Mustafa Bhotvawala

This makes me write more than I normally would. I’ll take it.

[Mustafa Bhotvawala @mustafa_abbas__]

So I iron my boxers and the internet says its an illness

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, which was set up in March 2020 during COVID to deal with emergency/distress situations, has accumulated a corpus of Rs 8,452 crore by end of FY 2024-25, but just Rs 87 lakh was spent, as per audit reports released. Still NO information on source of funds. PM CARES has so far refused to divulge any details under RTI Act. 🙏

[SirKazam {blu tik} @SirKazamJeevi]

Khi Khi Khi

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Elon’s daughter Vivian absolutely decimated him oh my days

[NDTV @ndtv]

Delhi Police Crack Down On Posts Targeting PM Modi After NEET Protest
https://t.co/GAco1KPNgv

@AaquilJameel reports

[Joy @Joydas]

Imagine, you spend thousands of crores over a decade to build an image as a strong leader with the help of PR and Media, spend even more to demean Opposition leader and then in mass protest, youngsters call you “Chappan inch ka Chhota Bandar”

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Did @nsitharaman just say "Due to the paper leak, the children got even more time to study so that they could perform better". …?
Honestly this entire Cabinet should resign.

[Gurpriya @GurpriyaSidhu]

faiz: hum dekhenge
samdhish: cameraperson parth, dekhaiye

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Maybe just maybe the Education Minister doesn’t know how to write a letter of resignation…. RSS only teaches you how to write mercy petitions .

[Surbhi Gupta @bysurbhigupta]

Zohran Mamdani mentions Umar Khalid in his speech on Nelson Mandela in New York City today. @FreeUmarKhalid1

[Subramanian Swamy @Swamy39]

India should ask US Ambassador in New Delhi to go back to Washington and remain there unless US expresses regret for the reckless killing of our citizens on sea. But Modi is a pussy cat before Donald. He shivers before him.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

My point is that I understand when #India doesn't name the perpetrator when it condemns the Israeli bombing of Qatar. I understand when India doesn't name when it condemns the Russian attacks in Ukraine. I also understand if India doesn't want to name when it condemns the Iranian attack on Persian Gulf monarchies. That's strategic balancing. But I don't understand why India doesn't name the country that fired missiles at vessels carrying Indian nationals, and killed three of them, in India's neighbourhood waters!

[DOJA CAT @DojaCat]

hey elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here. Thanks, u frog build looking bitch. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

India is going through its dark ages.

Utterly unlettered and incompetent people have captured power.

They have dumbed down the masses through propaganda, lies and fear. And the masses have embraced them as saviours.

It is the oldest story in the world. The pied piper plays his tune, and the rats follow him straight into the river. Smiling all the way.

But this time it is not the rats. It is not the children. It is the masses themselves following the tune, walking toward the river, smiling.

And that is where the analogy breaks every previous version of this story. When the children were taken, the parents could fight to bring them back. There was someone left in the city.

This time, the city is empty.

Severe pain is coming. Severe misery is coming. It is not a prediction. It is arithmetic.

We were never a perfect nation. But we knew that. We had the courage to admit it, to look at ourselves honestly and say, a lot of work is left, we have to work harder.

That courage is gone.

Everyone knows something has gone deeply wrong. You can see it in their eyes. But the majority cannot bring themselves to say it out loud. Not on television. Not at the dinner table. Not even to themselves when they face the mirror.

That is the real rot. Not the incompetence at the top. Not the propaganda. Not even the fear.

It is the cowardice at the bottom.

It is like a man who breaks every mirror in his house because he cannot stand what he sees. The reflection doesn't change. He just stops looking.

We have become a nation that cannot look truth in the face, even when it is standing right in front of us, staring us down.

And a nation that cannot recognise symptoms and face the truth, cannot fight the disease.

[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.

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

The principal function of India's foreign policy today is to serve the interests of crony capitalists.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Compromised PM ने trade deal नहीं, अडानी की रिहाई का सौदा किया।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

India, please understand:

The reason PM Modi cannot stand up to President Trump despite his repeated threats is the ongoing U.S. investigation into Adani.

One threat is to expose the financial links between Modi, AA, and Russian oil deals.

Modi’s hands are tied.