Samridh Zutshi

Musings, Music, The Arsenal, Banofee Pie. Not in that order. Formerly @Twitter

[Kunal Sharma @kunsha51]

At least two delusions now stand dispelled: India's pretensions of being a Vishwaguru and the portrayal of PM Modi as a strong leader. India remains a third-world soft state, governed by a pusillanimous leadership incapable of upholding the country's autonomy.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Modi's foreign trips follow a script:

1. Video of him boarding his plane
2. Arrival in foreign country
3. Watches dance by foreigners
4. Meets NRIs
5. NRI woman cries on meeting him
6. Muted videos of meeting officials
7. Gets an award he can't pronounce
8. Boards plane for next country
9. Loop to step 2

[Halal Wyler 🏆 @Shamsdale]

Arsenal FC The NY Knicks
🤝

Beating Spurs 4-1

[Gurmehar Kaur @mehartweets]

You've got 'nationalist' in your bio. You spend your days hurling rape threats at anyone who questions BJP or Hindutva.

So where's that same energy when it's time to demand justice?

You won’t speak up.

Because your loyalty isn’t to India or its people.

It’s to a divisive, hate-driven agenda.

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

The US military attacked Indian oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, killing three Indians.

The Indian Prime Minister did not even issue a single condemnation..

[Subramanian Swamy @Swamy39]

India should ask US Ambassador in New Delhi to go back to Washington and remain there unless US expresses regret for the reckless killing of our citizens on sea. But Modi is a pussy cat before Donald. He shivers before him.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Narundar @NarundarM]

PM Modi finished his short visit to India and returned abroad.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

I checked PM Modi’s timeline expecting at least a word of sympathy for the three Indians killed in a U.S. military strike. There is none. Not a condolence message. Not a public expression of grief. Instead, the timeline is dominated by replies to world leaders congratulating him on becoming India’s longest-serving Prime Minister.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

Funny how no-on did any articles on this one

[Samridh Zutshi @samridhz]

@JessApostrophe Not a single alert unfortunately.

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

Hello @JethmalaniM let me show you some mirror, may be you will feel some shame.

India vs China: What Was Added in the Last 12 Years

High Speed Rail Added (>300 km/hr)
India: 0 km
China: 40,000 km

Merchandise Exports Increase
India: +$510 Billion
China: +$1.5 Trillion

Solar Capacity Added
India: +107 GW
China: +980 GW

Metro, Tram & Urban Rail Added
India: 750 km
China: 8,000–10,000 km

Access-Controlled Expressways Added.
India: 5,700 km
China: 70,000 km

Operational Airports Added
India: 86
China: 130

Defence Exports
India: $2.7 Billion
China: $100 Billion+

Strategic Oil Reserves
India: 39 Million Barrels
China: 600 Million+ Barrels

Operational Semiconductor Fabs
India: 0 (no operational)
China: 40+

Smart CITIES category.
China : 990
India : 0

Mobile Manufacturing
India: 6 crore to 33 crore phones annually.

China: Remains the world's dominant manufacturing hub.

Not a single Indian university is in the global Top 200 overall rankings, while China has multiple universities in the global Top 50 and Top 100.

Despite being the world's most populous nation, India spends less than 1% of GDP on R&D, far below leading Asian innovation economies.

Make in India promised a manufacturing revolution, but failed bandly struck in 15–18% of GDP.

Rupee fell: 62/$ to ₹95/$.

Government schools declined by nearly 90,000 in India due to consolidation and closures.

While China added 10000s of new world class Govt schools/primary schools across China.

China took just 9 years from $2 TN to $10 Tn economy, while India just barely managed from $2 Tn to $4.2 Tn.

12 years of one government at Centre with full majority is rarerest in Democracy.

Modi government failed to Capitalize it, over all a mediocre and Below Avg performance.

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

While everyone was getting hopeful about 20million+ instagram rebels, BJP has quietly added 20 MPs to its camp. It is now stronger than it was. Meanwhile incredible scenes coming from Bengal-- TMC implosion, political violence & pitched street battle in Calcutta w. Cong & Left resisting (TMC fully missing)

Every part feels more unbelievable than the last. All gains of 2024 are now thoroughly lost-- TMC, AAP split.. JDU, TDP coopted, RJD humbled.. feels like we're in the endgame now.

This isnt the time for political purity, its the time for common minimum consensus & building up fast. Next big frontiers-- UP, Punjab, Gujarat, MP, Rajasthan, Karnataka & Telangana.

Battle for India 2029 will get decided here. Sense of urgency is real. Educate, Organize, Agitate. Jai Bhim.

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Gurpreet Garry Walia @garrywalia_]

स्मृति ईरानी का पुराना खजाना खोदा है , रीट्वीट करके वायरल करना आपका काम है

2012 👇

[Srikant @Srikant_x64]

E20 vs e0

Cars24 deleted video

[Venkat Reddy @Venkat_R_]

After killing the film industry, they are now killing the automobile industry. People are confused, don’t know what to buy. Very few diesel options, petrol has issues with E whatever, EV not practical for many.
Moronification making excellent progress.

[Pablo Chaterji @pablochaterji]

Right now, the best advice I can give you as an automotive journalist is to stop buying new cars and bikes, until this #ethanol mess is sorted out. OEMs are too scared to say anything to the government, so this will be one way of pressurising them as well.

[The Long Term Investor @term_investor]

In Ideal world Nitin Gandmari would be in jail

But then again we are a nation of cowards

[Shark @fintech_shark]

Per capita income of USA: 76k
Per capita income of India: 3k

WTF is he talking about?