNityanand]

Romila Thapar’s false claim for 30+ years

For more than thirty years, eminent historian Romila Thapar has claimed that Patañjali compared the relationship or conflict between the Brahmanas and the Shramanas to that between the snake and the mongoose.

The claim is completely false. Watch to know more.

[Vidit Sharma 🇮🇳 @TheViditsharma]

💔 Telangana: 500 community dogs killed by lethal injection.

💔 Rohtak: 29 dogs found dead under the garb of ABC — blatant cruelty.

💔 Across India: illegal pick-ups, forced relocations, and killings are being carried out in the name of “court orders.”

This is not population control. This is not public safety.

This is cruelty, plain and simple.
Community dogs are protected by law, yet they are being tortured, displaced, and killed with complete impunity.
Those meant to safeguard animals are becoming executioners.

This is heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. What kind of society normalizes violence against the voiceless and calls it governance?

We cannot stay silent while mass cruelty is justified and repeated. Accountability, compassion, and lawful action are the bare minimum.

Justice for India’s community dogs is not optional it is a moral responsibility.

#TributeToTheFallen
#Telangana500

[Rama Seshan Chandrasekaran @maa_bhaishiiH]

When you get news that you have got cancer, you can’t cure it by solemnly saying that “this cancerous cells don’t represent me and have got nothing to do with my body, and they are not a real part of my body”.

Acknowledgment of a problem is the first step towards fixing it. Islam does have a radicalisation and terrorism problem.

And no, just one Meccan verse of “there is no compulsion in religion” does not undo what the rest of the Quran and the Hadiths say and what centuries of Islamic history, jurisprudence, and theology have preached and did.

When people say Islam, they are referring to its entire body of texts and practices, not Sayema’s version who takes only one verse (there is no compulsion in religion) seriously.

Being honest that Islam has a radicalisation cancer is the first step for cure.

Anyways, when a doctor does chemotherapy on your own cancer cells, you don’t resist it but welcome it. But when a state does chemotherapy on radical elements of people (like arresting someone who threatened to cut India) from your religion, you resist and say Muslims are getting subjugated. How will then people believe you when you say that terrorists have got nothing to do with Islam?

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[Dr Poornima 🇮🇳 @PoornimaNimo]

Dogs are loyal to their country, owners, and to those that shower them with love and care.
Story of Indian Army K9 "Zoom" who died like a martyr while fighting two pakistani terrorists in Kulgam encounter.
True heroes, sometimes don't wear a uniform.
For those, who pick up pakistani flags from the roads and defend "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans in Vidhan Saudha fact checking news stating "Nasir Saab Zindabad."

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

If there is one impediment to the world’s desperate fight against Muslim terrorism, it’s your country.

Israel tries disciplining Hamas, you block it with an idiotic Gaza “plan.” Kurds try resisting ISIS, you legitimize Golani. India hits terrorists in Pakistan, you fellate Munir and tariff India. Qatar hosts and sponsors Hamas, you accept airplane from it.

If anything, you legitimize terrorism while pretending to eradicate it. Which makes you less trustworthy than actual terrorists.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

एक भाई को ट्रेन में बिना टिकट यात्रा करने की पुरानी आदत थी।
कभी पकड़े नहीं गए, इसलिए हौसला दिन-ब-दिन बढ़ता चला गया।
धीरे-धीरे वो किसी की भी रिजर्व सीट पर धड़ल्ले से कब्जा करने लगे।
कोई टोके तो पहले गाली-गलौच, फिर धमकी और ज़रूरत पड़े तो मारपीट तक उतर आते।

एक दिन एसी कोच में बिना टिकट चढ़े और सीधे एक शरीफ सवारी की सीट पर जा धमके।
उस सज्जन ने मना किया तो वही पुराना ड्रामा शुरू—
पहले अभद्रता, फिर धमकियाँ, फिर हाथ छोड़ने की तैयारी।

सज्जन ने फौरन पुलिस को फोन कर दिया।
पुलिस आई तो भी भाई साहब हेकड़ी दिखाते रहे।
इतने में टीटीई साहब भी पहुँच गए और सबसे पहले टिकट माँगा।
टिकट तो था ही नहीं, बस आँय-बाँय शुरू।

फाइन की बात आई, गिरफ्तारी की बात आई तो भाई बोले:
“अरे जब मैं स्टेशन में घुसा तब आप कहाँ थे?
जब प्लेटफॉर्म पर चढ़ा तब क्यों नहीं रोका?
जब मैं यहाँ आराम से बैठ गया तब किसी ने कुछ नहीं कहा।
अब ये साहब झगड़ा करने लगे तो आप लोग टिकट का बहाना लेकर इनकी तरफदारी करने चले आए?
मेरे पास अभी पैसे नहीं हैं, जाना इसी ट्रेन से है, तो क्या आप मुझे बाहर फेंक देंगे?
ये कैसा न्याय है भाई? पहले नोटिस दो!
हम सालों-साल से बिना टिकट चल रहे हैं, तब किसी को कुछ नहीं दिखा?
अब बस इस एक आदमी का पक्ष लेने के लिए फाइन ठोंक रहे हो?”

इतना सुनते ही कोच में मौजूद चार-पाँच और बिना टिकट वाले एकदम एक्टिव हो गए।
सब मिलकर हंगामा शुरू:
“ये ट्रेन हमारी है! हमने इसमें पसीना बहाया है!
हमारे बाप-दादों ने खून देकर ये रेल बनवाई है!
टिकट वालों से भेदभाव बंद करो!
सीट सबकी बराबर चाहिए, वरना तानाशाही है!
ये साहब न झगड़ते तो आप लोग आते भी नहीं, साफ-साफ इनकी सपोर्ट में कर रहे हो सब!”

फिर तो कुछ लोकल छुटभैये नेता भी पहुँच गए।
माइक निकाला और भाषण शुरू:
“रेल की सीटों पर पहला हक बिना टिकट यात्रियों का है!
रेलवे जानबूझकर टिकट वाले और बेटिकट वाले के बीच नफरत फैला रहा है।
हम ये नफरत नहीं होने देंगे!
हम कानून बनवाएँगे कि पहले सारी सीटें बिना टिकट वालों को मिलेंगी,
बची-खुची सीटें होंगी तो टिकट वालों को दे देना!”

टीटीई और पुलिस वाले आपस में देखने लगे—
अब बताओ, बिना टिकट वाले को पकड़ना गुनाह था या नेकी?

बस यही नैरेटिव आजकल देश में सेट करने की पूरी कोशिश हो रही है।
रोहिंग्या और बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठिए ठीक वैसे ही सरहद पार करके आते हैं,
कब्जे जमाते हैं, और हमारे सेक्युलर नेतागण, राहुल गांधी जैसे बड़े-बड़े लोग
खुलेआम उनकी वकालत करते हैं, SIR प्रक्रिया पर सवाल उठाते हैं,
और यही कहते हैं - “पहले तो आने दिया, अब क्यों निकाल रहे हो?”

ठीक वही ट्रेन वाला डायलॉग, बस स्केल बड़ा हो गया है।

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

The year is 1948. India has just become free and is trying to have a tryst with destiny. And in a country with endless possibilities, you are a 27-year-old man from an affluent family.

You have also studied in prestigious institutions like Loyola College and College of Engineering Guindy and have been given a scholarship from the Govt of India to go to the USA and study Dairy engineering.

You go to the USA and realize that studying metallurgy and nuclear engineering is more useful and interesting than studying techniques of extracting milk from cows. You follow your instinct and successfully complete your course.

You are now a nuclear engineer. And in a world that has just gone nuclear, the opportunities you have are limitless. The world is at your feet.

Then the Govt of India becomes a reverse Lannister calls in its debt. They want you to work for them for a limited period as an obligation to whatever they did for you.

You have no choice but to come back.

You hope you are sent to glamourous locations like Bombay or Madras where you can spend your obligatory time in comfort and luxury. You are an America Return Nuclear engineer after all.

But the Govt of India cares as much about your designations and qualifications as a Nokia 3310 cares about a drop. So, they play a cruel joke upon you.

They send you to a small decrepit town in Gujarat which doesn't even have electricity. Your accommodation is a rundown Garage and the only sign of life around you are the mosquitos, who are trying to taste your blood.

The town is called Anand. And the only Anand you have there is its name. Else it is all despair.

You, an affluent gentleman from south India, who doesn't speak a word of Gujarati, who has never lived in a village, are now stuck in a god foresaken village in the middle of nowhere. And You want to get out of this god forsaken place on the first chance you get.

Then something happens.

You start going around the town. You start speaking to people. You understand their way of life. You understand what they want. Without you realizing you start falling in love with the place. You want to do something for them.

And then you create a revolution.

A revolution that has changed the face and fate of India.

A revolution whose gifts we are still reaping 65 years after it started.

And You are the one who started it all.

You are Dr Verghese Kurien.

Operation Flood was, is and will be one of the greatest movements India has ever had.

We went from a country that used to import milk powder from New Zealand and other countries to becoming the largest milk producing country in the world, in 30 years.

It gave livelihoods to close to more than 100 million farmers over the years and has lifted more than 50 million people out of poverty and starvation. If you count the people emancipated by Operation flood, it would be the 30th largest country in the world, ahead of Spain, South Korea and Argentina.

Today, we move the global dairy market and it is singularly because of Dr Kurien.

And he didn't stop at dairy.

He realized that India was heavily dependent on Southeast Asia for its edible oil needs. So he got all the oilseeds growers together and started Dhara, India's own edible oil brand.

He so thoroughly disrupted the edible oil industry that for a brief period of time, he significantly reduced our dependance on palm oil.

Unfortunately, our babus intervened and as they usually do, destroyed it all. But that's the story for another day.

When Karnataka's Cocoa farmers went to him to seek salvation from Cadbury's oppression, he created Amul Chocolates and created a big dent in their market share. He also ensured Cadbury treated the farmers with a lot more respect and fairness, now that the farmers had option.

When Indira Gandhi complained about farmers not getting fair price for their vegetables, he started Safal, a vegetable selling co-operative under the NDDB umbrella and made it a success.

Now most of this is known.

But what we don't know more about was Dr Kurien the innovator.

Dr Kurien and his friend JJ Dalaya were the first in the world to synthesize buffalo milk and convert it to powder. This allowed us to store and supply milk during times of deficiencies.

He was the first to create condensed milk or as you call it, Milkmaid / Mithai Mate, from buffalo milk and ended Nestle's monopoly in this segment for good.

He was also the first to pack a dense substance as oil in a Tetrapak, something that their own Swedish engineer's thought was impossible. He made it possible.

I can keep going on and on.

In today's world, words like Legend, GOAT, superstar are thrown around very very loosely.

People who hit balls with a stick, give useless expressions on a giant screen and make cringy unwatchable 30 sec videos on some apps or crack some vulgarly unfunny jokes are given these epithets today.

So, what would you call a guy who saved India from hunger and starvation? What would you call a guy who prevented India from malnutrition and stunted growth? What would you call a guy who made a basic commodity like milk, accessible to a billion people?

We don't have words for that. Maybe we need to invent some.

One more very commonly misplaced word today is disruption.

Anything and everything are disruption now. The development of an app, delivering grocery or food in 10 minutes or writing an additional line of code are all what passes off as disruption today.

That is not disruption.

Disruption is where you create something that changes the lives of people forever. Disruption happens when what you create, rewards people for Generations.

Disruption is where you help poor farmers break the vicious circle of poverty and throw them 354 steps up the economic ladder

Disruption is not how you change how people do certain things; Disruption is when you change the people themselves.

Dr Kurien was India's first and the greatest disruptor.

Dr Kurien is India's true GOAT.

So, Happy Birthday Dr Kurien. India is grateful that we had you walking on our soil. Thank you!!

P:S: The attached image is that of the recreated Garage that Dr Kurien first stayed. Garages have a unique connection to the world of tech, as a lot of tech companies started from there and are worth some bajillion dollars today.

This is a Garage that lifted 60 million Indians out of poverty.

With all due respect to HP and Google, this is the greatest Garage of them all.

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

I was 5 years old in 2004. Under MMS, I grew by 10 years at a 11.61% CAGR. With a decade of Modi, however, I could barely grow at a CAGR of 5.24%, less than half of what I could achieve with MMS.

Data does hit hard.