Rajesh Timane

Reimagining problem-solving and solution thinking | Tech for future-ready innovation

[Rajesh Timane @timane]

#Navratri #feminine #nonlinear

“Threads of the Feminine, woven into the fabric of time.”

Here, we gather the nine foundational posts in the order they were conceived, so you can walk the path step by step.

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[India - curated by Simply Divine @SimplyDivine321]

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗹! 🏅
𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘪, 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘥 𝘉𝘩𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘵 & 𝘚𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘠𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘫 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘯. 🏹

#India has sent 166 athletes to the 2026 Asian Para Games. 🇮🇳🥇

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Crusoe is extremely well positioned to become a full-stack cloud: power, compute, and services running on top. Perplexity’s open source sandbox platform SPACE will become part of Crusoe’s Managed AI products. Look forward to more collaborations with them!

[India - curated by Simply Divine @SimplyDivine321]

🇮🇳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮-𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗰𝗮: 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 🇯🇲
𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘤𝘢, 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 1𝘔 𝘜𝘚𝘋 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵!

Talks with @mayajsohi, @HillAubyn & others. 👇

Follow: @industryminja, @hcikingston, @mfaftja

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Our first crop of navel oranges 🍊 and clementines at Harrisons Malayalam! Exotic varieties, grown on our own soil, with the hope of one day taking them to market commercially.
Some pleasures are beyond business. Watching something you’ve planted bear fruit is one of them.

[Ignis Rex @Ignis_Rex]

Sunak’s Slap in New Delhi: China Is a Superpower, India Is the Aspirant

Multipolar Reality Check: Vietnam Won ‘China+1,’ Not India

Rishi Sunak stood in New Delhi, in front of India’s business elite, and said the quiet part out loud: China is now a peer competitor to the United States. Not India.

For years, since the US–China trade war heated up in 2018, Indian elites have been thumping their chests, declaring India the “next economic superpower.” They told themselves that as America tried to “decouple” from China, India would be the natural replacement. Western think tanks and media fed this fantasy, calling India the “counterweight” to China. But Sunak’s words were a slap across the face: the world has already moved to multipolarity, and India is not sitting at the top table among the 2 superpowers.

Multipolar Reality

Sunak’s statement confirms what many outside the Western bubble already know: the US-led order is finished. Trump is not the cause of this collapse—he’s the symptom. His rise reflects America’s contradictions: a superpower drowning in debt, polarized at home, overstretched abroad. Just like late Ottoman sultans who clung to populism while their empire crumbled, Trump embodies decline, not renewal.

China, meanwhile, has emerged as a full-spectrum rival—economically, militarily, technologically. That’s the reality Sunak acknowledged. And he did it in India, where elites have been desperate to believe they are equal to China. The contrast could not be sharper.

India as “Supply Chain Hub”?

Sunak dangled a carrot: India could be a “trusted partner” and “potential supply chain hub” as the West diversifies away from China. But let’s be honest—this is the same “China + 1” narrative we heard back in 2020. Back then, Western firms said they’d move factories out of China. The winner wasn’t India. It was Vietnam.

Why? Because Vietnam is next door to China, plugged directly into Chinese supply chains. Its ports, logistics, and industrial clusters are integrated with southern China’s manufacturing ecosystem. Multinationals could shift assembly lines to Vietnam without breaking their supply chain backbone. India, by contrast, was too far, too bureaucratic, too expensive in logistics, and too unpredictable in policy. India had a PR win over China – when it was crowned “most likely to succeed” in China + 1 as Modi was a good friend of Trump! See where Modi is now with Trump?

India’s Missed Chances

If India truly wants to be a manufacturing hub, it needs to face hard truths:
1.Foreign investment friendliness – Investors complain about red tape, sudden tax changes, and weak infrastructure. India must fix this.
2.Integration with Chinese supply chains – Pretending you can replace China is fantasy. The smart move is to plug into China’s ecosystem, not fight it. Vietnam understood this. India resisted, and lost.
3.Geopolitical realism – India wants to be a “swing state,” hedging between blocs. But hedging only works if you have leverage. Without manufacturing depth, India’s leverage is limited.

OECD Debts near Breaking Points?

Western debt markets are turning into a casino. Just look at US, Japan and France.
Sunak warned tech firms may soon issue more debt than the US government, showing how private capital dominates—chasing quick profits and leaving economies unstable.
In my opinion, China’s model is different. Debt is directed by the state, used to build railways, factories, and green tech, not gamble on short term returns. This approach is civilizational: China has always valued stability and long term planning. For developing countries, that predictability is far more sustainable than Western finance, which is predatory and short lived. In a multipolar world, China’s debt system looks built to last.

The Bigger Picture

Sunak’s speech in India was more than a policy talk. It was a reality check.
•China is the new superpower and peer to the US.
•India is still the aspirant.
•Multipolarity is here.
•OECD debts are worrisome

For India, the choice is stark: keep chasing the fantasy of replacing China, or accept reality and integrate with the Chinese supply chain while reforming its own investment climate. Otherwise, India risks being left behind, watching Vietnam and ASEAN reap the benefits of diversification.

Conclusion

Sunak’s words in New Delhi cut through the illusions. The US-led order is gone. Trump is the symptom of America’s decline. China is the peer competitor. And India? Still waiting for its moment, but unless it changes course—making itself investment-friendly and integrating with China—it will remain on the sidelines of the multipolar world.

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[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The modern man, particularly the modern western man, worships the intellect. I used to be in this category so I know whereof I speak.

Pure mathematics, the highest intellectual activity known to man, is falling to AI. It is a deeply humbling moment.

At this point, I would assume that most "intellectual jobs" are at risk. That includes much of software.

What will people do? Living in a village (I just came from Lalita Sahasranama pooja for Navaratri), I am not worried about "What will humans do" question.

Humans have infinitely many things to do and I categorise those human activities as nature, nurture, culture and scripture: restoring soil and water, raising children and caring for elders, making music, sustaining festivals, sports and entertainment, studying and practising spiritual traditions.

Those activities can pay well in the sense of being able to afford the goods and services produced with near zero human labor. The task of the political economy is to ensure this income distributional outcome and I reject UBI as an unimaginative and dystopian vision of the intellect-worshipping modern man. The UBI future implicitly assumes monopolization of the means of production and sovereign states already have the power to disallow monopolies.

Hindu philosophy, in all its depth and grandeur, never worshipped the pure intellect. Finally I understand why.

Om Shri Lalitambikayai Namah 🙏

[Rajan Anandan @RajanAnandan]

.@TheSaurabhSri and I launched "The Lift-Off Nation" a a book we have been working on for over 3 years, a few days ago. Thank you @ShereenBhan and @CNBCTV18News for talking to us about the theme of the book and the core ideas we share in the book.
Full recording here:
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[Rajesh Timane @timane]

Mahindra Takes Over 800 Acres for Mega #Nagpur Factory; ICE SUVs, EVs and Tractors to Share India’s Biggest M&M Manufacturing Hub

#automobile #butibori #manufacturing #SUV #EV @Mahindra_Auto
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[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

The guy is clearly trolling Elon Musk! Yet people are trolling David! Why don’t people get sarcasm!!

[Adarsh Swamy @AdarshSwamy7]

@AdityaRajKaul You will be surprised to see even Elon had re tweeted this. Lol

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

@AdarshSwamy7 Wow 🤣🤣🤣

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Prime Minister of Bhutan @tsheringtobgay calls Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi an Avatar of Vishnu.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

#BREAKING: Israeli President @Isaac_Herzog has announced that Braveheart Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar will be conferred with Israel’s Presidential Award for Civilian Heroism.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Yesterday @GoogleDeepMind made a toxin-degrading enzyme from scratch. Today @OpenAI solved 370 of the most difficult mathematical problems.

AI has removed intelligence as a differentiator between humans. We are back to living in (modern) caves gazing at stars with nothing to do.

[Rajesh Timane @timane]

#AgenticAI #AI @AnthropicAI @GeminiApp

@Google announced a “universal” Gemini agent for the workplace, ramping up competition with OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft for corporate customers

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[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

Rest in peace, #NanaPatekar. A great actor has left us, but Uday Shetty and all his unforgettable characters will live on forever.
Om Shanti

[IISc Bangalore @iiscbangalore]

Congratulations to Prof Mahesh Kakde on being awarded the Ramanujan Prize 2026 for his contributions to algebraic number theory!🎉

🔗: https://t.co/lnUiVtXDTK

[Riteish Deshmukh @Riteishd]

I am shocked beyond words. Feels like a truck has hit me. Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Nana Patekar ji. An actor par excellence, incomparable to anyone, he carved his place in people’s hearts with his own unique style and brand of acting. There wasn’t a role or a character he couldn’t perform. He aced it all — a larger-than-life hero, a terrifying villain or be it his poker-faced comedy. He was a hero off screen too, and worked tirelessly through his charity for the good of the people.
I had the privilege of sharing screen space with him in Bluffmaster and Housefull 5, but working with him in a Marathi film will forever remain my unfulfilled desire.
My heartfelt and deepest condolences to his family, loved ones, and the millions of his well-wishers.
Truly, the end of an era.
Thank you for your wisdom, your chats with me, the pat on my back, the shared laughter and for enriching me as a person.
Rest in glory !!!!

[Shunya Axis @ShunyaXis]

#Navratri #feminine #nonlinear #ShunyaXis

“Threads of the Feminine, woven into the fabric of time.”

Here, we gather the nine foundational posts in the order they were conceived, so you can walk the path step by step.

https://t.co/uqKjGUjKos