Pranshu Kharkwal

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[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@whereisaditya_ @RGxAlpha 😂

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@sbhm_prksh @zomato Comgrats bhai

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@copybaara Aaise toh teesri chin bhi aajayegi

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@svembu Okay, but their PAT margins are good, and PE ratios aren't too bad. For example, MSFT trades at 26 PE, and is growing at like 18% YoY. Not a bargain, but not a bubble either IMO

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Every single one of the points are a real problem.

But your understanding is broken, let me explain. :)

Norway has 55 lakh people. Total. That’s smaller than the population of Pune. Their entire country has fewer citizens than India’s 25 smallest cities individually. Norway also has 1.2 trillion dollars in sovereign wealth from oil reserves, accumulated over 50 years.

They have $250,000 per citizen sitting in the fund. India has roughly $3,400 per citizen in forex reserves.

Norway is what you get when a small population sits on top of one of the largest per-capita oil discoveries in human history.

The right comparison is other low-income, high-population, post-colonial democracies. Brazil. Indonesia. Nigeria. Bangladesh. Pakistan. Egypt. Mexico. South Africa. Vietnam. Philippines.

Compare on these and India isn’t doing badly. It’s doing better than most.

UPI is the world’s largest real-time payments system.

Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity system.

We absorbed the global pandemic, the Ukraine war, the West Asia conflict, Trump’s tariffs, the Iran war, and a rupee fall without going into recession.

Most of those countries above did. Pakistan went to the IMF 24 times. Sri Lanka collapsed. Bangladesh is unstable. Egypt needed emergency Gulf bailouts. Argentina has 60% inflation. We stayed standing.

India is the only country in human history to add a trillion dollars of GDP every 18 months. We added our first trillion in 2007. Our second in 2017. Our third in 2024. Our fourth coming in 2026.

The problems you mentioned exist in every large, low-income, high-density country on earth.

Mexico City’s pollution is worse than Delhi’s.
Manila’s traffic is worse than Mumbai’s.
Lagos has worse road quality than Delhi.
Jakarta has worse air than Delhi.
Cairo has worse adulteration.
Karachi has more corruption.
Hanoi has higher pollution.

None of these countries are run by Modi. They’re all dealing with the same impossible math.

Industrialising a country of 145 crore people during a global energy transition, with limited natural resources, while keeping democracy intact, is the single hardest governance challenge in human history.

> China did it without democracy.
> South Korea did it with a population one-tenth our size.
> Japan did it with no major religious or linguistic diversity.
> Singapore did it with 50 lakh people total.

Nobody has done it at India’s scale, with our diversity, in democratic conditions.

So when someone asks “why hasn’t Modi built one city like Norway,” the answer is because building one Norway requires not having 144.5 crore other Indians to look after.

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

Vector Technics manufactures ~5,000 drone BLDC motors a month. They're the largest in India. They hope to scale to 15,000 motors/month soon.

Meanwhile, China manufactures millions.

Guess what? Most Indian companies still import these motors from China. Why? Low trust in Indian products.

This imported > indigenous mindset is antithetical to technological development, economic growth, and India's future prosperity, yet it's pervasive across industries.

The belief that "if it's Indian, it must not be good" still lingers in many corners of the subcontinent, despite numerous hardware and manufacturing companies proving that this thinking is misguided and incorrect.

I'm thrilled to see companies like Vector Technics putting in years of hard work and risking it all to reverse this mindset and prove to India (and the world) that Indian hardware is synonymous with quality and reliability.

India needs hundreds more companies like Vector, building machines, materials, and components indigenously.

But it also needs buyers to break out of this imported-first, local-second mindset.

Build from India for the world, but also...
Buy from India, lead the world.

[InfraStory @marinebharat]

Kalpasar moves ahead

NHAI invited DPR tender for 6 lane Expressway between Bhavnagar - Bharuch

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@copybaara @radar_xy And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances
You are just what the doc ordered

[İzafiyet @Statikoo]

Yıl 2800 arkeologlar: 2026 yılında dünya da 7 metre insanların yaşadığını düşünüyoruz

[Amb Vinay Mohan Kwatra @AmbVMKwatra]

Describing well intentioned efforts aimed at protecting against viral
misinformation & possible harm to the Indian society under India’s IT Rules as “censorship” makes for a catchy headline, but a lazy argument in the op-ed piece by Arman Khan in @nytimes .

India takes pride in its credentials as the world’s largest democracy, with a written constitution, an independent judiciary, a vibrant English and vernacular press, and a long history of rights-based litigation.
Framing what is essentially about platform accountability as “free speech vs censorship” deliberately and disingenuously conflates different issues.
Always welcome an exchange of views on finding the right balance between free speech and accountability to further strengthen India’s cherished democracy. Unfortunately, prejudiced and partisan opinion is not a constructive starting point.
https://t.co/WXfH8gLh5R

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@PVVNLHQ @UPPCLLKO @PVVNLHQ @UPPCLLKO please respond. I've already shared the details via DM

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@PVVNLHQ @UPPCLLKO Power Cut since last 7 hours in Raj bagh, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad are

Please get it restored ASAP

@myogiadityanath

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

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[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

My question to BJP,

- Since you claim to champion nari shakti and its implementation in 2029, will you’ll voluntarily identify 180 seats of the 543 and reserve it for women as a political party in the next election cycle?
- Will you ask your alliance partners to do so too?

OR OPTION B

- Will you go back to the 106th Constitution Amendment and delink census /delimitation mandate via a new amendment in the monsoon session and bring the act into force from the next election cycle?

If answer to all of the above is no, then might as well drop the pretence.

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

Ek aadha alumni bureaucrat Banta hai, uski bhi aaisi khabar ajati hai 🤦‍♂️

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

> Meet SDM Kajal Meena.
> ST Category Topper.
> IIT Mandi alumna.
> Joined her post in Nadauti, Rajasthan, in October 2025.
> Initially demanded a ₹1 lakh bribe, later settled for ₹50,000.
> Caught red-handed by the ACB while accepting a ₹60,000 bribe.
> ₹4 lakh in cash was also recovered from the office.

From clearing exams to allegedly clearing files for cash, the journey seems to have been fast.

A common citizen goes to the office for a lawful order and gets a rate card instead. 🤡🤦‍♂️

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@Im_prashant812 Book kardiya? Kab jara?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

“The Supreme Court banning Prof Michel Danino and others for their NCERT chapter on judicial corruption, is nothing short of judicial dictatorship.”

Thank you, @priyankac19, for being the voice of a billion Indians. You have said what the govt and its law minister should have.

[Pranshu Kharkwal @hellopranshu]

@Vtxt21 Oh my god, a flyover. India mai toh hai hi nahi 😭

[Sameer @zenith_sue]

took me a while but nice one lmao