Nikhil Kapoor

Director : Designer : Spacetime Crusader

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

So cool.

[Debashis @heydebashis]

Mumbai is named after Mumba - goddess of the Kolis, the fisherwomen who fed this city before it learned greed.

When her daughters take revenge, the sea turns bloody.

Introducing "MACHI MAFIA" 💀
(Machi is fish in Hindi)

w/ @heybipasha @BombayLocale

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@heydebashis @heybipasha @BombayLocale So cool.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

'Men will be men' with a wonderful twist!

For the Swiss retailer Migros, agency Thjnk Zürich takes a refreshingly unconventional approach to showcasing fresh produce.

The most predictable route would have been to feature two mothers competing to pack the most imaginative, healthy lunchbox for their kids. But that trope is tired, and wouldn't have made a dent at all. In fact, if it were two mothers, the narrative would probably lean into them exchanging recipes and happily shopping at Migros together.

Instead, by putting two dads in the arena, the ad unlocks a hilarious, hyper-competitive dynamic. What starts as a simple lunchbox comparison quickly spirals into an absurd arms race of food art with cucumber crocodiles and carrot race cars to an all-out gourmet standoff at a neighborhood barbecue.

It’s the petty, silent game of oneupmanship between the dads that makes the ad memorable, all while seamlessly driving home the brand's message: they have the widest range of fresh produce to fuel any culinary ambition.

#advertising #marketing #creativity

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@DannyDrinksWine Agree with every single word here.

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@AliciaAradilla Stunning journal.

[Namit Malhotra @malhotra_namit]

Rama is the greatest of all time because he lived a life where the choices he made were always in the benefit of the greater good, duty over desire, and sacrifice over self.

His legacy continues to enhance and empower humanity over time and bring the belief in the goodness of the human spirit to resolve all conflict and bring peace to the world.

Namit Malhotra’s Ramayana
Directed by Nitesh Tiwari

In cinemas worldwide
Ramayana Part 1
Diwali 2026

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

Some numbers to blow your mind.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

https://t.co/E0Bq6joXyV

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

All of us using AL and LLMs need to read this article. URGENTLY

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

https://t.co/GCz7g67znl

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Probably the best thing you will read about Delhi’s poisoned air and the lies told by politicians

The politics of air pollution—how they are fooling the citizens https://t.co/Xe22EhHeMD

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@SauravDassss That's such a pertinent question. Seems like we have indeed become the people that have learnt to look away...knowing full well that no one is coming to save the day.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

*CALL FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST*

Delhi is still choking on HAZARDOUS air. Even band-aid measures like GRAP have been withdrawn.

Many citizen groups of Delhi have now called for a *peaceful* protest at Jantar Mantar (the “designated protest site” in New Delhi) on Wednesday, 3 December, 12 PM onwards!

Every concerned citizen, every caring mother, youth, and elders should join!

#WeDeserveAQI50 #LetUsBreathe

[Vikram Chopra @vikramchopra]

I have emailed this letter to the Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi sir. Sharing it here and tagging @PMOIndia so it reaches him without fail. Delhi-NCR cannot keep breathing like this. We need unified, urgent action now.

#AirQuality #Delhipollution #DelhiAQI #Pollution

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@storyandplot That makes a lot of sense. Maybe cos it co-relates directly to our lived experience.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

The #AirPollution emergency is a national disaster. At this hour, India needed a visionary leader, someone who could lead, comfort, and accept responsibility.

The Prime Minister could’ve declared a health emergency, issued advisories, placed strict curbs on industries and primary polluters, found a way to stop farm fires by mostly helpless farmers, called for an all-party meeting, held direct consultations with Chief Ministers of North Indian states, directed his Health Minister to coordinate with counterparts across the region, and made all of this a shining example of bipartisan, progressive politics. What a commendable achievement that would’ve been.

Instead, our Prime Minister is camping in Bihar with most of his cabinet, pleading Biharis not to vote for the principal opposition party because they apparently insulted “Chhathi Maiya” (the deity, wife of the Sun God) and reminding them of 20-30 year-old “jungle raj” days. No new ideas of development. The Delhi Chief Minister is busy staging dramas like we saw with the Yamuna. The LG, who was hyperactive during the AAP regime, has absconded. Chief Ministers of other states are implementing their own isolated strategies, doing little without a central steer. Parliamentarians seem to have nothing to say about this hazardous situation, let alone protest it. The Supreme Court is busy posturing as a “court of last resort,” “of the downtrodden,” and all that to serve their inflated egos. In any case, the Chief Justice of India has little time to hear the issue effectively, instead choosing to woo journalists over coffee before his retirement.

Quite clearly, India lacks visionary leadership and statesmanship. What we have instead is a kakistocracy—a government of the most power-hungry, bottom-of-the-barrel kind of leaders whose only job is to keep the masses distracted from real issues and jail those who try to do some good.

What’s clearer today is that this country has become a GREAT example of what could’ve been and would’ve been, not what it is, or what it has become. No wonder those who can afford to leave, are leaving or planning to. Right-wing buffoons may call them “anti-nationals” or accuse them of lacking love for their country but if they were even capable of holding a reasonable conversation with a living being, they’d know how deeply sad, how heavy-hearted many of our fellow countrymen and women are when they leave their homes to start from scratch in an alien land. And one need not be sorry for choosing themselves. YOLO.

The tragedy is also that most of us are raised with zero critical thinking and no appetite for activism. The result is a nation of mostly self-serving, complacent, chalta-hai attitude–wielding individuals, tolerant of bullshit to the point of self-harm.

What I am trying to say is that a great reset is long overdue.

[Pravesh Jain @PRAVESHPARAS]

In September 2025, K. Sivakumar, former Chief Financial Officer of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)—a Maharatna public sector giant in India's oil refining and marketing—lost his only daughter, Akshaya, a 34-year-old IIM Ahmedabad graduate, to a brain hemorrhage. Devastated, Sivakumar's grief turned into a harrowing ordeal as he navigated Bengaluru's official formalities. From the ambulance driver demanding ₹5,000 to transport her body, to police at Bellandur station rudely extorting cash for the FIR and post-mortem report, crematorium staff insisting on bribes for a receipt, and BBMP officials haggling for the death certificate—corruption stalked every step. In a viral LinkedIn post (now deleted), the 64-year-old broke down, sobbing: "I had money, so I paid. What will the poor do?" He questioned the humanity of a system that preys on the vulnerable, asking if titans like Narayana Murthy could save Bengaluru from anarchy.

BPCL, his lifelong employer since 1987, offered silent condolences but no public intervention, highlighting the disconnect between corporate stature and civic rot. Two police officers were suspended amid outrage, yet this is mere optics.

Shame on this predatory bureaucracy! In a nation boasting digital India and anti-corruption crusades, officials exploit death's raw agony for petty cash, turning grief into a transaction. Police, meant to protect, bully the broken; civic bodies, funded by taxpayers, feast on despair. This isn't governance—it's vampirism, where the affluent buy passage but the poor are buried alive in red tape. Karnataka's Congress regime, wake up! Suspend more than scapegoats; dismantle this cesspool with CCTV mandates, zero-tolerance probes, and fast-track grief desks. Billionaire philanthropists, fund the fight—expose every leech. India deserves dignity in death, not this barbaric toll. If a BPCL titan weeps, imagine the silenced screams of the destitute. What was top officials of giant oil company doing at the time of his grief. He was your Ex CFO. Why for CFO, even for a clerk who after serving 35 years and after retirement, you should come to your employee rescue. Local territory manager should have provided all help. Otherwise what is the point of working for such giant oil company? System is rotten. CM of Karnataka @siddaramaiah and Dy chief minister @DKShivakumar must take stringent action against all involved in harassing this helpless gentleman. It is congress govt. @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi and @kharge must find out what has exactly happened. Why this man is crying not so much for his grief ( which obviously is major thing) but for petty corruption at every step from transporting body from hospital by ambulance to death certificate. @DILIPtheCHERIAN @bainjal @rohini_sgh @HardeepSPuri @sakshijoshii @NidhiKNDTV @sardesairajdeep

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

Thank you Jane Goodall. RIP🙏🏼

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

Every point, on point.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Educated Indian elite - I count myself in this - accepted what is known as the "Washington Consensus", with globalization driven by the World Economic Forum, Davos.

That era received a mortal blow during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-9, died during the pandemic and today we perform the last rites.

Here is how I believe we should navigate this new era, treating this challenge as an opportunity.

1. Every tech we do not have is deep tech and I do not mean LLMs (alone) here and it includes advanced metallurgy, composite materials, DC motors, batteries, medical equipment, network equipment, drones, jet engines, robots, bioreactors and so on and on.

2. A 5-10 year sprint to catch up in every such "basic deep tech". In some areas, like GPUs or fighter jets, it may take 10-15 years, but we must put our heads down and do it. China has done it and it can be done. We have the raw human talent in abundance and we can train. This much I know.

3. We need a long term orientation. Venture capital with 7-8 year exit cycles cannot do it. It promotes a short termism that is at odds with what our nation needs right now. More broadly, quarterly earnings cycles are a poor match for the long term catch up investment we have to make. This essentially mandates that our big industrial houses must invest heavily in R&D, keeping in mind that catch-up R&D (in particular) is not expensive, it is time-intensive.

4. More broadly, we don't want our smartest talent going into high finance - we must realize we are borrowing what failed America. It is a colossal misallocation of resources. The mortal blow of the GFC I referred to was all due to "smartest talent going into finance" in America and ultimately that is what led to MAGA, once Occupy-Wall-Street failed with the left - it is a different matter that MAGA got coopted by Wall Street.

India cannot afford to be addicted to high finance, it would lead to societal ruin. We must view making money on money with the appropriate caution that our ancients taught us.

5. I will come back to talent, the most important point of all. There is a lot of raw young talent in rural Bharat that is waiting for the opportunity. Patient capital is about nurturing this talent, bring it on stream.

Once you discover what we have discovered, you will stop fighting about reservation and so on. My own R&D team reflects our society in a deep way and without any compulsion from the government. JEE, NEET, UPSC etc do not capture the essence of this talent pool. I do not care about any of those exams, I ignore all those "signals" and go with the evidence of our own eyes to discover and nurture talent.

6. Climate change. Have you noticed how quickly the silicon valley elite dumped climate change and got on board the "energy to the max" with AI? We need EI - Energy-efficient Intelligence. Climate change is also a life style issue and Bharat has to be the light to the world in showing how to live in harmony with mother nature while building a technologically advanced society. Bharat Mata is mother nature.

We have faced far worse adversity before and we will face this. If we seize this moment, we will come to see it as a blessing in the long term.

Bharat Mata ki Jai 🙏

[Nikhil Kapoor @nikurious]

@ANI Goosebumps

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Pictured: An English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Tagore

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

One of the key issues with GST.
1) You bill someone
2) You pay GST,
3) They don't pay you
You can apply for a credit note but reverses ITC & it affects your rights to recover bad debt in court. Story by @Shiprasorout https://t.co/t4YzrmqiTG