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[arnav @arnav_kumar]

Here is a bet.
90% of those dunking on TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Indian IT at large, have no understanding of the market cap, margins and number of people employed by IT biggies

They have zero understanding of what an India without an IT industry would look like.

They have zero understanding of what it takes to build a enduring business of this scale

All they have is misplaced confidence that they and their dad could build a better IT heavyweight, and run it much better.
🤦

[Amitabh Kant @amitabhk87]

Public transport must be at the heart of India's urban future. Yet it accounts for just 25% of urban trips, while congestion already costing our cities more than $22 billion a year.

What Mumbai has done in BKC with Friday Public Transport Day, every Indian city should aim to replicate. Designate a day. Engage employers, businesses and institutions. The default must shift from private vehicles to public transport.

It starts with one day and grows into a city's habit.

Gr8 initiative @MMRDAOfficial @DrSanMukherjee @WRIIndia

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 @St_Rev]

rockets used to grow in the forest and they were distributed evenly all over the world until Elon hoarded them out of spite

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[Bhavesh Mhatre @bhaveshmhatre_]

The difference was noticible today.
Usually takes me 25–30 mins to get from the station to my office via office shuttle, but today I reached in just 15 mins.
A lot of my colleagues use Metro because it saves so much time, and whenever I need to head into town, it's my go-to as well. Hassle-free and the best way to travel.
Less traffic, faster commute. Massive W for this initiative. Hope more people will follow this 🚇🚌👏

#bkcmovestogether
@MMRDAOfficial

[Srijan R Shetty @srijanshetty]

Rapido exists because the founders built a product that people love.

Everyday I see women using bike taxis and I’m amazed that this is possible in a low trust environment like ours.

Rapido has a section of bike riders rated by women just to build that trust out.

Rapido innovated on their business model.

Rapido added tips to ensure people can pay extra to get rides quicker.

In a rare feat both the captains and consumers are happy by the existence of Rapido.

Credit where credit is due. The team did extremely well.

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

Early Christians HATED ancient Roman And Greek cultures and did everything in their power to destroy them

Now that those cultures are dead and gone All Western Christians(the murderers of these cultures) are LARPing as Greeks and Romans themselves

They were hated because these cultures provided a legitimate alternative worldview to Exclusivist Christianity. Now that the threat is gone, they wear the bones of those cultures as ornaments

And this is why India was “loved” pre 2014 when it was nothing more than a harmless, aesthetic and fit perfectly into the “Slumdog millionaire“ stereotype

Today’s India, however, imperfect, is a legitimate rising power, and a clear threat to the notion that only western Christians Civilzation is fit to be powerful, developed and culturally influential

P.S. of course the original r*tarded tweet is from An Indian sounding person. India’s potential for greatness is matched only by India’s potential for
r*tardation

[Tarun Mehta @tarunsmehta]

I feel this might surprise people. India is not an outlier in population density as some might imagine looking at the headline number of 1.4 billion.

We are not necessarily too crowded as a country and we should not be pessimistic on that front. The real gap is that we haven't built enough infra yet to better support our population. It is building up and we should be super excited about how better things can be if we stay committed to building!

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Transcript from a recent episode of All in podcast, basically tech bros who are Trump fans. Make of it what you will.

"Strait of Hormuz being closed. While it's terrible for everyone, it is relatively the best for America because we are self-sufficient in energy. We are self-sufficient in food. We have become a massive exporter of oil. We're now the world's largest not only oil and gas producer but oil and gas exporter.

We're still the best currency. Still the best economy. We still have the best public markets and we have the best private market companies. Yeah. And we are one of the greatest producers of oil in the world. So we're in good shape despite this international chaos.

Strait of hormuz being closed is absolutely bad for everyone, but relatively good for America and relatively good for Trump's policy goals. And that's why I think he's in no hurry.

Every day the straight of is closed is relatively good for America. It's terrible for Europe. It is terrible for Asia. Japan and China need that oil. Philippines needs it, India needs it."

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Europeans came to India & China as humble supplicants till 1700. Following invasive colonisation, the humble European supplicants were now wealthy. Extractive colonialism fuelled the Industrial Revolution & created a prosperous Europe after centuries of plague & poverty. Racism & condescension towards those they had exploited rose among the supplicants-turned-masters. But the tide is turning. India & China are reclaiming, bit by bit, their historic civilisational pre-eminence. European journalists have a lot of catching up to do.

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.

May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?

Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?

In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?

The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.

It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.

Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.

Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?

India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Lord Krishna in the Bhagwad Gita: when adharma rises, a warrior has the duty to fight. Showing misplaced empathy to adharma itself becomes adharma.

Arjuna mistakes his emotional attachment and fear of consequences for righteousness. Krishna points out that Arjuna is a warrior/guardian of society and a warrior’s cosmic duty is to protect society from chaos and injustice.

​If Arjuna walks away, evil (adharma) wins by default. Society descends into lawlessness, and Arjuna becomes complicit in that ruin by failing to stop it. Krishna calls Arjuna's hesitation unmanly and dishonorable for a warrior.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Gold ($72 billion) & oil ($135 billion) add $207 billion to India’s import bill. Oil imports are a result of India’s decades-long failed oil domestic exploration policy.

Gold imports are a result of an age-old culture that needs to be moderated.

Indian households own an estimated 30,000 tonnes of gold — more than the gold held combined by the central banks of the US, Germany, France, Italy & Russia.

The total worth of Indian household gold is $5 trillion, more than India’s nominal GDP.
Even halving gold imports to $36 billion will halve our estimated CAD in 2026-27 from 2% to 1% of GDP.

[Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis]

🌁 The Mumbai–Pune Missing Link, yet another engineering marvel!

Just 3 days to go…
It will be dedicated to Maharashtra on 1st May, Maharashtra Day.

This project will reduce travel time between Mumbai and Pune by 25–30 minutes.

A series of outstanding infrastructure projects has become the identity of our Maharashtra.

#MissingLink #MumbaiPune

[Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1]

"Iran literally screams Death to America!"

If they did even a fraction of what we've done to them in the 20th century we would also be saying "Death to Iran"

A history lesson:

1951: Iran democratically elects Mohammad Mosaddegh, who wins overwhelmingly on his promise to nationalize Iranian oil that had been given away to the British before Iran formed as a modern country

1953: CIA and MI6 develop a plan to overthrow Mosaddegh and install a Western friendly puppet. The operation, dubbed Operation Ajax, was the first successful Color Revolution in intelligence history. They installed the Western-friendly Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah (dictator) of Iran

1954: The US drafts a Consortium Agreement guaranteeing 50% of Iran's oil profits to American-friendly corporations, for 25 years

1957: The CIA and Mossad train up a secret police in Iran called the SAVAK, who operated like a KGB who would round up dissidents and torture and kill them. Eventually thousands of Iranians would be killed this way

1960-1978: The Shah, at the US's request, would purchase as many arms as possible from American defense contractors - this is why they even have F-14's today. In the 70's alone they spent $120 billion in today's dollars. Their annual revenues were around $17-25 billion, this represented almost all of their spending causing massive shortages for social services

1979: On the tail of the Shah trying to liberalize Iran socially like what's happened to America, along with 25% inflation the Iranians rise up and overthrow the Shah and install hardliner religious fanatics who oppose America. America immediately placed sanctions on Iran, who was already struggling financially. These sanctions still exist today, nearly all of their revenue is black market oil sales

1980: Sensing weakness in their neighbor, Iraq invades Iran hoping to take them over. This war would last 8 years and would end in a stalemate, despite Iraq committing 1 million soldiers. The US armed Iraq with arms, funding and illegal chemical weapons

1988: The USS Vincennes, operating in Iran territorial waters on behalf of Iraq, shoots down Iran Air Flight 655, a passenger plane with 290 civilians, all killed. The US would later go on to hand out medals to the crew of the Vincennes. This would be one of the major reasons for a UN resolution finally ending the war

1988-present: The CIA and Mossad have attempted many Color Revolutions, at least 4 documented, the most recent being just before the current conflict. Iran quickly crushes these attempts, often leading to the deaths of civilians caught up in them

Yes, they hate us. Yes they kill our troops in the region. Yes they fund proxies that attack Israel

They have good cause to do so

[Divya Kumar Soti @DivyaSoti]

But the United States never allied with India in any India-Pakistan conflict. It always allied with Pakistan.

[Kunal Kapoor @kapoorkkunal]

“Beijing Chokes Under Thick Smog”
“China’s Cities Drowning in Trash”
“Corruption Scandals Rock Communist Party”
“China’s Rich Look Overseas”
“China’s Cities Struggle With Noise Pollution”

These were headlines from China around the $4-5T economy mark

This isn’t criticism, it’s actually perspective. Their incredible rise was not linear. It was turbulent and imperfect.

Yes, democracy makes hard decisions harder. And we definitely need stronger political intent.

But the counter to that is that the technology available today is far more powerful than it was 15 years ago.

AI, digital infrastructure, clean energy, and data at scale.

It’s messy right now, but i remain optimistic that a decade from now, many of today’s problems will be much improved.

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

Dhurandhar is undoubtedly hostile toward the ISI and its terrorist proxies such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed. But unless you believe that the military-jihadist complex represents the entire country it’s a stretch to call the movie anti-Pakistan.
Many of Dhurandhar’s characters, including Rahman Dakait and his gang members, are portrayed either sympathetically or as morally complex with both good and bad sides. Uzair Baloch, for instance, comes across as a straight up guy: an honest and loyal second-in-command. Donga displays insane levels of loyalty and bravery. These are sympathetic portrayals. Jameel Jamali, the politician, is obviously a snake, but even he is not portrayed as evil. He’s simply a hustler playing to win the inherently dirty game of Karachi politics. Ordinary Pakistanis—a romancing couple at a juice shop, a mother on a bus playing with her young boy, the rich who attend fancy parties, and the poor who jostle for food handouts during Eid—are not demonized at all.
So, yes, if you believe Pakistan is synonymous with the ISI- jihadist complex that wields disproportionate power in the country, then Dhurandhar is an anti-Pakistan movie. But if you see Pakistan as synonymous with its people, who, like people everywhere, come in all shades, then it’s not an anti-Pakistan movie at all.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

When a dictator says “all power belongs to the people,” what he means is all power belongs to the state, and the state belongs to him.

If power actually belonged to the people, they wouldn’t need:
one party
no free elections
no free press
no independent courts
no right to organize against the regime
no right to leave
no right to criticize the leader without prison

“People’s democracy” is just linguistic laundering.

It’s the same trick every collectivist regime uses: rename obedience as participation and coercion as consent.

In reality, power that cannot be withdrawn by the individual is not the people’s power.
It’s power exercised over them.

Socialism always talks like freedom while governing like a prison.