Dear Elon,
India is a sovereign country, not your personal business project. You run a private company, not a charity.
Just because you want to enter the Indian market doesn't mean you get to mock people and lecture India on what it should do.
And please stop selling this idea that you are coming to save poor Indians. Starlink is VERY expensive. It's not free internet that you are giving away out of kindness.
You are here to do business, just like every other company. So let's not pretend this is some social service.
Nobody is stopping you from making an offer. Make it affordable, follow Indian rules, and let the government decide. That's how it works.
Please keep attitude in check, you just sell internet. You don't own India.
2026 is turning out to be a case of when it rains, it pours.
Every few years, the Pacific Ocean warms up abnormally, and that phenomenon is called El Niño. When it happens, India's monsoon weakens. This year, it looks like a super El Niño is developing, and the IMD is already forecasting rainfall 6% below normal for 2026.
It may not sound like much, but remember, 70% of India's annual rainfall comes from the monsoon, and 60% of farmers depend entirely on it. If history is any guide, we may have a terrible year ahead. In 60% of El Niño years since 1951, India has seen below-average rain. In 2009, rainfall fell to just 78% of normal, the worst in 37 years.
A weak monsoon means weaker harvests, and weaker harvests mean higher food prices and higher inflation. Food is one of the biggest expenses in a household budget. This is now layering on top of the unholy mess created by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump's war with Iran has effectively shut a channel that carries 20% of the world's oil and 20% of its LNG. India imports 80 to 90% of its oil and 40 to 50% of its gas, and we are already seeing steady price hikes and WFH advisories going out around the world. The Indian crude basket averaged $114 in April and is at $106 in May — still far above comfortable levels, and this crisis may drag on for longer.
When food and energy prices rise together, the RBI cannot stay quiet. Beyond a point, it will have to start hiking rates, and that is when a bad situation starts to feel like a crisis.
It's still May😬
the older i get, the more i understand that peace is expensive
just having the evening for yourself, not going to the malls over the weekends… choosing quiet over chaos, and realizing how rare that really is
sometimes it feels unfair watching people in other countries wake up to clean air, clear skies, safe water, and well maintained streets, while here we’re stuck breathing pollution, dodging potholes and fighting broken infrastructure just to get through the day
Indian stock exchanges are closed today for Mumbai's municipal elections.
The fact that our exchanges, which have international linkages, are shut down for a local municipal election shows poor planning and a serious lack of appreciation for second-order effects.
As Munger said: "Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome."
The holiday exists because no one who matters has any incentive to oppose the market holiday.
It also tells you how far we have to go before global investors take us seriously.
Unpopular opinion:
As a physician who cares for many women, one of the most under-discussed drivers of women’s cardiometabolic health suffering isn’t hormones, willpower, or “self-care.”
It’s when a partner does not carry their share of the mental load and invisible labor required to run a household and raise a family in modern life.
you would have had a strong cs foundation, had you not spent your entire grad grinding dsa and web dev, but had focused on your cs curriculum instead.
gotta go. bye.
Rushing first thing in the morning teaches your body that the day is something to survive, not experience.
And the sad part is most of us do it on autopilot.
Snooze. Scramble. Scroll. Stress.
No breath. No presence. Just urgency.
But peace isn’t found later in the day… it starts the moment you open your eyes.
Wake up gently.
Stretch. Breathe. Sit in silence for a few minutes.
Even 5 calm minutes in the morning can shift your entire nervous system.
You don’t have to earn peace.
You just have to stop rushing past it.
big things happening at home.
our cat is pregnant and the whole family is certain that our neighbour's cat got her pregnant.
Mom thinks that we should give the neighbour half of how many ever kittens she births, dad thinks that we should ask said neighbour to pay child support