Sameer Gupta

Economics, Steel, Coal, Shipping, Infra, History, Science Fiction. NIT Trichy| IIM Bangalore|Somalwar Nagpur| Left is Cancer| Tweets are personal opinions.

[DesiEsco🇮🇳 @DesiEsco7]

Meet Sanjay Chitkara, Director of LG Electronics.

- Survivor of the 1989 Khalistani terror attack at Thapar Engineering College, Patiala

- He was hit by five bullets and survived. He still has one bullet in his body

- Khalistani terrorists stormed the hostel and killed 19 non-Sikh students from different states

- Attack took place two hours before Rajiv Gandhi's visit to Chandigarh, yet he made no public statement on it.

You won't see this in Satluj because it doesn't fit its one-sided narrative.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what this whole fight is about, because it is very different from what the tweet by the Japanese official makes it sound like.

Back in 2015, India and Japan signed the Mumbai to Ahmedabad bullet train deal. 508 km.

India would use Japan's Shinkansen trains and Shinkansen technology. Japan put up a massive soft loan, covering most of the cost, at almost no interest, 0.1 percent, to be repaid over 50 years.

On paper it sounded amazing. Cheap money, world class trains.

But every such loan has a catch. Cheap Japanese money came tied to buying Japanese things.

Their trains. Their coaches. Their signal system. Their price, largely on their terms. That is normal. No country lends billions out of pure love. They lend to sell their own industry.

Then two things went wrong, and this is where his anger comes from.

One, the price.

The Japanese Shinkansen trainsets turned out to be extremely expensive. India felt it was being overcharged for the rolling stock. So, talks hit a wall.

Two, the timeline.

The newest Japanese trains, the E10 series, would reportedly only be ready for India around 2032. India did not want to sit on a finished 1.08 lakh crore track with no trains to run on it.

So India made a call. And this is the part I am proud of.

Instead of waiting and overpaying, India decided to run its own trains first. BEML in Bengaluru got an order to build indigenous high speed trainsets at about 866 crore each, designed to run at 280 kmph.

India will open the line with Indian made trains on the Surat to Vapi stretch around 2027, and bring in the Japanese Shinkansen later.

And the signal system, the thing he is bitter about, India switched from Japan's DS-ATC to the European ETCS Level 2 system.

The same family already used on the Delhi Meerut rapid rail. That is what he means by Japan being excluded from the signal system. India looked at the Japanese option, found it too costly and too slow, and picked a different one.

Now let me be fair, because I cannot be blind just because I am pro India.

He is not lying about everything.

India is genuinely a tough, frustrating negotiator. We change our mind. We push for our own interest till the last minute. We renegotiate things others thought were settled.

To a Japanese official raised on politeness and fixed agreements, this feels like betrayal.

But flip it around and look at it from our seat.

Our job is not to protect Japanese honour. Our job is to get India a bullet train at a fair price, that runs soon, and that builds Indian factories in the process.

On all three, changing course was the right call. Waiting till 2032 and overpaying for imported trains would have been the polite choice. It would also have been the stupid choice.

There is a bigger thing hiding under his frustration, and I think it is the real reason for the anger.

For decades, the deal was simple. Rich countries gave loans and technology, and poorer countries said thank you and bought whatever came bundled with it.

You took the money, you took their trains, you did not argue.

India argued. India took the loan, then insisted on its own trains, its own signal system, its own factories getting the work. We used their money to build our capability instead of just renting theirs.

That is what stings them. Not that we were reckless. That we refused to stay the junior partner in our own project.

I will give the Japanese side genuine credit.

Their engineering is world class. In 60 years, the Shinkansen has never had a passenger death from a derailment or collision.

That safety record is worth respecting. Their frustration with our chaos is also probably fair on a human level. Working with India can be maddening. Anyone who has managed an Indian project knows this.

For me, the real issue is what’s in it for our country.

India has the track. India is building its own trains for it. India picked its own signal system.

India got a 50 year loan at almost zero interest. And India will still get the Shinkansen later, on better terms than the original bundle.

If that is what Indian recklessness produces, I will take it every single time.

Be tough. Be a nightmare to negotiate with. Just make sure the country wins at the end of it. :)

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@SudsG5 Mar bhi sakta hai pehle. Khandaan mein hai early death.

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@UTDIMole David Villa

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Cancer patient was about to die. She pleaded. Her plea has been listed 57 times. The court has still not heard it. Teesta Setalvad was about to be jailed. She pleaded. Her plea was listed out of turn. The court heard it at midnight.

Cancer patient is dead. Teesta is alive.

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@sanjeevsanyal Nope

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[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

In 2000, 3 days before Christmas, 3 LeT jihadis opened indiscriminate fire at the Red Fort and killed 2 soldiers of the Indian Army and 1 security guard.

Three days before Christmas.

By Christmas, one of them was in police custody. Paki Muhammad Arif, alias Ashfaq, was picked from an apartment more than 11 hours away by road. Along with a pistol and live rounds.

Much is said and written of police lethargy in this country but how often do you hear of such swift aprehension?

By March 2001, a chargesheet was already in with Arif and 21 other names.

Know when the trial began?

September.

Not for all 22, but only 11.

A Lashkar terrorist is caught with evidence and trial takes 7 months to even commence. When do you think the verdict could’ve come?

October 31.

2005.

Thankfully, the verdict is in favor of the State. Death penalty for Arif, Jail for his wife Rehmana Yusuf Farooqui (bitch is Indian, by the way).

So at least one jihadi is hanged. Finally!

Not so soon.

We have a “rule of law.” Jihadi goes to High Court.

Remember, more than 230 witnesses have been recorded in support of the verdict at the trial court. Of course the higher court would agree. It does. But takes two whole years.

Hang him now?

Nope. Supreme Court.

This one agrees with the verdict too. But takes...hold your breath...4 years to say so.

We’re in 2011 now. Second half. Anyway, Supreme Court says you should hand, so you should hang, no?

Nope. Review petition, curative petition, yada yada yada...by the time we’re in 2014, the whole legal paradigm has shifted. A foreign terror convict (not accused, convict) who should have been hanged...has been made the basis for a change in the very SOP of Indian judiciary. Allow me to explain:

Earlier review petitions were heard in a closed-door setting inside judges’ chambers. No oral arguments were allowed. The judges would simply read the written files and pass an order. This is called “hearing by circulation” because the case papers are literally “circulated” among the judges rather than argued orally.

In Mumahhad Arif’s 2014 hearing, the SC ordered that this be changed to “open court hearing” for death row inmates.

The whole process was reset. Typically, a review or curative petition is only allowed once, that too within 30 days of the verdict. This ruling practically rendered all past reviews in the case immaterial and allowed a fresh petition for an open court hearing.

The highest court of the land just offered the terrorist a lifeline.

The lifeline is grabbed.

A fresh review petition is filed. Heard. And dismissed once again. But now we’re closing 2022.

Hanging finally?

Nope.

There’s still a final ace left to be played: The President of India.

A mercy plea is filed with Ms. Murmu. She rejected the plea (thank goodness)...

TWO YEARS LATER.

So trial lost, HC lost, SC lost, two reviews lost, President lost...NOW can we hang him finally?

Nope. Now it’s back to SC with a curative plea.

Just for the plea to be heard, we go from 2024 to 2026.

Jan 21 this year the SC agreed to examine a fresh curative plea from Arif based on “evolving jurisprudence regarding the death penalty,” putting his execution on hold once again.

As of this tweet, the Pakistani jihadi who opened indiscriminate fire at random unsuspecting Indians at the heart of its capital...

Remains as far from the noose as he was two decades ago.

The story of Indian judiciary.

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@darkandcrude Don’t know why he was made captain. Shreyas Iyer was always excellent against mediocre bowling and mediocre against excellent bowling. Now he is mediocre against mediocre bowling as well.

Apart from this he us like the lowest IQ Iyer man on the planet.

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@TheEmissaryCo My guess would be that lactose tolerance would show more graduent when compared across castes than comparing it across regions.

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@ImPC_45 Bapu Nadkarni

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@Bhanu_R780 Martin Guptill?

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@ShekharGupta Fuck off

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In 1760, Marathas and Abdali were disputing the Indo-afghan borderline. Abdali wanted Sirhind to be the frontier, Marathas were adamant on Peshawar being the frontier. Dispute was basically for control of Punjab. Yet the Sikhs were completely absent from the 3rd battle of Panipat in 1761. Less than 20 years prior to Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s birth.

Sikh “empire” only existed because Marathas abandoned aspirations to control NW after 1761 and Abdali also got a very bloody nose in 1761 and afghans never came back with substantial forces to attack again.

[Dr Kulbeer Singh Badal (Sandhawalia) ✍️ @DrKS_Badal]

It’s very easy to spread hate and misinformation @upword_ but it’s tuff to stand with the facts these are same Nihangs & Sikh’s who had saved the Hindu faith in India, brought girls of Hindus from Gazni when they were sold for tucks! And in this incident too locals had attacked!

[Aravind @aravind]

At least 40+ people have died in France in the last week due to extreme heat. France24, one of the alleged red-green cabal infiltrated media cartel, has still not done a news piece titled "40+ poor people die in Macron's France." like they do for "Modi's India."

All French media did news on "extreme heat" in India just a month ago. And Indian media haven't covered the heat waves in Europe and how they are suffering without AC and dying. This is India's failing.

There must be a balance. Also, offense is the best defense. If India wants to shut their nonsense about India at the behest of their anti-India globalist, islamist and communist sponsors and editors, Indian media must focus on bringing all the dirt out about these countries.

Indian media need to cover just one crime, rape, accident from EU, US, and China everyday in India. Program 1.4 billion Indians against how bad things are. The way they do against India everyday. What INC used to do to Indians against the US, China, Pak one time.

The strategy will be extremely effective at shutting these foreign state media constantly doing negative stories on India. Even if not, it will ensure Indians understand it's not like only in India everything is the worst.

[Royal Singh 🦁 @Royalsinghz3]

Prakhar Gupta explains the heinous plan behind Pakistanis all of a sudden trying to claim IVC, Basant Panchami, Sarees & renaming towns & cities back to the original Hindu names 🫣

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad