Saurabh Chugh

Investment Analyst, interested in Geopolitics, sports lover...cricket, football, tennis, F1

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

Have you noticed the not-so-subtle difference?

This is a Reuters image of protests in France. Most of the western media reportage on French protests focus exclusively and overwhelmingly on brutality, destruction and anarchy of the protestors, portraying them as out of control monsters.

In contrast, most of the visual reportage of protests in India focus exclusively on police action on violent protestors. Rarely would you find images of destruction, though these were widely noted.

This isn't a coincidence. The lens is revealing. The visual imagery creates two narratives. One, protests in West are "evil". Protests in India are "against evil".

[Vineet Nayar @vineetnayar]

Trump wants fewer Indian technology professionals moving to America. The unintended consequence may be more American technology work moving to India.

I have spent more than three decades in this industry. So when I read about the latest US action restricting some large technology companies from using PERM, the route through which employees move towards permanent residency, I was less worried than the headlines suggested.

One number explains why. Indian IT companies accounted for less than 1,400 of the 117,849 PERM certifications last year. Less than 2%. The direct impact may therefore be smaller than it first appears.

But something more interesting is happening underneath.

The original Indian IT model was simple. The customer had important work in America, so we sent Indian engineers there to do it. Then we discovered that much of that work could be done from India. The onsite-offshore model was born. I lived that transition.

We may be at the beginning of another one.

America is making it harder to move Indian talent there, while technology is making it easier for smaller teams in India to take responsibility for increasingly sophisticated work.

There is an irony here. In trying to reduce the movement of Indian talent to America, the US may accelerate the movement of American work to India.

But I don’t mean another wave of coding and maintenance jobs.

The opportunity is architecture, product engineering, cybersecurity, AI implementation, industry solutions and eventually ownership of products and IP.

Indian teams should not merely receive specifications from New York. They should help decide what gets built. Not merely maintain a global bank’s technology platform, but help redesign the bank. Not just supply engineers to solve somebody else’s problem, but own the problem.

There is an uncomfortable truth too.

For thirty years, growth in Indian IT and growth in Indian IT employment travelled together. Win more business, hire more engineers.

As AI technology improves productivity, that relationship may weaken. Indian IT could win more sophisticated work and create more value without headcount growing at the same rate.

So we need a different definition of success.

For thirty years, Indian IT competed largely on the cost of Indian talent. The next thirty will depend on the capability of Indian talent.

Can we create architects rather than only programmers? Build products and IP here? Move more global decision-making to India? Create more value per person and therefore pay our people far better?

Those are much bigger questions than how many visas America issues.

So worry not about the visa headlines.

Trump may make it harder for Indian engineers to move to American work. The opportunity is to make American work move to Indian engineers.

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

The Indian Express story on the EC was timed to influence Supreme Court.

Yesterday, a judgment was pending in the SC. Whether the 2023 law governing the appointment process for the Chief Election Commissioners and Election Commissioners would be sent to a constitutional bench.

Timed perfectly, only hours before the judgement, the story dropped.

SC then sent the law to be deliberated by the constitution bench.

Did the story impact the judgement? One can’t be sure. Is the timing suspect? Absolutely.

Most mainstream media reporting today, on the big stories, is to influence the judicial process. Look closely, research, and you’ll see.

[Major Surendra Poonia @MajorPoonia]

Jai Hind Friends 🇮🇳
Sharing for help abt fellow Brother in Arms ❤️
“Some stories should not be scrolled past. This is one of them.
Col Anurag Upadhyay scored in the 99th percentile in CAT. He could have chosen a corporate career. He chose the Indian Army instead.
He volunteered for the Special Forces, completed probation with 3 PARA (SF), and joined the raising team of 12 PARA (SF). Even after a heart attack in 2008, he returned to active duty.
In August 2025, he suffered a severe posterior circulation stroke. Today, he has Locked-in Syndrome. His body has been severely affected. His mind has not.
He is conscious and aware. He remembers. He thinks. Through eye movements and alphabet-based scanning, he communicates his thoughts. Further complications resulted in bilateral below-knee amputations.
This post is not asking for sympathy. It is asking for possibility.
His family knows what the medical literature says. They are not asking for promises. They believe no credible possibility should remain unexplored because the right expert was outside their network.
They seek connections to:
• Neurologists and neuro-rehabilitation specialists experienced in Locked-in Syndrome
• Rehabilitation centres focused on neurological recovery
• Researchers exploring recovery of movement, speech or other functions
• Research and emerging technologies, including brain-computer interfaces
• Eye-tracking and assistive technology that could give Anurag a more independent voice
• Veteran organisations or individuals who can open the right doors
Someone reading this may know a doctor who has treated a similar patient, a rehabilitation team that has seen a different outcome, a relevant researcher—or someone who can make the right introduction.

His prognosis should be determined by medicine and how his body responds—not by a lack of information, access or connections.
Please make a connection if you can. DM “Tales Of A Gypsy” on Instagram. If you cannot, share this until it reaches someone who can.
No sympathy. Just one question: What more is possible for Col Anurag ?
Let us help him find out”
https://t.co/4RUBXYthny

Prayers 🙌For You- Brother Anurag ❤️

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

That’s why as Home Minister @PChidambaram_IN c ff ‘Operation Green Hunt’ after an incensed Sonia Gandhi screamed at you at the behest of Digvijay Singh. You played Sonia Gandhi’s doormat as she inducted convicted Naxal Binayak Sen into her NAC, the Super Cabinet that gave orders to MMS.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Rahul Gandhi and Sandeep Dikshit thought their crass, tasteless jibe at PM Modi hugging leaders, dragging Georgia Meloni in it, was a killer political move.
They forget that history and internet don’t forget.
They pulled out a video of Rahul grandma Indira hugging Fidel Castro.

[Rubika Liyaquat @RubikaLiyaquat]

Kuch bhi… I receive threats too. Almost everyday. Simply because my point of view doesn’t suit a section of people.

Stop celebrating as if democracy has suddenly been restored!

What you really miss is not democracy.. you miss monopoly. You miss ur narratives, your cultural approval.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Behind every guy trying to act smooth in front of a girl is a best friend holding back a laugh.

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

Wow!

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

‼️#ChorTMC Fake News Alert
peddled by habitual Disinformation peddler Mamata Banerjee’s stooge propagandist @sagarikaghose

In a post on X the TMC MP brazenly lied that:

“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at Missionaries of Charity’s Mother House in Kolkata, saluting their exemplary globally renowned humanitarian service. SHEER HYPOCRISY of Narendra Modi government on display: an anti Christian government which through new proposed FCRA bill had barred Missionaries of Charity from receiving foreign aid and is enabling seizure of Church assets, thus destroying the ability of Christian institutions to do the humanitarian , massive educational and healthcare providing service they are known for, yet now show casing our revered Mother Teresa’s organisation for the international visitor.”
https://t.co/ORqRWw91hF

EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS LYING TMC MP’S POST, BARRING THE FACT THAT SECRETARY RUBIO @marcorubio VISITED ‘MOTHER HOUSE’ IN KOLKATA, IS AN OUTRIGHT AND OUTRAGEOUS LIE BY A HABITUAL TOXIC AND MALICIOUS DISINFORMATION PEDDLER. THIS IS NOT ONLY A PERVERSION OF FACTS BUT ALSO A SHAMEFUL AND DISHONOURABLE ATTEMPT TO DEFAME THE PM AND DENIGRATE THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BEFORE A HIGH RANKING FOREIGN DIGNITARY.

The hard facts are in the public domain and the Missionaries of Charity would happily validate them:

The association Missionaries of Charity is registered under FCRA and has an active FCRA registration. The validity of the FCRA registration is 31-12-2026 and no application is pending as on date.

Sagarika Ghose must not be given a pass and allowed to escape accountability for her loathsome intentional attempt to slander Bharat. She lives a tax-funded life and is answerable for her deeds and words.

A bohiragoto who can barely speak but cannot read or write Bangla fluently propped up by Mamata Banerjee to push her vile anti-Bengal and anti-Hindu Bengali agenda, Sagarika Ghose legally represents West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha. Every Hindu Bengali with even an iota of self-esteem and self-dignity must resist this brutalisation of truth by Mamata Banerjee and her stooges.

A ‘chor’ is not only someone who steals from the people and the exchequer; a ‘chor’ is also someone who steals facts to churn out lies. Call Sagarika Ghose out, call her a truth slayer on her face.

And if you spot @IndiaToday amplifying Sagarika Ghose’s bunk, call out India Today too. Journalism is sacred, not hideous communal propaganda meant to generate anti-Bharat hate at home and abroad.

[Binay Kumar Singh @BinayBharat]

What started as an “interview” quickly turned into a live fact-checking session for Norwegian journalist Helle Lyng. She arrived armed with the usual toolkit, “Free Press”, “Human Rights”, and a suitcase full of assumptions, only to admit she neither visited India properly nor studied the subject seriously. That’s like reviewing biryani after smelling plain rice from outside the restaurant.

Gaurie Dwivedi, meanwhile, didn’t just answer the questions, she politely bulldozed the very foundation of them. Calm, sharp, and unapologetically articulate, she exposed how selective outrage and recycled narratives are often packaged as “global concern” whenever India refuses to fit into Western stereotypes.

The funniest part? The loud accusations collapsed faster than an opposition alliance after election results. What was supposed to be an attack on PM Modi ended up becoming a masterclass in how propaganda sometimes travels business class but returns economy with excess baggage.

And yes, ambassadors don’t just sit in embassies. Sometimes ordinary citizens, journalists, and professionals become representatives of their nation on global platforms. Gaurie did exactly that, with facts, confidence, and without needing a lecture from people who can’t even locate half of India on a map.

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

https://t.co/iLcRDRYHsD

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

The Economist magazine is disappointed that India did not celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Mughal conquest of India. Oh, those ungrateful natives who do not celebrate the gift of civilisation. Who knows, they may even refuse to celebrate the Battle of Plassey. Dangerous trend.....

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

Last week, my colleague @debanganaghosh4 travelled to Nashik to report on the crisis at TCS.

In under 48 hours, she accessed all 9 FIRs and spoke to the SIT head, public prosecutor, and defence lawyers.

Her @moneycontrolcom story, published today, raises tough questions.

TCS said it didn’t receive complaints via POSH (prevention of sexual harassment) channels. Per the FIRs, Ashwini Chainani, a delivery operations head who’s been with the company for over 20 years, dissuaded young women from filing complaints, even as she was part of the POSH committee.

When there was a complaint about Shafi Shaikh’s conduct by a woman employee in 2022, senior manager Nitin Kapoor merely shifted him to another department.

Kapoor also wrote several mails to Chainani about the lack of work ethic among the accused (tardiness, bullying, subpar work), but even those were seemingly ignored.

Many of the complainants are young employees from economically vulnerable backgrounds who, according to investigators, were hesitant to come forward earlier.

Another key gap: the identity and role of the Nashik unit’s HR leadership remain unclear.

According to the FIRs accessed, a common pattern of alleged harassment involved repeatedly asking women intrusive questions about their private lives, despite them not wanting to answer.

This included questions on whether they had physical relationships with their boyfriends, whether they were going on a honeymoon with their spouse, commenting on a woman with Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD), and telling one of the complainants to work on her body and lose weight.

Public prosecutor Kiran Bendbhar, who is representing eight out of the nine complainants, told Moneycontrol that Ashwini Chainani was also, in fact, a part of the company’s Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) committee, yet she failed to raise the complaints.

SIT’s Mitke said the victims were scared because none of the managers they had been verbally raising complaints with took any action.

This is a deeply reported piece that goes beyond headlines to examine what may have gone wrong inside a small unit of one of India’s largest companies.

https://t.co/PKrtxKZXA3

[Khalid Baig @KhalidBaig85]

You will have to raise the issue of the TCS-Nashik horror. Rajdeep Sardesai won't, you will have to. Ravish Kumar won't, you will have to. Rana Ayyub won't, you will have to. Arfa Khanum Sherwani won't, you will have to.

Mohammad Zubair & Pratik Sinha are waiting for something, so that they can take the heat off the accused in this case and instead victim blame and blame you for communalizing a deeply communal issue. So you will have to raise this issue.

There will be no social media protests or ground protests, no community will be asked hard questions. Instead any emotionally charged comment from you, will be used against you, for attacking an entire community.

This case goes against the Leftists-Muslim ideological worldview.

The perpetrators are Muslims, the victims are Hindus, so they will not touch this topic.

You will have to keep talking about it, they will not.

The first day Times of India published this story, they did not even name the accused, in fear of the above ecosystem accusing them of being communal.

[Maj Manik M Jolly,SM @Manik_M_Jolly]

Absolutely not. It happened because :

1. Only Pakistan as a country and its leadership are puppet enough to say whatever trump wants. Remember their PM acting like a coy teenage girl in front of trump while proposing Noble peace prize.

2. They are totally bankrupt. They survive in weekly pay checks from US, and other middle eastern oil nations. So this is like securing a year’s worth of salary.

3. They would want total autonomy and no interference in their operations against Afghans and Balochs, which involves abduction, killings and raping of thousands.

4. Then need military hardware asap to counter India. Especially more fighter and missiles. The pounding they got last year proved thah their Chinese air defence setup is useless.

5. They are under unimaginable size of debt

6. They want to keep playing China - US favourite. Seasonally shifting loyalties to gather favours. This is US’s season.

7. They have no morality or shame, especially when it comes to money.

8. They do ball tampering in cricket and gov matches. Not that it’s related here but it’s good to mention.

All in all, Pakistan was chosen because no one else would do dirty work of selling its soul. They screwed their neighbor and another Muslim nation, Afghanistan a few years back, for same dollars. They lent their army to kill thousands of Palestinians, the same cause they cry rivers for as part of their drama. This isn’t statecraft, diplomacy or geopolitics. It’s straight up pimping yourself.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.

The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.

This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.

A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

[Anurag @Jhunjhunuwala_]

@kaushikcbasu You were the Chief Economic Advisor to the Indian Government from 2009–12.

Do be quiet, we are considerably better off without your counsel.

[The Chronology @TheChronology__]

Nirupama Rao served as Foreign Secretary of India during Manmohan Singh’s tenure as Prime Minister.

At the same time, Hina Rabbani Khar was the Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

She is missing the “good old days” of India’s strategic clarity, when:

- Pakistan was never held responsible for terrorist attacks on Indian soil,
- India never retaliated against Pakistan for any terror attacks,
- and Pakistan effectively influenced or controlled aspects of India’s foreign policy.

[Sanjeev Bikhchandani @sbikh]

Ah - the fallacy of the inapt analogy. GDP is a flow variable. Market Cap is a stock variable. GDP is national income. Market cap is the aggregate value of all the shares of a company. You don’t compare a stock variable to a flow variable - apples and oranges. It’s a bit like someone saying “My house is worth more than your annual salary so I am better off than you”. If you want to compare Google to India then compare Googles revenue to India’s national income. Googles revenue is USD 400 bill. Its market cap is roughly 10x of that which is approx. USD 4 trillion. If countries could be listed and have a market cap then applying the same multiple India’s market cap would be USD 40 trillion around 10x of it’s GDP