resident infrapiller

Politics, Geopolitics, Transit & Infra.

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

Map of all expressways in various stages in India, mapped manually using available data.
https://t.co/mEzHZbp4bn

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@InfraholicR yes thats the issue there isnt much supply right now so the vertical development is majorly out of the hands of the middle class, unlike ahmedabad

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@Krish_nvm_Raw gdp per capita is just gdp/population and since our base for both gdp and population is higher if we are increasing out gdp at a faster rate it should correspond to percapita as well.

[Forging India @indiaemerges]

Found a massive RBI excel sheet that is a treasure trove for state budgets dating back to 1991. So, I built a dashboard to track and compare state-wise expenditure. Lots to learn just from browsing states' expenditure patterns. How states spend on health, education vs capex is very interesting but also how budgets for different states scale to their GSDP. More thoughts later.

P.S. the dashboard isn't well optimized for mobile browsing.

https://t.co/lodFy2p54y

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@Honnestforum @up_10t_army @narendramodi building stps is one part of the problem which can be sorted out but the main issue is connecting all of the haphazardly built houses to this plant

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Of all the large Indian cities, one has done what urban planning is supposed to do over the last 25 years.

Slums have been limited to about a quarter, against Mumbai's half. India's first working bus rapid transit. A working metro. A reclaimed river.

Here's the story of Amdavad.🧵

[Xiaosist @itzme3d_1]

This is what we need in every Indian city.

And to the dumb people who are crying for greenery, visit it from the ground, you will understand there's no tree species that can be visible next to a 13-storey building.

[India Infographics Guy @Deshpacito661]

The states of Assam, Bihar, and Chattisgarh with populations 37 million, 132 million, and 31 million respectively processed 0% of the sewage generated before releasing it into the environment.

West Bengal (100 million) only processed 4%. The relatively industrialized state of Tamil Nadu (77 million) only processed 15%.

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have some of the highest rates of stunting in the world. This is a major reason why: high population density + underinvestment in water treatment infrastructure. STPs need to be built on war footing.

This results in population scale physical and cognitive deficits. I personally suspect that it’s a major factor behind this region’s underperformance in international sporting events (China also just built out this sewage infrastructure this decade. The beneficiaries are not yet at the age of have a measurable impact in international sporting events)

[Murali Srinivasa @MuraliSrinivasa]

A large Chinese bare PCB factory produces more PCBs during their lunch time, than what entire India produces in a Month.

This is a huge "structural" gap.

We need large PCB factories in 🇮🇳, tens and hundreds of them.

We launch Terra Circuits to build such large PCB campuses across🇮🇳

Our first 100 acre campus is in Mulvad, Vijaypura, which is split in two phases of 50 acre each.

This will be the first integrated electronics manufacturing campus, largest in 🇮🇳 from a remote village in North Karnataka, manufacturing and assembling PCBs along with an R&D center.

We at LionCircuits are strongly committed to build a resilient electronics ecosystem and thank our Honbl. Minister @MBPatil sir for approving our project and creating the necessary Infrastructure to build factories in Mulvad.

#jaihind 🇮🇳
@LionCircuits

[India Infographics Guy @Deshpacito661]

You realize the technological/infrastructural gap between the US and other countries when you dive into niche subjects like map infographics.

The United States has a digital elevation model (DEM) with 1 meter resolution spanning the entire freaking country. This means that elevation data for every square meter in the US is documented 🤯.

Europe isn't even close. Parts of Europe have 1 meter resolution digital elevation models. However, if you want a DEM for all of Europe, you need to be at 30 meter resolution.

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@deepakt51991964 no but u can extract from osm using scripts ask ai bout it.

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

Map of all expressways in various stages in India, mapped manually using available data.
https://t.co/mEzHZbp4bn

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@0xratdev @ArjunM1412 @streetfrontier too many jaywalkers tram wont be able to move atleast infront of such highly visited tourist spots

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@Hakunamatata474 @Nationalist_PK @indianurbanism3 nhai releases its map, in that its there but unfortunately idk about a kml version

[Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) @monidipadey]

Not surprising. Wikipedia is completely controlled by leftist wokes and Islamists (many are Pakistanis).

In 2022, after I took up writing on Gopal Mukherjee (Gopal pantha) to spread his name, some Pakistani editors quietly deleted the Wikipedia English page on Gopal Mukherjee in 2022- 23. When I came to know of it, I wrote about it here on X, which created a lot of noise.

As revenge for highlighting the deletion of Gopal Mukherjee page and making it known, I am banned from editing on Wikipedia from 2023. They keep renewing the ban each time the ban period ends. The first time ban was by a Pakistani editor. After that each time it’s a different editor that keeps renewing the ban.
This image is today’s. After 8 months a different editor will again ban me from editing.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is exactly the point I keep making.

We Indians are the only people on earth who take a few bad apples and turn it into a verdict on our entire country.

Someone behaves badly in public, and within seconds it becomes "Indians have no civic sense, we give India a bad name."

We do not even wait for the world to judge us. We rush to do it ourselves, loudly.

So let me hold up the same mirror to the rest of the world.

Just two weeks ago, PSG won the Champions League. This was their second title in a row, beating Arsenal on penalties. A back to back European crown, one of the biggest things that can happen to a football club.

So how did Paris, one of the most cultured cities on the planet, celebrate?

They set cars on fire. They vandalised and looted shops. They lit fires in the streets. A group even tried to storm a police station.

Across France, 890 people were arrested in one night. More than 200 were injured. A young man died after crashing his bike into concrete barriers during the chaos.

France had to put 8,000 police on the streets just to manage a party.

And this was not even the worst of it. When PSG won their first title the year before, two people died, 264 cars were burned, and a police officer was hit in the face by fireworks and put into an induced coma.

Now ask yourself one simple question.

Did anyone write "the French have no civic sense"? Did anyone say France should be ashamed, that the French give their country a bad name?

No. Their own President tweeted "a new star is shining over Paris." The whole thing got filed under passion. Under joy. Under boys being boys.

Take another one. In February 2025, Philadelphia won the Super Bowl. Their fans ripped traffic light poles clean out of the ground and carried them down the road. They set fires in the street. They climbed on dump trucks. They threw bottles at police. Dozens were arrested. And at the playoff celebration just weeks before that, an 18 year old fell off a lamp post and died, and that same night there were shootings, a stabbing, and a car that drove straight into the crowd.

This is one of the richest cities in the richest country in the world.

And again, nobody said "Americans are uncivilised." Nobody said America should hang its head.

It was reported as a wild, passionate, beautiful night. Everyone moved on.

When a Western crowd burns cars, tears down public property, and people actually die, the world calls it energy, love, raw emotion.

When an Indian does something far smaller, the world, and worse, we ourselves, call it proof that a billion people have no manners and no culture.

I am not saying bad behaviour is fine. It is selfish, it is annoying, and you should call it out, firmly. Bad behaviour is bad behaviour, in Delhi, in Paris, in Philadelphia.

But the rule has to be the same for everyone. If burning cars and storming a police station in Paris is just passion, then a small bit of celebration in Vietnam is, at absolute worst, a small bit of inconvenience. It is not evidence that our civilisation has failed.

Other countries guard their self image fiercely.

A French fan burns a car and still calls his people the most cultured in Europe. An American tears down a traffic pole and still walks around certain he is from the greatest country on the planet.

And then we find one bad clip and use it to confirm a sad little story we have somehow been taught to believe about ourselves.

So the next time you see one Indian behaving badly and feel that urge to say "this is why we are a third world country," stop.

We do not need the world to look down on us.

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

What a day for Bharat! 🚀🔥

- We just broke into the Top 5 global manufacturers $473B+ output and climbing fast! 📈

- Merchandise exports surged 18% YoY to a record $45.2 billion in May 2026. 🚢

- Sarvam AI hits unicorn status with major funding, sovereign AI dreams accelerating. 🦄

- Adani + Jabil announce GW-scale AI data centre hardware manufacturing platform in India for global exports. 🥰

- Gujarat launches Industrial Policy 2026 - massive push for semiconductors, EVs, green tech & mega investments. 🚛

The future’s so bright, we gotta wear shades 😎

Keep building!
This is our decade. 🇮🇳♥️

[Xiaosist @itzme3d_1]

Idk what Illusions you guys live in, but another Chandigarh is the last thing India needs.

It's a glorified Urban sprawl which should be obsolete in big 2026.

- Too car-centric
- Walking feels much longer
- Metro is not feasible and will be very inefficient if made

too many..

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@00lucastw @jcrajan00 okay? at that rate we would never develop. we have protests for literal dams and nuclear plants which will bring power and lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty all because some people will be displaced.

which nation developed after being considerate to the human.

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@00lucastw @jcrajan00 this isnt even hindutva its utilitarianism, literally ethical theory in normative ethics holding that the most morally right action, law, or policy is the one that maximizes overall happiness and well-being for the greatest number of affected individuals

[resident infrapiller @sauronatomic]

@00lucastw @jcrajan00 shift the people not the industry.