The heat has been brutal this past week. Temperatures hit 45° in Nagpur, 44° in Ahmedabad, 43° in Prayagraj, 42° in Delhi. Even Bengaluru hit 37°. And we're still in April 😬
A big contributing factor behind rising temperatures is the loss of forest cover, and India has lost a lot of it. Back in 2020, we met the team behind Farmers for Forests (F4F). Their idea was to do agroforestry at scale. The challenge is that farmers can't afford to wait years for trees to pay off, and most tree-planting projects don't survive the first monsoon. The idea was ambitious, and we at @RainmatterOrg backed them early.
Most tree-planting in India is monoculture, just rows of one species. But a plantation isn't a forest. F4F plants multi-layer agroforests with fruit, timber, shrubs, intercrops, and native species, trying to mimic what an actual forest does.
Six years later, they've gone from 50 acres to 5,000 acres and have just secured funding to reach 40,000 over the next three years. Compared to traditional crop farming, per acre, they're seeing ~4x carbon sequestration, ~3x farmer income, and meaningful improvement in biodiversity and soil health. Still early days, but promising.
Those numbers needed to be verifiable. So F4F built TreeLens, an open-source tree-tracking system that uses drone imagery to measure carbon sequestration, tree height, and biodiversity across thousands of small farms. 15 other organisations now use it.
The hardest problem in agroforestry is time. Fruit trees take 5 to 7 years to pay off, and most small farmers simply can't wait that long. So F4F is now working with the government and the larger ecosystem to design financial instruments like carbon bonds and first-loss guarantees that protect farmers while the trees grow.
Really glad we backed Arti, Aditya, and Krutika early.
ICAI must reconsider the implementation of measures that comprise student expertise in the name of modernization. We are witnessing a decline in the employability of Chartered Accountants within the manufacturing and corporate sectors, primarily due to the dilution of core subjects like **Costing** and **Law**.
A Chartered Accountant’s brand is built on **expert knowledge**. By reducing the depth of these fundamental subjects, we risk producing "Incomplete CAs." It is impossible to lead a manufacturing unit without a mastery of Costing, just as one cannot navigate a boardroom effectively without a profound understanding of Law.
I have full confidence in the new leadership of @theicai to recognize and address this gap. We need a curriculum that produces "Complete CAs" who are industry-ready from Day 1. Let us prioritize professional depth and technical excellence over simplified shortcuts.
कुछ दिन पहले @thecaravanindia ने नितिन गडकरी पर एक रिपोर्ट छापी। रिपोर्ट नितिन गडकरी और बीफ के कारोबार से संबंधित थी।
इस रिपोर्ट के आधार पर मैंने एक वीडियो किया। उस वीडियो के लिए मुझे 50Cr की मानहानि का नोटिस दिया गया और मुझपर नागपुर में एक FIR करवाई गई है।
दो दिन हो गए नागपुर में थाने के चक्कर काट रहा हूँ। एक फ़ोन जफ़्त कर लिया गया है दूसरा फ़ोन जिससे मैं वीडियो शूट करता उसे लाकर सबमिट करवाना है।
So where is freedom of speech?
It’s resting in the peace.
The best traders I know are EMOTIONALLY DEAD inside about their trades.. 🤐
It took me years of winning and losing my own money to finally understand why.
When I left a stable job after my MBA to trade full-time, it was terrifying. There was no salary at the end of the month. Every tick in the market felt personal. A winning trade made me feel like I’d cracked the code. A losing trade made me question if I’d made the biggest mistake of my life.
Those emotional swings aren’t rare — they’re the default, when you are actively involved in the markets. Most traders live at the mercy of them.
But markets have a funny way of teaching you humility. After enough cycles of profit and loss, excitement and fear, you realise something profound — your trades aren’t you.
They’re just trades. You have complete control over them, and they definitely do not define you or your capabilities.
Data points. Probabilities. Decisions under uncertainty. With time, the highs don’t thrill you, and the lows don’t crush you. You learn to show up, follow your system, and let outcomes take care of themselves.
The calm you build in the market starts spilling into life too. You stop reacting. You start observing. And that detachment becomes your edge — in trading, and in everything else.
Because the best traders aren’t the loudest, or the most confident. They’re the ones who can stay grounded while the world around them is swinging between greed and fear.
I trade, I invest, I mentor. The hats may keep changing, but what never changes is staying calm when everything screams otherwise.
Be turtle, not the rabbit, unaffected by what the outside world has to say about you or your work in your journey. They may look like they're winning the race, but most often, they're not (the stats say it). Be emotionally numb and just keep walking, that's how you win the race here in the stock markets 🐢
Today, I along with my advocate Siddhartha K Garg went to the respected Supreme court of India for the hearing of my petition.
Case: Legality of STT as a Tax in Stock Trading/investing.
It was presented in front of the Honorable Judges Pardiwala and Vishwanath who heard the case points at length.
Case has been admitted with notice issued to the government .🙏
The #IncomeTax portal is once again non-responsive and riddled with glitches.
This is causing a major crisis for taxpayers as the deadline for Advance Tax payment is tomorrow, and nearly 1.5 crore returns for FY 2024-25 are still pending. The site is failing to handle the load, preventing payments and filings.
The portal's failure to function properly is causing immense stress and potential penalties for millions of compliant citizens. We need an immediate and effective solution.
Please acknowledge the technical issues and extend the due dates for both Advance Tax and ITR filings to prevent unnecessary chaos. #IncomeTaxIndia #incometaxportal #incometaxfiling #CBDT #FinanceMinistry
303 seats - No Tax Slab Change
240 seats - All Tax Slabs Changed
303 seats - No GST slab change
240 seats - All GST slabs changed
A minority government makes the people powerful!!
क्या यह नितिन गडकरी के बेटे की कंपनी है? जी हाँ। इसे निखिल गडकरी चलाते हैं। इथेनॉल बनाती है। पाँच साल में 22-गुणा बढ़ी है। दूसरे बेटे सारंग, मानस एग्रो चलाते हैं, वो अनलिस्टेड है, इथेनॉल बनाती है। मानस का रेवेन्यू 2021 में ₹5990 करोड़ था, जो 2024 में ₹9591 करोड़ हो गया।
@nitin_gadkari का इथेनॉल ब्लेंडिंग से कोई संबंध नहीं होना चाहिए क्योंकि वह @HardeepSPuri का मंत्रालय है। टार्गेट भी 2030 का था 20% ब्लेंडिंग का, फिर गडकरी यह कह कर क्यों नाचते रहते हैं कि 2025 में ही पूरा हो गया?
@narendramodi जी, क्या यह ‘खाने दूँगा’ के अंतर्गत नहीं आता? क्या यह स्पष्ट रूप से ‘कॉन्फ्लिक्ट ऑफ इंटरेस्ट’ नहीं है? किसी की कंपनी आगे बढ़े, कोई समस्या नहीं, परंतु जबरन हर गाड़ी में, बिना शोध के, अपनी कंपनियों के लाभ के लिए, करोड़ों लोगों की पॉकेटमारी कैसे हो रही है?
इस पर वृहद जाँच होनी चाहिए।
@dhanesh500 When total ITR filed is around 6-7 cr...1 cr from jio is around 15% market share which takes approx 3-5 yrs..nd I think people who are going to file their ITRs in ₹24 don't have money & don't care for Privacy Issue
एक अकेला राहुल गाँधी और सामने सैकड़ों की संख्या में पत्रकार, राहुल गाँधी के न कोई अगल बगल और न ही कोई आगे पीछे जो उन्हें कुछ बताए,
फुली डिजिटल इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर के साथ अपनी बात पूरे सबूतों के साथ रखी,
जिस भी पत्रकार ने जैसा भी सवाल किया उसका शानदार जवाब दिया, किसी ने इंग्लिश में सवाल किया तो उसका जवाब इंग्लिश में दिया और
जब किसी ने सवाल हिन्दी में किया तो उसका जवाब हिन्दी में दिया।
मात्र एक प्रेस कांफ्रेंस से पूरे देश के सामने सच रख दिया, चुनाव आयोग की पोल खोल दी।
इस ब्रिलियंट और टैलेंटेड नेता को इस देश की दो कौड़ी की मीडिया ने कभी पप्पू बना दिया था।