Iqbal Singh

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

hahahaha

[Ritesh Jain @riteshmjn]

Not good … not good at all.

A movie like “Zindagi na milegi dobara” should never have been made.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

brilliant

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

something is not right with this statement; salary income does not accrue from any effort? anything worthwhile has to be ascribed to a prior effort - whether speculating with your talent or your money

[Kiran Rajput @_KiranRajput]

"Investment returns from Capital Market don't accrue from any effort, but are just an investment gain. It is reasonable to tax this income since it functions similarly to salary income"
~ Dr Hasmukh Adhia, Feb 2018, Finance Secretary, 1981 - IAS.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

is gill te guitar by @RabbiShergill the best homegrown ode to @bryanadams ‘ summer of 69? hearing it after ages - and i think he went a notch above; or maybe coz i can resonate to every single instance of my punjabi growing up years

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

yes and no; it has a long history but there are worse alternatives than dcr for a cubicle dweller; no one on dcr reported health issues

[Vijay Marathe @Fintech00]

Dal, Chaval and roti was made for the people who used to grind 10 hrs a day in a Farm.

Dal, Chaval and Roti is not made for the people who doesn not move their ass from chair for 10 hours a day in a Cubicle.

Try to understand this.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

tend to agree with Nick; for some reason despite multiple attempts and correct posture, haven’t been able to befriend the bar on deadlifts and squats; swapped for dumbbells and roman rings; the risk-reward didn’t work at all for my lower back maybe due to a childhood injury

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

@sweatystartup Thanks for your answer. Got it. I think it really depends on the person. But I agree there are other options. I think a lot of it depends on whether people are willing to take the time to learn these lifts properly as a skill.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

agree on that point; the metallic spoon seems to infuse an unagreeable coldness; for biryani, prefer a pair of clean hands

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Japanese folks will soon make every Indian food better than Indians only because they care of details which Indians don’t

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

@ShivrattanDhil1 losing isn’t difficult; sustaining it is; and if u r thinking of it from a health standpoint don’t get myopic

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

lovely perspective

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.

Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.

Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."

1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.

2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.

3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.

4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.

India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

can we stop vilifying roti sabzi and adding protein to every sentence? food serves multiple requirements alongside muscle-building; macros are equally imp but so are secondary compounds; genes and environment play their role; if ur gut (not tongue) vibes to roti sabzi go for it

[SANYA | Corporate Athlete Method @sanyayyyy]

1.Roti sabzi for dinner isn’t “light eating.” It’s 70% carbs and almost zero protein.
2.The 3 PM crash isn’t tiredness. It’s your breakfast catching up. Add protein to your first meal.
3.Ghee isn’t the problem. The 5 tablespoons of refined oil in every sabzi is.
4.Walking 10,000 steps doesn’t mean you can skip strength training. Muscle burns fat. Walking doesn’t build muscle.
5.Your weekend binge is undoing your entire week. 2 dinners out + alcohol = 4,000-5,000 extra calories.
6.“Metabolism slow ho gaya” is not a diagnosis. It’s an excuse for 5 years of no movement and bad sleep.

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

brilliant craft

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Nope, you cannot guess what this ad is for or where it heading to... just give up and watch 😂 Read the rest of this post after watching the ad.

Agency: Joe Public.

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The brand is from South Africa. The agency too - they have been with this brand for a long time. That also explains the 'General' tag for the cop, which is completely non-Indian and very South African, since the country uses paramilitary rank structure in its police structure (including lieutenant general and major general). And the entire scene reconstruction clearly had the gaze of an outsider, the way Hollywood approaches Indian scenes in its movies. But we, in India, are not the audience. The scene has been created for South Africans, with only the essence of the over-the-top'ness intact.

The song used (Jaan Pehechan Ho - Gumnaam, Shankar-Jaikishan, 1965) was earlier used in a Heineken ad in 2012.

The line, 'that was way too extra' also seemed like the South African equivalent of, 'Yeh thoda zyada ho gaya' to indicate over-the-top.

It was interesting to see a non-Indian brand and agency use a very-Indian element in their advertising. It probably is an indication that our over-the-top films are recognizable assets on their own, worldwide. Not very different from the over-the-top advertising from Thailand. Or Norwegian murder mysteries. Or Korean pop and TV shows.

Unfortunately, Bollywood/Hindi cinema seems to have lost interest in over-the-top'ness. Or, Hindi cinema has been unable to produce interesting over-the-top'ness anymore, and that mantle has been successfully taken over by South Indian cinema, particularly Telugu films, and to a lesser extent, Tamil and Kannada cinema (Malayalam cinema is on a completely different trajectory, of course, though they too occasionally revel in this sub-genre). Telugu cinema, in particular, finds increasingly interesting narratives to place such over-the-top'ness in movies, and do it with total commitment, flair and style. Considering that a South African brand thought that it is worth using in their advertising, we should be owning this cultural facet a lot more openly and proudly.

#advertising #marketing #creativity

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

Disagree with the assumption that Amul can’t straddle the mass to premium spectrum - thereby providing Parag and others the opportunity; Amul can any day capture the premium market if it seeks to

[Sekhar @LearningEleven]

What a read!! Superbly written!

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

correct; we feel lost if we can’t explain something; and that’s perhaps why we are shaping #GenAI in our own image as it hallucinates every so often

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

Your nervous system hates uncertainty.

So it fills gaps with stories.
Usually negative ones.

Because survival once depended on assuming danger.

A rustle in the grass wasn’t “maybe.”
It was “tiger.”

We still run that software.

[sriii 🪬 @oSri_kl_aana]

The worst they can say is NO
Meanwhile them:

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

beautiful

[Gilly @GillysGuidance]

Main Tenu sung by Asa Singh Mastana and the Nightingale of Panjab, Surinder Kaur ❤️

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

superb

[Habibullah Khan @Huk06]

Nothing will ever top FIFTY FIFTY

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

Matrix and Inception

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

What's a movie that genuinely made you sit in silence after the credits rolled - not sad, not happy, just stunned?

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

is this another masterpiece from the independent? absolutely beautiful piece of work

[Benonwine @benonwine]

When your new Partner doesn’t have ANY Social Media! 😮 😱

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

excellent

[Happy Motorhead @HappyMotorhead]

#CarHumor #Funny #Humor

[Iqbal Singh @thefoolisingh]

flying itself is logistically complex; by that logic the airline shouldn’t undertake such an endeavour; commercial or marketplace transactions have to be honoured equally by both parties - unless exceptions are called out explicitly, in advance and in mutual agreement

[Jagriti Chandra @jagritichandra]

Utter nonsense!

Uplifting meals on aircraft is a logistically complex exercise. Perhaps a little less entitlement is in order if you don’t get your preferred meal on a four-hour flight. An aircraft is not a restaurant. And cabin crew exist to ensure safety, they are practically cops in the air. Stop treating them like mere waitresses or “servants”.