Vijay

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

Neil is a scientist, if he saw,evidence of God he would accept it

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

Being the most intellectually under-equipped person in a three-person photo that includes Donald Trump is no small feat.

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@fusion89211 Indian people are some of the smartest, kindest people I know. The Indian government on the other hand...

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.

Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.

Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."

1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.

2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.

3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.

4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.

India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[osama @0ba0sama]

Wall-E came out in 2008 and y’all still littering

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

Supreme justice of India. Two news, one after the other.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Uneducated voters are more dangerous than illegal immigrants.

[Vijay @mateyvj]

@sumanthraman @Isriramseshadri Basically, what Sumanth is crying about: ‘We’ve paid them, right? They should only work for us, Sanghis.’

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I've never sen anything more accurate

[𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓮 @moonloverzx]

The other day I was thinking about how 2000s & 2010s urban india was so much more modern, progessive & urbane compared to today's india. In the age of internet with this level of connectivity, we should have become more progeessive but we've totally gone in the reverse direction.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Religion.
Has killed more humans than all infections combined. Infections have vaccines though. A vaccine for religion is rationalism and humanism, which seems to be rare these days and awaiting rediscovery.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Aditya Sinha @autumnshade]

Modi is a failure. His supporters are sheep. His cabinet is filled with donkeys. His journalists are stenographers. His intellectuals are baboons.
India needs to hit the reset button.

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it."
Spoken like a true rapist.

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

Being politically informed will ruin your day

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

Harsha Bhogle said

"I am not excited about the #INDvsPAK match anymore coz it has become a tool for politics. The game is now filled with provocative statements & war like gestures,that's not cricket"

Finally someone with a spine has spoken

THE GOVT INTERFERENCE HAS RUINED IT

[Prashant Kanojia @KanojiaPJ]

Mark my words.

If BJP slaps them with shoes on their face 10 times in a day, still they will vote for the BJP.

Millions of people died in COVID due to BJP’s mismanagement. Even those whose family members died because of this mismanagement still went and voted for the BJP.

They vote not for governance or accountability, but due to anti-Muslim hatred and to maintain caste supremacy and hegemony.

[aree_shuklajii @th_anonymouse]

You can’t be a good person and a BJP supporter at the same time.
Period.