Ashutosh

🇮🇳 | Investor | @SRCCDU | @columbia

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#Breaking
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey files a ₹2 crore defamation case against former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg.

Separately, Dubey has filed a criminal defamation case against Garg in Patiala House Court.

@NishikantDubey3 @Subhashgarg1960

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

@ARanganathan72 Inoculated by spending my school years in a communist ruled state …. The absurdity was all around us

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

Honoured to be entrusted with the responsibility of the Finance Dept of the W. Bengal government. It is a very challenging responsibility. However, the goals are clear: to restore good governance in the state & give back to the community its lost pride & self-respect. @SuvenduWB @narendramodi @AmitShah

[Ashutosh @poddar_ashutosh]

Congratulations to the bhadraloks minister @swapan55 da!

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

Honoured to be sworn in as a Cabinet member in the West Bengal government.

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

While I agree with your general observation, the facts are a little different. The house was acquired and renovated by Aditya Poddar, the same man who undertook the restoration of Raja Rammohan Roy’s tomb in Bristol.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

আমি পশ্চিমবঙ্গের জনশক্তির সমুখে আভূমি প্রণত!

জনগণের আশীর্বাদই হলো গণতন্ত্রের প্রকৃত শক্তি এবং জনসংকল্পের মহত্তম উৎস।

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মুখ্যমন্ত্রী হিসেবে শপথ গ্রহণ করায় শ্রী শুভেন্দু অধিকারী জি-কে অভিনন্দন। তিনি জনগণের সঙ্গে ঘনিষ্টভাবে সংযুক্ত একজন নেতা হিসেবে নিজের পরিচয় তৈরি করেছেন। তাঁদের আশা-আকাঙ্ক্ষাকে তিনি খুব কাছ থেকে জেনেছেন। তাঁর ভবিষ্যতের সফল কার্যকালের জন্য তাঁকে আমার অনেক অনেক শুভকামনা জানাই।

@SuvenduWB

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#Breaking: #SupremeCourt says judicial officers on West Bengal’s SIR duty were gheraoed for hours in Malda, attacked while leaving after midnight, and left unprotected despite repeated calls to top State authorities.

CJI Surya Kant calls it a “calculated, motivated move” to browbeat judges, derail the objection-hearing process and challenge the authority of the Court.

SC orders central force protection, show-causes top Bengal officials, and asks ECI to get the incident probed by CBI or NIA.

@MamataOfficial #WestBengalPolice @DGPWestBengal #SIR

[Tyler Winklevoss @tyler]

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad.

It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability.

The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties.

Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism.

This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids.

Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it.

Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

As Elon Musk leaves DOGE, want to repeat what I have said before, that the Indian approach of process reform by attrition warfare is far more tenable. All forms of blitzkrieg look good initially but soon lose momentum. Going through one regulation/process at a time is excruciatingly painful - we don't enjoy it - but there is no alternative.

https://t.co/4I3f4ig7yc

[Nirmala Sitharaman @nsitharaman]

A timely piece by ⁦@swapan55⁩ in ⁦⁦@Openthemag⁩. He calls out the ‘defeatists’.
For all those contrarians who moan, ‘This is not the India I grew up in’, Swapan answers: ‘It certainly isn’t. And thank Lord Ram for that.’
https://t.co/KxjryHBsa3

[MyGovIndia @mygovindia]

India’s Sky Warriors Stand Tall!

While addressing the air warriors and soldiers at AFS Adampur, PM @narendramodi gave a stirring message against terrorism. With thunderous chants of Hindustan Zindabad and the proud salutes of our Air Force personnel, PM Modi ignited the spirit of national pride.

#OperationSindoor

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

The world must show zero tolerance for terrorism.

#OperationSindoor

[Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale @vijai63]

Today evening in New York, EAM @DrSJaishankar ji had insightful interaction with a group of youngsters who came specifically to meet him from various parts of USA.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Aar Kobe?
When else? When else? When else.........

https://t.co/NRPRRnjCd8

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Some audiobook recommendations:

The Story of Civilization by Durant
Iliad (Penguin Edition)
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
American Caesar by Manchester
Masters of Doom by Kushner
The Wages of Destruction by Tooze
The Storm of Steel by Junger
The Guns of August by Tuchman
The Gallic Wars by Caesar
Twelve Against the Gods by Bolitho
Genghis Khan by Weatherford

The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile.

Admittedly, this is a list that appeals to those who think about Rome every day.

I hope someone makes an audiobook of The Encyclopedia of Military History by Dupuy and The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Creasy.

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

This eloquent presentation by Palki is definitely worth hearing.
Palki Sharma | This House Believes That Modi’s India is on the Right Pat... https://t.co/B0OxkFL2N4 via @YouTube

[WION @WIONews]

@RahulGandhi claims Congress will 'erase poverty' in one go

#RahulGandhi #LokSabhaElections2024 #ElectionsOnWION

Read: https://t.co/BYwhHqu0Su

https://t.co/BYwhHqu0Su

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

The contrived political controversy over @sanjeevsanyal ‘s comments on Bengal cannot take away from the grim reality of the state’s decline from 1967. The custodians of decline have moved from preaching revolution & killing traffic constables to hoarding mountains of cash under their beds. In their blinkered vision, this constitutes progress and enlightenment.

[Aaditya भारत (བྷཱ་རཏ) Tiwari @aaditya_bharat1]

Absolutely riveting session with @rammadhav_ ji on 'India that is Bharat' at the Columbia Business School's annual India Business Conference.