Architectus Maximus

They opposed India going Nuclear. They are opposing India building a strategic asset that can chokehold China and hence as strategically important as a Nuclear Bomb. Imagine if this man ever becomes PM, how much he will compromise India.

I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

THE BRITISH ARE COMING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani makes it clear he won't be giving King Charles the 'Royal Treatment' in NYC. When asked about what he'd say to the King if he stops to chat during his visit, Mamdani says he'd ask him to return the "Koohinor Diamond." The diamond is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, part of the British Crown Jewels, and a subject of historical ownership disputes.

The Republic Will Do Everything To Fulfill Its Strategic Goals, Dogs Can Bark all Day Long, The Elephant Will Keep Moving.

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

People wonder why older folks hate Congress. This is why. He says Nicobar project must be stopped. Nicobar sits at the mouth of a strait that is choke point of all the ships coming and going to China. Iran has been able to hold the world hostage by choking a strait. India can literally choke China with minimal effort if Nicobar is developed. Hence Nicobar must not be developed Second - Singapore has built an economy around transshipment port. Nicobar could be a potential transshipment port for all the ships that cross the strait. Hence it must be stopped.

No bird ever saw its population collapse at the rate of the vulture in India. In the mid 90s, they were still seen along railway lines devouring cattle kills. Trees were splattered throughout with their droppings. In about 5 years, the population fell by 99% due to diclofenac

What a morally bankrupt country we live in, driven more by emotion than reason. A man, who wasn’t a nominee in his sister’s bank account, tried to withdraw money after she passed away. The bank asked for a death certificate or nominee proof, which is standard. Instead of following the process, he brought her skeleton to the bank. Now the whole country is trolling and shaming the bank people. Funny how no one wants to follow rules. A system doesn’t run on emotions, it runs on rules. But in India, people often choose emotion over process.