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Unpopular opinion: After spending almost a month in India doing business, I have concluded one thing - the morons who gave me lectures on how India has developed digitally & become business-friendly recently are either jobless or never did any business or they are worth nothing.
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None of our business.
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If NDTV were a US origin news outlet, the headline would read:
Javadkar, minister for env & forest promises to vaccinate entire India by Dec 2021 with no further details!
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Guess what?
@theliverdr
mainly uses PubMed to prove his points. We maintain NLM PubMed Search for NIH.
@theliverdr
is rude.
I deal with 18,000 intramural and over 50K extramural scientists at NIH (156 Nobel prizes) - ALL OF THEM talk this way.
You Indians don't deserve him.
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I swear if NASA were to collect Rs 1 for each time an Indian use its name to justify some bullshit, it won't need any federal funding to carry out its space research.
NASA satellite confirms Shiv ji and Parvati meditating on mount Kailash
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This fucking Indian lowlife scumbag paid for Blue Tick to exploit a minor in order to get gullible Indian followers so that he can sell his account to the highest bidder.
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Why are most Indians (in India and living abroad) are so low on moral values?
Genuine question. No abuse, please.
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In an announcement, the Noble committee has confirmed the Noble Prize to two Indian Scientists for introducing nano-technology to currency bills.
First introduced in 2016, their technology is now being used in 312 countries to track black money & money of other colors. 👏👏
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BJP will win Gujarat in a landslide and this is why:
Most Gujaratis take pride in one of their own making the entire country dance to his tune. Everything else is trivial.
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After 2 free shots of Pfizer, from the comfort of their Alexa controlled homes, with a Johnny Walker on the rocks in hand,
Aagaye Hindu Americans Gyan bant ne.
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Someone who I barely know pleaded for a visa to get out, after a huge loss in business.
His WA staus still say 'I love my India' and when I did a search on his name in our group, 200 posts showed up that had nothing but praise for the King.
I just said 'I'm not a travel agent'
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India's Foreign Policy:
1. Wo Pahle hath badhaya
2. Usko mejhee puppi diya
3. Isne mujhe jhappi diya
4. Mein photo mein age tha
5. Wo piche mud ke mujhe dekha
6. Mera kurta sabse acha tha
7. Mera juta me mitti kam laga tha
8. Mere samose me jyada aloo tha
9...........
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Right now India has the licensing right to manufacture
1. Covaxin for unlimited people
2. Covidshield/AZ for unlimited people
3. Janssen/J&J for 600m people
4. Covovax/Novovax for 500m people
5. Sputnik for 652m people
India needs an IPR waiver to vaccinate its people?
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@sandeep_PT
@NageshraoH
You nailed it.
I asked a CHA (Customs House Agent) how come their business is down so much when India's import has gone up - his response was simple. Big boys have their own team, smaller importers are rapidly vanishing.
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President Obama's first State Dinner was hosted in honor of MMS.
Ask your EAM what it meant at that time; he was the Ambassador to China then.
Manmohan Singh couldn’t utter a word for India. S. Jaishankar doesn’t let the world utter a word against India. That’s the difference between then and now.
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Since I landed in India on August 11, 2021.
1. It takes Rs 776 more to top off my father's Honda that I use now.
2. Steel has gone up by Rs 31,600/ton. Powder Coating by 45%.
3. 8mm Glass has gone up from Rs.90/sqft to Rs.130.
4. Manual labor from Rs 600 to 800/day.
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Save this tweet.
India will lose the status of being the 'pharmacy of the world' within the next 5 years.
And I believe Indians deserve the loss of jobs and being blacklisted.
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Try opening a bank account as a foreigner in a town with 30,000 population and let us know.
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Crematoriums & burial grounds handled 27000/day with no issues.
COVID only added 3500!
Is this how a 13% surge looks like?
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This is why I no longer blame Modi or BJP but the voters.
A franchise, a staunch Modi supporter couldn't make payments for his orders. His excuse was lost revenue due to DeMo, GST, import issues, Lockdown, now inflation.
Me: what about the lakhs of crores in loans from GoI+
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Nah..it's 'when you elect a clown, expect the circus'.
America watched it for 4 years, Britain for 3 years, in India it's 8 years and counting.
Lessons from Sri Lanka.
Never hand over your Country to Dynasts !
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Producer says it's fiction, and their lawyer confirms in court that it's fiction; the movie has a disclaimer that it's fiction.
But the majority of Indians think it's real. What do you conclude from it?
#SupremeCourt
to hear petitions challenging the Kerala HC order which had declined to stay the release of the movie
#TheKeralaStory
.. SC will also hear plea by the filmmakers challenging the ban on the movie in West Bengal and a de facto ban in Tamil Nadu
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20% TCS ?
I booked Jhaklas Resort in Pattaya for $500; my CC card statement shows 2 line items: $500 and $100.
After a week, I decided to cancel my booking, Jhaklas credits $500. Will CC credit the $100 too?
If at the time of IT filing, who will pay for the CC interest?
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Gobar Pai, who made all his money by pimping young vulnerable Indians to Western countries and exporting beef, is now lecturing us about Hinduism.
Sahi he, Bhai.
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I was brought up in a privileged upper-cast dharmic Hindu family. Then, I became a medium-rare beef-eating anti-cast Hindu. But always, I have had high respect for my religion.
Twitter changed everything - now ready to convert for two 40lb bags of Pakistani Basmati rice!
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My opinion in a WA group in 🇮🇳:
Irrespective of who you vote for in 2024, the taxes, freebies, or corruption are not going down, infra projects will continue, and GDP will grow.
The only thing that may change are social harmony and respect for ALL Indians. So decide...
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If there is crowdfunding for his legal defense, I will match 1:1 up to $10,000.
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India should show America its place - call Biden a terrorist sympathizer and declare America as a terrorist state.
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Hello, Mr. Made in India.
Stop stealing Chrysler Jeep designs.
I recently was in a Verizon store in the U.S to get a local sim and proudly informed the salesperson that my iPhone 15 was made in India. It was a particular pleasure to see his raised eyebrows! I also have a Google Pixel. I will switch to the India-made version when it’s out. So…
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To all my friends in India who jump into questioning "Upbringing" as soon as they hear "F**king" as an adjective: here is your corporate billionaire role model in 2021.
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I know everything about it - highly effective treatment using spirits made from organic products (corn, barley, water)
Examples:
Med Types - Single malt, Bourbon
Techniques - Neat, On the rocks
Major players - United Spirits, Allied Blenders
Dietary Supplements - Bhujia, Pakoda
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5. Packaging plywood from Rs 90 to Rs 115.
6. Shipping services by 35%.
7. Food and Alcohol at star hotels by 60%.
8. A 'Sambar Vada' at Ramchandra is up from Rs 30 to Rs 45.
9. Tomato from Rs 50 to Rs 90.
10. Mutton from Rs 750/kg to Rs 900.
2/end.
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Buy sanitary pads in bulk, repack them in smaller packs, sell them at a premium - higher than the market leader, Whisper.
USP: Registered as a startup.
I am asked to invest or find a US Investor for this business plan!
What makes them think US Investors are this Chutia?
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The minute Apple starts marketing the iPhone as a 'Made In India' product, the iPhone sales will drop 90% in India.
I think all potential iPhone in India buyers know why.
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NO, you have none of those.
All you have is a bunch of bullshitters to give you a false sense of superiority complex and a cult following who buys their bullshit day in and day out.
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Him: Oh..' those are not for us'. Modiji wants to help other businesses that really need it.
Me: I think you are right. But we really need the money as per the contract. So ask Modiji or surrender the franchise.
Him: Sir, Please.
Me: Please.
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It's amazing that Govt of Odisha disqualified us from Tosahli Fair for not having an 'Artisan Card'.
Next time, when they invite us for Invest Odisha, I will ask them to submit a 'Corruption Free' card.
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Have many but this one is close to my heart.
My father was detected and admitted to a COVID ward. On 5/5/21 was dumped at Satyanagar crematorium in a COVID bag along with 41 others. His death certificate doesn't have the word COVID. Official toll for BBSR on 5/5/21 = 4.
I write about India’s overall official data problem - and why the government needs to give more resources, autonomy and a clear mandate to the statistics apparatus. Better official data is needed for better policy making too….
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Just like, Elon Musk is NOT 🇺🇸, Adani is NOT 🇮🇳.
So you know, when you questioned or made fun of Musk, no American thought you did it to 🇺🇸.
If you, as an Indian feel otherwise, the joke is on you.
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Birthday celebration: 🙃🙃🙃
The wife in the US misses her husband on his birthday and orders his favorite - Samosa, Kadai Gohst, and Dal Fry!
The husband in India misses home and orders Burger King!
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US runs with 15 agencies.
China with 21 ministries.
Germany with 15.
UK with 22.
Russia with 21.
India needs 53 ministries?
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The intention behind the second point is that 'what you (not I) may consider as rude is, in fact, a common behavior among scientists. they are direct and their comments are evidence-based.' :)
Guess what?
@theliverdr
mainly uses PubMed to prove his points. We maintain NLM PubMed Search for NIH.
@theliverdr
is rude.
I deal with 18,000 intramural and over 50K extramural scientists at NIH (156 Nobel prizes) - ALL OF THEM talk this way.
You Indians don't deserve him.
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As soon as you start talking against fascism or about human rights, most of India thinks you are talking politics.
Why?
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Aiiyo...
One 'Make In India' guy begged me to hook him for import today!!!
"Sir, Mujhe ek Govt order mila he. Aap please mujhe madat kijiye".
"You need Acrylic sheet suppliers from China?"
"Nahin Sir, pura finished product chahiye".
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Why is it a common belief in India that the Tech Giants make billions in profit from the Indian market?
2020 Net profits:
Alphabet (Google, Youtube): $80million
FB (FB, Insta, WA): $18millions
Twitter: <$200K
None have their India revenue more than 0.4% of their global revenue!
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Just a reminder, if it were not for Adani's $$ bonds, Hindenberg would have nothing to do with Adani.
When you want international money, be prepared for international scrutiny. If not, your😭will have🔔 effect.
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In IN: I have to go through all humiliations, abuse of Babus, listen to the ridiculous interpretation of laws and pay maximum fines to Govt (for made-up reasons), and then pay the bribe.
A bribe is a bribe. But I will take 10 Viet Nams over 1 India.
5/end.
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First time ever, I got a stamp on my passport (and also on boarding passes) 'CANCELLED' for overstaying my visa limit.
Thank you, India.
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Question for Indian Nationalists:
I have seen the following got worse each time I came here over during the last 5 years:
1. Corruption & red tape
2. Value of an Indian life
3. Doing business & disposable income
4. Ignorance of International affairs
What are you so proud of?
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Saw a tweet from
@gauravsabnis
about his mom ❤️❤️ that inspired me about this tweet. Didn't want to sabotage his TL, so this is about my mom.
In 2009, mom visited her son's company office in DC, a plush office but hardly anyone civil (people in shorts, sitting on tables!).
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A globally recognized bioscientist (who had to quit social media, thanks to Indian trollers) asked me to ask this:
Q1: Why 🇮🇳 still doesn't have a vaccine for Dengue but 🇺🇸 with 0 cases, does?
Q2: How much $ is GoI spending on Dengue vaccine and immunization research?
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India is Modi's country.
So rather than bitching here in tweeter, at least talk to your own father and mother who voted for him.
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Imagine a fun scenario:
🇺🇸 Govt nullified all $20 and $100 bills in 2016 and introduced a new $200 bill. After 7 years, do the same to the $200 bill.
Yeah, the World Economy will collapse.
Now, you know why the int. community gives a rat's rear end to 🇮🇳 demonetization?
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Friends in India: Please unfollow me if you get offended.
Indian is a digital third-world country.
I apologized to my folks today for being was very rude with the speed of payments. I saw it first hand since I got here and met the Head of SBI here.
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When I got my first scholarship (5th grade), my father took me to the SBI, Bhubaneswar Main Branch to open an account for me.
I came home beaming with a handwritten passbook with Rs. 20 on it. That was almost 40 years ago.
Earlier, opening a bank a/c in India took 8-9 months whereas today, it's possible within a minute using biometrics. Since last 4 years, we do more fast payments compared to US, Europe & China: Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa at the inaugural session of G20 first inception meet
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Read that the Congress lawyer argued 'it was a slip of the tongue, he apologized'.
Reminds me of what ALL was said against Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, Trump, and now Biden during my time in the US. Trust me - no police will file this in the US.
Mother of democracy, my ass.
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Govt of Odisha makes $12 and Govt of India makes $12 when I Fedex a 12 page document from 🇮🇳 to 🇺🇸.
Trust me, it's only 24 bucks for me, but have fun taking pride in record GST collection while being screwed everyday for everything.
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@AnupamPKher
Abe Taklu....
Paheli mat bhujha...Direct baat kar.
Great actors = NOT always a great human being.
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It's time for NRIs/PIOs to stop dancing around and pick a side.
Option 1. Stand up for the same rights in the country of your birth that you enjoy in your adopted country.
Option 2. Enjoy new India - pack your bags and go home.
Would you mind enlightening us Indians,
@DrSJaishankar
, why are your children not living in India?
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It's a common belief that India did innumerable damage to Canada.
So here is my serious question to you all - what exactly did you do to Canada?
Let me tell you a couple of things that CA did to you:
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So if I say "all Nayaks are chors", do you think Anil Kapoor will file a defamation case against me, a judge will send me to jail for 2 years, and MEA will revoke my visa?
PS: Last week, I said Biden is a thief, no one gave a hoot - no Secret Service Op, no FBI raids.😭😭
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The better damage control could have been a single sentence - 'I'm stupid'.
Saw the spate of reactions to this. Perhaps the tweet could have been phrased better as it doesn’t capture the nuance of the story, where I’ve clearly said India should leverage not weaponise its advantage. Stop hyperventilating. Nobody is advocating engineering floods/droughts🙏
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All most entire India gets orgasm with the news of a 4-lane highway, 5G, UPI etc, because GoI convinced them the world stopped working since 2014.
e.g. 1. A while back, I got a text that my phone will be upgraded to 5G. One fine morning, my phone had 5G displayed.
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I used to argue India is going Venezuela's way - the richest country in South America is on the verge of collapse but over 25 years.
Now I think India is heading Sri Lanka's way - it won't take that long.
Sanghi's who has never left their village will tell me it won't happen!
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I am waiting for "educated" Bhakts to explain to me how a broadcasting company like BBC can play with 'transfer pricing'?
What products and services can be transfer priced to save taxes in India? 5 cameras, 10 notebooks, 20 pens????
🤡🤡🤡
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There should be only two things trending in India now.
1. COVID 19 surge
2. Collapse of the Economy
No?
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Just FYI...I have a feeling that I will get banned from Twitter for this..
Nice to meet all of you and Thanks, in case I don't get a chance to say it ..My travel starts in a week anyway..
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Indian roads are at par of that with the USA myth:
Exhibit A:
74 miles intercity highway, 5 months, 570 accidents, 55 dead, 52 serious/279 minor injuries.
🇮🇳: A news article in HT.
🇺🇸: Congressional oversight committee summons the Transportation Secy +... after 10 accidents.
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So, we were informed late last night that we won the 'innovative products and booth' award at Numaish 22. The Honorary Secretary came to convey.
My boys were visibly jubilant while I was on a conf call with US Office. Then, there was staunch silence and murmuring among them -
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A nation's true identity can be verified by how it treats its own citizens - both alive and dead.
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Between 7:00pm & 9:30pm on May 5, 2021, Bhuabaneswar's Satya Nagar Cremetoroium received 41 bodies wrapped in COVID bodybags.
1. Bhubaneswar's official COVID death count for that day was 4.
2. AT LEAST 13 of the deceased had 2 shots of Covaxin.
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@smjalageri
@GovindarajanV10
Yes, we are not giving up for sure. It's just painful to watch how difficult it has been to do simple transactions. Compliance has become a 900lb guerilla that each has to carry.
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It's 3:50am. I was scheduled to talk to 8 distributors in IN.
D1: SIL died
D2: No money to pay rent
D3: Dead
D4: Wife died
D5: Need a personal loan
D6: Can't pay, used all money for Med bills
D7: Partner & brother died
D8: Yet to call
Day job starts at 9:30am, Mtg with a client.
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@ProsaicView
This is the same Govt which charges GST on penalties for delay in custom clearances, solely caused by its own officials.
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@MohammedZawid
Yes, the
@elonmusk
said the parody accounts need to put 'parody' on their Handle...but he loves his $8 more than his own words.
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@Jaggy_Bad
When comparing they always pick the best case scenario for India and the worst case scenario for the west.
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@MohammedZawid
Well, Mr. Pai seems to forget the P of PSUs. They were established with public tax money; the public owns all profits/losses.
So conveniently separating the public (you) and saying Govt only shows his lack of basics.
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@SpiffyHobbes
@ConradkBarwa
Very true. Everyone who does business feels the pain (I met 100s of them so far) but are hesitant to talk about it.
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@RajeevMatta
Both of our leather upholstery suppliers stopped production and eventually went out of business within 6-7 months of this. We switched to Brazil and never entertained a single quotation from anyone in India till today in fear of a sudden supply chain collapse.
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Thank you for all the DMs. I have been MIA because I'm one of the lucky ones who was detected with Dengue & COVID on the same day - the worst fear came true.
Barely back to work. Extended my trip twice already but commited not to leave IN till I finish my work. 🤞🤞
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@cyberpolice_up
@ShishirGoUP
@dgpup
In a democracy, the police respond something like this "we will investigate".
In an autocratic country, the police are committed to taking action even before investigation.
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Just spent 10 days with my elder brother who is a severe COVID survivor. Even if he denied it every time I asked, I saw symptoms of Long COVID. He got COVID after 1 dose of COVAXIN and saw his family, business partners and friends get infected and die.
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1. If a thing is advertised to get done in 10 days, but you want to get it done in 2, you need to pay $2-5 bribe. If you don't, it will get done in 10 days.
In IN, you need to pay bribe + Govt penalty + GST on the penalty to get anything done after your 10 days. Approx $200
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@Pahaditribal
When we were asked, we submitted a Phycosan Certificate from Belgian authority (origin of the wood log), we were told 'we don't accept Belgium's certification' our testing is different and better. 🤪🤪
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@drmanishranchi
Backstory: In the past, I provided basic guidance on US Investment visas and jobs at Cruise Ships to a few people (all genuine cases) which led to me being labeled as someone who gets visas done. :(
Never used to check their background before but now I do..:)
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Every country, I got to know has one thing in common - unequivocal support for MSMEs and resistance to big businesses.
The only exception is India, where the masses love to celebrate the big businesses and give a damn about their neighborhood businessmen.
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