Rashmi Tambe

IT professional, TEDx speaker, avid reader, opinionated about politics, exercise enthusiast. All opinions are personal views, re-tweets are not endorsements.

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

This is a stupid and unforgivable thing to do. We may have political differences between parties but it is completely wrong to disrupt an international event and disgrace India.
The Congress party should apologise at once

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

Sky is my new hero! #INDvPAK

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@sabeer Are you for real ? What exactly is your point and connection to worlds 4rh largest economy ?

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Shri @nitin_gadkari, even after paying all taxes and tolls, we still can't drive safely on highways.

This is what I saw on NH-7 yesterday: wrong-side driving despite the other side being open, and that too in the fast lane. 2, 3, 4-wheelers, all of them.

If one of them had crashed into me, they’d have received compensation, and I’d be stuck making rounds of the court.

Please do something about this. It’s not an exception, it’s the norm. I’m sure all of us have faced wrong-side driving on highways.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.

"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.

We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.

Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.

We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.

But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.

We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.

India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.

And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@marathistock Anand Deshpande , persistent systems

[Arun 🌞 @arunv2808]

It’s easy sitting in Tamil Nadu; and being altruist because you never faced Pakistan sponsored terrorism like the ones in the North.

Your blood boils every time you read the news of an Indian fisherman from TN, being killed by the Srilankan police/army.

Now, imagine around 100 fishermen were happily sitting and having breakfast in a hotel, the shooters from Sri Lanka travel on a boat, enter our lands and shoot them. They wore all the symbolisms of an Indian Tamil, just to manufacture a narrative that it’s “Tamil terrorists”?

How would you feel? How would you feel when the rest of the country asks you to have dialogues, and leave in harmony? How would you feel if the country sent just dossier after dossier to probe that this happened?

This is just a micro-mini version of what happened in Mumbai on 26/11; when Kasab and 9 other Pakistanis came here and took away the lives of 100s of Indians.

Pakistan isn’t a friendly nation, it’ll always want to rip us apart. Given that you’re almost 3000+ kms away from the border, you’ve a buffer. There’s peace here because of the Indian army.

Be grateful, don’t be a stupid lunatic pacifist.

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

Words matter, yes.

I wish tears matter the same in spite of the religion of the person who is crying …

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

Words matter.

The progressive liberati tell us they matter so much that your survival as a decent human being depends on being sensitive enough to correctly gender a houseplant on social media. Nouns, adjectives, and pronouns must be treated with the reverence accorded to ancient artifacts found at an archaeological dig. You would imagine that when Hindus are hunted down and murdered in Pahalgam, Kashmir — murdered for the crime of existing — the New York Times would deploy that same obsessive precision. Surely, they would reach for a familiar, correct word, the word they use for the perpetrators of 9/11.

You know, terrorists.

But no. When Hindus die, the term that gently floats down is "militant" — a word so gloriously beige that it sounds like someone got a bit rowdy at a PTA meeting. "Militant" — not a monster, not a butcher — just a spirited political activist with poor anger management. Makes you wonder if the target of their attack were soldiers and tanks... or families on vacation. (Spoiler: it was families.)

Jacques Derrida — patron saint of people who quote books they've never finished — taught us that language encodes hidden power structures. Well, here's an easy one: when Western media call terrorists "militants," it's because Hindus, in their worldview, can never be victims. Hindus are cast as permanent oppressors, with violence against them cast as "punching up." No different than storming the Bastille — violence, sure, but to be seen in the larger context of historical justice, or, wait, there is a word for it--karma.  

There is a side-show of clowns that enable this, pushing a pseudo-academic thread of messaging, namely that Hinduphobia isn't real. It's a "constructed term," they say, from the comfort of panel discussions that smell faintly of sauvignon blanc and moral cowardice, used by Hindu fascists to protest when the chickens come home to roost — or militants come to do their "militanty" things.

Terror exists. All religions are targeted where they are in the minority. Some groups, though, get murdered twice: first by bullets and again by the slow suffocation of their truth. Meanwhile, their killers get to keep their moral alibi, polished and gleaming, courtesy of the world's most influential media houses.
Yes, words matter, especially when they come from organizations of influence.

It's long past time we used the right words. And called out those who do not.

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

Will we ever have footpaths which are actually meant for walking ? This is the footpath on beautiful Taljai hill - this person has occupied almost 50-70 feet long space in last 6 months. Why can’t we keep our hills free of encroachment? !#savepunehills

@PMCPune @mohol_murlidhar

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@ARanganathan72 Classic double slit experiment of Indian politics! Modi wave hai bhi aur nahi bhi- it collapses in presence of EVM - supreme superposition !

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@shreyamatsharma I felt like I was sitting there and experiencing the magic first hand !

Superb story telling ! Bravo!!

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Why data is meaningful only if you know the context.....

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@Kaey_bee @peakbengaluru recently saw someone at airport checkin and security line with laptop open, screen shared, code review during a team meeting. laptop shut for 2 mins during security, started again right off it! I wonder if this is dedication, show off or stupidity!

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@aparanjape @IISERPune This is incredible!

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

It is not a surprise that the smartest folks I have met in the business also happen to have a lot "useless" knowledge!

Very well said!

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

Recently, a student asked me why they have to learn trigonometry which doesn’t have real life applicability. My response wasn’t convincing. Here is Stanford alumni, Hamza Alsamrae, a math major, who responds as it should be…

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

What a beautiful tribute to International Women's Day! Bravo #MahindraRise #IWD2024

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I’m sharing this a day before #InternationalWomensDay

Because for all our WonderWomen at @MahindraRise , EVERY day is Women’s Day…

I salute them.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

India announces the 4 Indian astronauts for the #Gaganyaan mission to space.

I grew up seeing photos of only American astronauts & Russian Cosmonauts.

They were inspiring but I used to wistfully imagine & wonder if & when I would ever see fellow Indians in those adventurous space suits—on their way into Indian Spacecrafts.

That wish now seems to be turning into reality.

And I hope it will stoke the imagination and the aspiration of a whole new generation of Indians!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@6C1_16 ajun ek - thulthulit

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

@aparanjape @cIndraneel @SiddharthDesai @DeoSahil @Girbane @PittieAditya @samirsaran @raisinadialogue Good to know that!

[Rashmi Tambe @rashmitambe]

Hilarious! #Nvidia Earning call explained in Hollywood style!

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Live footage of the entire world preparing for Nvidia’s earnings call