@venkat_fin9 @NewsAlgebraIND May be we can circumvent that by buying a few trump cards or gift him a plane or suggest a nobel prize etc etc ! There must be way , lol
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On a never ending quest. A knowledge seeker , passionate about Geo-politics,technology enthusiast, follows markets.
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@NewsAlgebraIND But we can never buy it, because first we need permission from Trump, after all, our PM seems too busy surrendering national interests to safeguard his friend. What an absolute shame.
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BIG NEWS - Iran says it is always ready to supply energy to India.
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@OversLife Herschelle Gibbs, He should have gone to greater heights, This guy had a lot of cricket left in him when he hung up his boots, Just a SA version of Andrew symonds. Nevertheless a gutsy cricketer.
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Can you name this Cricketer based on these hints? 🤔🤔
He is one of only a handful of batsmen to score hundreds in three straight ODIs (116, 116, and 153*).
He nearly made it four but fell for 97* against Bangladesh.
He openly admitted to never reading a book, embraced his party-loving lifestyle, but later wrote a no-holds-barred autobiography “To the Point”.
He remains a popular, larger-than-life figure in Cricket.
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@kadaipaneeeer I wish thats a paid campaign , it stresses me out to think people could really think like that as a massive cognitive decline is so bad for the society.
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Imagine how deeply brainwashed people of this country have become to defend fuel price hikes like it’s some patriotic act and they’re modern bhagat singh or smth. In any functioning democracy, repeated fuel hikes would trigger outrage because people understand one basic thing: governments heavily control fuel taxation. Petrol &diesel prices in India are not “pure market prices.” A massive chunk is taxes. The Centre and states both earn huge revenue from it.
When crude oil prices crashed globally a few years ago, did Indians get proportional relief at the pump? NO. But the oil companies & governments quietly enjoyed record margins while citizens kept paying inflated prices. The excuse was always “global uncertainty,” “recovery,” “war,” “inflation,” or some new modimade keyword. But somehow profits kept rising.
And the funniest part is that the very same middle class taxpayers getting squeezed will jump online to defend it with: “but petrol is still more expensive in europe & america” 🤡🤡🤡🤡
But that clown andhbhakth doesn’t know that european & western countries have higher wages, stronger public transport, social security, healthcare, unemployment benefits, and far better urban infrastructure. Indians are paying near developed world fuel prices with under developing world salaries and third world infrastructure. A delivery worker earning ₹15-20k a month paying ₹109+ per litre is not the same as someone in Germany earning thousands of euros monthly.
This clown on my tl really compared fuel inflation to makeup shopping & said “men should earn more.” But who’s gonna tell this aunty that fuel prices don’t just affect vehicle owners. They affect EVERYTHING including vegetables, milk, groceries, cab fares, flights, logistics, farming costs, construction, electricity & much more
Every ₹1 hike quietly increases inflation across the economy. The poor and middle class absorb the damage while corporations pass costs to consumers.
And instead of questioning policy, some people behave like unpaid PR teams for politicians and oil companies. They’ll fight random strangers online, will call them anti national before demanding accountability from the people actually collecting taxes. That’s the real modern tragedy of this nation, citizens have slowly been successfully trained to celebrate suffering as “national interest.”
The government can reduce excise duty. States can reduce VAT. Oil companies can reduce margins. All of this is POSSIBLE. But why would they, when millions of emotionally manipulated brainwashed voters will defend every hike using nationalism, pakistan comparisons, religious angle or “at least roads are better now” arguments?
A democracy becomes hell toxic & dangerous when citizens stop questioning power and start worshipping it. At that point, voters become consumers of propaganda, not participants in governance 🙏🏻
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@IndianTechGuide This nonsense should stop , Mr.Vembu has comeback after amassing enormous wealth in the US , Yes one could live a elitist-lifestyle like living in a village and romanticize simplicity since there is no worry of paying their bills/EMI,This man is making a weekly ritual out of it .
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🚨 "I urge Indians on H-1B visas to return home with self-respect, even if you feel it's hardship and sacrifice. Let's make Bharat proud."
- Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu.
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@frontierindica I second your view and thoughts about Zerodha, They are quite ethical and all their initiatives really " educate the customers" which i have never seen in any others, I'm indeed pleasantly surprised and have written about them .
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India is lucky to have Zerodha. Not because it is perfect, but because it is one of the few consumer finance companies in India that does not seem to treat users like livestock to be milked.
Their published company philosophy says they do not impose internal growth targets for accounts opened, app installs, orders placed or revenue generated. For a brokerage, where most of the business model depends on making users trade more, this is almost heretical.
They even warn users about risky trades, illiquid stocks and how few active traders actually make money.
We need more companies like this in India. Companies that understand that consumer goodwill is also an asset, not just something to be strip-mined the moment there is a chance to improve margins.
Nithin Kamath@Nithin0dha
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"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.
Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.
Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."
1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.
2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.
3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.
4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.
India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.
Pankaj Arora 🇮🇳@Panks_Arora
Every single place in India is just so overcrowded. - Want to go to a park? Hundreds are already there, not enough space. - Want to go to a temple? You won’t even get five minutes of peace. - Want to visit a hill station? Not a single hotel is available. - Same with Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and everywhere else. It feels like the calmest place is your own house.
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China banned an Nvidia chip while Jensen Huang was literally in Beijing.
The chip - designed specifically to comply with US export controls so Nvidia could still sell in China - was added to the banned goods list on Friday. Huang arrived Thursday.
Here's the uncomfortable truth about export controls:
Nvidia sold $17bn in chips to China in 2025. That number is now heading to zero.
In its place, Huawei has built the CloudMatrix 384 which is an AI cluster China claims outperforms Nvidia's best product by 67% in compute.
US export controls were designed to slow China's AI buildout. What they actually did was give Huawei a captive market, accelerate domestic chip development, and get China to the point where it's comfortable banning Nvidia entirely.
The policy worked exactly as China wanted.
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@SokoAnalyst Yes Tesla laughed at BYD the rest is an epic history.
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DSTV laughed until Netflix arrived. Taxis slept until Uber moved. Shops ignored Shein and Temu. Newspapers mocked social media. Celebrities dismissed influencers. Every giant thinks disruption is noise, until it becomes the market. The real question is: who is sleeping now?
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@naziafarheen15 Well he got us all talking in one voice , " Enga ooru Madras" .
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@kristelxo Its so funny & diverse isn't it , sometimes people addresses me as bro and sometimes as uncle & feels like dodging a flying dagger, other sad thing is coming across elderlies passing away and sometimes i feel i wish i had this calm & balance in my 20s but i'm 43 and so grateful.
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Being 43 is wild. People your age are living completely different lives.
Some are grandparents. Some are raising toddlers. Some are newly divorced. Some are newly engaged. Some haven’t slept in three years. Some are in St. Tropez posting Aperol spritzes from a yacht.
Some look 25.
Some look like they personally remember the invention of Tupperware.
Nobody got the same assignment.
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The rupee is sitting at 96.93. One bad session from 97.
But the rupee is not the story.
The rupee is the symptom. The story is what's happening underneath.
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@ThisIsAnantha Well said - Chennai's embrace is as warm as its weather. Our rich don't pretend to be rich. Our poor have hearts of gold.
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To all those who whine about our city, don't come to Chennai looking for a Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, or Hyderabad. Chennai is unlike anything you've seen before.
We have a 2,000+ year history. We were the first city of modern India. Everything we do is like an AR Rahman song. It takes time to grow on you. But once you're in, you fall in love hook, line, and sinker.
Chennai's embrace is as warm as its weather. Our rich don't pretend to be rich. Our poor have hearts of gold. The middle class that keeps every city chugging along marches to its own dappang kuthu.
We have more beaches than Goa. We have loads of places to hang out. Our engineers run the world. Our doctors are sought after by everyone.
Visitors judge cities by first impressions. We don't care to package ourselves like other cities. Hence, Chennai may not score high on vanity metrics.
If you think Chennai is a parade of conservative, nerdy people, then we must repurpose Amitabh Bachchan's famous line, "Kuch din toh guzariye Chennai mein," to extend an invitation to you.
There's so much to discover in Chennai. Maybe you judged us too soon.
Give Super Chennai, one more chance.
We're hot and happening.
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@SandeepMall The war from the US perspective is about Petro Dollar, The leakages in the system were Venzezuela,Russia,Iran ,with Russia sanctioned from the swift,Madurro and VZ in firmUS control, Iran is the next. Other motive is cutting vital supply to China (& India). #Superpowergame
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What exactly did the US achieve from conflict with Iran? No nuclear deal secured. No regional stability. No regime change. Proxy networks still operating. And Iran’s nuclear program may still be running.
Meanwhile the bill of the war landed in every grocery store, every fuel pump, every small business trying to survive rising input costs worldwide.
Wars are expensive. And somehow, every single time, ordinary people in countries that had zero say in these decisions end up paying the price.
Funnily Israel stays quiet. Middle and below are just trying to make ends meet in an inflation spiral nobody voted for.
At some point soon the world needs to come together and restore normalcy. Not good times.
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@BradCLemley Yes , the joy of fixing broken things or doing things by oneself is such an underrated pleasure , It teaches us how to plan and execute .
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Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press.
I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it.
It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix.
There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views.
Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it.
I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on...
I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube.
Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing.
Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.
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@talktoapsara Yes, I understand your annoyance, respect our sensitivities , Its my(our) city and we hold it close to our heart .
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Then don’t come. It’s really that simple.
Chennai isn’t standing outside Central Station begging for validation from people who think nightlife and breweries are the sole markers of civilisation. For a city you call “boring,” it somehow keeps producing CEOs, global talent, doctors, engineers, artists, classical legends and entrepreneurs at an absurd scale.
Also fascinating how people who proudly announce they’ve “outgrown” Chennai still spend paragraphs obsessing over it. Usually when a city truly has zero appeal, people quietly move on.
And this idea that Tamils outside TN are somehow more evolved because they don’t “do such antics” is amusing. Most of them still cling fiercely to Tamil identity, food, weddings, language and culture just with better weather and cocktails.
Every city has a personality. Chennai never promised to be Goa with an IT park. It’s a city that rewards depth over performance. If that feels like a cultural brick wall, perhaps the problem isn’t the wall.
SK@7_5_Cobra
Chennai holds virtually zero appeal for even for non-resident Tamils who grew up in major metros like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, or overseas. Having spent my formative years on the West Coast across Mumbai, Daman, Goa, and Gujarat which sensitised me to an urban, highly cosmopolitan lifestyle mindset. But transitioning to Chennai for university feels like hitting a cultural brick wall; the city comes across as incredibly homogeneous, insular, and flat-out boring. The city completely lacks a distinct, independent youth culture. Instead, the social fabric is entirely dominated by an older demographic, conservative boomers and culture kangers who fiercely enforce traditional norms. Tamils outside TN don't do such antics themselves. Because the lifestyle is dictated by elder-approved routines, there is a massive deficit of casual public activities, vibrant nightlife, or engaging weekend avenues to build a high-quality, modern social life. The economic landscape also mirrors this rigid, old-school mentality. Chennai is highly rewarding if you are in the manufacturing or blue-collar sectors, but it is an incredibly difficult terrain for white-collar career growth. The tech ecosystem is overwhelmingly dominated by massive, process-driven IT service companies with strict hierarchies. Outside of a highly concentrated SaaS pocket, there is a severe deficit of aggressively funded, product-based tech companies or global R&D hubs, creating a definitive growth ceiling for ambitious professionals. Over the time, the emigration of highly skilled educated graduates and professionals in TN to overseas or to other cities in India is only going to intensity. It already has started BTW. And people in TN will still continue to remain the same and vote for people in TVK, DMK etc. Even the BJP in TN is the same as the other parties.
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@7_5_Cobra Everyone is welcome here and it always have been this way , Yes chennai lacks night life and its conservative in nature and equitable in its ethos , Bangalore residents are worried that their beloved city is drifting from its roots on the other hand,We are ethincal and universal.
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Chennai holds virtually zero appeal for even for non-resident Tamils who grew up in major metros like Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, or overseas.
Having spent my formative years on the West Coast across Mumbai, Daman, Goa, and Gujarat which sensitised me to an urban, highly cosmopolitan lifestyle mindset. But transitioning to Chennai for university feels like hitting a cultural brick wall; the city comes across as incredibly homogeneous, insular, and flat-out boring.
The city completely lacks a distinct, independent youth culture.
Instead, the social fabric is entirely dominated by an older demographic, conservative boomers and culture kangers who fiercely enforce traditional norms. Tamils outside TN don't do such antics themselves.
Because the lifestyle is dictated by elder-approved routines, there is a massive deficit of casual public activities, vibrant nightlife, or engaging weekend avenues to build a high-quality, modern social life.
The economic landscape also mirrors this rigid, old-school mentality.
Chennai is highly rewarding if you are in the manufacturing or blue-collar sectors, but it is an incredibly difficult terrain for white-collar career growth.
The tech ecosystem is overwhelmingly dominated by massive, process-driven IT service companies with strict hierarchies.
Outside of a highly concentrated SaaS pocket, there is a severe deficit of aggressively funded, product-based tech companies or global R&D hubs, creating a definitive growth ceiling for ambitious professionals.
Over the time, the emigration of highly skilled educated graduates and professionals in TN to overseas or to other cities in India is only going to intensity. It already has started BTW.
And people in TN will still continue to remain the same and vote for people in TVK, DMK etc. Even the BJP in TN is the same as the other parties.
Guskirat Singh Rangi@gus_brf
It'll fall even more. The city has no appeal to non Tamils. Folks are thinking Chennai as "punishment posting".
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@jopriyu267 Lol, The man has things in order & he is control of it , what better happiness could ever exist !
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My husband bought a document folder to organize passports, Aadhaar, and important papers.
I have seen this man buy Cars....
I have seen him buy houses.....
Expression: neutral. Pulse: steady.
But give him a folder with compartments, zips, and little transparent sleeves…
and suddenly he’s glowing like he just secured generational wealth.
At this point I’m convinced....
All these years, we were just one folder away from happiness.
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@nanuramu They are primarily biased due to media outlets being a mouthpiece of the people in power rather than a critique . They follow news dutifully much more than the residents.
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You migrate to a country far away from India for a better life. You even forsake the Indian passport. Well, I can understand your excitement when your former country’s PM visits the country you live. Thanks to the umbilical connection.
But, what I don’t understand is, these NRIs singing paeans of Modi despite not having lived in India in his regime. Why don’t they comeback to India and enjoy Modi’s alleged halcyon days?
Let me tell you, these people are absolute hypocrites. They live in a first-world country with all the benefits and glorify a man who’s made India a hellhole #NarendraModi
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@AkashKrishna Well agree with some of your points however as a founder who built it from scratch ,you have to give him credit , what he has done is commendable and lakhs have claimed the social ladder due to it , He is just a rigid person that doesnt want to change what worked for him so far.
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Narayana Murthy is nothing more than a glorified Program Manager who was at the right place at the right time. Low cost, high volume deliverables kept them afloat for decades. Even the minimum wage in the US two decades ago is significantly higher than what an engineer gets paid at Infosys to this day.
The fact that Infosys has remained a sweat shop since its inception with zero softwares brought to the market and transforming into a retirement home of IT coolies whose only aspiration in life is a work trip to the US, speaks about how socialist the Infosys philosophy is, and how low agency and mediocre India’s software developers were for 30 years.
How a genius like Sikka ended up at Infosys is quite astounding.
Albeit, the early employees gained from hitting the jackpot with the shares enabling thousands of them to become millionaires.
And today, we have brilliant minds with high agency, willing to take the risk of innovating and going global with their ideas, while Infosys continues to swim in the cesspool of mediocrity, paying shit salaries, while Murthy and his boomer stock of co founders and executives continue to accumulate insane wealth, while projecting modesty on the outside.
Classic champagne socialist behaviour. Modesty is just the facade because they always knew, they never deserved the wealth they accumulated and they wilfully prevented people from taking high stakes risks, because they feared their profit margins would reduce if the company innovated and created the need for investing in talent who wouldn’t settle for the salaries of a fuel station employee.
Granted, they employed lakhs of people and lakhs of families went from lower middle class to upper middle class or upper class even.
That way even Indian Railways can claim credit for the same reasons.
In between all this, we have somehow bred a generation of people who only care about increasing their networth by hook or crook, and not willing to put in the effort and intellectual rigour in building world class products.
And we expect to compete with Silicon Valley with a handful of genius entrepreneurs who shunned mediocrity.
With the capital Infosys had, they could have easily setup their own Y-Combinator and used the ideas coming out of it to become force multipliers creating an organic ecosystem of innovation labs across the likes of TCS, Tech Mahindra, Wipro et al, and by now, India would have been on par with the US for technological innovation. But we had Narayana Murthy who thought AI was hyped and rejected the idea to be an early investor in Open AI.
And this guy is supposed to be a technology leader. 😂
NDTV@ndtv
Narayana Murthy trashes AI as hype, asks IT leaders to be less greedy ndtv.com/india-news/nar…
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