Saw on insta that the guy who danced in front of the War Memorial in the US has been deported.
Not cuz he danced. It's cuz he violated his H1B visa norms
Scamming, misusing & lack of civic sense abroad is damaging our country's reputation.
@Pivot2Centre Yeah but you cant disagree its a universal thing. Let it be bombay, nyc, seattle or even london. You just naturally say you are from that place if you work there and commute from elsewhere
@BJP4India are seriously under estimating lmao what people want in their quality of life. Grossly out of touch. People argue they’d be stronger aren’t realising the vote base in 2029.
I’m making an early call on this one.
This flyover will have its first issue by Tomorrow evening.
Even by the low benchmarks of municipal roads - this is a new low.
Listen to the interviews of students coming out of Jantar Mantar. You'll hear thoughtful, articulate arguments and informed discussion. These are genuine students protesting for their future, not the professional crappy protestors who show up to disrupt things.
Thats the difference between a cockroach and a reptile.
Idk why ppl are rattled by the post. This is as truthful as it gets. We have VCs and billionaires thatll only invest in ice creams or quick commerce. That’s where the brain stops.
India will never produce an NVIDIA, and it has nothing to do with talent. R&D is the purest form of investment, and the central bank has spent decades making investment the dumbest thing you can do with a rupee.
I've been surfing the semiconductor wave for a while now, reading 10-Ks for fun. Spent last month in the Bay Area and the gap between India and the US is not a gap; it's a different universe. Conversations about agentic AI and the next decade of hardware, with my boomer relatives Waymo-ing around SF and self-driving home on Tesla FSD like it's normal. Nobody there thinks any of this is remarkable; they already live in the future.
NVIDIA spends nearly twice as much on R&D as every listed company in India combined. Silicon Motion, the world's leading maker of NAND flash controllers and around since 1995, ploughs 29.7% of revenue back into R&D. Micron runs 10.2%, NVIDIA 9.9%, on revenue bases that dwarf anything we have. India Inc? 0.85% of turnover, and half our listed companies report zero R&D at all.
The easy move is to lambast our promoters and the dhandomaxxing capitalist class, or the foreign MNCs running India as a glorified offshoring unit, or the babus who fund nothing useful. Satisfying. But Wrong. The reason no rational Indian founder pours money into frontier R&D is that there is genuinely no payoff at the end of it. Why?
1. R&D compounds, and compounding punishes laggards. At the edge of science a 1-2% gain is a moat; Intel spent 20+ years performing impossible physics every 24 months because Moore's Law was the business model, and that consistency makes them one of the goated companies of all time even after they got mogged recently. NVIDIA lives the same way today: invent at the limit or cease to exist. If you're 50% behind, no quantum of innovation closes that. You never touch the high end. You stay a mass-market producer of things that already exist. India is precisely there.
2. The supply side is the real thesis, and it's monetary. Two decades of high inflation, high money-printing, high nominal rates. That regime subsidises consumption and taxes patience. R&D is the longest-duration, highest-variance bet on the board; it is the first thing a 8% risk-free rate kills. Frontier R&D only ever gets funded two ways: a psychopathically risk-tolerant capitalist with cheap capital, or a state with Stalin-grade control. The USSR took agrarian peasants to the first man in space in 20 years; China built its own version. India has neither the state capacity, the political will, nor the balance sheet to do that. So nobody does it.
Talent was never the bottleneck. Capital structure was. If you want a SpaceX or a TSMC born here, you need an environment where a conglomerate can deploy $10B and sleep at night: a low-rate regime that makes long-duration investment rational, IP and patent courts that actually function, and policy that doesn't get rewritten every 2-3 years on a minister's whim. Stability is the input. Innovation is the output.
Bay Area versus Bombay, we are several universes apart, and you cannot print your way across that distance; you can only compound your way there, and we've spent years optimising for the opposite. The gap won't be bridged. With luck, it narrows.
It needs one 70-100 flr building to overloook the entire skyline. If you see any big city just has that one skyscraper that’ll be like the dad of all of them. Someone like Lodha’s capable of building a sears,freedom for Mumbai
"West trying to put pressure on India, for eg when it comes to cooperation with Russia. But everyone understands putting pressure on Narendra Modi is detrimental to intl & bilateral ties", says Russian Prez Putin; Calls India a 'very reliable partner'
St. Petersburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin says, "India is one of the leading economies of the world that shows the highest rates of economic growth. This is not something that comes out of the blue. This is a result of the hard work that the government has been doing under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi..."
(Source: Host Broadcaster via Reuters)
What worries me is why arent these places forced to have necessary parking permits? If seating capacity is 1000 need to have atleast 150 spots. Id expect 15-20% of the capacity to be shown on paper. Same goes for independent buildings. Chennai, blr folks absolute leeches
#paidparking#knowledgecity#hitechcity#hyderabad
Cyberabad Police is exploring paid parking on roads in Knowledge City to tackle worsening traffic congestion and street racing concerns
The proposal covers the busy Cafe Niloufer–My Home Bhooja stretch and ITC Kohenur Road in Madhapur, where roadside parking regularly narrows roads and creates bottlenecks during peak evening hours
India may soon see a massive silent economic recession.
Don’t look blindly at GDP or 4th largest economy.
If one person earns ₹100 crore and everyone else earns nothing, GDP rises, but most people’s lives don’t improve.
India’s GDP per capita is Rs.2.7 lakhs.
Which puts us at 150th rank (150/195).
India’s per capita GDP is roughly:
~3% of U.S. levels
~19% of the world average
Lower than many countries that are rarely discussed as economic superpowers.
Build skills. Build assets. Keep an emergency fund.
Mahindra going global is a good thing for Indian customers as well.
International customers are more demanding, and they have more options. Mahindra will be forced to improve its basic quality checks if it really wants to do well in markets like Australia.
This should improve the reliability of its cars in the Indian market as well.