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#IDDMenjoyer

[kshitij vaze @VazeKshitij]

I need to see @SarvamAI succeed at making their frontier models.

I have to live to see the day @PixxelSpace launches their space data center.

I am working on making Energy optimization IP via @rhygentech omnipresent in all of India.

I pray I get to see @AgnikulCosmos be a damn unicorn.

I yearn to purchase an @Addverb_Tech humanoid to play football with.

I dream of seeing @ideaforge_tech drones become as common as DJI.

I can't wait to train an AI model on chips designed by @MindgroveTech .

I hope I get to charge my EV at a station powered by @ExponentEnergy .

I want to book a ride in a vehicle built around an @atherenergy powertrain.

I look forward to seeing @GalaxEye redefine what we know about Earth from orbit.

I want to see @SkyrootA become a household name in global launch services.

I hope @BellatrixAero powers spacecraft far beyond Earth's orbit.

All I am saying, is that I want the words "Designed and Built in India" to stop being surprising and start being expected.

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@ParthVa53135321 🤧🤧

[Operator @nishchal938]

@ParthVa53135321 So we expect early execution/modification or wait till 2032?

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what this whole fight is about, because it is very different from what the tweet by the Japanese official makes it sound like.

Back in 2015, India and Japan signed the Mumbai to Ahmedabad bullet train deal. 508 km.

India would use Japan's Shinkansen trains and Shinkansen technology. Japan put up a massive soft loan, covering most of the cost, at almost no interest, 0.1 percent, to be repaid over 50 years.

On paper it sounded amazing. Cheap money, world class trains.

But every such loan has a catch. Cheap Japanese money came tied to buying Japanese things.

Their trains. Their coaches. Their signal system. Their price, largely on their terms. That is normal. No country lends billions out of pure love. They lend to sell their own industry.

Then two things went wrong, and this is where his anger comes from.

One, the price.

The Japanese Shinkansen trainsets turned out to be extremely expensive. India felt it was being overcharged for the rolling stock. So, talks hit a wall.

Two, the timeline.

The newest Japanese trains, the E10 series, would reportedly only be ready for India around 2032. India did not want to sit on a finished 1.08 lakh crore track with no trains to run on it.

So India made a call. And this is the part I am proud of.

Instead of waiting and overpaying, India decided to run its own trains first. BEML in Bengaluru got an order to build indigenous high speed trainsets at about 866 crore each, designed to run at 280 kmph.

India will open the line with Indian made trains on the Surat to Vapi stretch around 2027, and bring in the Japanese Shinkansen later.

And the signal system, the thing he is bitter about, India switched from Japan's DS-ATC to the European ETCS Level 2 system.

The same family already used on the Delhi Meerut rapid rail. That is what he means by Japan being excluded from the signal system. India looked at the Japanese option, found it too costly and too slow, and picked a different one.

Now let me be fair, because I cannot be blind just because I am pro India.

He is not lying about everything.

India is genuinely a tough, frustrating negotiator. We change our mind. We push for our own interest till the last minute. We renegotiate things others thought were settled.

To a Japanese official raised on politeness and fixed agreements, this feels like betrayal.

But flip it around and look at it from our seat.

Our job is not to protect Japanese honour. Our job is to get India a bullet train at a fair price, that runs soon, and that builds Indian factories in the process.

On all three, changing course was the right call. Waiting till 2032 and overpaying for imported trains would have been the polite choice. It would also have been the stupid choice.

There is a bigger thing hiding under his frustration, and I think it is the real reason for the anger.

For decades, the deal was simple. Rich countries gave loans and technology, and poorer countries said thank you and bought whatever came bundled with it.

You took the money, you took their trains, you did not argue.

India argued. India took the loan, then insisted on its own trains, its own signal system, its own factories getting the work. We used their money to build our capability instead of just renting theirs.

That is what stings them. Not that we were reckless. That we refused to stay the junior partner in our own project.

I will give the Japanese side genuine credit.

Their engineering is world class. In 60 years, the Shinkansen has never had a passenger death from a derailment or collision.

That safety record is worth respecting. Their frustration with our chaos is also probably fair on a human level. Working with India can be maddening. Anyone who has managed an Indian project knows this.

For me, the real issue is what’s in it for our country.

India has the track. India is building its own trains for it. India picked its own signal system.

India got a 50 year loan at almost zero interest. And India will still get the Shinkansen later, on better terms than the original bundle.

If that is what Indian recklessness produces, I will take it every single time.

Be tough. Be a nightmare to negotiate with. Just make sure the country wins at the end of it. :)

[Operator @nishchal938]

@pk00202500 Tata going to have IP of those cells?

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@Nah_bruh12 @Arjunsssssssd

[Operator @nishchal938]

@ParthVa53135321 Happy birthday bhai

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

Why does @rajnathsingh never speak with such clarity or basic logic despite overseeing by far the largest outlay in the Indian central budget?

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

5 years ago I would’ve considered this a treasonous position but I’m 100% onboard with the idea

Strip back defence spending to the bare bones to reduce the wasteful FOREX drain

Use the billions saved in CAPEX to fund mega infrastructure projects in every state

Just 50% of of the Indian MoD’s CAPEX could fund:

Mumbai Metro Line 3
and
Delhi–Meerut RRTS
and
Mumbai Trans Harbour Link
and
Bengaluru Suburban Rail
and
Navi Mumbai International Airport (Phase 1)

EVERY SINGLE YEAR

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Tonight, a prayer for the mother of Sepoy Janjal Pravin Prabhakar receiving her son’s Kirti Chakra. Young Sepoy Janjal was killed in action in July 2024 after killing 2 terrorists in Kulgam, J&K. 💔🇮🇳

[Operator @nishchal938]

@Pghsld Tuff logo 😭😭😭

[Operator @nishchal938]

@ShPari3 @AjayshreeSamby3 @DRDO_India @astramwp This is IDDM ,FYI to replace the Israeli radars from Indian warships

[Aakash Chopra @cricketaakash]

People abusing Wives…kids…are the lowest form of scumbags.
Some might be found under this comment too.
Same lowlifes won’t handle an iota of criticism about themselves or their idols. Hypocrites.

[Operator @nishchal938]

@Arkasiraee @anir1uph Depends upon weight of the warhead.

[Operator @nishchal938]

@Jenew91 Expectation se kaafi low marks aaye hai commerce subjects mei but science walo ko seedhe fail kiya hai ,that's the difference.

[Sanzïo 🇮🇳🌹 @male_omni]

leftoids say this and then proceed to act like blood and soil nationalists for Palestine lmfao

[Operator @nishchal938]

@ParthVa53135321 Bhai every student including myself disappointed badly after results, every stream similar story. CBSE not accountable at all. There is hidden competition between CBSE and NTA is going on.

[Operator @nishchal938]

@The_Nlst_Hindu This is part of INRSS?

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@The_Nlst_Hindu 😭😭