Saumil Kumar

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[Debashis Basu @Moneylifers]

Far richer China allows foreign transfer of $50,000 per individual

Far poorer India, perpetually short of forex, struggling with a weak rupee, allows $250,000.

Who decides, who benefits?

[Saumil Kumar @saumilkumar_]

nahh broo

[Alvin @sondesix]

He's cookin!

[Options.India @Options_IndiaAB]

I recently spent 2 weeks in China.

6 cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Zhangjiajie, Chongqing and Chengdu.

I went there with curiosity.

Like many Indians, I had heard a lot about China through media, social media and conversations. I expected to see progress, maybe discover some business ideas, and understand what the country is actually building.

I came back with a very uncomfortable feeling.

Not because I found a business idea for myself.

But because I saw 100 things that governments can do when infrastructure, tourism, transport, urban planning and civic systems are treated seriously.

I travelled within China by flights, trains, cars and local transport. The infrastructure was honestly stunning.

Clean cities. Smooth roads. High-speed trains. Well-managed traffic. Public spaces that actually feel designed for people. Tourist destinations that are built, maintained and promoted like national assets.

And then I kept thinking about India.

We keep comparing ourselves to China. Our media keeps telling us how India is catching up, how China is restrictive, how we are better in so many ways.

After spending time there and speaking to people, I realised how much of that narrative is just comfort food.

China is not perfect. No country is.

But on infrastructure, execution, tourism, civic discipline and quality of urban life, they are not 5 years ahead of us.

They are decades ahead.

The saddest part for me was the currency.

Everything felt expensive. Not because China was insanely expensive, but because the rupee has weakened so much that even normal spending starts feeling heavy. As an Indian taxpayer, that genuinely hurt.

We pay taxes. We work hard. We talk about becoming a global power.

But where is the quality of life?

Where is the civic sense?

Where is the infrastructure that makes daily life easier?

Where is the tourism vision beyond religious tourism?

I met travellers from other countries who were excited to visit China because they wanted to see its progress. When I asked about India, many had no real desire to visit. Not out of hate. India simply was not on their aspirational travel list.

That should bother us.

Even the so-called “closed internet” surprised me. We are told people there are missing out because they don’t use Google, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.

But China has built its own digital ecosystem. Payments, maps, transport, messaging, shopping, everything works inside their own infrastructure. People did not seem to feel deprived. They seemed adapted.

Again, this is not a hate post.

I love India. That is exactly why this trip bothered me.

Patriotism cannot only be about saying we are great.

Real patriotism is having the courage to admit where we are falling behind.

China made me realise one thing very clearly:

India’s potential is not the problem.

Execution is.

And unless we stop comforting ourselves with comparisons and start demanding better infrastructure, better governance, better tourism, cleaner cities and a higher quality of life, we will keep celebrating the idea of progress instead of actually living it.

[News Arena India @NewsArenaIndia]

India should increase investment in R&D to 2% of GDP: Niti Aayog

[Indian Info Lead 🇮🇳 @Indianinfolead]

@IndianTechGuide Hard to build the future of tech and science on 0.64%. For India to truly compete on the global stage with giants like the US and China, shifting more resources into R&D isn't just an option anymore it's a necessity.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

BJP agent Messi kicked off the downfall of Didi

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Democracy so retarded that the only performing CM (non-BJP) loses to an actor

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Mayor Mamdani calls on King Charles to return the Kohinoor Diamond, a 105-carat jewel originally found in India.

[Aditya Ojha @thispodcastguy]

Since its inception in 2017, a total of 12 major examinations have either been leaked or irregularities have been observed.

Learn conducting papers first and then make reels.

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

Absolutely gut-wrenching news from Satna, Madhya Pradesh.

A mother alleges that during a surgery for kidney stones, doctors (named as Dr. Pushpendra Singh & Dr. Pathak) removed both of her child's kidneys.

The family claims the doctors called it a "mistake," but this is a life-altering catastrophe.

How does a stone removal turn into a double nephrectomy?

This is beyond negligence… it is a horror.

We demand an immediate, high-level probe into this medical facility and the surgeons involved.

Justice for the child and his mother is non-negotiable.

@MoHFW_INDIA @MPHealthDept @Collector_Satna @DrMohanYadav51 @JPNadda @PMOIndia

[nick @nickenshit]

@TheInsiderPaper USA putting Mythos to work

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Genuinely terrifying when you map this onto the Indian context. Mythos is Anthropic's unreleased frontier model, so dangerously good at finding security holes in software that Anthropic itself is refusing to release it publicly out of fear of what hackers could do with it.

Now picture the average sarkari portal: PSU sites frozen in their mid-2000s table-layout glory, IRCTC-tier glitches visible to anyone with basic dev tools, state government domains where the SSL certificates expired during Manmohan's second term. Six months from now some nerdy black hat teenager in Sialkot or Dhaka with an open-source Mythos-class model can sit back and let it chew through the entire attack surface of Indian e-governance and banking infra over a weekend.

Meanwhile our defensive setup is some contractual IT vendor in Okhla who got the tender because his cousin knew someone in the ministry.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[abhinav @AbhinavXJ]

might be the hardest edit of all time

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera

The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

[Globe | Your Freedom Dealer @BowTiedGlobe]

Eliminating overhead wiring is the single most effective intervention to go From Third World to First aesthetically

[Rohan @iRohanSachdeva]

Three certainties in life:
-Death
-Taxes
-Indian students demanding immediate evacuation from a literal war zone despite being asked to leave weeks before

[🎣 #killAraujo @n0thatdeep]

suicide bombing in an age where drones exist, pure love for the game, you have to respect this dedication

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Kailash Vijayvargiya:

On a question about deaths due to contaminated water in Indore: “Chhodo yaar, tum phokat ke sawaal mat karo. Kya ghanta hoke aaye ho tum?”

On the Australian women cricketers’ molestation incident (Oct 2025): “It’s a lesson for the players as well that they should not go out without informing the local administration.”

On rape and killings during post-poll violence in Bengal (2021): “Azadi ki ladaai mein bhi logon ne balidaan diya tha. Bengal mein bhi prajatantra bachane ke liye balidaan logon ko hi dena padega.”

He has repeatedly demonstrated a disturbing habit of trivialising suffering and deflecting responsibility. Clearly unfit to be a leader.