Gautam Sircar

My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress explains why I have not joined the widespread liberal critique of the Indian government’s “moral failure” to condemn the US-Israeli attack on Iran. India has too much at stake to indulge in the morally gratifying grandstanding that could have placed vital national interests at risk. As the late Kofi Annan advised me, citing a Ghanaian proverb: “never hit a man on the head when you have your fingers between his teeth!”

@psychiatrycal @aparanjape With ideology to boot!

@aparanjape Ethical IAS?

Good questions indeed... But I was wondering for a moment that the story is about some Rickshaw Driver... 🤔 (see photo)

@SandipGhose @Jamwanda2 fake

@Jamwanda2 Is this real or fake?

THIS IS DEFINITELY AN ESCALATION. THE BRITTS ARE TAKING NOTHING LYING!!!!!

@ShankkarAiyar And he couldn’t have chosen a better time with markets already spooked.

So what's his ideology this week as against what it was for 5 years ??

@TamannaInamdar Ideology - whatever that means. He is making it worse instead of providing clarity to shareholders and customers.

Atanu Chakroborty Exclusive statement to NDTV Profit - HDFC Bank is an organization I nurtured for 5 years - I am not pointing out to any wrong doings at the bank - My ideologies did not match with the organization hence it was time to part ways. Stock has recovered from lows @NDTVProfitIndia @Heeraal

Keki Mistry, Interim Chairman, HDFC Bank "Want to emphasize I would not have taken this responsibility at age 71 if it did not align with my principles & integrity" Seems like a direct counter to what Mr Atanu C said in his letter. #GIFTNIFTY #Nifty #BankNifty #HDFCBank

@abhijitmajumder she did it before......

Don’t be surprised if a CM stages an attack on self just before the elections and blame opponents in a desperate attempt to regain public sympathy. Think of the lowest level your mind can stoop. That’s the level at which the CM’s mind begins to play. It’s a huge political asset.

@PChidambaram_IN .Is this version of events accurate Mr Chidambaram ? x.com/abaruah64/stat…

GOOGLE generated the following information: Based on reports from March 14-17, 2026, two Indian-flagged LPG carriers, Shivalik and Nanda Devi, successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, carrying a cumulative total of 92,700 metric tonnes of LPG.  •Total LPG Carried: 92,700 metric tonnes (each carrying over 46,000 MT). •Duration Met: This amount is equivalent to approximately 1.25 to 1.6 days of India's total cooking gas demand.

A little Ali Larijani Story I have a little Ali Larijani story. In 2005, Iran signed a deal to export five million tonnes of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, for 25 years to India, with deliveries scheduled to start in 2009. Ali Larijani, as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (a job he had till his assassination by the devilish Israelis), negotiated directly with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the price of gas to be paid by India. During a visit to New Delhi, Larijani was told by Dr. Singh that the price of gas needed to be adjusted. The Iranian official said let me connect you to President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and the matter can be resolved. The call was made from the PMO and Mr. Ahmedinejad and Dr. Singh spoke and arrived at an agreement on the call. However, towards the end of September 2005, India voted with the United States and key European nations to refer the Iranian “nuclear question” to the UN Security Council. Almost immediately, Iran informed India’s IAEA envoy, Sheel Khant Sharma, that the LNG deal was off. Though the Manmohan Singh government “denied” my report in The Hindu, the fact is that not a single ship delivered any LNG from Iran to India. The Iranians were shocked. An Iranian diplomat asked me at the time: “What happened?” The answer remains: “American pressure”. substack.com/profile/427511…

Sab kuch Shanti purvak tareeke se kiya jayega.

The muted coverage by a large section of the Indian media on the NIA arrests is a bit baffling. This is arguably the biggest story right now. It’s not often that CIA operatives are arrested so publicly. What gives?

@sidin @KartikeyaTanna Well well, river food would do even better.

Bengalis will do anything for seafood.

Who else knew? Who funded it? Who facilitated the routes? Who in Europe supplied the drones? Who inside India was meant to receive, store, move, or eventually benefit from the chaos? External enemies are expected. The more dangerous question is always about anti-India forces within India who become the multiplier. Yesterday’s NIA arrest of seven foreigners, six Ukrainians and one American, is not a stray security incident. It looks like a glimpse into a much larger design. Valid visas. Entry into Mizoram. Crossing into Myanmar. Contact with ethnic terrorist groups. This is not tourism gone wrong. This is the anatomy of a covert destabilisation pipeline. The most serious part is not just the training. It is the possible intent behind the training. If drone warfare methods, hardware routes, and operational know how were being built around Myanmar’s conflict theatre, then the obvious question is: how long before the same ecosystem is redirected toward India’s Northeast. And then comes the question nobody should be afraid to ask: Why Ukrainians? Why this exact foreign footprint in this exact theatre at this exact time? My reading is simple: such networks do not emerge in a vacuum. Somebody believes India’s Northeast is a soft underbelly worth probing, pressuring, and possibly igniting when the moment suits them. That is why this case points to a deeper conspiracy where Myanmar’s ethnic conflict becomes the laboratory, India’s borderlands become the corridor, and future violence inside India becomes the eventual objective. That is not far fetched. That is how proxy destabilisation works in the modern age. This is not just about seven arrests. It is about a possible multinational effort to seed future instability in India under the cover of Myanmar’s war. If true, then yesterday was not merely an arrest. It was the exposure of a larger conspiracy to prepare India’s Northeast for the next generation of covert violence. My own reading is that India’s close strategic relationship with Russia helped our investigators see the pattern earlier, connect the dots faster. We do not know that yet in the public domain. But if Russian channels did quietly help expose this network, it would be another reminder that diplomacy is not only about summits and statements. Sometimes it is about the intelligence edge that helps stop a covert threat before it mutates into bloodshed on Indian soil.

Hilarious. Morgan Stanley to CNBC we have 3 Indian stocks in our portfolio including Maruti. CNBC- but you recently downgraded Maruti. MS- I can’t comment on that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ignorance is bliss. Ignore the free water taps and the vending machines for 10 INR water and buy the expensive one, then rant

Thanks to Kirti Azad's immature gloating about an innings he played in a friendly charity match, the entire country now knows that his batting average in test matches was only 11 and in ODIs was just 14.

Elections announced means Yogendra Yadav is about to release the Spring 2026 gamcha collection while inventing caste equations previously unknown to mankind.

@MoupiaNandy Why is your channel not on @TataplayD13195 ?

1st Break : ভবানীপুর ও নন্দীগ্রাম দুই কেন্দ্রেই প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতা করতে চলেছেন শুভেন্দু অধিকারী ।