Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳

Kick ass.. have fun.. live a little

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@MohitMGulati @MumbaiPolice ohh the entitlement.. nothing wrong here. pls find another cause. Save the penguins is a good cause.

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@MeghUpdates we are not ready for democracy.

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

simple straight and to the point.. pls ans @Lenskart_com

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@ShefVaidya @MahuaMoitra @ShashiTharoor @sagarikaghose @Lenskart_com absolutely pathetic .. blocking solves nothing.

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@Lenskart_com @peyushbansal

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@TodayinHistory https://t.co/oOLHm3V1tg
Not to take away from its magnificence.. the castle you see today was restored in late 1800.

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@PahlaviReza this was the family of corrupt kings ..

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@TMT_arabic they are crying foul now? cowards..

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@Microinteracti1 i am glad i came across your post.. when i read the "good" tweet today morning i was dumbfounded.. i don't live in America but have close connections. The stake of hate dove deep into the heart of anything decent still left.

[Srinivas Krishnan @SriniKay]

What a front page by @mid_day Awesome! We need the crooks in the Govt and BMC enjoying benefits flowing from these fine gentlemen to also be paraded in this rogue's gallery.
@zoru75

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India you created panic for so many honest tax payers.. what are the penalties you will incur for this? who is getting fired?

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@thepassionateca @nsitharaman @nsitharamanoffc @IncomeTaxIndia i got the exact same email with same numbers. i don't even have a GST number. 🤯

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@SpencerHakimian that's so..

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

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[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@grok @adwaitdash @KreatelyMedia @grok this is fake.. no such person exists. its AI generated

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

The most embarrassing part of the WaPo layoffs isn't that journalists lost their jobs. It's that they still believe they mattered. Lol.

Let's be clear: this wasn't a funding problem. Jeff Bezos isn't short on cash. If he wanted to subsidise indefinitely as a vanity project, he could. The layoffs happened for one simple reason -- the market decided these people are worthless.

Not controversial. Not ideological. Just economics.

The product under-performed. Readers don't care. Subscriptions didn't justify the payroll. And when an organisation is bloated, ideologically rigid, and increasingly disconnected from reality, the only rational solution is to cut fat. One-third of it apparently.

That's the part these farewell threads avoid confronting.

For years, western correspondents in India confused moral grandstanding with journalism. They believed their role wasn't to report India, but to lecture it from a pedestal built on outdated colonial assumptions and a nauseating superiority complex. They never served the readers...simply serviced their own sense of righteousness.

The market saw through it globally. That these foreign bureaus are "vacation postings". Sit in elite clubs, speak to a few dozen diplomats and think tanks...and keep recycling the same things over and over again. You can even "generate" beautiful stories...ask Rukmini Callimachi.

In Indian context, their favourite delusion is still Narendra Modi. Modi isn't a dictator clinging to power -- he keeps winning elections. Repeatedly. Decisively. That single fact collapses the entire narrative, so it is ignored. Instead, democracy is declared "under threat" every time Indian voters reject elite-approved outcomes. Apparently, democracy only works when it produces governments western newsrooms prefer.

Covid coverage sealed their irrelevance. India's second wave was brutal, but instead of proportion, context, or nuances, readers were fed relentless imagery of Hindu funeral pyres, curated for maximum shock value. This wasn't reporting. It was panic production. Readers don't pay for civilisational death porn masquerading as news. They switch off.

Kashmir? Misreported with utmost laziness. Terrorism softened, Pakistan backgrounded, Indian sovereignty framed as a disease. Delhi riots flattened into one-sided morality tales. Farmer protests romanticised while economic illiteracy and political capture conveniently ignored. CAA-NRC sold as genocide fan fiction. Every issue filtered through the same sneering lens: India bad, state evil, society dangerous.

Here's the uncomfortable truth they refuse to acknowledge: this framing doesn't sell anymore. Not in India. Not globally. Readers aren't stupid. They can smell ideological assembly lines. When every story sounds the same, outrage fatigue sets in.

That's what really happened here. Not censorship. Not fascism. Not silencing. Market correction.

The hypocrisy is almost comic. These journalists love lecturing India about moral failure while the West is still unearthing the Epstein files -- decades of institutional rot, elite protection, and media complicity in shielding a predator network. Maybe introspection should precede instruction.

The real reason India Inc's growth story irritates them is personal. It breaks the hierarchy and monotony. A country they were trained to view as permanently broken is growing, voting, building, and asserting itself without seeking western approval. That makes their role redundant. Nothing angers an auditor more than being ignored.

Journalism that mistakes ideology for insight, and superiority for substance, doesn't deserve infinite subsidy even from a billionaire.

The market spoke.
The product failed.
And the pedestal finally collapsed.

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@BahlKanan they are acting worse than the local gundas ..

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@MarriottBonvoy @MarriottIntl dont you think this is getting a little ridiculous? Checkin time is now 4pm ? and check out is 11 am.. this is plain #robbery. We need to stop this utterly #dishonest practice. from 24 hrs it now gone to 19 hrs..
#marriott #travel

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@IndiGo6E

[Vikram Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @matrixguy]

@IndiGo6E Who is going to fire this guy..?