Manoj Kumar

A modem engineer; social, economic, political and environmental enthusiast

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

"If economy is growing at 7.8% why is the PM asking us not to travel abroad, not to buy gold, not to have foreign weddings etc"

Let me explain: East Asian nations (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and later China) all went through a phase of rapid GDP growth combined with the need to conserve foreign exchange. Here is why that happens.

1. Our economy is growing at a good rate but we still have an import dependence, in both energy and in technology. In fact, the faster the economy grows, the greater the need for both energy and technology inputs.

2. To balance that import dependence, we have to export more and our exports are surging. However, even our exports need advanced technological inputs (precision machines, materials, CPUs, GPUs, advanced software etc) that we need to import today.

3. Catching up in all of these areas takes time, often measured in decades. We have made a good start but we need time.

Look at how long it took East Asia to catch up with the West. Their economies were growing rapidly even as they worked hard to conserve foreign exchange.

That is exactly what our government is trying to do.

Once we gain competence in all the advanced technlogies, and achieve energy independence through renewable energy that we develop the technology for, we would no longer need to conserve foreign exchange.

The situation is similar to a fast growing company that needs capital to grow. So it has to conserve capital to invest in growth. Our nation needs to conserve foreign exchange likewise.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Modi-ji appoints Nandan Nilekani, who contested the 2014 elections as a Congress Party candidate, because the government respects his experience leading Infosys and Aadhaar and so many other projects.

Priyanka-ji attacks IIT Madras Director Prof Kamakoti, under whose leadership IIT Madras has emerged as the top tech institution in India and has spawned a vibrant startup ecosystem.

One of them is a classy leader.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

One thing is clear: the Delhi protesters want to plunge India into chaos, and stop the nation's progress. We must defeat this malicious agenda, which is aided and abetted by powers that want to destroy India.

We have a vibrant democracy and elections are the proper way to express our collective judgment.

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

CJP is a fake cover for anarchists. It is not spontaneous. 20 days there was nothing happening. it is only on the opening of parliament that political crowds joined. It is preplaned and organised. It should be crushed with iron hand.
https://t.co/OwiNDjPZ40

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Stone-pelting, vandalism, arson, over 50 policemen injured - Dharmendra Pradhan toh bahana hai, inko desh jalana hai.

The dream of these anarchists to spring a thousand Nepals on India’s streets will remain just that - a dream. Indians will never let them succeed. My views:

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

As of this year, about 50% of Tamil Nadu school students study in government schools. This percentage has dropped considerably because the government schools have gotten worse. Often even poor rural parents borrow money to send their children to private schools when they can, because of the deterioration in government schools.

One key problem is the corruption in government school recruitment, which has been a long standing open secret and the going rate I am told is about one year of salary paid in advance.

I studied in free schools funded by the government (aided school) so I want to make the system stronger.
We are happy to run our free private schools, and we will expand them further, but we need to make our government schools much stronger.

We still have many dedicated teachers in government schools. We have to strengthen them. A good place to start is to end the corruption in school teacher recruitment.

The infrastructure of government schools is good in some places, not so good in others. But fixing that comes next, only after fixing recruitment.

Our poorest communities need strong free schools. Thank you 🙏 @CMOTamilnadu

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Painful read on the extent of corruption in DTCP under the DMK regime.

I encourage more people to come forward.

@CMOTamilnadu

[Vineetha Govindasamy @VineethaGov]

Leading a CBSE school for close to 10 years has shown me just how painful it can be to deal with the government machinery.

There are days when you come very close to giving up; not because running a school is difficult, but because you're exhausted from constantly having to give. Even greed should have a ceiling. There has to be a point where they should just live & let live.

Every approval (fire, safety, kitchen, hostel, or any other clearance) seems to come with an expectation of money. Every government meeting happening in the proximity of our school, we are not requested but demanded to provide money, school vans, staff, and other resources.

An example: the FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2022. We were instructed to provide a couple of our school vans for advertisement. Huge posters featuring our Chief Minister and the Chess Olympiad branding were put up on our SCHOOL vehicles. A month after the event, when we requested that they be removed, we were told either to leave them as they were or remove them at our own expense (which was not cheap).

What disturbed me even more was hearing government officials openly say that corruption has always existed in TN, but under the current government, they no longer have to hide it or fear getting caught. Those words came from their own mouths.

I'm neither for nor against any political party. But when you endure one blow after another for years, it's only natural to feel relieved, and even celebrate, when the wind changes direction & you finally sense the possibility of a fresh breeze.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Another CBSE School leader opens up. She did not have my prominence so the suffering inflicted on their school was much more.

I encourage people who silently suffered the disgusting corruption of the DMK era to come out.

We voted them out. Now let us tell the truth.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We had nauseating, disgusting levels of corruption in Tamil Nadu under the DMK. This is known to the entire Universe, not some grand secret.

It reached such Himalayan heights, their own Finance Minister, someone not corrupt who was caught up with the corrupt crowd, was complaining about it (sadly for him his remarks became public and he was demoted to became the IT Minister).

This is not about ideology.
Even the Marxists of Kerala, then allied with the DMK, would say how deeply corrupt the DMK was.

I have always appreciated people like Shri Balagopal, the former Finance Minister of Kerala, for his devoted public service. I am sure he and I will not agree on political philosophy or ideology but I deeply respect him.

If the DMK truly wants to introspect, they must start with their corruption.

Instead, they spend their time attacking a messenger like me as a TVK stooge or a Brahmin or a Sanghi and so on.

May be they can study Kural 423: focus on the message, even if the message comes from a "Brahmin Sanghi TVK stooge" like me:

எப்பொருள் யார்யார்வாய்க் கேட்பினும் அப்பொருள்
மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

If every taxpayer can be tracked for every rupee he owes the government, why can’t the government show taxpayers where every rupee spent on roads has gone?

The Government has admitted at various points that nearly ₹5,500 crore has been spent on Bengaluru’s roads. Citizens have a right to know where this money has gone and what outcomes it has delivered.

My demand is simple.

Within the next 30 days, the Government must launch a publicly accessible live dashboard for all road infrastructure works in Bengaluru. Every citizen should be able to see:

• Which road is being worked on
• The cost of the project
• The contractor executing it
• The officer responsible
• The timeline for completion
• The maintenance period
• The defect liability period
• The real-time status of the work

This is not a difficult reform. Bengaluru is India’s technology capital. Hundreds of technology professionals would gladly volunteer their expertise to help build such a platform.

Transparency creates accountability. Accountability improves quality. Quality builds public trust.

₹5,500 crore later, Bengaluru deserves answers.

Build the dashboard. Put every road work online. Let citizens see where their money is going.

@krishnabgowda

[Bengaluru NavaNirmana Party (BNP) @NammaBNP]

"ಗುಂಡಿಗಳಿಲ್ಲದ ರಸ್ತೆಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸುವುದು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಅಷ್ಟು ಕಷ್ಟವೇ?"

ಈ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಯನ್ನು ಸಚಿವರು @krishnabgowda ತಮ್ಮದೇ ಶಾಸಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಸಹೋದ್ಯೋಗಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಕೇಳಬೇಕು!

ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಲ್ಲ. ರಸ್ತೆ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿಗಳ ಟೆಂಡರ್ ಪ್ರಕ್ರಿಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇರೂರಿರುವ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರದಲ್ಲಿದೆ. ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಬೇಕಾದರೆ, ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಮೊದಲು ತನ್ನದೇ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯನ್ನು ಸ್ವಚ್ಛಗೊಳಿಸಬೇಕು.

"Is it really that hard to make pothole-free roads?" The Minister needs to ask his own MLAs and colleagues this question!

The problem isn't engineering. It is the deep corruption in road tenders. If the government wants real change, they must clean up their own system first.
#bnp #roadssafety #civicissues #accountability #corruption

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We must purge the virus of subterranean separatism from Tamil Nadu politics.

I often remind my team "We are drawn from the same pool of talent as any other company, we are not special in any way, and if we have to achieve better results, we must show that through our hard work and perseverance".

Tamil Nadu is Bharat 🙏

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Modi-hatred is almost a requirement to be called an "intellectual" in some circles. We have to counter them, so let's recall some history.

Congress had left Punjab, Kashmir, Assam all burning. The Naxal menace had made middle India ungovernable. Bihar and UP had become lawless. Bengal stagnated and deteriorated.

Today, Bengal has been rescued from the lawless TMC. For the first time since my childhood, we can discuss development and progress in all these states. We can disagree on specific paths to development, but at least we get to have that conversation.

These achievements did not happen magically. They required a lot of hard work and sacrifice - and all of it happened democratically. Let us not forget that Congress used Article 356 very often to dismiss state governments and now they lecture us on "democratic values".

If we elect the wrong crowd, we risk losing all the gains we have made.

Modi and Shah have provided strong and resolute leadership that has allowed these useless intellectuals to indulge their Modi hatred. Deep down, even they know the truth.

[Manoj Kumar @smanojkumar4]

@CommanMan777589 @grok what is the context?

[Sona🐾🇮🇳 @sona_sebin]

தமிழ் இயக்குனர்களே..
இன்னுமா புரியல?

உங்க அரசியல நிலைபாடு..போலி சமூக நீதி..உங்கள் இடது சாரி சித்தாந்தங்கள் மக்களுக்கு புடிக்கல..

அதான்..
பாகுபலி 1 and 2
காந்தாரா 1 and 2
RRR
அமரன்
துரந்தர் 1&2
எல்லாத்துக்கும் மக்கள் முட்டி மோதி நின்னு பாக்கிறாங்க..

அன்னபூரணி ஓடுச்சா?🤣
விடுதலை 2 ஒடுச்சா?🤭
தங்கலான் ஒடுச்சா?🤭
Bad girl ஒடுச்சா?🤣
ஏன் பராசக்தி யாவது ஒடுச்சா?🤭

உங்க ஆஸ்தான நடிகர்கள் நடிச்சாலே மக்கள் boycott பண்ற அளவுக்கு வெறுப்பு சம்பாதிச்சு வெச்சருக்கீங்க..

தமிழ் இண்ட்ஸ்ட்ரி யை உங்க சித்தாந்தத்தை சொல்றேன் னு அழிக்காதீங்க..

தேசபக்தி படங்கள் மக்களுக்கு புடிக்குது அத எடுங்க..
நம்ம ராணுவம் மக்களுக்கு செய்த தியாகங்களை படமா எடுங்க..
இந்தியா பத்தி எடுங்க படம் ஓடும் மக்களும் அதை விரும்பறாங்க..

Dhurandhar 2 க்கு கூட்டம் பாருங்க👇👇🔥🔥🔥

[Kavi - Say No To Drugs and DMK @kavii_talks]

Must watch …

திமுகவின் ஊழல் முகம்
👇

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

மாண்புமிகு முதலமைச்சர் அவர்களே,

எப்போதெல்லாம் சட்டம் ஒழுங்கு சீர்கெட்டு, நீதிமன்றங்களில் கொட்டு வாங்கி, செய்யும் ஊழல் எல்லாம் வெளிவந்து, பொதுமக்கள் மத்தியில் திமுகவுக்கு எதிரான கடும் எதிர்ப்பு எழுகிறதோ, அப்போதெல்லாம், அறிவாலயத்தில் உள்ள ஒரு பழைய தகரப் பெட்டியைத் திறந்து, இந்த இல்லாத இந்தித் திணிப்பை எடுத்துக் காட்டு என்று உங்கள் தந்தை சொல்லிவிட்டுச் சென்றாரா?

இந்த ஏமாற்று அரசியல் அவர் காலத்தோடு முடிந்து விட்டது. இனியும் இந்த புளித்துப் போன காமெடி செய்து கொண்டிருக்காமல், நீங்கள் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்த நாளிலிருந்து பெருகியிருக்கும் ஊழல், கொலை, கொள்ளை, பாலியல் குற்றங்கள், போதைப் பொருள்கள் புழக்கம், என, உண்மையான மக்கள் பிரச்சினைகள் குறித்து எப்போது பேசப் போகிறீர்கள்?

[Manoj Kumar @smanojkumar4]

@ankit_investing @grok what is the rational behind increasing STT on futures?