US has meritocratic country.
India is a bureaucratic country.
We celebrate people who has no real world experience, no tech, sales understanding, preparing for govt exams for 5 years & then become a baby selected by the babus than the wealth creators.
THIS IS THE REALITY OF THE SYSTEM WE LIVE IN
HOST: How many courageous bureaucrats do we really have?
ASHOK KHEMKA: If even 10% were courageous, we would see real change.
HOST: So it is less than 10%?
KHEMKA: Everyone knows what is right. Almost no one dares to say it.
While Goa chases some crap glass wall Airbnb architecture, Kerala architects are the bosses when it comes to tribal architecture.
If I ever get a house built out, will likely call in an architect from Kerala.
🚨 The BJP calls Soros an “enemy of India.”
But Soros Fund Management quietly parked ~$200 million with a firm co-founded by Union Minister Hardeep Puri’s daughter.
No speeches. No hashtags. No outrage.
My investigation for @newslaundry -
https://t.co/ECD1A7U230
Map of Chongqing's metro system in 3D.
Chongqing is called the "mountain city". Building metro here is more difficult than in plain cities.
Chongqing’s metro total length ranks 7th in the world, with over 550 km.
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
If I was a billionaire like the Kamath brothers.
I would start my own garbage collection and processing startup.
Lobbyy my way into getting all the tenders across Bangalore.
And clean the shit out of this city.
Impose yourself on others by doing the work nobody wants to do.
Expose yourself to the risks, the difficulty everyone steers away from.
Do this and you’ll end up at the top by sheer force.
An IAS officer in Chhattisgarh FIXED a maternal health CRISIS that the government couldn't solve with a recipe older than modern medicine.
She did it with a ladoo!
Yes, you read that right 🤯
Okay so here’s what happened:
Koriya district had one of the worst maternal health records in the state:
→ High-risk pregnancies → Underweight babies → Mothers going into labour severely anaemic.
Simply because pregnant women weren't getting enough nutritious food.
So District Collector Chandan Tripathi did something no consultant would pitch.
She turned a grandmother’s ragi modak into a structured maternal health system.
Here’s what they did differently:
→ Created iron-rich ragi modak ladoos (dietician approved)
→ Gave 2 ladoos daily to every pregnant woman
→ Added iron supplementation from the 5th month
→ Paired each woman with a “Poshan Sangwari” to ensure she actually consumed them
They called it the Koriya Modak Ladoo programme.
The most brilliant part about this is that they didn't hire outsiders to make the ladoos.
The same women it was meant to help now make the ladoos, earning ₹10,000–12,000 per month.
And look at the results now:
✅ 57% reduction in low birth weight cases.
✅ 362/398 underweight mothers gained healthy weight
✅ 3,00,000+ ladoos distributed so far.
And all of this was possible not because of a ₹100 crore government tender but because of trust in community knowledge and the will to execute it properly.
Sometimes the most powerful solutions aren’t expensive.
Sex is stupid. Stick this in that and move it around? I can't get off on such an intellectually unsatisfying act. Read to me from the Bard. Quiz me on state capitals.
I have an account in SBI only because I won a quiz organised by them back in college and they refused to transfer the prize money into any other bank account
As if losing his son was not traumatic enough the father of Anjel Chakma, murdered by a racist mob in Dehradun described how the police initially refused to file an FIR calling the assault a “Chhota Mota” case - the father, Tarun Chakma is a BSF constable in Manipur . Godawful. After public outcry the CM has intervened but here’s what happened before that.
मैं भारतीय हूं। मैं चीन से नहीं आया हूं।
I am an Indian, not Chinese.
The people of the North East are Indians, and not Chinese.
: असम कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष @GauravGogoiAsm जी
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