Existential Toast

here for crumbs and confusion

[Tarun Mehta @tarunsmehta]

One of my board members had once reminded me - the Japanese don't just export bullet trains. They export all the standards that come with that. You will have to use the Steel that they would have approved. You will have to use the glass to seal the windows that they would have figured out. You will have to use the fasteners that they would have perfected.

And who will be best placed to build all these standardized items? Lo and behold, local suppliers from Japan. This is not evil, this is just sensible. The people who invented something, the people who perfected it, are obviously going to be the best placed to build it. Hence, standards.

Today, for the first time in our lives, there are things where India genuinely is becoming world-class at. Look at our industry, electric 2Ws. Look at payments. Maybe even drones and other new technologies soon enough.

For a change, we need to learn the confidence to write standards. To help everybody else figure out how to build something like this fast and, in the process, become the leading center for these technologies globally.

@aravind @Fintech03 @amitabhk87 @dilipasbe

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@unseenvalue @ishmohit1 Or as we like to say it these days - Nazar aur sabr!

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@AshwiniBhide @mybmc High time that we have a desalination plant for Mumbai. We cannot be left to the vagaries of monsoon! Just like we are diversifying our sources of crude oil as a nation, let's diversify our sources of water as a city!

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@ActusDei To reform policies and attract FDIs and push our exporters to take charge and get out there. That's the only sustainable way to tackle this!

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@ActusDei Neil, a falling rupee will hit the importers, yes. But RBI can only give a glide path downwards.. And lose reserves doing so. It can do precious little to arrest the momentum and even less to change the trajectory.

I think we should all be demanding and urging our policy makers

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@deepakshenoy Finally a sensible view in the markets.. Happened to have a conversation with a few analysts day before - they were so despondent and bearish India. Markets really do swing between fear and greed no matter what!

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@ActusDei 4/5.. Good fun..

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@piyush_trades I admire how eloquently you've side stepped the actual root cause and pushed your agenda driven slop.

While it's entirely possible that it's feigned ignorance, I have a feeling that it's genuine.

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To your point @riteshmjn

Source: @bsindia 14-May-26

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Token sounds so much like a young Eminem!

[serish @serish]

Aadhaar is Schrödinger's card: If you have it, it is utterly useless. If you don't have it, all hell breaks loose.

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@Ashneer_Grover We should START a crowd funding campaign to send Ashneer to the US permanently. Please rid us of your excellence sir ji! #MAGA #MoveAshneerGrovertoAmerica

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Why is everyone suddenly referring to Middle East as West Asia? War suddenly reminds people to decolonize thought processes?

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@ActusDei @thefynprint

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@BeatriceMosello @bhargabi_b Under-researched and irresponsible. The path to de-escalation is obvious - one side is choosing to ignore it.
Trust isn’t demanded from the aggrieved; it’s rebuilt by those who broke it. Blood and water can't flow together.

[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

Water cooperation is not only mutually beneficial for India and Pakistan, but essential. Restoring the Indus Waters Treaty could be a powerful foundation for rebuilding trust.

Read the latest analysis on the Indus Waters Treaty by Dr Beatrice Mosello and Bhargabi Bharadwaj from Chatham House's Environment and Society Centre ⤵️

https://t.co/7nfOX67Q6Z

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@mybmc @Dev_Fadnavis @AshwiniBhide @gambhir_sheetal
Hawkers, chaiwalas, bhaji markets, dog shit, car/bike parking, charsi, storage for cut trees, cement, sewage/garbage. Our footpaths are used for everything but pedestrian walking.
Urge y'all to Make Mumbai Walkable Again.
#mmwa

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@_soniashenoy @ravidharamshi77 @VQIndia Tangential point, but why has everyone suddenly agreed to call it "West Asia crisis"? It is the US-Iran war!

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Loyal customers should not be penalized for issues triggered by official software updates.

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@SamsungIndia @SamsungMobile @SamsungNewsIN @jagograhakjago My #S22Ultra developed a green/white horizontal line immediately after a Samsung system update. The issue disappears when switching from 120Hz to 60Hz or enabling power saving - a known workaround reported by many users.

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This is not just about policy - it’s about fairness, goodwill, and consumer rights. Hiding behind phone age after pushing updates that impair hardware sets a worrying precedent.