Tushar

Cold-blooded. Warm-hearted. Unsung. Unusual. Unreasonable. Unapologetic. The one you always wanted to be. PollComm Strategist. Founder: @warroomlive

[Tushar @tushar]

અણુથી અલ્પ માનીને ભલે આજે વગોવી લો, નહીં સાંખી શકે બ્રહ્માંડ કાલે વિસ્તરણ મારું.

કહી દો સાફ ઈશ્વરને છંછેડે નહીં મુજને,
નહીં રાખે બનાવટનો ભરમ સ્પષ્ટીકરણ મારું.

- શૂન્ય પાલનપુરી

[Tushar @tushar]

@paritosh2608 Thank you. Coming from a connoisseur of politics like you makes me happy and humble.

[Tushar @tushar]

The slogans change. The machines do not.

Of the two machines, only one disappears when a government falls.

Part 1 of a six-part series on the invisible machines of Indian democracy. Please read and share your thoughts.

Thank you.

https://t.co/I3nFJSRifw

[Sunderdeep - Volklub @volklub]

Fcuk ventilated seats & 360 deg camera, I want my car me to tell me the composition of petrol (ethanol & petrol percentage) & adulteration (if any) the moment I fill in the fuel.

A must have feature in India.

[Tushar @tushar]

@Anurag_Dwary @zoo_bear Several high courts have ruled that recording any public official isn’t illegal.

You can even record inside the police station.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Sir. I think maybe I speak for a small but valid percentage of India when I say couldn’t care less what the congress did anymore. Let it go. India moved on. They are not in power for their deeds. We did jokes about them for years, we booed them at the commonwealth games, they were a punch line on this platform for years, they got voted out. That’s life. These kids giving exams don’t even remember a congress govt. Questions can only be asked of those in power. That’s not being selective, it’s just called living in the present. No one dealing with a paper leak cares about BJP/Congress or Hindu/Muslim or any partisan bullshit. They’re worried about the future.

[Tushar @tushar]

All six parts are out now if you would like to read them as a series.

[Tushar @tushar]

The slogans change. The machines do not.

Of the two machines, only one disappears when a government falls.

Part 1 of a six-part series on the invisible machines of Indian democracy. Please read and share your thoughts.

Thank you.

https://t.co/I3nFJSRifw

[Tushar @tushar]

Sixth and final part of this series.

[Tushar @tushar]

The first Aadhaar number was issued in Nandurbar in September 2010. The 83,000th shakha was counted in March 2025.

Somewhere between those two dates, the budget line and the ballot box became the same line.

The closing piece of the six-part Invisible Machines of Indian Democracy series. Please read and share your feedback.

https://t.co/zQsbeiTM8I

[Tushar @tushar]

Part 5:

[Tushar @tushar]

About sixty per cent of Indian voters do not support the BJP. That number has stayed the same for ten years. In theory, it is enough for the opposition to form a national government.

But it never adds up. Why?

To know the answer, please read part 5 of the Invisible Machines series, on why the opposition cannot consolidate.

https://t.co/hex1l0ygN1

[Tushar @tushar]

The first Aadhaar number was issued in Nandurbar in September 2010. The 83,000th shakha was counted in March 2025.

Somewhere between those two dates, the budget line and the ballot box became the same line.

The closing piece of the six-part Invisible Machines of Indian Democracy series. Please read and share your feedback.

https://t.co/zQsbeiTM8I

[Tushar @tushar]

@rana_kshitij @volklub @nitin_gadkari You’re not the only one. We are all jokers in their circus. We cry and they clap!

[Tushar @tushar]

For those who think that there will be a void after them.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Think of yourself as an LLM.

Every social interaction, every meeting, burns your tokens.

Unless someone is a paid subscriber to your attention, you are under no obligation to answer low-quality prompts.

[Tushar @tushar]

@alysha_lobo @bigansh @WeWorkIndia @itsarnavb @_lagrangepoint I tried to create one in Bangalore around 2015-16, but failed. Maybe I was too early.

[Tushar @tushar]

“It's the economy, stupid!"

[Dr Uday S Kulkarni @MulaMutha]

Time to travel 6 minutes.

How can you save 5 minutes by building this 300 cr road destroying precious hill slope land?

Who is pushing this project? Why?

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

The BBC’s genius script-writing of yore — “and all around, the almond trees are ripe with spectators…” — a perfect concatenation of words and pictures used together, as metaphors fused into a single sound-image. Sadly, an art that is all but lost now.

[From the Hills of Nagaland. @Nagaland_India]

Do char kadam pe tum the.
Enjoy the song.
#Manipur Northeast India 🇮🇳.

[sunetra choudhury @sunetrac]

This kid came to Delhi to start a new job and then our messed up systems happened to her and her family. No wonder so many people just want to send their children abroad- just go, get away from all the nonsense and lack of accountability

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

🤦The situation in India has become so pathetic & plagued, that my cousin, i was discussing has been unable to decide whether to buy a car for the last more then one year.

Despite he has open budget of 25 lac to 30 lacs.

He says petrol vehicles are risky because of increasing ethanol blending and uncertainty over long term engine performance & damages being reported.

Diesel vehicles face policy uncertainty and possible scrappage restrictions anytime, now 10 yrs life in Metros.

Electric vehicles are being pushed aggressively, but outside a few major cities, charging infrastructure is still nowhere near reliable.

And he is not alone.

Thousands of middle class families are stuck in the same confusion, so they keep delaying.

This is what happens when governments make policies without studying their long term impact & ground realities.

Bad one sided policies, excessive taxation, corruption, regulatory uncertainty, and forced transitions are slowly strangling consumption and growth.

People stop spending.

Industries stop investing.

Growth slows down.

Then the same people who created the mess start blaming everyone else for the consequences of their own failures.

☹️☹️

[Tushar @tushar]

@TarunMalaviya @SANJOYOJHA That’s the hard truth and nothing else.

[Venkatesh Alla @venkat_fin9]

The Supreme Court dismissed the PIL on E20 saying the govt "followed due process." The PIL wasn't asking for a rollback. It simply asked for:

✅ Fuel labels at pumps
✅ E10 option retained
✅ Nationwide compatibility study.

All 3 rejected. This is what "due process" looks like.

Not sure why exactly we have courts in india. Shame.

[Tushar @tushar]

@meenakshisharan @SuratLitFest