Amitav

Entrepreneur. Mostly failed. Marketer. Growth Hacker. Jack of Everything Digital. Digital Marketing & Branding Consultant for Startups, SMEs & SMBs.

[Amitav @vuttaa]

@greatbong I guess it all depends on how motivated you are for the case to leave all the comfort there. I have at least a half a dozen friends who have given up their position in the USA (top places) and come back here and teach at IITs, ISROs of the world.

Ofcourse they had the challenges

[Amitav @vuttaa]

When data meets drama!

[Amitav @vuttaa]

This made my day. Kudos to @KolkataPolice for reassuring us. Much Appreciate.

[Kolkata Police @KolkataPolice]

Thank you.

[Amitav @vuttaa]

What a coincidence! Exactly 2 years back on the same day. And nothing changed despite several requests to the authorities.

Residents here live in absolute stress during rain. And today it's just mayhem!

@MamataOfficial attention plz!

#Kolkataflood #Kolkatarain #behala

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Shakuntala Park, Behala, Kolkata. Senior citizens have to live with this unthinkable condition - overflowing dirty drains, and waterlogged streets. Despite appealing to @kmc_kolkata multiple times, no actions taken. @MamataOfficial plz plz help us! #SOS

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Kolkata literally flooded after incessant rain last night. Park circus, right now. Countless Vehicles stranded on Maa flyover. @KolkataPolice

Do not get out today unless you have an emergency.

#KolkataFlood #KolkataWeather

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

Stop writing 5,000-word op-eds dissecting Trump’s policies. There aren’t any. Not in any coherent, ideological sense. What we’re witnessing isn’t governance—it’s raw power as personal gratification, and until we grasp this, we miss the forest for the trees.

Trump enters his second term with something close to an absolute mandate, not because Americans embraced his vision, but because they recoiled from what progressive Democrats tried to do to the country. Their attempts to reimagine institutions—from open borders and replacing equality with equity, to criminalizing majoritarian identities—sparked a backlash so strong Trump now rides it like a tsunami.

The result? He is, for all practical purposes, king. Republicans prostrate themselves before him. Corporate titans arrive bearing gifts like medieval supplicants. Nations debase themselves to curry favor. This isn’t hyperbole—it’s American politics in 2025.

Trump’s “policy” is his pathology: an insatiable hunger for dominance. Born into wealth, luxury lost its thrill early. Money was never the drug—submission was.
In youth and middle age, power came through beautiful women throwing themselves at him or allowing him to grab them. The rush wasn’t sexual—it was the cocaine hit of “look how powerful I am.” When that faded, it became financial schemes. The thrill was fleecing others, knowing his presence could separate them from money.

Reality TV was the next stage. Firing people on camera, watching adults beg for approval, celebrities competing for attention—power distilled and broadcast for millions.

Now comes the final evolution: making nations kneel. Every Republican governor, senator, and media personality speaks the supplicant’s tongue. Tech titans bring golden offerings, praise carefully crafted like medieval court tributes.

Internationally, the full scope emerges. Countries that once dealt with America as equals now calculate how to feed Trump’s ego alongside their interests.

Pakistan is a case study—a nation whose foreign policy is high art in shoe-sniffing American power. Pakistan formally recommended Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize..They sign deals with Trump-backed crypto companies.

This isn’t diplomacy—it’s performance art stroking Trump’s ego while hoping to avoid wrath.

The Pakistan playbook spreads. Nations learn the path to American favor runs through Trump’s validation: recommend him for prizes he craves, publicly praise his wisdom, buy into his businesses. Traditional diplomacy—state departments, embassies, international law—are replaced by one chokepoint: one man’s need to be ubermensch.

Trump’s arsenal isn’t military might or traditional economic leverage. It’s the presidency wielded as a personal instrument of revenge and reward: prosecute rivals who refuse to bend the knee, impose crushing tariffs on those who don’t genuflect, weaponize government to enforce submission.

This is why policy analysts fails. They look for chess when Trump plays a different game—the schoolyard bully.

So here’s the question for every nation, especially India: do you bend the knee?

The temptation is enormous. Pakistan’s rewards show submission’s lure. Play the game, feed the ego, avoid Trump’s wrath.

But this is a test of national character. Some things are worth more than temporary advantage. Some prices are too high—even for peace.

The moment will pass. Presidents change, political movements exhaust themselves, pendulums swing back. But national dignity, once surrendered, is nearly impossible to reclaim. The muscle memory of subservience becomes a permanent disability.

India must resist the parade of supplicants. Not because Trump lacks power—he clearly has it—but because feeding that power’s hunger costs far more than any short-term gain. Better to weather the storm with dignity than kneel for shelter.

The world watches who remembers who they are—and who becomes anyone for the right price.

[Amitav @vuttaa]

@Crypt0holicpoet @amazonIN @amazon @AmitAgarwal I just cancelled my order at @amazonIN as a protest. Unless this scam is investigated by them and responded to, we should stop buying from them. This certainly is a scam. #AmazonContestScam

[Amitav @vuttaa]

17 years on Twitter. And YouTube. Probably within the first 100k early adopters.

Looking back now, I wish i could continue my video journey that I started on YouTube in 2006.

Still get hundreds of views for those old vodeos I shot with my handicam. :(

#regret

[Amitav @vuttaa]

@FirhadHakim Sir, For the last 4 days, residents of ward 127 at Shakuntala park are living in this Horrible condition. Promises of underground pumps are made every year, but nothing happens on the ground! It feels like being abandoned. @MamataOfficial #SOS

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Shakuntala Park, Behala, Kolkata. Senior citizens have to live with this unthinkable condition - overflowing dirty drains, and waterlogged streets. Despite appealing to @kmc_kolkata multiple times, no actions taken. @MamataOfficial plz plz help us! #SOS

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Shakuntala Park, Behala, Kolkata. Senior citizens have to live with this unthinkable condition - overflowing dirty drains, and waterlogged streets. Despite appealing to @kmc_kolkata multiple times, no actions taken. @MamataOfficial plz plz help us! #SOS

[Amitav @vuttaa]

@theandreboso Lolz. In short, I watch their videos 95%; I get into their 'cart' just to abandon it; I fill up their form with my 'spam-me' email. I am the fish they thought they almost caught! 😃

[Amitav @vuttaa]

So, what drives our purchase behavior?

As per Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, our conscious attention may not be responsible for our decisions!

More details here: https://t.co/qLb9zCzrQE

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Do we really know why we buy what we buy?

Niall Fitzgerald, former Chairman of Unilever, once said, “if someone asked me... which half of my advertising is wasted I would probably say 90% is wasted but I don’t know which 90%.”

#marketing #Psychology #marketresearch

[Amitav @vuttaa]

His ultimate mission: Twitter for Space! #TwitterLayoffs

[Amitav @vuttaa]

With angry shareholders asking Meta to stop wa$ting billions on Metaverse, it looks like Mark's 'meta'bolism may go for a toss! 🤪

#MetaverseNews #justkidding #spoof #memesfunny #techjokes

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Been there?

Only 2 out of 10 go to the 2nd page of Google!

So, what abt all the hard work you did to climb up Google mountain?

What would you do to break out of this deadlock?

Do you think page navigation makes no sense on the SERP any more?

#seostrategy #marketinghumor

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Did the court order demolition of Sensex today?

#StockMarketCrash

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Saudi now offers 12,410 days of free accommodation and food for tweeting! Anyone?

#justiceforkhadija

[Amitav @vuttaa]

O Bhai sahab, sare films boycott karoge toh dekhunga kya?? 😭😭 #LalSinghChadha

[Amitav @vuttaa]

Do you think that a dotcom like crash has now started ripping the new-age Tech sector? worse to come?

[Amitav @vuttaa]

The indifference of Ad Tech platforms like Meta towards its customer service for its bread and butter segment of small and medium business will drive away advertisers further.

#digitaladvertising #adtech2022 #socialadvertising #digitalamarketing

[Amitav @vuttaa]

- Address fake and bot accounts that swallow advertisers' ad spend

- More in-depth segmented reports to boost advertisers' confidence

- Dedicated and competent support for country specific customers