KT

Founder & Designer at @studio_kite. Pun-chaat over panchaat. Mostly tweet with #okbye. Jai Hind! 🇮🇳

[Aravind @aravind]

US embassy for a visit to America:

Prove you are an Indian citizen, prove you work, pay taxes, have money, have relatives or business in the US, give reference letter, attach all IDs, and fill this form with 100 questions, get appointment next year, stand in line since 4 AM...

People: Yes Sir. I am your sepoy, sir. I will do all you ask, sir. Please give me visa, sir.

ECI:

Let's verify you as an eligible voter to safe guard Indian democracy. Here's a pre-filled form. We will send someone to your home to help you do it. Or you can do it anytime before next elections, including online.

People: ECI & SC have made life so difficult. This is unacceptable! They should answer me, now!

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

All overseas journalists have now realised the best way to make news back home in India is to ask a question on why PM Modi doesn’t do press meets. The Norwegian reporter did manage to gather a hundred thousand followers since then.
The truth is, we live in the era of content journalism not accountable journalism.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[KT @TheThakkar]

“Judicial Servant” 👏

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

62% of Indian resident doctors work more than 36 hours at a stretch. 86% report severe sleep deprivation. 97% earn less than an entry level civil servant. 76% are assaulted while on duty.

We can call ourselves civilised only when we learn to treat our doctors like they treat us.

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

If a corporator thinks it’s okay to beat up a doctor, then the next time there’s a pothole in a road in his area, is it okay to beat him?
Asking for several friends

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Hardeep Puri said that ethanol is used in racing cars as well to defend his stand on E20. This is the Petroleum Minister's understanding of the issue. What can one even say to that!

First, race cars are specifically engineered to run on ethanol; therefore, it does not harm them. This is not the same as forcing E20 into regular cars that are not engineered to handle it. In non-compliant vehicles, ethanol will aggressively degrade standard rubber gaskets, plastic parts, and aluminum components over time.

Second, a racing engine is built to survive for only a few hundred miles before being stripped down and rebuilt by professional mechanics, who easily manage any fuel-induced wear. An average citizen, however, needs their car to last for over a decade. Running non-compliant engines on E20 will certainly not help achieve that.

Third, race teams use ethanol solely for a performance boost due to its high octane rating, not for fuel economy. For regular people, however, fuel economy matters immensely.

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

BREAKING NEWS

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Vehicle buyers pay huge upfront taxes, fees, and cesses. In return, they deserve the basic right to buy the exact fuel their vehicle engines were designed to run on.

If the govt wanted to "experiment" with E20 fuel, they should have done it responsibly by either buying a sample fleet of second-hand cars to test in a controlled settings or invite willing citizens to opt-in using subsidized fuel.

Forcing a mandatory policy onto everyone first and checking if it damages their engines later is outrageous. Treating the entire public as involuntary test subjects is a massive overreach.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Aravind @aravind]

France gonna hit 45 coming week
Paris already touched 41
UK some places 39
Netherlands ~ 34
Germany ~ 38
Italy - 47.6 (Sicily island)
US many places > 35-40

Yet, no psyops going on in Europe or US against their govts and development. Especially no psyops and instigation against development in far away islands using it.

There are no news or screenshots claiming "hottest cities of the world are in EU." Their social media influencers aren't instigating their populations against their govt using the weather parroting foreign communist propaganda.

But in the US the same red-green cabal, working for China, is instigating citizens against data centers and AI, just like in India.

[Aravind @aravind]

India must issue notice to all Indian sailors to strike and return back to India. Let the world's shipping stall. Let's see how Trump keeps energy moving and China its exports shipping.

I have long been suggesting India create a network for Indian diaspora, of nurses and doctors, shippers and pilots, workers and constructors etc.

Every Indian going out to work from India - record their skills, put them into a database, give them a community to connect to, with GoI giving info and incentives for them there.

Use the power of this network when needed. Tap their skills if they return to India. And utilize their value outside India.

All countries will be much more respectful to India if India can unify its diaspora workers and make them act in national interests like China does.

[Aravind @aravind]

The DS identified this man as a major threat to their easy manipulation of India very early on. They desperately tried to stop him from ever leading the country.

The moment he became CM, they ignited issues, branded him with every possible label, attempted to sanction him, and even revoked his visas.

They unleashed tens of thousands of pages of propaganda reports against him, both inside India and abroad. They weaponised the opposition and the courts to flood him with cases from every direction.

Yet he overcame it all. To become the PM of the world’s largest democracy. Despite all the hit jobs, sabotage, and propaganda, he remains the most popular leader on the planet.

He has turned every adversity into an advantage. "Being Anti-fragile" is his mantra. And he has made India anti-fragile too. We have seen the nation emerge stronger from every crisis thrown at it.

I believe he will also resolve the infowar crisis. The main force behind it will be weakened and broken by him. It will be a fitting feather in his cap before he retires as not only India’s longest serving PM, but its most impactful one.

History will remember him as the one who transformed India not just in infrastructure and development, but forged a confident, self-reliant nation that stands proud on the global stage.

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

PM Narendra Modi did not inherit a launchpad. He inherited the burden of delayed decisions, weak infrastructure, policy paralysis, broken confidence and a country that had forgotten how to think big.

Since Independence, under multiple Congress governments, India crawled to a $2 trillion economy.

PM Modi’s 12 years: India has crossed $4 trillion. In 12 years, India has moved from hesitation to acceleration. From UPI to ports, from digital infrastructure to defence production, a new India has been unleashed.

And that is a political chargesheet against Congress.

For decades, Congress sold India poverty management as governance, entitlement as economics, and slow growth as destiny. Then they have the audacity to compare India with China, after wasting decades when China was building factories, ports, highways, scale and national ambition.

The China comparison is useless unless Congress first answers one question:

What exactly were you doing for 67 years?

Congress mocked ambition because it never had any.

@narendramodi converted ambition into national policy.

That is the difference.

[Hardeep Singh Puri @HardeepSPuri]

Congratulations @OilIndiaLimited !

An ocean of energy opportunities reinforced in the Andaman Sea!
Very happy to report the presence of natural gas in Sri Vijayapuram-3 an exploratory well drilled by Oil India Ltd. 15 km off the east coast of the Andaman Islands at a water depth of 355 meters.
Initial production testing of the well at the depth of 1900 plus meters in the Eocene formation has established the presence of natural gas through continuous flaring.
Oil India is carrying out gas sampling to assess the composition & calorific value of gas and to carry out isotope studies to understand the genesis of the gas.
Under the Samudra Manthan Mission (National Deep Water Exploration Mission) announced by Hon’ble PM @narendramodi Ji on Independence Day 2025, large number of deepwater & Ultra deepwater exploration wells are planned in our offshore basins to fully exploit our hydrocarbon reserves.
Presence of hydrocarbon is now reported in 2(Two) wells out of 3 (Three) exploratory wells drilled by OIL in current exploratory campaign off Andaman Basin.
This presence of natural gas will help us in taking forward our exploration ambitions in coordination with global deepwater exploration experts like @petrobras, @TotalEnergies, @bp_india, @Shell, @exxonmobil and will be a significant milestone in our journey through Amrit Kaal!
@PMOIndia @PIB_India @PetroleumMin @mygovindia
#OilIndia #EnergySecurity #Exploration #NaturalGas #Andaman

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

The desperation of the cockroaches surprised me.
Even I was ready to give Dharmendra Pradhan a pass.

The man has failed.
Scrutiny is deserved.

But then a question appeared.
Why this desperation?
Why Boston?
Why Germany?

Why now?
Why June 2026?

So, I started digging.
What I found had little to do with a paper leak.
It had everything to do with money.

A lot of money.

Three decisions were sitting on Pradhan's table.
All scheduled for July - Aug 2026.

All capable of reshaping Indian education.

Decision 1.
NCERT.
New textbooks.
Classes 9 to 12.

The new Mathematics curriculum introduces the Sulba Sutras.
A dangerous idea.

Because it tells Indian children something many would rather hide.
Mathematics lived here.

Long before Europe claimed ownership of the story.

The new History curriculum goes further.
The Aryan Invasion Theory.
Out.

The Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilisation.
In.

India's own story.
Returned to India.

Decision 2.
May 15, 2026.

CBSE issues a circular.
3 languages mandatory from Class 9.
At least two must be Indian languages.

Decision 3.
K. Radhakrishnan Committee reforms for NTA.

Decentralised examinations.
Technology-sovereign architecture.

No single point of failure.
No single point of manipulation.

Now ask the real question.
Who loses if all three happen?

Start with academia.

Harvard.
SOAS London.
Columbia.
Chicago.

Departments built around the Aryan Migration framework.

Annual grants at stake.
~ $500 million.

Then foreign universities.
UK.
US.
Australia.

Together earning roughly $3.7 billion annually from Indian students.
Around 1.8 million of them.

Fix India's system.
Build confidence.
Restore self-worth.
And that pipeline starts shrinking.

Then comes the coaching industry.

Manufacture anxiety.
Sell hope.
Repeat.

Worth ₹58,000 crore today.
Projected at ₹1,33,995 crore by 2028.

Built on scarcity.
Built on English-dominated examinations.

Decentralise NTA.
Expand Indian languages.
And the economics begin to wobble.

Allen.
Aakash.
FIITJEE.
BYJU'S.
Resonance.
Drishti IAS.
Thousands of smaller players.

Global investors have poured billions into this ecosystem.

Not for charity.
Not for patriotism.
For returns.

Then comes the NGO ecosystem.

The outrage industry.
The grant circuit.
A narrative that survives only if India remains intellectually dependent.

Teach children their own history.
Accurately.
And the narrative starts suffocating.

Funding follows narratives.
Funding leaves with them too.

Add it together.
Conservative estimate.

Nearly ₹3 lakh crore at risk.
More than $35 billion.
This is a business survival fight.

That is what India was about to dismantle.
That is why the meme factory found fresh energy.
That is why the protest lands on June 6.

Before the academic year begins.
Before the reforms become irreversible.

Pradhan may go.
Perhaps he should.
That is a separate debate.

But the policies are the real battlefield.
Always were.

Most people are still watching the headline.
And missing the war.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

[KT @TheThakkar]

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