@BMTheEquityDesk Idiot IMF gace GDP a C grade bcoz India is under reporting it's number, the actual GDP would be much higher, click on the grok button on top right to get yourself educated, how tf people trust fool like you with their money, scary!
@BMTheEquityDesk Idiot IMF gace GDP a C grade bcoz India is under reporting it's number, the actual GDP would be much higher, click on the grok button on top right to get yourself educated, how tf people trust fool like you with their money, scary!
@itisprashanth@nitin_gadkari This mismatch creates an irregular metallic sound called "engine knocking", which reduces power and can physically break engine internals over time. XP100's 100-octane rating effortlessly handles extreme pressure without exploding prematurely. Hence the premium, don't tweet shit!
@itisprashanth@nitin_gadkari Idiot this XP 100 is not simply 100% petrol, it is high octane race grade fuel . Regular petrol has a 91 octane level. If you put it into a high-performance engine (like a Ferrari, Porsche, or Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R), the fuel will detonate too early under high pressure. +++👇
@itisprashanth@nitin_gadkari This mismatch creates an irregular metallic sound called "engine knocking", which reduces power and can physically break engine internals over time. XP100's 100-octane rating effortlessly handles extreme pressure without exploding prematurely. Hence the premium, don't tweet shit!
@itisprashanth@nitin_gadkari Idiot this XP 100 is not simply 100% petrol, it is high octane race grade fuel . Regular petrol has a 91 octane level. If you put it into a high-performance engine (like a Ferrari, Porsche, or Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R), the fuel will detonate too early under high pressure. +++👇
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@blackcat_1iii@CuleSaurabh +Infosys spent ₹18000 Cr for share buyback at Rs 1800,today share is trading at 1100 ,you think all FIIS & other investors selling it are fool, & then you have Pai coming on X & shouting we don't have money for AI, when called out for hypocrisy starts abusing Sikka ! Proper fool
@blackcat_1iii@CuleSaurabh +Employees millions of people - well not anymore, GCCs are setting up their own offices & getting work done directly by giving good pay rather going through contractors like TCS INFY WIPRO !
+AI Companies in US have already announced that they are setting up Service Companies
US market is overvalued.
US dollar is overvalued.
US security umbrella is overvalued.
The empire is gradually cracking.
India is, despite its significant growth, in a complicated geopolitical situation.
It could play the Soviets against the Americans earlier.
But now the US peer competitor is China with whom we have a border dispute and who (like the US) also sees us, rightly so, as a long term threat to their hegemony dreams.
We have no option but to triple down on Atmanirbhar Bharat in key areas of technology and defense while creating healthy interdependencies.
The E100 idea is a good one.
The problem is the government has spent a year making people hate the word ethanol, so now even a good idea looks bad.
Let me start with what just happened.
Gadkari Ji signed the file that makes 100 percent ethanol fuel legal in India. They call this fuel E100. It comes right after Maruti launched its first flex-fuel car, a Wagon R that can run on petrol mixed with ethanol, all the way up to pure ethanol.
Hero already sells flex-fuel bikes. Toyota, Hyundai and Suzuki are supposed to bring theirs in the next couple of months.
It makes sense because India buys most of its oil from other countries. More than 85 percent of it. We are one of the biggest oil buyers in the world and that bill is massive.
So if we can make some of our own fuel here from our own farms through ethanol, that money stays in India instead of going abroad. The government says ethanol blending has already saved more than ₹1 lakh crore on oil imports over ten years.
Farmers who grow the sugarcane and maize for it have earned over ₹80,000 crore. The fuel burns a little cleaner too. So the basic idea, grow your own fuel instead of importing it, is a sensible one.
And the good thing is that nobody is going to put pure ethanol in your old car. It only goes into the new flex-fuel cars that are built for it. You buy that kind of car knowing it runs on ethanol. So it is not being forced on anyone.
But here is where the anger comes from.
Last year, in April 2025, the government made E20 petrol the only option at almost 90,000 pumps. E20 means 20 percent ethanol mixed in.
Suddenly there was no normal petrol left to buy. You just had to take it. And then people started noticing problems. A big survey found 8 out of 10 people with cars bought before 2022 saw their mileage go down.
Even the carmakers admitted mileage drops by about 2 to 4 percent. Mechanics said fuel-related problems jumped 40 percent. One man in Chennai said his car needed around ₹4 lakh of repairs after water got into the fuel.
And the way the government keeps talking about it is making things worse. In this same speech, Gadkari Ji told a story about a man who blamed ethanol for his breakdown, then said it was a diesel car, so the complaint was nonsense.
He used it to say people are spreading false information. But if someone really did spend ₹4 lakh on repairs and you tell them their problem is fake, they do not feel better. They get more upset. You cannot win people back by telling them they are lying.
So while the policy is fine, the trust is gone. And you cannot sell a new ethanol product to people who already feel cheated by the last one.
The first job for the government right now is to make it clear, everywhere, that E100 is only for the new flex-fuel cars and is not going into anyone's old vehicle.
A lot of people right now think pure ethanol is the next thing about to be pushed on them. That fear needs to go away fast.
Next, give people their choice back on normal petrol. Most of the anger is simply because there is no other option at the pump. Some countries keep two types of fuel side by side. If India brings back a lower-ethanol or ethanol-free petrol for older cars, a big chunk of the anger settles on its own.
They also have to stop calling the complaints fake.
Be straight with people instead. Older cars do lose a bit of mileage. Cars made before 2023 were not built for this fuel.
Say that openly, and say what will be done about it. People will forgive an honest answer.
And also talk about money. A normal person is worried about mileage and what they spend every month. Show how much the country saves on oil.
Put the cost per kilometre in plain numbers. Make it about their pocket.
The sad part is the government has a good story to tell.
Less foreign oil, more income for farmers, a whole new industry being built at home.
But they have rolled this out badly, refused to admit the problems, and as a result even E100, which is actually optional and sensible is getting the same anger as others.
These guys are dinosaurs. All they want is access to large amounts of govt money so they can keep a huge slice of it. I wouldn't trust them to do anything well because it was their inertia and incompetence that caused India to lose its IT lead.
The arrogance and self righteousness of this HR guy of infy on everything is just astonishing. Sending people to US on h1b is the only accomplishment. I used to hear him a lot and admire him in initial years, he used to sound very learned and we'll read till 2017-18. But as I read and learnt more over the years, I realised how factless and wrong he always is on majority of the topics.
Bashing Indian IT service companies for not building frontier AI is fair.
But they were built for services.
The real question is much sharper:
Where is Tata’s Qwen?
Qwen came from Alibaba — a company smaller than the listed Tata empire.
Where is Ambani’s ERNIE? ( Baidu )
Where is Mahindra’s Hunyuan?
Where is Adani’s Pangu?
Where is L&T’s defence AI foundation model?
Where is Birla’s industrial AI model?
China’s established corporate giants are building frontier models.
Alibaba built Qwen.
Baidu built ERNIE.
Tencent built Hunyuan.
Huawei built Pangu.
ByteDance built Doubao.
iFLYTEK built Spark.
So stop gaslighting people with “India lacks capital.”
India does not lack capital.
India does not lack engineers.
India lacks a billionaire class willing to risk serious money on frontier AI.
There is money for weddings, cricket, retail, ports, media, and political access.
But when it comes to building India’s Qwen, suddenly everyone becomes a cautious accountant.
That is the scandal.
There you go again @TVMohandasPai. We went through this before and when I challenged you publicly to compare track records while I was in industry, you ran away. You avoid addressing the issue that you lack any tech background and expertise, being a mere bean counter/admin who exploited India’s tech youth with wage arbitrage to enrich yourself. The “big industry” you built was about exploiting our hard working youth as coolies. I advocated that Indian tech talent be channeled into Indian IP, and not rented out. You are obliged to suck up to the Murthy family without whom you were a nobody. History has proven that India should have followed China example of domestic IP and not the quick buck selfish approach. Compare Indian industrialists in tech with China’s. Why is India dependent on foreign licensing like a beggar? India has immense talent but its industrialists have been short sighted, selfish and arrogant. Now Indian youth face massive challenges unlike China’s as a result. The total market value of India’s tech industry is a mere 1% of the global tech market cap. Shameful for a nation of talented youth.
Mind you, this is a nepo baby without any technical education talking about someone who came from a middle income family, did his PhD at Stanford and led tech giants.