HL Ramdoss

Serial entrepreneur-always growing

[Ananda Nepali @anandanepali99]

AN OPEN LETTER TO ELON MUSK, FROM AN ORDINARY NEPALI

Dear @ElonMusk,

You are building rockets to take humanity to Mars, advancing AI and robotics, connecting the world, and thinking about the future of human civilisation.

Today, I am writing from Nepal, where our question about humanity's future is painfully immediate.

How do we survive what is happening to our mountains?

On August 26, a catastrophic glacier collapse sent ice, rock, mud and water through the Himalayan region. More than 1,200 lives have been lost, thousands remain missing, families have been displaced, and homes, roads, bridges and hydropower infrastructure have been destroyed.

Nepal is now facing billions of dollars in losses and reconstruction.

Yet Nepal contributes only around 0.1% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.

That is the painful inequality of climate change:

Those who contributed least can end up paying one of the highest prices.

I am not writing to blame you for this disaster.

In fact, Tesla and many of your ventures have challenged old industries and pushed cleaner technologies forward.

I am writing because you have something very few people in human history have had at this scale:

the resources, technology, influence and ability to move the world when you choose to.

So, Mr. Musk, I respectfully ask you to consider something bigger than disaster relief.

Lead a $1 Billion Nepal Reconstruction & Himalayan Resilience Challenge.

Start by committing $100 million of your own wealth and invite the world's billionaires, technology companies, foundations and innovators to join you.

Let it help rebuild the communities, homes and critical infrastructure Nepal has lost.

But let it also build something for the next generation:

better Himalayan monitoring, disaster prediction and early warning; resilient infrastructure; scientific research; mapping; communications; emergency-response technology; drones, AI and other solutions that can save lives before the next disaster becomes a tragedy.

Make it a transparent, Nepal-led, globally supported initiative, working with the best scientists, institutions and technologies from Nepal and around the world.

Not simply aid after people die.

Investment so fewer people have to die next time.

Nepal's mountains are not important only to Nepal. The Himalayan system feeds rivers, ecosystems and communities across Asia.

What we learn here could ultimately protect millions far beyond our borders.

You have repeatedly challenged humanity to think bigger.

So today, from a small country in the Himalayas, we are asking you to do the same.

You are investing extraordinary resources to help humanity build a future on Mars.

Would you also help protect the future of people living at the roof of Earth?

This is not about sympathy for Nepal.

It is about climate justice, human responsibility and what extraordinary wealth can achieve when matched with extraordinary purpose.

Mr. Musk,

Will you lead?
We all are looking forward your response 🙏.

[Rudrakant Pathak @Sanatni251189]

एक बार युद्ध के दौरान बाहरी लोग गाँव में घुस आए और गांव की सभी महिलाओं के साथ बलात्कार किया।
केवल एक महिला ने उस का विरोध किया जो उसके घर में घुस आया था। उसने जवाबी हमला किया, उसे मार डाला और उसका सिर काट लिया। बाहरी लोगों के चले जाने के बाद, सभी महिलाएँ अपने घरों से बाहर निकलीं, रोती हुई और अपने फटे कपड़े पकड़े हुए—सिवाय उस महिला के जिसने संघर्ष किया था।
वह सिर अपने हाथों में लेकर बाहर आई। उसकी आँखों में गर्व भरा था और उसने कहा, “क्या तुम सच में सोचती थीं कि मैं उसे बिना मारे या खुद मारे जाने के बलात्कार करने दूँगी?”
गाँव की महिलाओं ने एक-दूसरे की ओर देखा और फैसला किया कि उसे मार डालें, ताकि वह अपने सम्मान पर गर्व न कर सके—और ताकि उनके पति घर लौटने पर उनसे यह न पूछें कि उन्होंने उसकी तरह विरोध क्यों नहीं किया। उस पर हमला किया गया और उसे मार दिया गया।
(उन्होंने सम्मान को मार दिया ताकि वे अपनी शर्म के साथ जी सकें।)
आज हमारे समाज में भ्रष्ट लोगों के साथ भी यही हो रहा है। वे हर ईमानदार व्यक्ति को नष्ट और अलग-थलग कर देते हैं, ताकि उनके भ्रष्टाचार का कोई गवाह न रहे।

[HL Ramdoss @hlramdoss]

@MayankG_19 @latha_venkatesh Difference between real growth (constant prices) and nominal growth (current prices)

[HL Ramdoss @hlramdoss]

@Dreams_realites If she was working in YOUR house and YOUR cupboard fell on her, the primary responsibility is YOURS!

[Shiva @suktabombil]

OPEN LETTER TO RAHUL GANDHI.

Dear Rahul Gandhi, @RahulGandhi

I am writing this as a civilian who wants to see real political change, not merely a change of government.

Congress has an opportunity today that it has not had for many years. Your growing popularity, your outreach to ordinary people, and your focus on social justice, employment, education, democracy and economic inequality have created a new connection with many voters.

But I believe this opportunity can be lost if the party continues to depend on the same legacy politicians in constituencies where people are desperately looking for new leadership.

In many constituencies, there are Congress leaders who have been in politics for decades but have contributed very little to the actual development of their constituencies. They are inactive, disconnected from young people and often do not effectively communicate Congress’s ideology or your initiatives. Many do not even actively amplify your social media campaigns, speeches or issues that you are raising nationally.

Some of these leaders are extremely powerful locally. They have large businesses, sugar mills, political networks and significant wealth. But political influence and wealth are not the same as good leadership.

The question voters ask is simple:

What have they actually done for the constituency?

Many of these politicians still practise an old style of politics. They behave more like local bosses than public servants. Instead of presenting a clear vision for developing infrastructure, education, employment, healthcare, industries and opportunities for young people, they operate through personal networks and influence.

Some of these politicians were rejected by voters in 2014 because people were angry with the old political system. Yet, in some places, the same political families and the same faces continue to dominate the choices available to voters.

This is where I believe you have a historic opportunity to do something different.

India Needs a New Generation of Politicians

We need young, educated and energetic people who understand modern governance, technology, infrastructure, entrepreneurship and employment.

We need leaders who understand that being an MLA or MP is not about becoming the boss of a constituency. It is about becoming its servant.

A good representative should be able to answer basic questions:

●What is the five-year development plan for the constituency?
●How will infrastructure improve?
●How will young people get better employment opportunities?
●How will education and healthcare improve?
●How will new businesses and industries be attracted?
●What will be done for farmers and workers?
●How will government funds be used transparently?
●What measurable changes will people see after five years?

People want leaders who can answer these questions.

Unfortunately, in some constituencies, voters do not have a genuine choice. Political families have dominated for decades. In some cases, different members of the same political family are connected to different political parties, including the BJP.

This makes it extremely difficult for ordinary voters to completely break away from established political families.

That is why Congress needs to create new political options for voters.

Rahul Ji, your biggest strength today is that you have the popularity and credibility to build the party differently.

You can give opportunities to young, educated and capable people who have never had access to traditional political power.

Congress does not necessarily need to depend on powerful local politicians to win every constituency.

In many places, Congress can win because of the credibility and popularity associated with your leadership, provided the candidate represents the future rather than the past.

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[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I was just in Mumbai, and I have to give them credit for the progress they’re making on infrastructure. The new Aqua Line metro is phenomenal. But the amount of work India still has to do on basic cleanliness and sanitation and it is hard to understand until you see it yourself. Would love for more westerners to go just to understand how wealthy they are, but that's a different point.

Mumbai is completely surrounded by water, yet there are almost no places where people can actually enjoy the water. The beaches are filled with trash, the water is badly contaminated, and almost nobody swims, even when it’s brutally hot outside. Walking on the beach is just mud and trash meeting filthy water on the horizon.

There are much poorer places around the world where people can still use the beaches. This is not just about money. India has gone decades without adequate trash collection, sewage treatment, or enforcement for a population of more than a billion people. At this point, the scale of the problem feels almost impossible, and the oceans around the world are paying the price for Indias garbage output as well.

I like the direction Modi is taking the country, but India needs to treat cleanup like a national emergency. Stop with the small campaigns and organize a full scale blitz.

Offer unemployed people paid work picking up trash, clearing drains and waterways, cleaning beaches, and maintaining public spaces. Give them proper equipment and supervision. Then build the collection and waste processing systems needed to stop everything from becoming filthy again a week later.

India has shown that it can build metros, airports, highways, and digital infrastructure. Clean streets and usable water should be treated as infrastructure too.

Mumbai should have one of the greatest waterfronts in the world. Instead, it's has basically an irrelevant feature of the city and feels surrendered to sewage and garbage.

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

Hi, I’m 99 year old Nayantara Sahgal, and I’m still alive. I'm the woman whose photo @amitmalviya first weaponised on 15 Nov 2017 to malign my mamu (uncle) Nehru.

I’m the daughter of freedom fighters R.S. Pandit & Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - Nehru’s sister.

Here’s my story. 🧵1/11

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

From the Red Fort on Independence Day, the Prime Minister of 140 crore Indians stood up and called a section of his own citizens “dimagi naxals”, and ordered them to be identified and isolated.

This is not a one-off slip. This is a pattern.

Urban Naxals.

Khan Market gang.

Tukde-tukde gang.

Anti-nationals.

And now “dimagi naxals.”

Every few years the same man invents a new pejorative for Indians who refuse to clap on cue. Students, journalists, academics, opposition voices; anyone who questions him is quickly turned into an internal enemy who must be hunted and isolated.

A Prime Minister of a constitutional republic does not get to decide which thoughts are legitimate and which minds need to be quarantined. That is not leadership. That is contempt dressed up as patriotism.

When the highest office in a sovereign nation speaks of its own people this way, the failure is not in the citizens. The failure is in the man who cannot lead without manufacturing enemies among them.

140 crore Indians did not elect a Prime Minister to police their minds. They elected him to protect the republic. He has failed that basic test; repeatedly, publicly, and from the Red Fort itself.

This is not strength.

This is insecurity at the highest level of power.

Say it without fear.

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

I’ve lost track of the number of people who have sent me this elegant paper comparing Modi’s record as PM with India’s trajectory before he took office.
Short version: It hasn’t quite worked out as advertised.
https://t.co/tYHPkYRi6F

[Renuka Jain @RenukaJain6]

She is too good . What observations , what oratory skills and alignment …,and the way she has brought it out is just phenomenal!👌🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[Saurabh Chandra @saurabhchandra]

What a paper! Comparing India’s trajectory with and without Modi.

https://t.co/rpK9hJISLu

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

A 15-year-old just delivered one of the sharpest political speeches of the year.
Kiara Aggarwal of Springdales School, New Delhi, stood at the “Push the Envelope” Youth Conclave and said what most adults carefully avoid:

“Go Back Simon. Inquilab Zindabad. Quit India.”
These slogans didn’t create vote banks.
They created a revolution.

Then she dropped the real punch.
Today’s slogans work on the Illusory Truth Effect — repeat something long enough and familiarity starts masquerading as truth. The actual truth gets buried under the noise.

She called out the selective rage of the state:
When a 15-year-old girl faces the entire state machinery, FIRs are filed, apologies are forced.
But when a two-year-old is in danger?

Suddenly “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” develops selective amnesia.

“Make in India” was promised.
What we got instead were leaks.

This is not rebellion.
This is a clear-eyed diagnosis from the generation that is supposed to inherit the slogans.

Slogans-based governance does not serve the nation.
It only serves the next election cycle.

Kiara didn’t just speak.
She held up a mirror.
Watch this girl carefully.
The next generation is not confused.
They are simply done being gaslit.
Jumlas aint working anymore.
India is done with propaganda governance.
Enough is Enough, hear the loudly said - “PM Modi finally made a 15 year old to apologise to him”, Did you hear that ⁉️ You better do.

#SlogansNotGovernance #YouthSpeakTruth #KiaraAggarwal #PushTheEnvelope

[Srivatsa @srivatsayb]

Modi’s twelve years have produced three things above all:

a huge increase in corruption, a collapse in education standards and thus job opportunities, and terrible urban infrastructure.

These are the main reasons he is enormously unpopular now. He was given massive mandates, more than any Indian leader in forty years and delivered almost nothing. Even BJP’s core voters are disappointed. Their defence has quietly shifted from what he achieved to what he intended.

Gen Z has made him a figure of ridicule. Whatever he does now is pre-mocked. Respect, once it turns to laughter, does not come back.

Students mock him. Farmers don’t trust him. Labourers have stopped expecting anything at all. There is no section of Indians left that is genuinely happy with him only the AndhBhakts and the WhatsApp uncles, who these days are in cope mode.

He has lost command inside his own party, where succession battle is brewing. The bureaucracy, which reads the direction of travel earlier than the public does, has started to slow down and wait. Godi media, his closest ally, will be the last to jump, but it will jump.

At the end of it all, he will lose power in 2029 and be a much diminished man.

History does not punish leaders for being disliked. It punishes them for the gap between what they were given and what they returned. Modi has wasted 3 mandates.

The question won’t be whether he was strong. It will be what he did with all that “strength”. In a decade or two, he will be remembered as the worst ever PM who ruined the future of a generation of Indians.

[Paul Koshy @Paul_Koshy]

Dear India,

Listen to this young correspondent. He used to work under Prannoy Roy's @ndtv

Fascinating insights into adanification of NDTV-spills the beans on the godi channel playbook!

DEAR #ANDHBHAKT, this is a free consultancy for you to understand your psychriatic condition.

[HL Ramdoss @hlramdoss]

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[HL Ramdoss @hlramdoss]

@Anurag_Dwary This is so shameful. Ordinary citizens have truly become cockroaches….

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Before the advent of modern air conditioning, the Indian summer was not a season, it was an annual siege. As the mercury crossed a blistering 40 degrees & the tropical humidity transformed the air into a thick, suffocating blanket, a silent, excruciating tormentor would wake up on the skin of millions of citizens: prickly heat (ghamauchi). Standard cosmetic powders of the era were useless; they clogged pores, trapped sweat, & turned into a pasty, burning mess.

But right as the agony peaked, a tall, heavy metal canister bearing an iconic, enigmatic logo would be retrieved from the medicine cabinet like an elite battlefield savior. Popped open, it unleashed an icy, sharply medicinal shockwave that felt like a localized monsoon on raw skin. It didn't just soothe an irritation; it was the definitive sensory blueprint of survival for three generations.

To map the true DNA of Nycil, 1 must travel back to the mid-20th century & enter the high-stakes laboratory matrices of The British Drug Houses Ltd. (BDH). Registered in India around 1951, BDH was not a beauty/cosmetic brand; it was an elite chemical & pharmaceutical titan specializing in pure reagents, lab chemicals, & advanced medical formulations.

When BDH's scientists looked at the Indian subcontinent, they identified a devastating, recurring public health crisis that Western vanity brands completely ignored. The grueling combination of intense heat & inescapable humidity caused sweat glands to rupture beneath the skin, causing widespread fungal & bacterial infections (Staphylococcus aureus).

The empire’s standard luxury talcs were failing. BDH realized that the common man did not need a perfume, he needed an aggressive, skin-adhering antiseptic shield. The formulation of Nycil was a stroke of absolute chemical engineering that treated a powder like an active pharmaceutical drug.

BDH’s masterstroke was introducing a specialized, powerful antiseptic & antifungal agent known as Chlorphenesin IP (maintained at a precise 1% concentration). This chemical did not just mask the skin; it actively hunted down & neutralized the microbes thriving in damp, occluded sweat ducts.

Moving away from the ultra-silky, fine texture of cosmetic powders, Nycil was purposely blended with a heavy, therapeutic base of Zinc Oxide IP & purified Starch IP. The starch gave the powder a uniquely coarse, slightly rough texture. This was an intentional backend design: the larger grains ensured the powder would not dissolve into a slimy paste when hit with heavy sweat, allowing it to adhere stubbornly to inflamed lesions for hrs.

The emblem printed on the classic Nycil tin was deliberately clinical & pharmaceutical in tone. Instead of the soft floral motifs & glamorous faces common in regular talcum powders of that era, Nycil featured a clean, medical-style design, often centered around a prominent red cross/shield-like medical symbol combined with the bold Nycil typography. This was an unconventional and powerful branding decision. In a market full of beauty-oriented powders, Nycil proudly positioned itself as a serious, doctor-trusted medicated solution rather than a cosmetic product.

In the 1960s, 70s, & 80s (long before the brand was inherited by Glaxo & later Heinz), Nycil achieved absolute cultural saturation. It was the undisputed ruler of the Indian bathroom shelf during the dreaded Dog Days of May.

It is a time-machine built out of pure scent. The sharp, clean, intensely clinical, & cooling aroma of Nycil that instantly filled an entire room the moment the container was handled.

It brings back the vivid, collective memory of coming inside after a grueling day at school/playing in the dusty neighborhood lanes. We would strip off your sweat-soaked uniform, take a cold bath, & stand frozen as our mother generously dusted the heavy white powder across our back & neck.

The ultimate peak of nostalgia was the exact second we stepped out of the bathroom & sat directly beneath an old, 3 bladed ceiling fan spinning at maximum speed. As the rushing air hit the starch & chlorphenesin barrier, a sudden, icy, mind-numbing chill would travel down our spine, instantly erasing the fiery itch of summer.

As India entered the late 1990s & 2000s, the consumer goods landscape exploded. Heavily funded multinational competitors launched flashy alternatives like DermiCool, weaponizing television commercials that promised “Thanda Thanda Cool Cool” instant iciness through heavy doses of synthetic menthol.

While others pivoted to cheap gimmicks, Nycil backed by its rigorous pharmaceutical legacy maintained its position as the high-market-share clinical leader. It became the subject of legendary legal battles all the way up to the Supreme Court of India, with corporations & tax authorities fiercely debating whether it was a cosmetic or a life-saving drug.

Today, even in an era dominated by split air-conditioners & advanced synthetic dermatological gels, that iconic cylinder remains an unshakable fixture of the Indian summer.

The modern world is full of lavender-scented aerosol sprays & designer sunblocks that promise effortless protection, but they carry no history. Nycil remains the ultimate ghost of our childhood heatwaves, a heavy metal tin forged by mid-century pharmaceutical scientists to stand between the human skin & a punishing tropical sun. It sits on our memory shelves like a quiet, timeless vanguard, reminding us of an era when relief was not found at the press of a remote button, but was shaken out of a white canister bearing a canvas stretcher, proving that the most comforting shields of our youth were those that did not pamper our vanity, but bravely bore the scars of our survival.

[HL Ramdoss @hlramdoss]

So what I understand is that we had the capacity to store oil. When oil was at 60 why didn’t we buy it using the money we collected as taxes making people buy petrol at 100 and store it?

[Oc updates @ocjain4]

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