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If you need a reason to smile this Monday evening, all you need to look at, is the smile on Smt Nagalakshmi's face, mummy to GM R Praggnanandhaa & WGM R Vaishali 🙏🙏
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He is the reason why chhatth pooja is now celebrated in every corner of India, because everyone had to migrate in search of jobs & livelihood
Say what you will about the man but India is yet to find a better Railway Minister.
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If it had started in India Jim, the world would have known the precise details of this virus, the symptoms, the medications that work and dont, within a few weeks of Patient0. The world wouldnt be fighting such an uphill battle. (1/n)
'Thank God this didn't start in India': Jim O'Neill praises China's coronavirus response
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This guy and the Danish ambassador in Delhi prove something that I have always suspected to be true about us
In India laws & policies are useless, published naming & shaming is the only way to get things done.
Big win! Lay's India to reduce palm oil usage!
Last month, I made a video showcasing how Lay's India uses palm oil but Lay's USA does not use Palm oil!
After a lot of public pressure, Lays India has set a public statement that they have begun the process to replace palm oil in…
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Sexual violence in India is deeply under reported, by Indian women.
Cos we know that the first reaction from our family will be to take our freedom away.
Leave that job/that college/that tuition/that park/that train/that flight, & stay home.
Our freedom sits atop our silence
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On the India vs US comparison debate, if you belong to the top 5%, India will (by & large) give you a better quality of life than US gives its top 5%. Because India's cheap labour will act as a buffer between you and the grossly inadequate infra (1/n).
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Me : Careful analysis + allocation, portfolio performance: 19% YTD
Husband : Random trading on tips from telegram groups, perf: +83% YTD
Me looking at latest addition to his portfolio: Tumhe pata bhi hai yeh company banaati kya hai?
Husband : Yeh mere liye paise banaati hai!!
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$16bn of farm subsidies annually, but atleast we get to watch some sick tractor videos
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So my sister and I won some drawing competition at school and the prize was some 4500Rs. Back in 1996 this was serious money, and we thought we could use it to buy a "grown up" birthday gift for our mum, like maybe even gold jewellery. 1/n
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Alright, so who here is interested in a thread about the original Indian unicorn? You see, pre 2010, well before central banks were printing currency like it was toilet paper, the definition of a unicorn🦄 was a wee bit different. (1/n 🧵)
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You could buy this 8bhk apartment in Lokhandwala Mumbai for $4.2MM (or INR 35Crores) ,
or you could save yourself INR12Crores and buy an actual mansion in New Jersey, US for $2.7MM (or INR 23Crores) - this place is an hour's drive away from Manhattan.
make it make sense ...
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India is home to 11million twitter accounts, 215million Facebook accounts and 400million whatsapp users, where information (and misinformation) would have flown freely. No state entity would be rationing out the truth, prioritizing their image over human lives. (2/n)
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Those marvelling at B'Desh's rise, should know that our labour laws were designed since 1950's to discourage capex-lite manufacturing units (like garments etc), and encourage capital-heavy units like Auto-ancs, pharma etc.
(1/n)
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A colleague was worried that his 8yr old daughter was losing touch with their humble roots. Going for classes in chauffer-driven cars, living in a big house, her own room etc. So he decided he would take her for her tuition classes in a BEST bus, just so she stays grounded. 1/n
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And if any of these doctors/virologists was a woman, BBC would write an article like this one:
where the most fascinating thing about an Indian female doctor/virologist is that she cooks for her family. This would all happen before Patient5 btw. (4/n)
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And when Indian doctors discover the right cocktail of drugs to use against Covid-19 (like they have in Rajasthan),
Economist
@TheEconomist
would write articles on how India's IPR norms eat into the profits of Big Pharma.
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For 80,000$ you can either buy a 350sqft apartment in Bhandup or a whole house, 1200sqft , 3bedrooms in a tier-2 American city like Rochester....😂
Per Capita income in Rochester is $ 58K
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And if India uses frugal innovation to design and despatch affordable, hardy and temperature-agnostic test-kits to our friends across the globe (like MenAfriVac), rest assured, we will also be expected to show a sense of humor about cartoons like this one! (fin/n)
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Back in my Naani's time, none of this woke nonsense was tolerated!
(Also back then, 1 out of every 5 Indian kids died before their 5th birthday...so there is that tiny detail)
“had an argument with Pandit ji for feeding Honey to newly born child because i don’t believe in these traditions”, like seriously ??? Wokeism at its peak!!
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You have been renewing the domain name of that impossible side hustle for 7yrs now....
Meanwhile, Hotstar with 60million paying customers, decided to let their domain expire in the middle of
#INDvAUS
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He said that he & ma always checked with each other before any big purchase. Just a rule they had always followed. So to keep all the 3 women in his home happy(2 daughters & a wife) he had to become a double agent for a while. Leak our plan to ma, not leak ma's plan to us !
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Case in point :
An article as forgiving and accommodating as this, would definitely haven't been written if the pandemic originated in India !
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@hollowearthterf
A wise friend had a rule : Marry a man who loves you 10x more than you love him. Men are horrible at converting their love into acts of service. So if you set up a household with a man who loves you as much as you love him, you will carry that household on your shoulders alone.
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The 2024 equivalent of "Keep your daughter off the stripper pole" is "Keep your sons off the podcast mic" ...
(we all know that he is alone in that podcast studio, and I hope to god that he knows it too !)
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If my husband is using me as a reason to say no to an invitation, please know that he had 0 plans of attending it anyways. And I use him as an excuse to get out of invitations too.
This is my most favourite of all marital privileges.
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May the good Lord give us all the self confidence of an American university trying to make the sub-Saharan people more eco-friendly...
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"Ensuring your kids live a more comfortable life than you ever did is the natural order. And you do this, not as a favor to your kids, but as bare minimum parental duty.
So if there is someone here who has lost touch with their roots its you, and not my grandchild." /fin
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NRI discovers India has ample supply of talented yet low cost labor.
Soon NRI will discover that the low cost of our talented labour is the reason why he decided to become an NRI.
Just heard that in Hyderabad PCR test results come back in 4 hours. Here in LA, my daughters test results came after 5 days from a private tester. Of course
@NPR
’s India’s correspondent might have an interesting hot take on this.
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My only advice to this young trooper would be to break down "total compensation" to (1). Fixed cash salary paid every month (2). Cash bonus/incentives (3). ESOPs -and what valuation does he bake in...
If we must reduce humans to numbers, then atleast use the right numbers ffs!
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@hollowearthterf
It's important he watches SATC -> 30 Rock -> Girls, in that order , to understand how mainstream feminism evolved in the past 3 decades
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Brother attended one desi wedding, and is now wearing a gold chain everywhere....
Something about Zuck with a gold chain goes insanely hard
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And so its peculiarly annoying when a VC or a tech-entrepreneur, with access to millions of $s focusses more on how our 5% lives better than a US' 5%, as opposed to focusing on how tech can help us bridge the gap between our bottom tier and their bottom tier. 5/n
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Within 24hrs of arriving at her adult daughters house, every Desi mother reveals the Bain consultant in her : "We can reduce operating expenses by 40% and headcount by 30% within this quarter"
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The trouble begins for the bottom 95%, where even providing basic healthcare & education is an uphill climb.
My bullishness comes from tech, because India's problems are specifically problems of scale, which tech is capable of solving 4/n
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@krownnist
Lol ...no she won't be asked to stay at home. She will be "allowed" to work, while she takes on a massive domestic workload too. And on birthdays & special occasions her husband will applaud her for being a superwoman, while her sanity slowly succumbs to sheer exhaustion.
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You can afford a driver, and so wont notice that public transport infrastructure doesnt keep up with demand or the horrible roads
You will have domestic staff, so you will live a good life despite spending 2hrs in traffic in your chauffer-driven car. 2/n
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A dear friend had a wedding to attend, and so promptly went to her bank locker and got her favourite polkhi set home a week before the event, to avoid any last minute chaos.
Shockingly, the jewelry disappeared 4 days before the wedding ! 1/n
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The family's tryst with Chess began when R Vaishali began spending her evenings watching TV, and her parents did what all Indian parent do: signed her up for classes. And as luck would have it, there were Chess classes.
Soon, R Praggnanandhaa started tagging along....
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For a 5%er, healthcare in India is great. Thanks to cheap labor, we have great quality of medical talent, and the ratio of nursing staff per bed at the private ward in a Lilavati/Jaslok/Apollo is better than what most US hospitals would have. 3/n
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A Bangalore auto-driver can say "Nahi jayega" in 107 languages !!
Just look at the number of languages spoken across districts in India! Bangalore has the highest = 107
#CelebrateDiversity
#KnowIndia
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His father said "I would cycle or walk to my office in fort, just to make sure we could afford your schoolbus. There were years were your mother & i didnt buy new clothes just to ensure you 3 kids always had the smartest uniforms. " 3/n
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Every tues/thurs he would leave office early, drive home and then leave for tuitions with his daughter in a BEST. One thursday, I see him working late, and ask if tuitions got cancelled? The colleague mentions that his dad had come visiting, and gave my colleague an earful! 2/n
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Btw 2001-03 was the era of some
#Epicfail
acquisitions. AOL-TimeWarner ($54bn writedown), HP-Compaq($12bn writedown).
And in the midst of it, happened Ultratech, the stuff you only read in textbooks & fairytales, where everyone got to make money.
Truly a unicorn! 🦄 /end🧵
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As per Newton's 5th law of OTT, the best content must always come with the worst UX.
Witness the incredible journey of two extraordinary men – Dr. Homi J. Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai.
#RocketBoys
, all episodes streaming from 4th Feb only on SonyLIV.
#RocketBoysOnSonyLIV
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Can hardware innovations enable doorstep diagnostic services for better healthcare outcomes? (that are not dependent on infra-heavy, real-estate heavy, big hospital business models) ? How do we provide customized primary education to our most far-flung corners? 6/n
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@vmochama
Using all the grammar you have learned, to present that singular fact you know, in multiple forms.
The ammeter measures the current. Current is measured by the ammeter. Ammeter is commonly used for measuring current.
Sheer poetry....AI is no match
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So what has today's e-lafda taught us children?
that Fu©k you money isnt dependent on the money, but on the person.
Fu©k you money is a state of mind.
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1st Dec evening, we are celebrating at home. Dad very sheepishly says "Alright girls, I am really bad at keeping a secret. So I have to tell you this. It wasn't a suprise gift to Ma. I told her you both were planning this, and took her to the jeweller so she could choose" 6/n
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@KritagyaNayyar
Understandable, cos you can't see most of this stuff for 1/3rd of the year....
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We told papa, he loved the idea, and pitched in another 3k. This was serious money, we could afford a small gold set. We didn't trust dad's taste in jewellery, he didn't trust us with money, and all 3 couldn't leave the house together without ma guessing something was up. 2/n
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had to be said ....
This is the Minister of Higher Education of the Taliban -- says No Phd degree, master's degree is valuable today. You see that the Mullahs & Taliban that are in the power, have no Phd, MA or even a high school degree, but are the greatest of all.
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When I was young & foolish, I thought: "Of course I am not "privileged" coz don't take money from my parents!" and then you see most of India, outside of your bubble and you will realize privilege is the fact that you can be 25yrs old and no one is financially dependent on you.
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This dude has monetized a ladder in India...and you insist that "NoOnE iN InDiA pAYs".
Child, go build.
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@thekaipullai
The real-pain for Ola/Uber business model is :-
Set A : Drivers who are credit-worthy enough to lease/buy a car
Set B : Ppl who are interested in net earning ~Rs20K/month after 240hrs of monthly driving
Intersection of Set A & Set B = Null set
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So what makes Mumbai's nightlife very Mumbai, is that whether your budget is 500rs or 50,000...you will still have a great time! Folks from all walks of life/tax brackets, will rub shoulders in the same crowded bar....will all likely get the same service
Gurgaon could never!
Gurgaon nightlife almost competing with Mumbai now...
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For INR 1.89 crores or $ 230,000 you can either buy an 800sqft 2bhk in Vikhroli or a 1300sqft 2bhk in a well connected Dubai suburb (approx 15mins drive to the Palm Jumeirah)
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@ChristinaMacD93
@ShaunakSA
a big part of this jump from 2017 to 2020 is built on UPI. India has by far one of the best payment stacks /ecosystems in the world. UPI is a revolution!!
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Folks in other cities won't understand why people commuting to their homes in Borivali from their offices on Charni Road, will board a Churchgate bound train at Charni Road station first, just to be able to get a seat.
How we have failed this city ....
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The plan was, didi and I would visit the jeweller next to school, and choose the gift. Tell the jeweler our dads name. Come home as normal.
In the evening on his way back from office, dad would pick up the exact set we had selected.
All normal. Ma wudn't guess a thing!
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The intent was to ensure "Domestic labour" didnt become "slaves to the foreign consumer".
Instead domestic labour became a slave to domestic poverty (which obviously seemed like a better option to our policy-makers!!)
Now lets see how this played out in our exports:-
(2/n)
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Tell me you hire only rich kids without telling me you hire only rich kids
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@vinayaravind
@shrayasr
I found the reactions to demo so telling about us a society. The whole "Govt has to put us through this 'bitter medicine' for our own long term good" casts the Government as an antiquated patriach and citizens as some little kids who don't know what's good for us /1
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Dad came home. No gift, he said he forgot!!
We had 3 more days to birthday, so no stress.
He got stuck in office the next two days too! Birthday is on 1st Dec.
Morning of 30th Nov, Didi and I really threatened dad to not forget this time!!
4/n
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If you are a fast growing economy, you will make many friends.
If you are a large economy, you will make zero enemies.
Its often that straightforward, focus on GDP growth.
There is nothing called friendship in international relations. But if such a thing existed, India’s three best friends would be France, Japan, and Israel.
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30th Nov evening he comes home from office with the gift!
Phew...
wait, it looks a bit different from what we had chosen?!
Too late to change it now. We gift wrap it up.
And wait to surprise Ma at midnight.
Luckily Ma loves the gift !!
All is well !! 5/n
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One of the names on this list was IIT-JEE rank
#4
, then a gold-medallist in IIT Kanpur , has been consistently prescient on the Indian economy, but can't be made Chief Economic Advisor because he doesn't have an MSc.
#JustBabuThings
Prime Minister approves the re- constitution of the Economic Advisory Council to the PM.
The appointment is valid for two years.
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@LazyGinger
@hannahmsays
We mum's hyperventilate about our kids getting our antibodies... meanwhile the kid is probably licking every slide in his playground....
so you know....pick your battles !
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Also, I absolutely love all the desi RE brokers on insta.
This guy Rafique will be standing in front of the most dilapidated bungalow in Khar going "Ooh la la ! I love Khar! Rafique Merchant brings you premium five star living in Khar " 🤣
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The cook? Still very much in demand in the colony, cos no one makes a prawn curry like she does...
all is forgiven & forgotten,
although my friends husband is a lot less idealistic now. ----fin/n
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With all the talk of capturing the business that will leave China, a lot of light-manufacturing has already been leaving since 2010. It is moving to "New Asian tigers" : Vietnam, Cambodia, B'desh...not India, married to 1st world principles with 3rd world demographics (5/n)
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@vinayaravind
@shrayasr
Great reminder that democracy is barely 2 generations old in India, and we havent internalized that we make the govt, the govt does not make us.
Till then we will expect greater accountability from waiters, call center agents etc than we expect from the Prime Minister. /2
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Manu Joseph can write this, because he is already bald
Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena was useless to Mumbai. He didn't have a vision for the city. The Sena was among the forces that contributed to Mumbai’s decay, denying it its rightful place as one of the great places on earth.
My latest:
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But here is the bright-ending to this rant... our growth in GDP per capita, adjusted for PPP remains at a steady clip, almost enviable actually.
But that is no excuse to rest. We still have miles to go. (fin/n)
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This will revolutionize the world of supercomputing exactly how the Reliance Google partnership has revolutionized smartphones in India, or the Reliance WhatsApp partnership has revolutionized retail in India or....etc etc etc
Breaking: Reliance and NVIDIA partner to advance AI in India for India
Companies to build supercomputing infrastructure to support exponential computational demands of AI
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Before you outrage, please try and eat some Swedish food, and you will realise that this is an act of kindness.
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@lottelydia
My passive aggressive version is "I am sorry, it seems I have failed to communicate clearly"....
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WW3 is turning all world leaders into insta-influencers with well-posed "candid" photoshoots
The Élysée Palace released images of French President Macron after his call with Putin today, regarding the invasion of Ukraine. 🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦
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@iMukeshLakhwani
Actually, ~30% of India is vegetarian (as per a 2014 survey conducted by the Registrar General of India).
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On my late father's birthday, I am reminded that whenever any relative chimed in with a "Tumhari betiyaan haath se nikal jayegi!", he would patiently reply with "Haath se niklengi, tabhi toh mujhse aage badhengi" ..
I owe him everything I have, and then some
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The absolute unwillingness to acknowledge a bull run, tells me this is a classroom of value investors
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@SNJ_tweets
2.5. Order home-delivery, be amazed that even a veg-roll for 40rs gets delivered to your doorstep in 30mins. (refuse to acknowledge the underpriced labour that enables this)
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In a country with near 0 social security, education continues to be the most reliable route for a lower/middle class family to improve it's wealth & standard of living not just by mere percentages, but by an order of magnitude.
Why is this societal view being criticized??
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All the rich guys are pissed that someone showed up with a gun to their swordfight.....
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Here is a graph of India's %age share in US/EU imports across different categories, with 2002 being used as base.
Our initial gains in capex-intense exports (the greenline) have steadily petered out, after peaking 2012. (3/n)
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Anyhoo...the story ends how many Indian stories do.
Palms were greased, the constable and the officer were both appeased.
My friend came home with her jewelry, now with a super interesting anecdote to share at the wedding.
10/n
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what was the full dream?
to sterilize all men?
On my father’s 75th birth anniversary, I pay my respects at Shanti Vana.
A dream unfinished…
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The ignored capex-light sectors (blue and yellow line) have stayed stagnant. And that is a sacrilege for a country like India where capital stock per worker is only 13% of global avg. Which means our relative advantage will remain our labour force for a long long while(4/n)
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Interesting read. But in Mumbai, EMI = 3 X Rent. Getting home-buyers interested will take a lot more than a mere10-15% improvement in the real estate company's operating costs.
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At the age of 17, in the year 2023, to be able to stay unwaveringly focussed and keep working towards a singular goal (no matter what that goal) is a tremendous life skill....
A skill that will serve this kid very well through most of his life !
"apart from his target of cracking the IIT, he had no other passion or interest in life"
I wish him well.
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It's only been 10yrs since our gender ratio has started improving....so Sushrut beta, please spend some time asking the elders in your family why that is.
Equal income, equal property etc will come much later, right now your sisters are fighting for their right to just be born!
Every male I talk to:
"I need to earn more and take care of my parents. Stay with them."
Every female I talk to:
"I want to move out, and live independently. I want a nuclear family. (Sometimes, it's no family at all)
*No hate or praise to any gender. It's just is how it is.
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Most of the folks "gunning for the Pune Porsche kid" know that it takes a lot , and I mean a LOT of parental failure to raise someone with such disregard for the society they live in.
This kid didn't have a one-time lapse in judgement, he had sheer contempt for other humans.
More than half the folks who were gunning for the Pune Porsche kid, will do exactly the same as his parents did, in case their own kid was involved in an accident like that.
Our morality & integrity is at 100% whilst pointing fingers at others and 0% when it comes to our own.
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@banglani
I had tried to get EV's registered as taxis back in 2017. At the RTO, the officer asked "How much CC engine capacity?"
me : Sir, it's EV. No engine, no CC
officer : I am putting 0 cc.
me : ok sir
Next officer: less than 1000cc not allowed for taxi...go make new RC
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