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8/ And just like that, the King of Mangoes - the Alphonso remains, for the most part, India’s most guarded secret not by design but a collective failure of infrastructure, bureaucracy and urgency. That just leaves us asking, for a country that exports satellites and software, how is a fruit still this hard to ship? Let us know in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

7/ The current mango season is worse. Production in the Konkan belt has plummeted by as much as 85% with daily arrivals at Navi Mumbai’s Vashi APMC dropping from the standard 2000-3000 boxes to just 150-200 boxes now. Major exporting houses have already slashed their 2026 order books, diverting what little stock exists to domestic markets instead.

India grows around 26 million metric tonnes of mangoes every year, that's over half the world’s mangoes and still barely exports around 0.5% of it. So, why does India not share its mangoes? Here's what you need to know 🧵🥭

8/ While the sticker says Made in India, if 80 cents of every dollar leaves the country the moment a purchase is made, are we manufacturing phones or just the illusion of it? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

7/ But the concern comes when semiconductor fabrication facilities (or fabs as they call it), don’t scale like assembly lines do. They take years to become competitive and supply chains take even longer to localize. And until that happens, every additional phone that India exports quietly increases its dependence on imports. The amount of goods imported crossed ₹100 billion for the first time this year.

We call it Make in India. But 80 cents of every dollar leaves the country the moment a phone is sold! Here's what's really going on 🧵

Once upon a time, maybe not so long ago (we are talking six years or so), if we told you that you could pay by scanning a QR, you'd have laughed at us. Without your wallet, you'd have panicked hard. Cut to 2026. You don't really carry cash in your wallet and pay for a chewing gum as well by scanning the shop's QR. That's how revolutionary UPI has been and it just completed 10 years of existence. This is how UPI has evolved over time and is now giving competition to global giants like Visa and Mastercard in terms of daily transactions! So, when did you start using UPI? Let us know in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!

Apple's next CEO joined the company in 2001 to work on monitors. 25 years later John Ternus runs the whole thing. Every iPad ever, AirPods, Apple Silicon, Vision Pro - All under him. Before Apple he was building VR headsets at a startup nobody remembers. His college project was a robotic arm for quadriplegics. Now he just has to solve Apple's AI problem. How do you think will he do it? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and follow @finshots for more such content!