Surendra Malu

Allergic to pessimism.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Is he trolling @elonmusk ?

[Brian Basson @BassonBrain]

🇮🇳 INDIA CONNECTIVITY MAP (illustrative & based on 2026 data)

Starlink can fix this instantly 👇

● ~10 million people lacks any form of connectivity, whether mobile or internet.

Roughly 8,985–9,000 villages (about 1.4% of India’s ~644,000 villages) still lack any mobile network/internet, concentrated in remote, hilly, tribal, and border areas (notably parts of Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Northeast/border zones)

● Poor connectivity: ~200 million people. These are mainly rural and less dense areas with basic 4G (or weaker signals) but limited or no reliable high-speed/5G access. Rural internet subscription density is far lower (~48 per 100 people vs ~127 urban).​

NOT Starlink's target market 👇

● 5G connectivity coverage: ~1,270 million people (about 86% of the population).

5G is available in 99.9% of districts, with strong presence in cities, towns, and many denser areas.

@elonmusk

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

What is it with teenagers who don’t speak a word at home pour their heart out to their barber?

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Breaking my reading slump with a children's book 😂 Guess I’m a middle-grade reader now

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Lost me at “At the time, you needed a GPA of at least 7 out of 10 to hold most positions of responsibility. This disproportionately excluded students from reserved categories.”

[Rishikesh Gajjala @publishiperishi]

There has been a lot of discussion over the last few days and it’s surprising how many think it’s impossible to discriminate based on caste in an eminent institution like IIT. I had experienced some of these from a decade ago and wanted to share it here. https://t.co/VxpUU8Y7DF

[Aravind @aravind]

International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."

🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:

July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.

July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.

July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.

July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.

July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.

July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.

July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).

Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.

Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.

Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.

June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.

June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.

June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.

June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).

June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.

June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.

Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.

Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).

June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

This is a very creative solution to the challenge of making India a manufacturing giant.

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

If a salaried person wants to build a software application or digital services agency, the entry barrier is virtually zero.

They just need a laptop and an internet connection.

But if the same person wants to start manufacturing...

They need:
• Land
• Factory space
• Expensive machinery
• 6-12 months of approvals
• Huge upfront capital

My suggestion to the Government of India:

Build Manufacturing Parks for first-time entrepreneurs.

Instead of selling 10-acre plots, create buildings with 500-1,000 sq. ft. ready-to-use factory units.

Every unit should come with:
• 3-phase electricity already connected
• Pollution & fire approvals already cleared
• Shared CNC machines, injection moulding, testing labs & warehouses
• Common logistics and loading docks
• Month-to-month rentals instead of land purchases
• Single online portal to book a unit within 7 days

Let engineers keep their jobs while testing manufacturing on a small scale.

We built co-working spaces for software.

It's time we built co-factories for manufacturing.
@PMOIndia @PiyushGoyal @minmsme @NITIAayog

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

... Enter Claude, it now writes utilities to compress PDFs and JPEGs to <200KB on a whim.

Checkmate.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Indian government wants every scanned document below 1MB and every photo under 500KB. These files are already in multimple MBs and lossless compressed.

I understand their problem but it is a headache to get file sizes reduced that much. Or was a headache....

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Every reason/excuse mentioned here is equally applicable in any other country. Parents give up on their lives for their kids to play county level pro-leagues. These are not really excuses TBH.

[Kavitha Rao @kavitharao]

1/ Here's one reason. When I lived in Blore, my son was picked to train for a professional football club at age 11. Not going to say which, but there was mass age fiddling. Had to play against 15 yr olds with fake age ids. Open secret. Wasn"t cut out to lie and cheat.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Is The Economist listening? Or they care only about India’s visa portal?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more:

I can tell you how this will go

From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency

They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes

Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60%

Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time

And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months

Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive

I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up

Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

I like how he wanted to make a heart shape but actually made a vadapav 😂

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

How is Indian companies not supporting Pakistani players a Hindu-Muslim problem?

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

For someone who famously saved a Muslim family during the Bombay riots this is disappointing.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

You are conflating Irani/Parsi with Islamic Regime of Iran.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

It’s interesting but when you genuinely have cultural exchanges going back a millennium, you don’t need to force the point down people’s throats.

Irani chai, Irani bakeries, Irani restaurants, Parsi names, Tata. To live in Mumbai is to see these linkages every single day.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

No, this is Sanju Samson.

(The beauty of this tweet is there might be a few actual Malyalis named Justice Baby.)

[Nikhil. @fundoozx]

This is justice baby

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

I used proudly own and wear it in the office in my Bangalore days.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Years before the IPL, there was the PHL, the Premier Hockey League. The first Indian sports league on ESPN Star Sports, with city based teams, international stars, cool uniforms & many innovations, including rolling subs and four quarters of action, years before international hockey got there.
It was an idea ahead of its time, and might have worked if there had been private owners instead of the hockey federation owning all the teams!
Just found one of my last pieces of merch from that tournament - a Maratha Warriors tracktop. Dhanraj and @virenrasquinha played for this team and they played some brilliant attacking hockey!

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

Excuse my French but there can’t be worse chutiyas than Pakistanis in this world. They lost all these matches and what are they celebrating? Three sixes off Bumrah?

[a @iewangoalskiiii]

wait I got something worse for you

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

BCB stopped its team from travelling to an ICC tournament in India because BCCI (a private org) dropped a Bangladeshi player from IPL (a private tournament) and this bright guy says BCCI is a puppet.

Reminds me of a Prakash Raj quote.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

It is obvious that the ICC is a mere puppet of the BCCI.

Bangladesh has withdrawn from the ICC T-20 world cup because the BCCI continues to operate like an extension of the BJP.

This conflict was manufactured by banning a Bangladeshi cricketer from IPL so the BJP could win brownie points at home.

We have now sullied three ICC tournaments in the past three-four years.

The 2023 world cup showed how India is incapable of properly hosting a global event. We blocked Pakistan’s fans and media from attending the Ind-Pak clash, and the crowd was typically boorish.

Second, the ICC champions trophy had to be partly moved to Dubai because India refused to play in Pakistan.

Mind you, other teams had to travel back and forth while the Indian team played all their matches on one ground. It was designed for India to win.

And now, the T-20 world cup is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Shamefully, the cricketing world remains a mute spectator to the BCCI holding the game of cricket to ransom.

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

@ankurnagpal Where do you look for tax optimization providers?

[Surendra Malu @surendramalu]

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