Make the economy great again

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Money is the One, the Only and the Greatest GOD of all times. The rest of the gods all know their places in front of HIM.

[Make the economy great again @plutus_god]

Let's live not survive.

[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. :)

[Vajra🇮🇳 @BholeNath_wasi]

WTF !! This video makes my blood boil.

After throwing husband in prison , China appointed ‘CCP male relative’ to live with a Uyghur muslim woman n her daughter.

China should be sanctioned for systematic repression of minorities. Why aren’t muslim brothers protesting this?

[Puyangan Adiyan @Puyangan5]

Entice hindu girls and then coerce then to convert to their desert cult.
Convert colleagues in a corporate setting.
Force 6 year old kids to read their stupid religious verses.

Ordinary people of no other religion do it. These people are just unfit to live in a civilized society.

[Adiwasi.com @AdiwasiVoice]

झारखण्ड में धर्मांतरण का मुद्दा उठाते ही लोग समझाने आ जाते हैं कि हमने धर्म बदला है जाति नहीं। कुछ लोग तो गोत्र पर भी ज्ञान देने लगते हैं। जबकि सुप्रीम कोर्ट कहता है कि ईसाइयों में जाति नहीं होती।

उन सभी से आग्रह है कि बताएं - पोप लियो की कौन सी जाति है और वो किस गोत्र से हैं?

[OpIndia.com @OpIndia_com]

Justice (retd) Siddharth Mridul ran an LPG distribution agency for 16 years while serving as a judge.

https://t.co/oo06tGIhbO

He served as a judge of the Delhi High Court and the Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court during this time.

[Acyuta @AgniVesa_07]

I'm so fucking proud of my country.

This japanese minister is crying about why india is focusing on indigenisation and making its own trainsets instead of relying on everything imported from japan.

The day india starts doing the same with defence, you'll see french and israeli ministers coming outta their trenches to sob about how india is not a trusted ally lmaooo

[Make the economy great again @plutus_god]

@darkandcrude Absolutely. Public servants should be faceless.

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

Unpopular opinion

But famous Babus are a bad news

If Babus love something more than money then it’s fame

Famous & media centric Govt servant has skeletons in closet

[Avishar Dutta @AvisharDutta]

Spicy. To the victor goes the spoils. I hope BEML nails it, and I think they will. Even if it 250kmph, doesn't matter. Leapfrogging needs some courage.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Class III Homework in Secular Hyderabad School

> Read Kalma

> Read Surah Fateha

[Pankaj Gangwar @pankajgangwarr]

@khurpenchh GeM portal bhi corruption krne ka kafi bada gateway hai... Jo cheej market me 20000 ki hai wo ispe 30000 ki milegi and wo bhi aisi brand ki hogi jiska naam pahle kabhi nahi suna hoga.
Utne ₹ se kam me bahar branded cheej mil jayegi.

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

Now, while I agree with Indian stubbornness and incompetence, may I also point out that the Japanese are unwilling to make any rolling stock or signalling systems in India? Thankful for JICA support, but doesn't mean India should order rolling stock or signalling systems at an exorbitant price instead of assembling it themselves.

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

Exactly why I want that India should be flooded with so many IITs, IIMs & MBBS that middle class craze of degrees end

And your income & future would depend on ur innovation & practical intelligence. Not just on taking degrees

That’s the only way India can progress

[MajorSammerToor @MajorSammerToor]

First time ever caught on Tape!

While filming the mountains of the Himalayas, a cameraman noticed a long line of silhouettes moving through the freezing snow at over 5,000 meters above sea level. Without realizing it at first, he was about to capture a real execution on camera.
The people in the distance were Tibetans-men, women, and even children-risking their lives to secretly escape into India. Suddenly, a Chinese border guard got into position and aimed his weapon. A gunshot echoed through the mountains, and a figure at the back of the line collapsed into the snow.
The victim was Kelsang Namtso, a 17-year-old Tibetan nun. The cameraman, in pure shock, uttered a sentence that would later become famous:
"They're shooting them like dogs".
This footage remains one of the most disturbing and crucial pieces of recorded evidence showing unarmed civilians being targeted while simply trying to flee their country.
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Comments plz!

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

Good to know that this specific drama isn’t limited to India. I wonder why Christian priests or “apostles” pay people to convulse like they’ve been electrocuted, though. None of them can think of some other skit to perform?

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

I don’t want

I want paper leaks to stop.

Just like I wanted train accidents to stop & not Vaishnav’s resignation

Resignations was a distraction used to be employed by INC to not correct the wrong

It’s 2026, pple want results not optics

[Make the economy great again @plutus_god]

@MsRenukanagaraj That has certainly not been my experience.

[Ghar Ke Kalesh @gharkekalesh]

A G@ndu Pakistani Bhikhari Tries To Hug Female Comedian, Then Lies About Being Indian

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

After Siya, another example of human mind trying to find some reason to pin an event which has no explanation

It was a case of normal people running into absolute crazy people. Pure bad luck

It could have happened even in L.A

Punish the arseholes & hope u don’t face such ppl

[Shil Reddy @rwstats]

One tight sl@p would’ve helped her

Expressions are same like how they give in item songs , imagine doing that infront of garba gudi .