Harsh Vardhan Bhandari

Proud father, Avid reader, love sports and watching movies........ and numbers guy. love working with young companies and investing money and time:-)

[Vijay Thirumalai @vijaythirumalai]

Excellent take by @paraschopra

This is what I had suggested earlier too & you should have see the mental breakdown of pseudo free market dimwits

[Harsh Vardhan Bhandari @hrsbhandari]

@Cryptified_Soul It was already a $ Bn company. With yesterday’s success it must have increased few folds.

[Prafull Billore @_prafullbillore]

IIT Delhi received ₹75 Cr from one alum.

His total commitment: ₹150 Cr.
Batch of 2000 donated another ₹70 Cr.

This isn’t charity.

This is what happens when the first generation of Indian wealth creators starts aging into legacy mode.

American universities built endowments over 150 years.

India might do it in 15.

The wealth is here. The pride is here. The institutions are ready.

Endowment era just started.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

That Andy Flower should turn down an England job to stay with a franchise, given timelines could clash, tells you about his commitment and clear thinking. Just as much, it tells you about the growing influence of franchise cricket that the best coach going takes a decision like this one.

[Harsh Vardhan Bhandari @hrsbhandari]

People who keep their keypad tone ON for typing deserve standing ovations. 😠

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Lot of desis don’t like driving when they visit India. I have made it a point to drive instead of hiring a taxi or a driver. I have driven a few thousand KMs during this trip. Traffic sense is the worst it has ever been. The amount of blatant lawlessness, brinkmanship and utter disregard for one’s own life is mind numbing. Every other biker is scrolling on their smartphones while riding. If we enforce laws, there will probably be 10,000 fines in a 100KM stretch. I have no hope. If we can’t punish wrong-side driving, then nothing else can be punished. Enforcement, which is the first step in improving road safety is totally dead. I don’t know how we can come out of this.

[Saran Shanmugam @saranstm]

I had taken a friend to Hampi. We had both flown from the US that week - he was in India on a work trip and had never visited the country before, while I was home to see family and friends.

At the Royal Enclosure in Hampi, a street-side vendor was selling Goli soda (pic) and sherbet. I bought a goli soda and was enjoying it when a bus, the one in the picture, pulled up. Two students from the bus walked over to us, curious about my friend, who is caucasian.

I offered them each a glass of sherbet.

Within moments, the rest of the students - about 20 at first - came over. I asked the vendor to serve every child a glass of sherbet. Then more students kept arriving.

Seeing the growing crowd and us waiting, the vendor smiled and said, "Just pay for 20. I'll take care of the rest."

I insisted on paying for 40, even though there were probably only around 30 students by then. He politely refused and repeated, "Just pay for 20."

On our way back, my friend turned to me and said, "The people here are genuinely kind."

Some people make the world a little better simply by being themselves.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

When India made its very 1st appearance at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik, Iceland, back in 1998, the contingent came home with just 1 silver medal, 1 bronze & 3 honorable mentions.

We were a mid-tier nation trying to figure out the brutal standards of international science competitions. Fast forward to 2026 in Bucaramanga, Colombia, we pulled off a flawless 100% Gold clean sweep.

Over the last 10 yrs, the training rigor has become so absolute that every single Indian student sent to the IPhO has returned with either Gold/Silver.

To understand the sheer magnitude of what these 5 teenagers conquered, look at what they were actually tested on this yr. The 5 hr theoretical examination forced them to mathematically solve the photoionization of ozone, the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling & the hyper-complex physics of "caustics & cusps": the intricate, curved patterns light forms when reflecting inside a standard coffee cup.

Several of these Indian students came within a fraction of a point of achieving a perfect theoretical score against the absolute sharpest minds from 87 nations.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

It was the middle of the night, at about 1.30am, when Norway lost to England.

Yet thousands of Norwegians went to the Palace in Oslo and celebrated with one final Viking row.

They did not riot. They did not burn cars. They did not smash bus stops or glass windows of shops.

They smiled. The laughed. They saw the positive in their performance. They celebrated their heritage. They were proud of who they have been in the past and who they are today.

Norway might be out of the World Cup 2026 but they are in our hearts.

In the last three weeks, I think we have all fallen a little bit in love with Norwegians.

[Nitin Gandmari @NitinGandmari]

@ANI Your "dada" wasn't competent enough to fix the waterlogging problems your "dada" wasn't competent enough to make the government hospital worthy of treating critical cases but your "dada" was competent enough to slap a doctor on duty!! Waah dada waah!!

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

It's a shame no major film has been made about Biju Patnaik. He lived a life that sounds almost fictional:

In 1938, he flew his entire wedding procession by aircraft to Rawalpindi for his marriage to Gyanwati Sethi (who became the first Indian woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license, and the couple later flew daring missions together.)

While serving in the Royal Indian Air Force (including as head of Air Transport Command), he secretly ferried freedom fighters like Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and Aruna Asaf Ali to their hideouts. He also airdropped 'Quit India' leaflets to Indian troops while evacuating British families.

The British once jailed him for transporting nationalist leaders and distributing anti-British literature but also honored him for bravery in evacuating civilians from Japanese-occupied Burma.

During WWII, he flew daring missions delivering arms and supplies to Soviet forces in Stalingrad, and over the treacherous 'Hump' route to China in
support of Chinese Nationalist forces against the Japanese.

In July 1947, he and his wife flew a Dakota into Indonesia, landed on an improvised airstrip while evading Dutch anti-aircraft fire, rescued Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir, refuelled using abandoned Japanese fuel, and flew him safely to India via Singapore.

A couple of months later, during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir, he airlifted one of the first Indian troops into Srinagar.

The same year he founded Kalinga Airlines, one of India's earliest private airlines.

As Odisha CM post-1962 India-China war, he secretly visited CIA headquarters at Langley to forge a covert India-US partnership against China, which led to the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia, which supported U-2 recon missions over Tibet.

He was also a legendary administrator and statesman, laying much of the foundation of Odisha's industrial empire (mines, ports, heavy industries etc).

When he passed away, Indonesia observed 7 days of state mourning. Russia observed 1 day. He remains the only person in Indian history whose body was draped in the national flags of 3 nations - India, Indonesia, and Russia.

Few public figures have left such a footprint.

His extraordinary life needs to be brought to the big screen.

[Siddharth Bhimani. @wittysiddharth]

So Apple Store is currently having an Offer with Credit Cards. I called them and asked and they said they will give Instant 4000Rs discount.
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I told them that i want a GST invoice in my company's name as i am the business owner, so they said
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"You cant club 2 offers together as per Apple Policy:
How is asking a GST invoice on my company's name an OFFER?

[Harsh Vardhan Bhandari @hrsbhandari]

@Portfolio_Bull 100 of such people if somone wants to catch them

[Anupam Gupta @b50]

All the forecasts, all the alerts were all given in advance and this was predicted correctly, by all the weather accounts on Twitter as well as by BMC. The school holiday today was also announced in time. Credit where it's due. #MumbaiRains

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

Hannah Ellis Petersen knows someone very influential in the MEA for being able to publish this type of “catchy ” headlines.

If she pulled this stunt in USA, a very significant defamation suit would have landed to the Guardian doors and they would have kicked Hannah like a fly out of a milk to settle the lawsuit.

[Maj Gen (Dr)GD Bakshi SM,VSM(retd) @GeneralBakshi]

There are some diehard Trump fans in this country who thought India could still kiss and make up with America even after all that it did to us. We had invested 1 bn $ for a 100 Tejas GE -404 engines. After 4 years we got just 2.instead of cancelling the order all together we placed orders for 200 more such engines! Now we got the ultimate shock when USA killed the Plans for AMCA. Like ninnies we had designed this aircraft around the hopes of getting the GE414 engines. To KILL this program US just raised the price of this engine from Rs 70 crores each to Rs 200 Crores each. Its clear as daylight US does not want India to have its own Vth Gen Stealth fighters. It will Throw a fit if we buy and produce the SU-57 Russian stealth fighter in India or buy Russian or Iranian oil. It is time to tell the US to go to blazes. A number of countries in the world are coming to this sober conclusion ( including Europe, Canada and Japan). Its time for India to show some SPINE

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

When FIFA suspends Nepal, India or an African country's football federation over "government interference", it is supposed to be a verdict and commentary on the third world institutions in place in these countries.

But when the US President calls the FIFA head to overturn a red card in the middle of a World Cup, and then celebrates the said call and decision on social media, it is to "save the game" and reverse the "injustice".

It is not hypocrisy. It is hierarchy.

[Makarand Waingankar @wmakarand]

When one of the oldest Test cricketers of India 88 yr old Farokh Engineer was in the pavilion Indian team asked 23 yr old Tilak Verma to handover the Indian cap to youngest debutant Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. It was disrespectful of the tradional and emotional event. It was a mockery

[Karan Rajpal @IronyMeter]

After having wrecked the quality and weight of the Mach 3 Razor, Gillette has now managed to even worsen the quality of cartridges themselves.

This company has the country's, or even the world's, highest paying population locked in for the last 15 years, and yet their MBAs want to take money out of manufacturing a good product.

They deserve to lose the crown their predecessors earned for them.