Aravind Srinivas (CEO of Perplexity) describes the Indian dream.
"For my mom, just getting a job was success. All we wanted was to get a job at Google. Being an engineer at Google was considered a win."
"I'm already doing remarkably well compared to the ambition we had as a family. So there's really nothing for me to lose."
"Anytime I try to act like I'm trying to avoid failure and being on the defense, I remind myself that's the stupidest thing to do. Go all in and try your best, be on the offense all the time, attack, attack, attack."
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American Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in a major speech, spells out what we in India would call their own "Swadeshi economic policy".
The first principle he states: "The first is that economic security begins with national capacity… The nation that depends on its adversaries for critical inputs is not truly sovereign. And the nation that reduces its economics to consumption is not truly prosperous."
Powerful words. I agree with him and India must resolutely apply the same principles. East Asian nations are all strongly Swadeshi too.
I am proud to be closely associated with the Swadeshi Jagran Manch, and SJM has long advocated similar principles, for over 3 decades now.
The figures are mind boggling. What would they do with so much of loot? If even 10% of this is true that party must be kept away from power for at least a decade.
100 km of the Bengaluru–Chennai Expressway is now open to traffic.
With the commissioning of the 25km Bethamangala–Baireddypalle stretch in Andhra Pradesh, motorists can now drive nearly 100 km of uninterrupted, access-controlled expressway from Hoskote to Baireddypalle.
The new stretch also improves connectivity beyond the expressway. At Chittoor, travellers can seamlessly access the Chittoor–Thatchur Expressway, which has been fully drivable from Chittoor to Uthukottai since May 1, 2026. From Uthukottai, the Chennai Outer Ring Road provides a fast bypass into the Chennai metropolitan region.
In Andhra, while work on Bangarupalem to Gudipala is complete, Baireddypalle-Bangarupalem stretch is still not complete.
Full expressway, including the Tamil Nadu leg, targeted for completion by December 2026 (doubtful?)
In every five-year term, disappointment with the BJP government usually kicks in after the first two years. Criticism of Modi, his ministers, and their policies grows louder.
The BJP is a political party run by ordinary people. Modi may be different, but many below him are in it for power and position. The same goes for the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple Trust. The people running it weren’t chosen by God. They were picked by influential humans.
Faith and devotion should be the top requirement for such roles. But when jobs go to relatives and friends instead, problems are bound to appear. Things go wrong, and then they get corrected.
So calm down. There are still three years left to fix the damage, starting with cleaning up the temple’s finances and a cabinet reshuffle. A lot can still change.
The last person you should expect to fix India is a 56-year-old who always seems to be on holiday or running up the down escalator.
@MnshaP Having been on it many times - it was horrifying to see how many journos stole miniature bottle of booze - got drunk and wouldn’t care too much for the press briefing . Worse - I remember on a South Africa tour , some journos ripped off hotel phones , lamps etc ..
I checked many weather websites and local stations for Delhi today, the max temperature I found was 38. But India's adversaries influenced world media are showing the same temp as 44. My hunch says this is being done to hurt travel and business to India.
Brown Sepoy of the day is “Nirupama Subramanian”
She writes for Newslaundry and every article targets the same government and all the Kashmir pieces mirror Pakistan's narrative. Interestingly, every fact check reveals the same omissions. 🧵
"The Indian Space Research Organisation said"
If it was any other space organization then you know the headline would've been written very differently.
Her name is Ambika.
She grew up in a village in Tamil Nadu.
She was married when she was only fourteen years old to a man who worked as a police constable.
By the age of eighteen, she was the mother of two daughters, and her own education had ended long before.
One day, she accompanied her husband to a Republic Day parade.
She watched him salute a row of senior officers and asked him who they were.
He told her they were IPS officers, and that reaching that rank required clearing the Civil Services Examination, one of the toughest exams in the country.
That moment changed her life.
She told her husband that one day she wanted to become one of those officers.
The dream seemed impossible.
She had not even completed school.
So she began again from the beginning.
She finished Class 10, then Class 12, and later earned a college degree.
She moved to Chennai to prepare for the Civil Services Examination, while her husband stayed behind and looked after their two daughters.
Success did not come quickly.
She failed once.
Then she failed again.
Then a third time.
Her husband gently suggested that she return home.
She asked him for one last chance.
In 2008, on her fourth attempt, Ambika cleared the Civil Services Examination and became an IPS officer.
The girl who had been married at fourteen grew up to wear the same uniform her husband had once stood and saluted.
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