Samar Shah

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[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

54,000 tonnes of LPG. Per day. That's what Indian refineries pumped during the 2026 energy shock — up 60% from normal output.

No import panic. No rationing queues. No emergency diplomacy with Gulf states.

Just existing refinery capacity that everyone assumed we didn't have — until we needed it. I think this is the most underreported industrial story of the year. We're so used to the 'India depends on imports' narrative that actual domestic resilience gets zero airtime.

[Sandeep Mall @SandeepMall]

A family thrives because members play different roles. One earns a living while another manages the home. Unity comes from balance, not identical tasks.
The country can work the same way. Every state does not need to be an economic engine. Bengal provides a cultural soul. Maharashtra drives national revenue. We find strength in these unique contributions.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

6 YEARS: FROM COVID TO IRAN
TIME FOR SOME PAINFUL TRUTHS 🚨

Six turbulent years from Covid to the Ladakh standoff to Ukraine war to Trump’s tariff offensive to the current Iran war have exposed a hard truth. India remains dangerously dependent on the world for things a serious power should control at home.

Energy first, since that’s on everyone’s mind right now. India imports about 85% of its crude oil and roughly 50% of its natural gas. We depend heavily on overseas supply chains for critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel that will power the next generation of batteries and energy systems. Any disruption anywhere from the Strait of Hormuz to sanctions on major producers immediately ripples through LPG prices, electricity costs and inflation. The current LPG anxiety during the Iran war is just the latest reminder of how exposed we are.

Defence is worse. Despite decades of rhetoric about indigenisation, India still imports roughly 45 to 50% of its major weapons systems, making it one of the world’s largest arms importers, if not the largest. During the Ladakh standoff with China (which is still on) the country had to rush through emergency purchases of munitions, drones, artillery shells and winter gear because either we don’t make those items or domestic capacity could not surge quickly enough. A country facing two nuclear adversaries should never have to scramble for weapons in the middle of a military standoff.

Pharmaceuticals reveal another uncomfortable truth. India is known as the pharmacy of the world, yet around 70% of our active pharmaceutical ingredients come from outside, including China. During Covid this vulnerability became obvious as India scrambled for oxygen, PPE kits, ventilators and key medical inputs.

Technology dependence is the most alarming of all. More than 90% of advanced semiconductors are imported, most high end AI chips and servers are foreign made, and critical digital hardware depends almost entirely on global supply chains. In an era where AI will define both economic power and military capability, this is a profound strategic vulnerability.

Add fertiliser precursors, rare earths, electronics components, solar modules and specialised machine tools and the list becomes even longer. Each time the world experiences a shock (Ukraine, Iran, Azerbaijan, Covid) whether it is a pandemic, sanctions on Russia, a war in West Asia or rising great power tensions India is forced into code red emergency management mode.

The uncomfortable reality is that true strategic autonomy requires historically painful decisions. Building domestic capacity in energy, weapons, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and AI will demand huge investment, long term industrial policy, and years of political risk. It may mean accepting higher costs and slower returns in the short term in order to build resilience for the long term.

But India’s election to election political cycle rewards short term thinking. No government wants to take decisions that may, beyond a point, take a decade to pay off. The decisions these crises compel from a country like India will mean a total dismantlement of our politics as we know it today. It will mean a generation of turning the country on its head.

Yet the alternative is worse. As things stand India remains structurally vulnerable. A country that has to scramble every time the world shakes cannot claim true strategic autonomy.

From COVID to Iran, the last six years have made that painfully clear.

[The Goddamned Penguin @who_shot_jgr]

Trump invades Greenland, Denmark and the USA both invoke article 5, Germany gets confused and invades Poland. that's my polymarket parley

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

It’s very tough to be a good officer in India.

You have the skills, do the right and legal thing - and then the political class throttles you.

Boxed into a corner, you surrender. And become a partner in the crime.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Seeing the flyovers that have opened in Mumbai and Pune in the past 45 days - I am surprised politicians wanted to take credit for it.

It is an abominal disgrace for India

Politicians are proving that the Britishers were probably correct in their assessment about us.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

This is totally expected when IITs are busy researching go-mutra. Let’s learn to live with it.

[Shark @fintech_shark]

Manufacturing as percent of share of GDP has gone down from 17% to 12% in last 10 years. There is an immediate need for big bang reforms. No point renaming Make in India mission. Just do the reforms, we’re missing the train big time.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

A lady in Mumbai died because a tree fell on her and her ambulance couldn't get past a traffic jam on the Mumbai Ahmedabad Highway.

A highway about which people have been complaining since the time of Bahadur Shah Zafar.

They have complained about the illegal stuff that has encroached the highway. They have complained about its quality, the meteor craters present on it, the lack of traffic regulation and the sheer inadequacy of the road to the traffic it handles.

Funny part is, this highway ostensibly repaired just a few months ago to ensure traffic jams don't happen. But the repair was so bad that they are now repairing the repair.

All of this only serves to highlight that in India you and me don't matter. We mean shit to everyone. We will continue to die but nothing will change

Many Bereaucrats and Politicians keep saying India is the land of opportunity, we need to seek investment, we need to up our game in manufacturing, AI or any other buzzword they stumble upon.

All that is nonsense.

Nothing of the above is worth anything if the people in the government don't value the people who voted them to power and pay for their salaries

What's the point in India becoming Viksit India if an innocent, intelligent woman dies because her Ambulance got stuck in a traffic jam due to a cratered road??

[Jeet Mashru @mashrujeet]

After spending more than ₹500 crores on white topping and ruining the NH 48 between Mumbai and Gujarat, NHAI is now back to using Mastic Asphalt.

The @NHAI_Official has said that the contractor is now 'Blacklisted'.

What happens to DLP and all the money wasted on this white topping?

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Mumbai's four metro lines don't share a common ticketing system like the metros all over the world do. It's laughable and inconvenient.

Every time you change a line, you have to buy a new ticket. This is not how you stand out, Mumbai Metro.

[🦉 @macroschema]

Most cities in India haven't built one major park, library, musueum, promenade, public square etc since the British left the country

Over 70 years and Indians could not come up with any idea to build their cities

Today every single Indian city is chaotic and crowded shithole

[Kapil @kapsology]

80 crore people in India survive on the free ration (over 8x Japan's population).

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

I read today that Amazon services ALL of India's 19,300 PIN codes!

That's some incredible supply chain connectivity ‼️

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

The one major takeaway from this conflict is this- we seriously need to up our diplomatic game and find real friends. NRIs dancing to welcome the PM mean nothing

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Big Breaking: India, Pakistan de-escalate

[Maahir Panchal @maahirpanchal]

Sitting in a legacy manufacturing company in Surat rn with a couple of business owners.

Everyone has skilled labour issues now. All new folk capable of joining the workforce are busy delivering stuff or on betting apps.

India has a major dearth of skilled labour.

[Prathamesh Godbole | प्रथमेश गोडबोले @prathgodbole]

You can read this headline and never guess if its from 1975, 2005 or 2025.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 "Construction labourers in India are not willing to work due to availability of welfare schemes and comfort," says L&T chairman SN Subramanian.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Decades ago, when I began my career in the auto industry, it was our Indian delegations that would make the pilgrimage to International Auto shows to photograph & study the advanced cars made overseas.

At the recent Bharat Mobility Show in Delhi, you can imagine my emotions when seeing Japanese & Korean visitors poring over our new Electric Origin SUVs…