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Venkat G

@IndusFarmer

Natural Farmer, Seeker

Dharapuram, India Katılım Haziran 2009
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
I studied the life and work of Lee Kuan Yew, the Founder-Prime Minister of Singapore intensely during my early 20s. Immense respect for him. In this video clip, he advises a young woman pursuing a PhD not to neglect marriage and kids. I recently gave very similar advice. Elon Musk would say much the same thing. We have to orient our culture, society and the economy so that smart ambitious women do want to have children (and sadly, this needs to be said today: men cannot have children). If we fail at this, humanity will lose. Now let the attacks begin! 🤓
Alvin Foo@alvinfoo

PHD is good but please don’t waste time… - Lee Kuan Yew 😂

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Vineetha Govindasamy
Vineetha Govindasamy@VineethaGov·
Every time I see a person or a party stand firmly by their faith or religion, (strongly, boldly, unapologetically), it is often interpreted as hatred or a lack of acceptance toward others. But it shouldn’t be seen that way. Because only when I believe deeply in my own, I do not have the need to put down yours. I do not need to mock or demean it. I do not need to convert anyone. I can simply be who I am wholeheartedly, while allowing others the same freedom, and exist in peace alongside them. At the same time, when one belongs to the majority, there seems to be an expectation to be subtle so as not to intimidate others (the minorities). But if you think about it, being subtle can sometimes mean not fully doing justice to what I stand for, just as it may also mean not truly acknowledging or respecting the right of others from different backgrounds to stand firmly in their own beliefs. And perhaps it is when I choose to remain subtle, without making the effort to truly understand what I stand for in depth, that I begin to feel uncertain. That is when insecurity can creep in, and with it, the impulse to question or even attack others. Each of us should be able to go deeper into our own beliefs, and be allowed to do so, and express it, without infringing upon the way of life of others.
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விகடன்
விகடன்@vikatan·
தமிழ்நாடு சட்டமன்ற தேர்தல்களில் வாக்குப்பதிவு... #தேர்தல்_களத்தில்_விகடன் | #TNElectionsWithVikatan | #TNElections2026
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Vineetha Govindasamy
Vineetha Govindasamy@VineethaGov·
Every evening, I pass a cemetery on my way home to our small farm in rural South India. When I first moved to India, I used to be so scared of driving past it that I would take a longer route. But that meant driving by a TASMAC shop, with drunk people lying outside and along the sides of the road. My husband would joke that the beings in the cemetery are far less harmful than those outside the TASMAC shop. Now, I’ve gathered the courage to take this route. Every now and then, I see a new hole being dug for someone who has just passed, and a skull/bone lying there of someone who has been long gone. And even though it quietly reminds me where we are all heading, and what all our daily anxieties, worries, and stress eventually lead to, that awareness only lasts for the few seconds it takes to drive by. Then, as if we are somehow programmed to forget this truth of all truths, we return to making our lives feel bigger than they really are. When, in the end, all of it simply comes to an end. The only thing that remains is what we leave behind in terms of impact, and what we have fed our souls in this birth for it to carry with it into the next.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
@Yumjumkamdak 1991 reforms did not come from any deep conviction. We were going bankrupt and the creditors were demanding changes.
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Venkat G@IndusFarmer·
@Johni_raja You will have to factor in the fact that @NaamTamilarOrg creates pride in our land and people where as other parties make our people to slave to others. This is a key aspect which is going to build future India, TN.
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Johny Bhai(அண்ணாமலையின் வார் ரூம்)🇮🇳
கோயம்புத்தூர் குண்டு வெடிப்புக்கு காரணமான தீவிரவாதியை அப்பா என்று சொன்ன தீவிரவாதி சீமானுக்கு என்றுமே எனது வாக்கு இல்லை.
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Venkat G@IndusFarmer·
My source of knowledge of India and world during my school days in 80s and 90s is only @ThuglakD and Shri @sgurumurthy ji articles. I am grateful for it as econonic ideas of guruji is rooted with our culture, traditions and first principles. After working for Swadesi movement in my school days, after college I had to go to US myself for work. This unsettled transition took ups and downs throughout until we moved to India again in 2017. If we hadn't followed the soviet socialism for many decades after independence, we wouldn't have required forceful 1991 reforms. I am looking forward to work on improving rural economy.
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Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu@svembu·
In the 1980s, most IITians would go abroad. In 1989, when I graduated from IIT Madras, I remember feeling extremely dejected about our country. Punjab, Kashmir and Assam were all burning. My heart was not in engineering. I was mostly reading books in Economics and Philosophy - we had a good library. The burning question in my mind was "Why are we so poor?" Some of my classmates and I wrote an article in the IIT campus newspaper in late 1988-early 1989 (there were two newspapers, Focus and Spectator, and I believe we published in Focus, they were reproduced using "cyclostyling" machines - please look them up!). In my vague recollection, the thrust of the article was that the IIT system was failing to serve the needs of the country and the country itself was facing a profound stagnation (I wish I could get that article now - a copy may be in some dusty basement in IIT). I want to know what I thought and said as a 21 year old in 1989 that I agree with and what I disagree with today. By 1989, I had become a committed anti-socialist, having lived through the socialist stagnation of India. By 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union was on, and China was in turmoil - the Tinananmen student protests and their forced suppression. By 1991, India needed an emergency IMF loan. The 1991 economic reforms by Shri Manmohan Singh happened due to pressure from the IMF. So you can imagine the mood in 1989. That was the India I left in 1989. I was feeling miserable to leave but hopeless to stay. In 1990, I came home for a visit and thought of dropping out of my PhD and staying home. I was home sick. I started to study Singapore and Japan during 1990-94 in my PhD years - the "Why are we so poor" question. By 1994, I decided I would be in the private sector and took up an R&D job in Qualcomm.
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Venkat G@IndusFarmer·
Isn't this what most of the people in TN have been doing until now? From 1991, almost always people voted to dislodge the ruling party with the same logic. This time though extending another a few years of DMK rule is not going to change much IMHO. If this happens, I really hope @annamalai_k ji will be back to leadership role to build organization from ground up for next 5 years to get rid of dravidian eco system once for all from TN. @inthavangikko is correct in his stand. I did travel to India to vote for 2024 election just for hopes given by @annamalai_k ji and @narendramodi ji. In this election, I was not motivated to travel just for voting. I am conciously not going to vote in this election. As of today, it's very clear entire eco system is working against him. Most of the enemies are within. Its easy to handle the enemies outside.
krithika sivaswamy@krithikasivasw

RW in tamil nadu, you may have your grudges against the party etc. but vote for NDA tomorrow. Dont split the vote this election. Be practical and wise.

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Venkat G@IndusFarmer·
Absolutely.
Johny Bhai(அண்ணாமலையின் வார் ரூம்)🇮🇳@Johni_raja

My predictions for #TNELECTIONS2026 ⏩Seat Share: DMK+ 90 - 115 ADMK+ 85-105 TVK 34-39 NTK 0 ⏩Vote share DMK+ 35-38 ADMK+ 33-36% TVK 23-26% NTK 2-4% ▶️Note; TVK’s numbers are without any alliance. If this trend continues until 2031, both Dravidian parties could shrink into smaller players, and TVK could emerge as the single largest party. I sincerely hope that after the elections, Annamalai Anna takes a decisive stand to counter this trend, with or without the BJP. @annamalai_k #Annamalai

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Tharani K
Tharani K@CinemaAngle·
One word about this ??????? Let me start: கேவலத்தின் உச்சம் 😡😡😡😡
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Venkat G@IndusFarmer·
@arvinth_e Don’t give up. Be hopeful. Things will change for good in matter of years 🙏🏼
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Arvinth Easwaran
Arvinth Easwaran@arvinth_e·
Just woke up to see WhatsApp is full of which party is giving how much in each constituency. Looks like it’s raining money, Karur and Kovai South numbers are mind boggling. Tamilnadu is on a slippery slope, no signs of redemption. இந்த அரசியல்ல எல்லாம் மூட்டை கட்டி வச்சுட்டு பேசாம குடும்பத்த பாக்குலாம்னு தோணுது.
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