Vedica Kant
@vedicakant
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Current life: foot soldier of capitalism; š®š³start-up voyeur. invest @untitledvc_
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The one thing that truly unites us post-Partition: a world-class lack of civic sense.
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Well yes, but all of Mamdaniās life choices thus far wouldnāt actually be tolerated by overbearing desi parents. What do you mean you want to study Africana Studies? What do you mean you want to go to Egypt to study Arabic?? Etc.
A new bar has been set for overachieving Indian kids with overbearing Indian parents.
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So exciting to see one of my fave Indian brands (Cord Studio) being stocked at Le Bon Marche. Ripe time for Indian designs and designers to go globalā¦. https://t.co/R639c9OPqd
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Note also as more Indians study abroad we already see these schools becoming pipelines to Ivyās. E.g., @anmolm_ and I are always shocked at the DPS RKP + UPenn contribution to the Indian ecosystem. (Though Iām a product of both, this is not a biased view š)
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This is v true. We are really beginning (1) to see network effects form around schools (2) some of these network effects play out internationally. Folks used to look out for IIT tags; now add DPS RKP to the mix.
i think the broad point is that delhi high schools (concentrated to ~10 probably) produce great technical talent who found great software companies
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feels like @vedicakant had it spot on (in 2020) with neobanks probably not succeeding in india
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For our substack @arunmsukumar pens a compelling piece on why backing Zoho might be a good move for India
Give Zoho a Chance https://t.co/RNKboeaDyt a guest post for @anmolm_ and @vedicakantās Keeping Up With India blog
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Mumbai had become essentially unliveableā¦Delhi and Bangalore are getting there and probably need to catch up now.
India's financial capital is in the midst of a rapid transformation, racing towards faster commutes and urban renewal, under a multi-billion dollar infrastructure blitz. Bloomberg's Menaka Doshi reports from Mumbai. https://t.co/woGbywU7Ft
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excited to play a small part in amit's journey of building a generation "quick india movement" co @vedicakant and i have felt that there is a very clear right to exist for a new marketplace for baby products & amit is an insanely ops-driven founder which u absolutely need in
š Quick Commerce for Baby Care: OZi Raises $3.3M (~ā¹29 Cr) Seed Round OZi (Fund V) has raised $3.3M in seed funding led by us at Blume Ventures. The round saw participation from Huddle Ventures, @Zeropearlvc, UNTITLED, and angels including leaders from OYO, Pristyn Care,
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Why are some of these dudes so rabidly anti-Indian? Genuine questionā¦ which Indian hurt them?
āIndia Brags that they have 1.4 Billion people, then why wouldnāt they buy one Bushel(25.40Kg) of corn from us. They wonāt buy our corn?ā I am sorry to inform you but Trump's Attack Dog Howard Lutnick is at it again @howardlutnick
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Here we have Bollywood young uns saging lip syncing is too toughš« Legends are legends for a reason
Remember when Tom Cruise broke the internet with this video of him lip syncing The Weeknd song that we almost forgot he wasn't actually singing
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lol didnāt Bessent also threaten to beat up Elon? Whataguy
āļøāļøMORNING SCOOP: At a private dinner attended by dozens of admin officials & Trump allies last week, Treasury Sec Scott Bessent threatened to punch housing finance official Bill Pulte "in the f--ing face."šÆ THE SCENE: The evening was supposed to be one of celebration: Trump
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Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)
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A friend is in Afghanistan and honestly itās depressing that even they have better and cleaner sidewalks than India!
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QTing this only because itās yet another example of how our contemporary understanding of Gandhi flattens him so completely and make a total mockery of what his idea of ahimsa wasā¦. He was, well, extremely complicated.
An additional awesome aspect of all good anthro work is its use of historical research to contextualize research topics. Eg in Nadal's book, one finds a hugely surprising argument from Mohandas Gandhi's life re. the killing of street dogs. 1926 essay here: https://t.co/D2BJa5z8z6
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ā Earlier, they used to say that psychosis had to do with hearing voices in your head. Now, you can never be alone. All the time there are just these voicesā Truth from Arundhati Roy
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there are a lot of interesting jinn in middle eastern folklore but one of my favorite is the ten-headed yemeni jinn who would ambush people and challenge them to a poetry battle. I kinda love that his sole aspiration was to be the soundcloud rapper of his day
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The fact that most people donāt know this says a lot about the sad state of our history. Particularly, the simplistic way in which we learn our own colonial history. (None of this is to take anything away from @SamDalrymple123 of course).
I didn't realise that lands from Muscat and Oman, the UAE, all the way to Burma were once part of the British Indian Empire. I'd always thought of India's partition as only involving India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Shattered Lands by @SamDalrymple123 is a must-read for history
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Brickwork on sidewalk which turns into a public bench šShiraz, Iran
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