Arun Gulati

A cool line about a boring kid !

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@BigBreakingWire Correct.
1. meeting on Tuesday
2. deliberation on Wednesday
3. back and forth on Thursday
4. War on Friday eve
5. Truth Social chilling on Weekend
6. New venue of talks on Monday

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Yes, we had a disappointing weekend in cricket.

But at the same time, I often find myself rubbing my eyes in disbelief at India’s growing competitiveness in sports where I never imagined we’d even be globally competitive.

Volleyball. Fencing. Gymnastics. Rowing. Athletics. The list keeps growing.

Yes, we’re far from the top step of the podium yet.

However, something’s clearly changing at the ground level.

Years of effort by governments, both state and central, (outstanding example being Odisha) along with private sector organisations like OGQ and many others, may finally be starting to pay off..

But it is the individual sportspersons, this new generation of champions with grit, resilience and self-belief, who are my #MondayMotivation.

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@careinsuranceIN @DRSUNILDANG Bhai muje kyu tag kia? Mere pass 1 bhi share nahi h company ka

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF FIH NATIONS CUP 🏆

- Defeated New Zealand 🇳🇿 2-0 in the Finals

Qualified for the FIH Women's Pro League ✅

INCREDIBLE HOCKEY BY OUR GIRLS! 🇮🇳♥️

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.

It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.

That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.

So how does anyone make money on this?

Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.

It wasn’t always there.

But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.

Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.

It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.

But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.

His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)

None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.

Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table

I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)

That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.

I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.

Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..

But I admit that we need to think differently.

A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads

A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.

I think that’s the work ahead of us now.

Not just more factories, and not just more parks.

Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.

Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.

We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.

We need to do it on purpose

[The SportsGram India @SportsgramIndia]

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS 🤩

Indian Archer Dhiraj beating the Olympic Champion Korean archer Lee in a World Cup Final 🇮🇳 🥇

#Archery | Video Courtesy: @worldarchery

[Dr Mansukh Mandaviya @mansukhmandviya]

A historic triumph for Indian Badminton!

Congratulations to Satwik & Chirag on winning the Singapore Open Super 750 title, ending a two-year wait for a title and adding yet another glorious chapter to India's badminton journey.

[nnis Sports @nnis_sports]

🚨 POOJAAAA SHATTERS INDIA’S WOMEN’S HIGH JUMP NATIONAL RECORD!!! 🇮🇳🔥

What a sensational performance from India’s young high jump star at the U20 Asian Athletics Championships 2026!

First, Pooja cleared 1.91m to improve her own U20 National Record and move to India’s all-time No. 2.

🤯 Then, on her very next attempt, she cleared 1.93m to break India’s Senior Women’s High Jump National Record!

With 1.93m, Pooja now holds the highest height ever cleared by an Indian woman in high jump.

Records shattered:
• U20 National Record — 1.91m
• Senior National Record — 1.93m
• Previous NR: 1.92m by Sahana Kumari (2012)

✅ Also breached the Commonwealth Games 2026 qualification mark of 1.92m.

#IndianAthletics #Athletics @afiindia #AthleticsIndia #Pooja

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@anishshah21 Sir please share this as well. Cricket has got enough eyeballs already and yes Sooryvanshi is a great asset for Indian cricket.

https://t.co/A9VlHEVDim

[Vishank Razdan @VishankRazdan]

IT IS A WORLD RECORD!!!!! ESHA SINGH IN THE WOMEN'S 25m PISTOL RECORDS A 43/50 HITS IN THE FINALS TO WIN GOLD WITH A WR AT THE PRESTIGIOUS #ISSFWCMunich!!!!

Incredible feat by an incredible athlete!!! 👏🇮🇳

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

#ExpressInvestigation 🔍 | A 1-km road stretch in #Delhi can hold nearly 145 kg of dust. But the system meant to clean it is failing at almost every level.

The Indian Express tracked Delhi’s mechanical road sweepers for over 300 days, analysing 18 million GPS data points.

The investigation found that Delhi has just 95 sweeping machines — more than 80% short of the 505 recommended to control road dust.

Even this limited fleet is not being fully used. In #summer, when road dust is at its worst, only 25 routes were active on a typical day. By March, that number fell to just 15.

The deployment is uneven too, with machines concentrated more in VIP-heavy and better-funded zones, while outer areas get far less coverage.

Sanitation workers walk up to 30 km a night beside slow-moving machines, often without specialised protective gear.

And after collection, the dust is often dumped uncovered at open sites, where it can rise again.

Experts say sweepers are only a temporary fix. The real solution lies in end-to-end road paving.

Read in detail👇🏽
https://t.co/ej1JwHWaTk

Express investigation by: Sophiya Mathew, Drishti Jain, Kaunain Sheriff M
Produced and edited by: Prachi (@mujheykuchnahiaata)
Script and voiceover: @shameenalauddin

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@GabbbarSingh 4th ka answer A hai

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

Patient Name : Sumit Sharma

Hospital: Mata Chanan Devi Hospital

Hospital Address :

C-1, Lal Sai Mandir Marg, Janakpuri, Delhi-110058

Blood Group : O

Required: 1 Units of Single Donor Platelets (SDP) for platelet transfusion. Blood Group O

Contact Number: 8879086944

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@microcp2mltibgr Holding it?

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

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[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@itsolelehmann Cowork

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@bolehjoingk best time to visit?

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@ravihanda bola tha na zabardast h.

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@CMShehbaz ab ye bhi X pe karoge?

[Arun Gulati @shrek987]

@LiveFromALounge @CRED_club @Kuvera_In @kunalb11 please send invite.