Vinish Garg 🎗

Guardian of an Intent. Products. UX. design. Content. Marketing. System thinking. @steeringhq

[Vinish Garg 🎗 @vingar]

A UI engineer to me: "Can you teach me UX?"

Me: "Be prepared to learn journalism, politics, art, and be more difficult to work with."

[Lalit Rathi - LKR @lalitinvestor]

My mind is blown away reading the 109 page SEBI order on Rajesh Exports… not that its surprising given some in last few yrs had called it a fraud but shocked on the size of it and how a Rs 3,000 crore market cap company may potentially be heading towards ZERO.! 😲

This is not a normal accounting issue. This is SEBI practically alleging that out of nearly Rs 15.45 lakh crore consolidated revenue reported over 5 years, close to Rs 15.15 lakh crore revenue itself may have been misrepresented. Yes, you read it right - lakh crore.

And the most shocking part?
The core operating subsidiary, Valcambi SA, whose numbers supposedly drove the entire global scale of the group, reportedly showed only a few hundred crores of standalone revenue annually in audited Swiss accounts. Meanwhile, the holding structure above it magically showed revenues running into several lakh crores.

SEBI’s allegation is brutally simple in layman terms: A refining business which allegedly earned only processing charges/value addition was shown at group level as if the company owned and traded the entire value of gold flowing through the system.

Imagine a toll booth operator claiming ownership of every car crossing the highway and booking the value of all cars as its own revenue. That is broadly what SEBI is questioning here.

The order repeatedly mentions:
• No proper invoices
• No customer/vendor level breakup
• No ERP access
• No journal dumps
• No confirmations
• Missing subsidiary financials
• “Swiss confidentiality laws” being cited to deny information

SEBI has also highlighted that even the forensic auditor BDO India faced severe non cooperation.

What makes this even more serious is that this is an ex parte interim order. Meaning SEBI has passed the order based on its own investigation and material gathered, without relying on cooperation from the company side. Regulators generally do not go this aggressive unless they believe the findings are extremely serious.

The statutory auditor named in the order is BSD & Co, a mid sized Bengaluru based audit firm along with P V Ramana Reddy & Co. SEBI has specifically mentioned non submission of working papers and missing subsidiary records.

Another fascinating angle:
The annual reports reportedly show borrowings of around Rs 1,000 crore, but there is very limited clarity on which banks gave these loans and against what underlying audited cash flows.

This may go down as one of the most dramatic accounting fraud allegations ever seen in Indian capital markets post Satyam..

If even a fraction of SEBI’s findings sustain, this is not just a corporate governance failure. This is a complete collapse of reported financial reality.

Absolutely insane reading.!

You can read the order here - https://t.co/RWP594BT2r

#Rajeshexports

[Spandan Roy @talksports45]

Most instances for Australian batsmen, to have been the top scorer in a test match, including both innings and teams:

Steve Waugh -22*
Ricky Ponting -21
Don Bradman -20

Happy Birthday Steve Waugh.

[Spandan Roy @talksports45]

The last Ashes series, Australia won in England without Steve Waugh as captain/player, was back in 1975. Since then without Waugh, they have not managed to win the Ashes in England.

Happy Birthday Steve Waugh.

[Vinish Garg 🎗 @vingar]

@abhaysingh_13 ABD
Warner
Kohli
Pollard
Rahul

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

If you have ever boarded a plane, you should read this once.

In January 2020, Boeing handed over 100 pages of internal messages to Congress. They had to. The court asked for them.

These were not press releases. These were messages between Boeing's own engineers, pilots, and managers. Texts. Slack. Emails. The kind of thing you write when you think no one is watching.

What was inside was Boeing employees, in their own words, describing the plane they were building. Not a critic's words. Not a journalist's. Theirs.

This is the plane that crashed twice in five months. 346 people died.

Here is what they wrote.

- A Boeing employee wrote about the 737 MAX in a 2018 message: "This airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys."

- In a 2018 message, one employee asked a colleague: "Would you put your family on a MAX simulator-trained aircraft?" The colleague wrote back: "No." A third employee said: "I wouldn't."

- Boeing's chief technical pilot, Mark Forkner, wrote in 2016 messages that the MAX's flight control system was "running rampant" during a simulator session. He used a stronger word than "rampant."

- Forkner also wrote that he was "Jedi mind-tricking" foreign regulators into approving the plane without proper training.

These messages were sent before the plane started flying paying passengers.

Then there is the system that killed both planes.

- Boeing added a new piece of software to the 737 MAX called MCAS. It could push the plane's nose down on its own, without the pilot asking. It was triggered by a single sensor on the nose of the plane. If that one sensor was wrong, MCAS would activate anyway.

- Boeing did not tell the pilots MCAS existed. It was not in the flight manual. It was not in pilot training. Most pilots flying the 737 MAX learned the system existed only after the first crash, in October 2018.

- Boeing's own engineering analysis found that if a pilot took more than 10 seconds to figure out what MCAS was doing and override it, the result was "catastrophic." That word is from Boeing's own coordination memo, dated March 2016. Two and a half years before the first crash.

- Pilots in both crashes had no idea what MCAS was. They had no idea the plane was fighting them. They fought it for several minutes. They lost.

Then there is the FAA, the agency that is supposed to catch this kind of thing.

- In December 2018, after the first crash, the FAA did its own internal analysis. The conclusion: if MCAS was left as it was, there would be 15 more fatal crashes of the 737 MAX over the life of the fleet.

- The FAA did not ground the plane. It kept flying for another three months. The Ethiopian Airlines crash happened on March 10, 2019. 157 more people died.

- The US was one of the last countries in the world to ground the 737 MAX. China grounded it first. Then Europe. Then everyone else. The US held out until it could not.

Then there is what Boeing told the public while all of this was happening.

- Boeing's CEO at the time, Dennis Muilenburg, repeatedly told the press the 737 MAX was safe. He told the families of the victims it was safe. He told Congress it was safe.

- Internal Boeing documents released later showed that Boeing had been actively pressuring the FAA to remove every mention of MCAS from the pilot training manuals. Forkner's own messages show him pushing for this in 2016.

- Boeing knew the 10-second reaction time would be catastrophic. Boeing knew the system could be triggered by a single faulty sensor. Boeing knew most pilots had never heard of MCAS. Boeing said the plane was safe.

Then the bill came.

- In 2021, Boeing paid $2.5 billion to settle a fraud conspiracy charge with the US Department of Justice.

- In July 2024, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a felony fraud charge. A federal judge in Texas rejected that plea deal in December 2024 as too lenient.

- In May 2025, the DOJ announced a new non-prosecution agreement. Boeing avoided a felony conviction. Boeing pays $1.1 billion total. $487.2 million in criminal fines. $444.5 million into a victims' fund. $445 million into "compliance and safety" programs Boeing runs itself.

- The families of the 346 victims asked the DOJ to fine Boeing $24 billion. They were ignored.

- Mark Forkner, the pilot who "Jedi mind-tricked" regulators, was the only individual ever criminally charged. He was acquitted by a jury in 2022.

- Not a single Boeing executive has been criminally prosecuted for any of this.

Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case.

The engineers said the plane was designed by clowns. The chief pilot said he tricked regulators. Boeing's own analysis said a slow reaction would be catastrophic. The FAA's own analysis predicted 15 more crashes. Two crashes happened. 346 people died. Boeing's 2018 net income was $10.5 billion. The 2025 fine of $1.1 billion is roughly one tenth of that. No executive went to prison.

None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist's interpretation. These are court filings, DOJ press releases, House Transportation Committee reports, and Boeing's own internal documents.

The point of this post is not to scare you off your next flight.

The point is to notice what just happened.

A company knew its plane could kill people. It had the math in writing. It told the regulators a different story. It told the public an even different story. The plane killed 346 people. The 2018 net income alone was nine times the eventual fine. The man who lied to regulators walked free. The whistleblowers were silenced or are dead.

And the company is still building planes today. The same factory.

The lesson is not "do not fly Boeing." Most of us cannot tell which plane we are boarding, and switching to a different airline often gets you on the same model anyway.

The lesson is the gap between what a company says and what its own employees write down when they think no one is watching.

When a company tells you it cares about safety, ask what its engineers are saying internally. When a company tells you its product is fine, ask what its lawyers know. When a regulator tells you a product is approved, ask who paid to be in the room when it was approved.

346 people boarded a plane that day in Indonesia. 157 more boarded one in Ethiopia. None of them knew about MCAS. None of them knew about the 10-second window. None of them knew their pilots had not been trained.

The clowns and monkeys line is funny until you read the next page of the report.

That is when you find out what the clowns and monkeys built.

[Indian Cricket Ministry @ICM_News45]

🚨 Lalit Modi revealed how Shah Rukh Khan bought KKR in 2008 and secured Nokia as a sponsor:

Shah Rukh didn't like cricket, didn't understand cricket, and didn't know cricket. He's a football fan. When I said to him, 'I need you to buy a team and win a team,' he was a little apprehensive at first. He said, 'I don't understand anything about cricket.' I said, 'Leave that to me. I will ensure that I put a team and a system in place for you if you happen to win it.'

He asked, 'How much is it going to cost?' I said, 'The down payment is ₹20 crore or $5 million.' He said, 'But that's a big part of my savings account.' I said, 'Yes, I understand.'
So I had to worry about the owners making money and not losing money.

So There was a company called Nokia that made handsets. They were desperate to have Shah Rukh Khan as a brand ambassador for Nokia. Shah Rukh wasn't interested in talking to Nokia, and I couldn't interfere in his business. That's his personal endorsement business.

But I did say to Nokia, 'If Shah Rukh Khan were to win a team, would you sponsor the front of the shirt of the team? I can guarantee Shah Rukh Khan will wear your T-shirt and wear the cap with Nokia on it. And will you pay a $5 million advance payment for that?' They said, 'Sure.'

So It was a win-win for Nokia and Shah Rukh both, By the evening, Nokia had already written another cheque to sponsor the team and the KKR consortium.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

At a stopover in Hongkong, the second leg of the flight to New Zealand got cancelled due to a technical failure. Some of the Indian passengers crowded around the airline desk. And soon the arguments for preferential treatment poured in.

A very stylish woman, from Delhi, said, "I flew Premium Economy so you must give me priority and if possible upgrade me free to business class."

She was offered Economy Class. Her ticket to NZ was a back breaking 36-hour detour via Fiji-Melbourne. She will take forever to reach NZ.

Another guy said, "I have a business meeting in Auckland so it is very important for me to get there quickly."

He got Economy Class and a detour via Rarotonga or something. That's a 33 hour trip.

The very patient and polite Hongkong guy at the desk then offered me something similar with a 30+ hour detour via Fiji. I said, "Look, I'm really tired. I don't mind waiting in Hongkong but please put me on a direct flight to NZ."

He said, "Okay, please wait. I'll call you soon."

After an hour or two, after the other passengers with "urgent" requirements had been sent off to their gates, the guy comes to me and said, "Your flight will be at 10 am tomorrow. In the meantime you can stay at the airport hotel. Here's your hotel and 3 meal vouchers. The hotel is just 100 metres away."

I thanked him and walked to the hotel. My room wasn't a room - it was like a luxurious apartment, with a separate lounge, massage room, bedroom and direct pool access, plus too many other facilities to list here. I opened my hotel booking app and looked for the rates. It was Rs 68,000 per night. The year was 2017.

Always be at your best behaviour overseas. You are your country's ambassador.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.

Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:

https://t.co/PvRm8u0MV7

[𝗘𝗸𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵. @EknathRcbian]

Has Kohli the batter now eclipsed Warner the batter in IPL

His CV is more than impressive, I will say he is now better than Warner

2 Orange Caps
2 Trophies
600+ runs seasons in Winning season twice
2 50+ in finals
POTM in finals

[KBS Sidhu, ex-IAS 🇮🇳 @kbssidhu1961]

Today, our mother turns 90.

Widowed on 30 January 1972, at the young age of barely 35, she was left to bring up my elder sister and me at a stage when life should still have been full of companionship and shared responsibility. Instead, with uncommon courage and uncomplaining dignity, she became both mother and father to us.

My late father, a PCS officer, would have wanted us to be raised in the finest traditions of education, integrity, self-respect, and public service. She honoured that legacy in the truest sense. While working on a clerical post granted to her on compassionate grounds, she ensured that our studies never suffered and that our ambitions never diminished. It was because of her sacrifice and faith that both of us were able to pursue higher studies and eventually qualify for the civil services examination.

On 23 August 1986, after completing my training in the IAS, I joined as SDM, Samrala. That was the day I asked her to leave her job. Since then, she has been with us — not merely as a parent, but as a constant source of strength, inspiration, and blessing.

After our marriage in January 1990, Poonam joined me in receiving her quiet and stoic support at every stage of our lives. Over the years, she has loved and respected Mumma Ji not just as my mother, but truly as her own.

As Mumma Ji completes 90 years today, we bow our heads in gratitude. We pray that her loving presence, her blessing, and her quiet strength continue to guide all of us for many more years.

Happy 90th birthday, Mumma Ji. You are our pride, our anchor, and our greatest blessing.

Photo: My parents and my elder sister, circa 1960, Mussoorie.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

The evening of Jan 20th, 1991. Steve Waugh was dismissed for 60 on the 2nd day of a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia. It was, he felt, the final straw. That evening, he was at his fiancee, Lynette's place when the Australian coach Bobby Simpson called. He had been dropped for the next test against England.
Steve immediately drove over to his parent's place at Panania. When his mother Beverly opened the door, she immediately sensed something was wrong. She asked him what the matter was & he said he had been dropped.
She was in tears when Steve said it was all right, he wasn't too concerned. When his ma asked about his replacement, he said, 'he's right here' & pointed to his twin Mark, chatting with their dad Rodger.
Mark got 138 on debut & they went on to play 108 tests together.
Happy B'day Steve & Mark Waugh!

[Tejshree Purandare @tejshreethought]

▪️29 May: CBSE promises a “glitch-free” verification and revaluation process from June 1.

▪️June 1, 9 AM: Portal under maintenance.

▪️June 1, 2 PM: CBSE says it will go live soon.

▪️June 1, 11:30 PM: Portal still under maintenance.

The day is over. Students are still waiting.

If the portal was under maintenance , why announce that it would go live soon? Well, it has become a new normal for the Cbse to not to respond !!

The students have been waiting… so what they can wait… This is how the system works here

No update..No explanation… Just silence… with no accountability being fixed

[VIKASH KUMAR @vkc1000]

Today or tomorrow, Joe Root will definitely break the record for most runs in test cricket. One of the best batsman in this generation 👏

[🐘 @TinuAnandless]

Before people start tweeting late 90s, early 2000s songs, let me remind y'all that anyone born in the period 1997-2012 is technically a 'Gen Z' person 🫪😵‍💫

I'll recommend this Udit Narayan & Sadhana Sargam masterpiece from 1992 to them ❤️

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

Bowler tests him, the pitch tests him... but Sunil Gavaskar just tests their patience with pure elegance. 🔥

Getting beaten by a beauty only to reply with a textbook cover drive and an on drive.

The Little Master for a reason🔥🔥

[Brutal Truth @sarkarstix]

Kohli to Vaibhav: "You'll get another shot next year, champ. I had to wait 18 years. That's older than you." 😭🏆

[𝐊𝐨𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭!𝟎𝐧_👑🚩 @bholination]

Wickets fallen on the other end:

Kohli's first 35 runs - 0
Kohli's next 15 runs - 4

How dumb are these Vadapav dawgs to understand cricket?

[Zee @ZainabBell657]

pro tip: to transfer a file quickly between computers just copy the file you want, disconnect your mouse, plug it into the other pc and paste

[Sujal @Sujal_Pushkar]

When Amitabh Bachchan's Dialogue Delivery Meets Kadar Khan's Writing. 🙌🎬

This is the result. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
#Sharaabi (1984) @SrBachchan 🙌

[Vinish Garg 🎗 @vingar]

@pushkar_g_singh Amla is so underrated—27 hundreds in just 181 matches. Fastest to many milestones.