Rajeev Kumar

@JanhaviNilekani Economically, you are in the top 0.0001%, and have been married for 10+ years. How many kids do you have?

My Times of India op-ed today on collapsing fertility rates, and the policy we need: hum do, humare teen. Link in comments!

Dear @gidonsaar With all due respect, having lived in apartheid South Africa & then served under Nelson Mandela in our first democratic Parliament, both Mandela & Archbishop Desmond Tutu, not only described Israel as an apartheid state but suggested it is a more brutal form of apartheid than they experienced in SA. Having visited Israel & the OPTs numerous times, I share their view. Israel was apartheid SA’s closest ally. Just as apartheid was ended in SA so too will it end in Israel/Palestine

This is Damascus, the capital of my country. Israel bombed it less than a year ago, despite the fact that not a single shot had been fired at Israel from Syria for over 60 years. This had nothing to do with Iran, Hezbollah, or Hamas. It was part of Israel’s efforts to interfere in the country’s internal affairs and keep it divided and weak. So when Israelis claim that Israel does not attack those who do not attack it, Damascus proves otherwise.

Justice Tejas Karia who passed this order against Telegram used to work as an advocate for Telegram’s competitor Meta, before becoming judge. Telegram CEO @durov had accused Meta & Reliance of lobbying to get Telegram banned, under the pretence of stopping exam paper leaks.

This is not a rant by a random genocidal lunatic. It's a public post by the national security minister of the Israeli regime. The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity. It threatens all humans. Its only interest is permanent war.

They raped a man. They gang-raped him. They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized. Doctors documented the injuries. The video of the assault was leaked. Now the rapists are free. This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick! #ThisIsIsrael

I never heard such brutal honesty about the state of Israel from an American official before. Those in the Biden administration would sooner sell their organs than say something like this publicly. In one soundbite he exposes Israel’s utter international isolation and its complete dependence on the US for its security. The masks and the gloves are off.

We are not angry enough. Labour MP Peter Kyle had the police arrest his constituent in a dawn raid because…she emailed him about the Gaza genocide. He tried to put her in prison for exercising her democratic right. He tried to criminalise the act of speaking up about Gaza.

@mknid भाई, तू गलत धंधे में है। अभी भी समय है बदल ले, वरना मेरे से लिखवा कर ले ले कि ऐसा हजार बार होगा

I really don't have time for this, because I'm swamped with work. But I think there's a responsibility to educate the public against these frauds. So here we go. Desi Crime has responded, and they want you to know, many times over, that they credited me 29 times in their video. They did. So let me name what those credits are standing in for. Not one of them was permission. Their defence comes down to four claims. There is no plagiarism, because they credited me. Everybody cites authors and historians all the time; nobody owes them anything. The story was already public. And my real grievance, they say, is about money. Every one of them dodges a central question, but before that let's set their video beside my article and see, line by line, what they actually did. 🧵

@chinmay You do it or you dream to do it? Care to share your company profile at LinkedIn?

How babus harm Indian Engineers: I ran a US based startup. My engineering team was in India. Not in Bangalore or Delhi, but scattered across small towns and villages around UP/Bihar/Assam. They were some of the best engineers I have worked with anywhere. The only thing they lacked was the ability to speak English like someone who went to a Delhi private school. That one accident of birth kept them off the rosters of every shiny startup. I turned that into an advantage. I go find them. And I pay them exactly what an English-speaking engineer in Bangalore would get, without making them move. Same code, same salary. English fluency was never the skill I was hiring for. Now I wanted to give them what my US team members had: ownership. A real piece of what they were building. For a young dude from a village in Gonda or Chapra, that can be generational, life-changing money when we exit. But I could’t. The moment an Indian employee exercise their options (convert them to shares), without selling anything they get taxed on the paper gain as salary (I have heard it could be as high as 42%). For a private company, no buyer, no liquidity, no cash. But they get slapped with a tax bill, sometimes larger than their salary, on money they haven't earned. So, if I gave them equity, the choice I wd have forced on those engineers was: pay lakhs out of pocket for shares they can't sell, or give up the equity. In the US employees pay nothing until they sell, and if they hold long enough, they may pay almost nothing at all (federal). I have heard that in India , there is a "deferral" now. But if my info is correct, it covers ~2% of startups. Like most other startups, mine wont qualify. The fix is one line: tax the shares when they are sold, not when they are bought. Every developed country does it. India could do it tomorrow but it does not. Why? Due to babus (not Nirmala S).

What a joke our democracy has become - brazen and shameless!! The legacy this gov will leave behind will be of twisting, contorting & distorting rules/norms to capture power. They never believed in democracy anyway - legacy media will call this Chanakya Niti 😄

@shahsahil0110 @AquarianTruths Because you are Jain

@AquarianTruths I have never seen a Jain say that i am Jain first and Indian later But you will find 1000s of people saying marathi first indian 2nd Almost all Jain temples celebrated 75th independence day. Dont teach us nationalism and patriotism.🤡🤡

I am sorry to say … but Indian (esp. the Mumbai belt) Jains behave exactly like American Jews .. Privileged Class and Superiority Complex… Money is their only interest.. Nationhood, Nationalism, Patriotism are alien terms ..

@AndrewCurran_ Yes, I did use it. There was nothing special about it.

i am a friend of hers. israelis treat indians like insects. they don't wanna be near us while sanghis bootlick them because they belong to fatherland. i have spoken before about hummus trail. read on it. these israelis are a nuisance everywhere. there are israelis-only cafes in india. these people don't pay and misbehave. they are high all the time and post IOF stickers everywhere. it is happening in Goa, Himachal, Auroville, etc., etc.

I am also a tech lead, writing code alongside leading the team. It's not from the reference from someone who is the tech lead. Your friend is just bluffing, and it's his imagination. He may not be leading the team writing code, but he's maintaining some legacy code without any real insight into it, and now these agents are better than him. And that has made him imagine this.

@drupler We actually implement this on a daily basis

My TCS friend leads a team of 5 backend developers, 5 ui developers and 3 QA for an informational website of a German bank. Dang ain't we glad Europe banking is AI resistant & does not know that this work can be churned out by 1 full stack + Claude as assistant in 1 month

Accha? If the agents are set and working autonomously, then what the hell are you doing on a “daily basis”? This is why I said what I said. I also used these tools for a long time before they became public, and I have at least 40 agents working all the time right now. I meet people using such tools every week here in London, working on top-notch projects, and can tell what is bullshit, what's imagination and what's real.

Israel flattened Beirut in 1982. No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then. Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians. Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”. They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons. Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade. Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick. Own it.

@HoeZaay @navikakumar न्यूज़ की इत्ती घोर बेइज्जती करने में कोई शर्म नहीं आती

Times Now calling a Chinese Restaurant..

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.