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Strategic autonomy & multi alignment in a multi polar world. - India

Truly pathetic IAF reduced to a courier service for a dubious assessment body full of shady characters and incompetent officials

Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc

🚄 Advanced Tunnel Hoods for the Mumbai- Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project 🇮🇳 #mumbai #bullet #train #innovation #engineering

I see a lot of enthusiasm about building sovereign models on my timeline. That's great to hear and India needs it, BUT.. building a Fable-class model is a compute and funding game. Last I checked, India had ~50-100k H100 equivalents while frontier labs would have a million each. Unless we have a paradigm shift in how AIs are trained, the conversation ought to be happening about amount of funding available to do what we want to do. Show me an Indian company that's secured funding/compute in the same range as that of Chinese AI labs (let alone American labs). Without compute, what will happen is what has happened before: we'd promise to shake the world and then build models that are a year or two behind the top ones. The path forward for sovereign models that I see is to invest in basic R&D so we have a chance to go beyond the current paradigm, OR the government pooling in several orders of magnitude more compute to seriously commit competing at par.

Indian billionaires are excellent at rent seeking, gate keeping, regulatory capture, labor arbitrage, mercantile trading and motivational speeches. Innovation etc. are out of syllabus.

When America requires condoms to fck India, they put Indian Americans forward.

If a single pilgrim is attacked during Amarnath Yatra, I promise you this: that I will ensure not a single pilgrim flies off for Haj. - Balasaheb Thackeray, 1993.

The President of India. I've typed at least 20 attempts and still can't find words to describe this. Jai Hind!

When Tata Steel bought Corus for $12 billion in 2007, the financing came entirely from foreign banks, Indian banks were not allowed to fund corporate acquisitions. That was the norm for decades, RBI changed it in February 2026, now allowing banks to finance up to 70% of acquisition value. SBI committing $1 billion alongside Citi, JPMorgan, and MUFG for Sun Pharma Organon deal is the first real test. Indian banks sitting at the table where global M&A gets funded. Not watching, participating thanks to GOI Sun Pharma is paying $11.75 billion for Organon, a company Merck spun off in 2021. The combined entity does $12.4 billion in revenue, enters the top 25 global pharma companies, becomes third largest in women's health, and seventh in biosimilars. Five years ago Organon was a division inside an American giant. Now an Indian company is buying it whole. India pharma sector started by copying molecules. It is now buying the companies that made them. That trajectory matters more than any single quarter FII data. The quiet part of this story is not the deal itself. It is that Indian banks were barred from financing corporate acquisitions for decades. Companies doing outbound M&A had to rely entirely on offshore lenders, foreign syndications, and private credit. RBI new acquisition finance directions issued in early 2026 close that gap. Banks can now fund strategic acquisitions with proper caps and safeguards in place. When your own banking system can backstop your companies' global ambitions, you stop borrowing your way to relevance. The entire M&A math changes.

Shashi Tharoor: 75-80% of research and development costs are borne by the private sector in developed countries. In India, 75% of R&D spending is done by the government. This is crazy

PM @narendramodi: A story that tells you your beginnings don’t define your limits, your journey does #PMModi #InspiringLeadership #StoryOfChange

> They called her a Diversity Hire > They criticised her Non gaming background > They made fun of her Indian background > They underestimated her for being a woman Today that same woman has delivered > Gears of War E DAY (Xbox Exclusive) (Day one on GP) > Clockwork Revolution (Xbox Exclusive) (Day one on GP) > Fable (Day one on GP) > Persona 6 (Day one on GP) > Persona 4 revival (Day one on GP) > Resonance A Plague Tale Legacy (Day one on GP) > Magician The Devil's Deal (Day one on GP) > METRO 2039 > STATE OF DECAY 3 (Day one on GP) > SPYRO (Day one on GP) The Best Xbox Showcase in years and its all thanks to a non gamer Indian woman who listened to the fans Aasha Sharma remember the name

“The problem in Indian job market is that people want White collar jobs.” “In Bombay you won’t get a good driver for Rs.50,000. Also no proper Plumber, Electrician or Brick layer” “Indians have 30% savings rate. We don’t need foreigners money” - Late Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. 2019 cc- @CAronitpereira

The most painful irony is that the only ritual space finally available to her was neither her inherited tradition nor her husband’s, but a third religious framework that intervened on humanitarian grounds.

Two days, two different protests: • Punjab government brutally beat students protesting for jobs in Patiala • Central Government allowed the protest. No lathi-charge and Delhi Police helped them in the best possible way. Yet, the Centre is called undemocratic and dictatorial, while the AAP government in Punjab is hailed as the most democratic government. RT because media won’t tell you this.

I am very bullish and optimistic about India. It's easy to sit on social media and list weaknesses. Every country has them. Imagine you are PM for just one week. Your first challenge is to contain large scale June 6 protests organised by Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) that are strategically timed around the anniversaries of Tiananmen Square and Operation Bluestar. If you use brute force, global media will amplify every image and headline. If you do nothing, the situation can spiral. If you overreact, you damage India's international standing. If you underreact, you risk instability. Tell me, how would you handle that situation while balancing law and order, democracy, diplomacy, economics, and public perception?Governance is not a Twitter thread. Strategic depth is not measured only by tanks, ports or factories. It is also measured by the ability of a state to manage complex internal and external pressures simultaneously without collapsing. If you can give a realistic answer to that challenge, I'll take your argument more seriously.

We are witnessing one of the tough times for Bharat, I feel. With our market trembling and FIIs exiting for the Blue Whales IPO, with our currency depreciation & gold rush, the economy will get affected & internally those cockroaches planning their protest.

The batsman who faced Warne and Murali at their peak are in the same league as the Batsman who face the West Indies battery without helmets or the batsman who faced Akram/Waqar with tampered balls! Just a different set of skills were required!

A single leaked video has shattered 50 years of military secrecy, exposing a covert footprint that Beijing has desperately tried to wipe off the map. According to an explosive report by Nikkei Asia, footage circulating online shows Singaporean troops conducting intense maneuvers in the mountains of southern Taiwan. Defense experts have authenticated the clip, blowing the lid off a highly sensitive relationship that both nations have kept low profile to avoid provoking China. The Nikkei Asia coverage details the modern reality of "Project Starlight," a secret 1975 agreement forged between Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo. The arrangement grants land-scarce Singapore vital territory for armored, artillery, and air force training. In return, it provides Taiwan with a priceless international lifeline despite having zero formal diplomatic ties. Today, roughly 3,000 Singaporean troops still rotate annually through Taiwanese bases like Hengchun and Hukou. Though Singapore maintains this is strictly unilateral training, the footprint heavily offends Beijing. As highlighted by Nikkei Asia, China has repeatedly pressured Singapore to end the program, even offering alternative training grounds on Hainan Island, which Singapore rejected. Friction previously peaked when Hong Kong authorities, acting for Beijing, seized Singaporean armored vehicles returning from Taiwan, triggering a major diplomatic standoff. The timing of this video leak appears deeply calculated, hitting just 10 days before a high-stakes China-U.S. summit. Observers believe Taipei is intentionally spotlighting its international partnerships to project deterrence, especially amid anxiety over a delayed $14 billion U.S. arms sale. Ultimately, this Nikkei Asia report proves that despite China's relentless campaign to isolate Taiwan, Taipei's covert bonds refuse to break. #ProjectStarlight #Taiwan #Singapore #Geopolitics #MilitarySecrecy #TaiwanStrait #DefenseDiplomacy #NikkeiAsia

Adani Group is just 38 years old, compared to Hyundai (founded in 1947) & Samsung (founded 1938). Adani started as a commodity trading business. They were selling diamonds and later plastics. Today it operates in ports, airports, power transmission, green energy, defence, aerospace, roads, data centres, cement, media, food FMCG. Let that sit for a second. Now here’s a slightly detailed look at what they do: 1. Largest private ports, airports in India 2. Largest renewable energy company in India (10GW+, targeting 50GW) 3. India’s only vertically integrated solar manufacturer at 4GW scale 4. Defence & aerospace — drones, ammunition, military platforms 5. Power transmission, data centres, cement, media, food Now look at what Hyundai (founded in 1947) & Samsung (founded 1938) were doing at year 38. HYUNDAI: 1. Started as a construction company 2. Built the Gyeongbu Expressway (1970), the spine of South Korea’s industrial corridor 3. Launched Hyundai Motor Company (1967) and was already exporting the Excel to the United States — becoming the fastest-selling car debut in American history at the time 4. Built supertankers through Hyundai Heavy Industries, which became the world’s largest shipbuilder 5. Constructed entire cities and industrial complexes domestically and across the Middle East 6. Was operating in construction, automobiles, shipbuilding, engineering, and finance simultaneously Hyundai at 38 was a company that had physically built much of South Korea’s modern infrastructure and was beginning to compete globally in manufacturing. SAMSUNG: 1. Started as a grocery trading company 2. Moved into sugar, textiles, then electronics 3. Already pivoted from sugar and textiles into electronics (Samsung Electronics founded 1969) 4. Was manufacturing black and white televisions and had begun exporting them 5. Entered the insurance, securities, and department store businesses 6. Was building its first semiconductor ambitions — the chip division that would later make Samsung the world’s largest memory chip maker came just a few years after this mark 7. Had constructed significant industrial and chemical operations through Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Petrochemical 8. Was deeply embedded in South Korea’s shipbuilding and construction sectors What’s worth noting is All three, Hyundai, Samsung, Adani, followed a similar trajectory: Start in trade or commodities → move into infrastructure → use infrastructure dominance as launchpad into manufacturing and strategic sectors → begin competing globally. The hyundai and samsung had a direct state support and Adani didn’t. That’s why they are called Chaebols. They were at the same place where Adani is today. And I believe Adani Group will become the next Samsung.