Manoj

Explorer of words & ideas. Lover of coffee, Books and all things creative. On a journey to make a positive impact.

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@Asan_research I can recall your earlier tweets were you were a blind supporter and now this story. Late realisation but good realisation

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@dmuthuk Sir you pick your correct stock and group at the right time.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Though the ruling party’s ecosystem praises Nirmala Sitharaman as the best finance minister, I have explained many times, with details, why she is the worst finance minister in post liberalised India.

I was not surprised when she said that the NEET re-exam gave students an opportunity to prepare further.

She has always been insensitive, arrogant, and completely detached from the reality of day to day India.

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@vishalPosts @IMAIndiaOrg Even lord ram left India 15 years back. What all nonsense we are going to witnesss… nechala bayamaa iruku. How to change the country of residence can some one help me

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@_PVRCinemas we are at your food counter and I don’t think we can safely consume your food items, for the price you guys charge, please serve some clean food to consumers

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

We lack infrastructure and basic civic sense. Public spaces get trashed, but people obsess over movie stars, religion, and cult figures like they’ll fix everything. Meanwhile, media keeps feeding nonsense and we keep consuming it. Peak frustration. #saveindia

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

I've already retweeted @Options_IndiaAB post.

Since I want this to reach lot of people, posting it separately too.

Here is the post:

I recently spent 2 weeks in China.

6 cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Zhangjiajie, Chongqing and Chengdu.

I went there with curiosity.

Like many Indians, I had heard a lot about China through media, social media and conversations. I expected to see progress, maybe discover some business ideas, and understand what the country is actually building.

I came back with a very uncomfortable feeling.

Not because I found a business idea for myself.

But because I saw 100 things that governments can do when infrastructure, tourism, transport, urban planning and civic systems are treated seriously.

I travelled within China by flights, trains, cars and local transport. The infrastructure was honestly stunning.

Clean cities. Smooth roads. High-speed trains. Well-managed traffic. Public spaces that actually feel designed for people. Tourist destinations that are built, maintained and promoted like national assets.

And then I kept thinking about India.

We keep comparing ourselves to China. Our media keeps telling us how India is catching up, how China is restrictive, how we are better in so many ways.

After spending time there and speaking to people, I realised how much of that narrative is just comfort food.

China is not perfect. No country is.

But on infrastructure, execution, tourism, civic discipline and quality of urban life, they are not 5 years ahead of us.

They are decades ahead.

The saddest part for me was the currency.

Everything felt expensive. Not because China was insanely expensive, but because the rupee has weakened so much that even normal spending starts feeling heavy. As an Indian taxpayer, that genuinely hurt.

We pay taxes. We work hard. We talk about becoming a global power.

But where is the quality of life?

Where is the civic sense?

Where is the infrastructure that makes daily life easier?

Where is the tourism vision beyond religious tourism?

I met travellers from other countries who were excited to visit China because they wanted to see its progress. When I asked about India, many had no real desire to visit. Not out of hate. India simply was not on their aspirational travel list.

That should bother us.

Even the so-called “closed internet” surprised me. We are told people there are missing out because they don’t use Google, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook.

But China has built its own digital ecosystem. Payments, maps, transport, messaging, shopping, everything works inside their own infrastructure. People did not seem to feel deprived. They seemed adapted.

Again, this is not a hate post.

I love India. That is exactly why this trip bothered me.

Patriotism cannot only be about saying we are great.

Real patriotism is having the courage to admit where we are falling behind.

China made me realise one thing very clearly:

India’s potential is not the problem.

Execution is.

And unless we stop comforting ourselves with comparisons and start demanding better infrastructure, better governance, better tourism, cleaner cities and a higher quality of life, we will keep celebrating the idea of progress instead of actually living it.

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@NoBrokerCare No thanks buddy! But you can’t change in few seconds not based on the phone i use. If you really care about customers mention the word the pricing is dynamic. I am done

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

People avoid platforms like @nobroker its a complete scam. When i first used the browser the pricing was 1500+ for 25 contacts but once i login using my mobile they changed the pricing to 1999. Now i stopped my transaction and deleted the app. @NoBrokerCare

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

For 2 hours, the world came together to admire a new wallpaper. Innovation never looked so still. #WWDC2025 #Apple

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@Akshat_World Is it still relevant to buy property in Dubai ?

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

How it started & How it's going.

We pulled it off. Got a crowd fund. Hospital pitched in. Found supporters. Begged. Borrowed.

Finally this baby, coming all the way from Delhi, underwent successful liver transplantation at my centre and is now getting discharged. I must admit, I rolled the ball, but the whole game was because of so many other important people in the team and not me.

Every little macro-management and micro-management was through a small WhatsApp group, consisting of doctors from Delhi and Kochi.

Huge thanks to the pediatrics and nutrition team from AIIMS, Delhi and the transplant surgery team and critical care team at my hospital for creating this miracle, which we call medical science.

But the true heroes of this journey are these critical care and transplant nurses, and the mother who donated a part of her liver.

The mother's blood group was incompatible, so we followed a protocol to make it compatible and then transplanted part of her liver to her child with this rare genetic disease and now he can live and dream like a normal child.

A simple request on social media.
A life changing event for a son and his mother.
Glad I decided to respond.

This is the butterfly effect.

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

Its just started, waiting for Big corrections. Still lot of companies PE is above 50 #marketfall #stockmarketcrash

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

The markets are finally correcting. Given that markets swing between extremes, they can fall more just like they rose to the peak.

I've no idea where the markets go from here, but I can tell you about the broking industry. We are seeing a massive drop in terms of both the number of traders and volumes.

Here is the trading volume chart. Across brokers, there's a more than 30% drop in activity. Combined with the true-to-market circular, we are seeing degrowth in the business for the first time since we started 15 years ago.

This drying up of volumes shows how shallow the Indian markets still are. The activity is more or less among those 1-2 crore Indians.

By the way, if this continues, the government will not make even Rs 40000 cr from STT in FY 25/26, at least 50% below the Rs 80,000 cr estimate.

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

TVK should stay away from Prashant Kishor if they truly want to build something meaningful. He always aligns with the party that’s already winning. Let him first prove himself in Bihar before advising others. TN has far better strategists who truly understand TN & PPL @TVKVijayHQ

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@DrMafuzur @dmuthuk Oh in 2025 you woke up to SGB, Rahman ji it’s dead and dusted scheme

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

Scams are at their peak—will there ever be relief? At the very least, those who risk their lives to protest should be protected. Honestly, I strongly believe nothing will ever change in this country.https://t.co/ORFh0jLb39 #tamilnadu #MiningMafia

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

We didn't thank him enough. #ManmohanSingh

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

Sir, you will be remembered for all the right reasons #RIPManmohanSingh

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

The weight of grief bears down on me at the news of the passing of my honoured and cherished friend: Dr Manmohan Singh.

Obituaries, essays and books a plenty there will surely be about this great man, celebrating him as the architect of India’s economic reforms. As Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh was the midwife of India’s emergence as one of the world’s economic giants.

I had the rare privilege of witnessing the early years of these transformative policies first-hand while we both served as finance ministers during the 1990s. We shared a fervent commitment to the war against corruption — even collaborating on unravelling a major case.

The praise that will follow in the days ahead will be truly well-deserved. Dr Manmohan Singh, slightly awkward as a politician but undeniably upright, steadfast and resolute as a statesman, leaves behind a legacy that will inspire generations to come.

To me, he will be all that and much more. Not many people know this, and it is time that I share it with Malaysians: during the years of my incarceration, he extended a kindness that he didn’t have to — one that was neither politically expedient nor, as one can imagine, appreciated by the Malaysian government at that time. Yet, true to his character, he did it anyway. He offered scholarships for my children, particularly my son, Ihsan. Although I had declined the gracious offer, such a gesture undoubtedly showed his extraordinary humanity and generosity, demonstrative, as the Bard would have it, of a man so full of “the milk of human kindness”.

In those dark days, as I navigated the labyrinth of imprisonment, he stood by me as a true friend. Such acts of quiet magnanimity defined him, and they will remain etched in my heart forever.

Goodbye, my mitra, my bhai, Manmohan.

Photo: Getty images

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Former Prime Minister #ManmohanSingh, 92, passed away late on Thursday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The original Mr. Clean in Indian politics, Dr. Singh would be best remembered as the person who opened up India’s economy in 1991 as Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao’s trusted Finance Minister, @fewcan writes.
https://t.co/BJARSgxBlA

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@AmazonHelp @amazon @amazonindia and you know Amazon chat bots are never allows me to reach out to a real human. What sort of person experience you guys are trying to create. How do I reach your customer support quickly to report things. I have taken the screenshots of the numbers

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

SCAM Alert! @Amazon 🚨

Ordered a multimedia product, received an empty box! 😟
✔️ Always check packages upon delivery.
✔️ Suggest @AmazonIndia adopt open-box delivery
Hopeful for a quick resolution from Amazon's team.

#OnlineShopping #CustomerExperience #AmazonScam

[Manoj @vlmanojkumar]

@AmazonHelp @amazon @amazonindia At 10:30 now I got a call from a person claiming to be an Amazon guy and asking about the missing item. I have asked him to mail me or call from a proper number. He just disconnected the call. Tried reporting the same to your support team 1/2