Srinivasan Murali

Proud Indian | CMA | Loves travel

[Sheela Bhatt शीला भट्ट @sheela2010]

MIMP STORY!

@DrMohanYadav51 can’t defend this well-known ‘family land scam.’
Since in Indian politics shame has no limit he will continue to be the CM of Madhya Pradesh.
In New Delhi since last one year everyone has been talking about the massive land purchases by the CM’s friends and relatives. Good to see @mazoomdaar reporting on it. @IndianExpress

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@ModiMalai Please open the DM

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@kartikeya_1975 Tirupati has banned all forms of plastic, even bisleri water bottles are available in glass. Other hill stations must enforce such regulations. There is a lack of intent and apathy

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Muthu ji, your political views are your own - but please do speed up the returns on my investments. 😃

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@Ahmedshabbir20 This what happens when there is no power sharing or allies doesn't play the role of active opposition during the tenure. It keeps ceding the space in favour of the dominant party. DMK feels they don't have any choice

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@PatriciaJa1621 I am so sorry for your unimaginable loss. My prayers are with you and your family 🙏

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

A couple of things about my #Iran posts

Disagree with my views, but don't casually disregard my facts. Whatever I have written about Iran, including that Tehran was fully compliant with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement until Trump came and sabotaged it in 2018, was factual. If I make factual mistakes, I own them up and make corrections. That's part of my job.

Two, I am not anti-West. I am non-West--that's a methodological difference. I refuse to fall prey to the mainstream western narrative. My world is not divided between binaries. In the case of Iran, there were several binaries-- the liberal one is that this is a fight between an oppressive regime and a freedom-loving people; and there is conservative binary between American interventionism and the Islamist radicalism of the East. Which one you will choose--they will ask you! None. I try to look at the grey matter.

That doesn't mean that I am blind to the quest of the Iranian people for more rights and freedoms. I have written extensively about the inability of the system to reform--including reports from Tehran. But you have to place the rigidity of the system in the extremely hostile economic and geopolitical environment it is operating in. You should also be mindful of the propaganda. In the Persian Gulf, Iran and Iraq are the only two countries that offer some meaningful representation to their people. Thirty million people, that's half the electorate, voted in the 2024 Presidential elections in Iran. Have you heard of it? While other despotic countries in the region -- presidential or monarchical-- have functional economies, either thanks to their oil wealth or economic assistance from the US--Iran, despite its oil wealth, is unable to take care of the economic needs of its people, because of the sanctions. That's what is keeping the system rigid, triggering circles of crisis.

The liberal critique of Iran, which Said would love to call Oriental gaze, overlooks these structural realities. Because they don’t fit their narratives, which are used by their foreign policy establishments, including the human rights-living Israel. As students of IR, our job is to go beyond the mainstream narratives and simpleton generalisations, drawing in from history, particularly from the recent western military interventions in the east in the name of bringing in freedom and democracy.

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

Question on GST
I provide accommodation service as my tariff is below 7500, I have to charge 5% and not claim any ITC.
I also have a huge RCM payment every month for which I pay in cash and claim that amount as ITC

Q is can I use that RCM Credit to offset my 5% liability?
#GST

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@OurTemples @trramesh Lol 😂😂😂

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

The year is 1948. India has just become free and is trying to have a tryst with destiny. And in a country with endless possibilities, you are a 27-year-old man from an affluent family.

You have also studied in prestigious institutions like Loyola College and College of Engineering Guindy and have been given a scholarship from the Govt of India to go to the USA and study Dairy engineering.

You go to the USA and realize that studying metallurgy and nuclear engineering is more useful and interesting than studying techniques of extracting milk from cows. You follow your instinct and successfully complete your course.

You are now a nuclear engineer. And in a world that has just gone nuclear, the opportunities you have are limitless. The world is at your feet.

Then the Govt of India becomes a reverse Lannister calls in its debt. They want you to work for them for a limited period as an obligation to whatever they did for you.

You have no choice but to come back.

You hope you are sent to glamourous locations like Bombay or Madras where you can spend your obligatory time in comfort and luxury. You are an America Return Nuclear engineer after all.

But the Govt of India cares as much about your designations and qualifications as a Nokia 3310 cares about a drop. So, they play a cruel joke upon you.

They send you to a small decrepit town in Gujarat which doesn't even have electricity. Your accommodation is a rundown Garage and the only sign of life around you are the mosquitos, who are trying to taste your blood.

The town is called Anand. And the only Anand you have there is its name. Else it is all despair.

You, an affluent gentleman from south India, who doesn't speak a word of Gujarati, who has never lived in a village, are now stuck in a god foresaken village in the middle of nowhere. And You want to get out of this god forsaken place on the first chance you get.

Then something happens.

You start going around the town. You start speaking to people. You understand their way of life. You understand what they want. Without you realizing you start falling in love with the place. You want to do something for them.

And then you create a revolution.

A revolution that has changed the face and fate of India.

A revolution whose gifts we are still reaping 65 years after it started.

And You are the one who started it all.

You are Dr Verghese Kurien.

Operation Flood was, is and will be one of the greatest movements India has ever had.

We went from a country that used to import milk powder from New Zealand and other countries to becoming the largest milk producing country in the world, in 30 years.

It gave livelihoods to close to more than 100 million farmers over the years and has lifted more than 50 million people out of poverty and starvation. If you count the people emancipated by Operation flood, it would be the 30th largest country in the world, ahead of Spain, South Korea and Argentina.

Today, we move the global dairy market and it is singularly because of Dr Kurien.

And he didn't stop at dairy.

He realized that India was heavily dependent on Southeast Asia for its edible oil needs. So he got all the oilseeds growers together and started Dhara, India's own edible oil brand.

He so thoroughly disrupted the edible oil industry that for a brief period of time, he significantly reduced our dependance on palm oil.

Unfortunately, our babus intervened and as they usually do, destroyed it all. But that's the story for another day.

When Karnataka's Cocoa farmers went to him to seek salvation from Cadbury's oppression, he created Amul Chocolates and created a big dent in their market share. He also ensured Cadbury treated the farmers with a lot more respect and fairness, now that the farmers had option.

When Indira Gandhi complained about farmers not getting fair price for their vegetables, he started Safal, a vegetable selling co-operative under the NDDB umbrella and made it a success.

Now most of this is known.

But what we don't know more about was Dr Kurien the innovator.

Dr Kurien and his friend JJ Dalaya were the first in the world to synthesize buffalo milk and convert it to powder. This allowed us to store and supply milk during times of deficiencies.

He was the first to create condensed milk or as you call it, Milkmaid / Mithai Mate, from buffalo milk and ended Nestle's monopoly in this segment for good.

He was also the first to pack a dense substance as oil in a Tetrapak, something that their own Swedish engineer's thought was impossible. He made it possible.

I can keep going on and on.

In today's world, words like Legend, GOAT, superstar are thrown around very very loosely.

People who hit balls with a stick, give useless expressions on a giant screen and make cringy unwatchable 30 sec videos on some apps or crack some vulgarly unfunny jokes are given these epithets today.

So, what would you call a guy who saved India from hunger and starvation? What would you call a guy who prevented India from malnutrition and stunted growth? What would you call a guy who made a basic commodity like milk, accessible to a billion people?

We don't have words for that. Maybe we need to invent some.

One more very commonly misplaced word today is disruption.

Anything and everything are disruption now. The development of an app, delivering grocery or food in 10 minutes or writing an additional line of code are all what passes off as disruption today.

That is not disruption.

Disruption is where you create something that changes the lives of people forever. Disruption happens when what you create, rewards people for Generations.

Disruption is where you help poor farmers break the vicious circle of poverty and throw them 354 steps up the economic ladder

Disruption is not how you change how people do certain things; Disruption is when you change the people themselves.

Dr Kurien was India's first and the greatest disruptor.

Dr Kurien is India's true GOAT.

So, Happy Birthday Dr Kurien. India is grateful that we had you walking on our soil. Thank you!!

P:S: The attached image is that of the recreated Garage that Dr Kurien first stayed. Garages have a unique connection to the world of tech, as a lot of tech companies started from there and are worth some bajillion dollars today.

This is a Garage that lifted 60 million Indians out of poverty.

With all due respect to HP and Google, this is the greatest Garage of them all.

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@whiskyy___818 The maximum slab for PF deduction is 15000 which works out to 1800 per month. Deducting a higher amount is a prerogative of the employer not mandated under law. You're just fear mongering

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Not a good start. Very unobjective reporting.

Gill is well intentioned but needs to improve his understanding of diplomacy.

With Trump wanting to be the first to announce a ceasefire, taking credit for it, claiming that he put trade pressure on India, he put Modi in a difficult position externally and internally, as the message was that either India sought a ceasefire or India buckled under Trump’s pressure.

If Gill has no sense of the political fall out for the Indian government of Trump’s claims, then he has a lot to learn.

Look what happened in the Indian parliament because of Trump’s claims.

All this is besides the fact that trade was not mentioned at all when Vance spoke to Modi.

Were the Indians “obsessed” with how the conflict with Pakistan ended or it is Trump who is obsessed as he has claimed credit for the ceasefire almost 30 times.

This is inspite of India setting the record straight a couple of times in the light of Trump’s persistent claims.

Trump’s inflated ego is there to see. In what way is Modi’s ego not helping? Please substantiate what you have said.

Can you cite any “ bombast” from Modi of the kind Trump has directed at India: tariff king, dead economy, can’t sell anything to India, obnoxious monetary barriers, telling Tim Cook India can look after itself don’t invest there etc.?

What are the diplomatic missteps by India? Not agreeing to US demands on agriculture and dairy? Not retaliating in imposing tariffs on the US after it imposed 50% tariffs on India?

If Gill has such poor understanding of why Trump’s claim

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

@DAMIADENUGA @grok is this claim true?

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

Excellent story 👏

[Sheela Bhatt शीला भट्ट @sheela2010]

My take on @VPIndia Jagdeep Dhankhar resignation
it was all about control of levers of power in Rajya Sabha.

https://t.co/b5xREykW2M

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Planes are miracles of human ingenuity. The ultimate example of science and reason being used to conquer distance, and bring everyone closer.
It is such a tragedy when these flights of hope, these trips of joy, end in death and tears.
#PlaneCrash

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Terrible tragedy. Deeply distressing. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.
#planecrash

[Nitin A. Gokhale @nitingokhale]

Post Pahalgam and Op Sindoor, it is clear—if proof was needed—India is alone. In war, in diplomacy, in setting narratives. Not one big power stood unequivocally with India. Not Russia. Not US. No Quad member. The way forward is to be a strong economic and military power. Everything else will follow. The old adage, nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests, was true earlier, is more appropriate now. India’s inevitable rise will be resented by friends and foes alike.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Let’s be under no illusions why today’s ceasefire happened. My quick 90-second view:

[Srinivasan Murali @srini0790]

GST application was filed on 11/03/2025 and it's still pending for processing. Is this the ease of doing business that is being talked about

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@nsitharaman @Infosys_GSTN @cbic_india @narendramodi