Avinash Agarwal

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@VishnuNDTV Agree the Evisa portal has these minor issues-however am amazed at the speed of processing Evisa's. The Indian Authorities work 24/7 and approve visas mostly within 24 hours. Last week only-had applied Evisa on a saturday barely 72 hours to the flight, got approval Sunday. Kudos!

I totally get your point, Raymond and therefore, this isn't an outrage tweet. But just, for a moment, imagine the reverse side of the story - It takes 6.5 odd months for an Indian national to get an appointment for a visa at, say, the US Embassy in Delhi. Families wait anxiously for months, line up, collect a ton of financial documentation, letters, permissions, bookings. They face INTENSE scrutiny at the counter - their dreams of travelling are often summarily dismissed and then, if cleared, even more scrutiny awaits them at the immigration counter upon arrival at their destination. Often ridiculous questions - not just in the US but essentially anywhere in the West. On a visit from Zurich to London a few years back, I was asked why I had been in Switzerland - I said I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. I was asked, cheekily, ''Did you really?'' And was then asked to tell the officer the agenda at the World Economic Forum that year. Trust me, that is a VERY specific question. Fortunately I had the answer. To my point, the India e-visa application page may leave a lot to be desired - but India welcomes most people and rejects far fewer people than several other countries.

@sagarikaghose Incredible! Delhi feels like one big happy family this morning. Strangers smiling at each other, morning walkers hugging. Hope it lasts:-)

Dear Delhi, brace for impact. #DelhiElections2025

Dear Bibek Da @bibekdebroy @DebroyBibek, As a distinguished economist, scholar, and author, you have left a legacy that touches every one of us lucky enough to have known you. Your commitment to intellectual rigor, the pursuit of reform, and the preservation of our cultural heritage was not just something we witnessed but something we felt deeply in each conversation and every insight. Your work across so many fields will continue to resonate with us, shaping how we think, act, and strive to make a difference. I found in you a thinker who dared to challenge orthodox views, which resonated with me powerfully. Through your policy work, you always advocated structural reform, market liberalization, and economic growth strategies centered on deregulation and reduced government intervention. Your prolific authorship blended deep analysis with an easily accessible language to make complex topics understandable to a wide audience. Your extensive writings have become cornerstones of economic scholarship in India. Our professional paths crossed during a critical phase of India’s economic history. During this phase, I benefited from your invaluable guidance, which combined your depth of knowledge with a clarity of thought and vision that I found rare. Your insights into the process of persuasion in policymaking provided critical inputs that benefited me enormously. Not only did I feel the warm glow of an elder brother guiding me, I also saw firsthand your unwavering dedication to the betterment of India through thoughtful, effective policy reform. What amazed me was that while your body of work in economics and economic policy would make any scholar proud, your intellectual pursuits were not confined to economics alone. As a respected scholar of ancient Indian texts, you brought India’s timeless scriptures to a contemporary audience through your translations of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and other Sanskrit scriptures. Your influence is seen in the fact that my 19-year-old son has also read and admired your translations, which are meticulously faithful to the spirit of the originals. That a youngster enjoyed reading your translations clearly demonstrates that you made India’s profound thought accessible to a modern audience even while preserving their deep wisdom and cultural significance. Your contributions bridged a vital link between India’s cultural heritage and its modern identity, underscoring your compelling belief in the relevance of ancient wisdom in today’s world. As you did with all your profound pieces, written at such a prolific pace that few could match even as readers let alone as writers, you have left me pondering even with your last piece. “What if I am not there? What indeed?” These words force me into deep reflection. Neither your pieces nor your company ever made me feel melancholic. In fact, in one of those meetings, you suggested reciting the Arghala Stotram to deepen my connection with Devi Maa. That advice has left an indelible impression as I continue implementing it especially during Navratri. Today though, reflecting on these words “What if I am not there? What indeed?” after hearing about your loss makes me contemplatively melancholic! Your last words force me to ask, “what is the purpose of human life?” The Vedantic thought that “anything temporary is unreal” resonates with me together with the unpleasant counter-thought that this is just the feeling of “Shmashan Vairagya”, the feeling of renunciation itself that is possibly fleeting, and therefore “unreal.” The thought and counter-thought makes me wonder why the unreal world of ephemerality enchants enough to draw one away from the constant pursuit of the real, one that is permanent! How does one work oneself to reduce and eventually resist the temptation of the unreal? Will it ever happen in this life? As time is the most precious, scarce resource that we all have and it continues ticking relentlessly every moment, your last written words motivate me to ask how is the time left in one’s life best spent? How does one best prepare for the inevitable outcome of death? Investing by doing only intense sadhana for which I seem not to be ready yet? Will that prepare me best for old age so that I can remain happy and in good spirits despite disease and weakness that is likely in old age? Or will seva prepare me in the best manner possible for the last days and moments of life? Befitting the service that you did to humanity with your scholarship, you have served us a very important reminder about the scarcity of time. In the cosmic scheme of things, none of us ever can provide a satisfactory answer to your question “What if I am not there? What indeed?” But, by laying out that question as your last words, you have made sure that these profound questions will resonate with many of us who knew you well. Thanks so much for that last service of yours. In that thought that will remind us as well of our impending mortality, Bibek Da, you will live among your many admirers. Pursue your soul’s journey with the valuable reminder that you left us richer with your thoughts and your scholarship. Om Shanti!

@bibekdebroy A man with kindness abound, A rare celebrity trait to be found, To read his limericks, always a joy, Would miss you sorely, Sir Bibek Debroy, Om Shanti!🙏🙏

@gunsnrosesgirl3 It’s known as ‘ Taal Batasha’ in Kolkata where the video is from.

Can you explain what this is twitter.com/visualfeastwan…

@thevirdas Rasme Ulfat Ko Nibhaye, To Nibhaye Kaise, Har Taraf Aag Hai youtu.be/PTXd3PWYKOA?si… Daman Ko Bachaye Kaise!

The greatest Hindi song ever written? Like where you will stop everything you are doing and sing. For me? Ae Ajnabi from Dil Se. You?

@SupreemJohn @thevirdas One of my all time favorites too.

@thevirdas youtu.be/smVd3lcLc_k?si… Tum apna ranj-o-gham

@theskindoctor13 AP & TN were prime losses for NDA-TDP-5 Seats, AIADMK-0, BJP-0 in these 2 States. Even with 20-25 seats swing, NDA would’ve cobbled a Govt. BJP-138 was just 7 less than Congress’s 145.

How did the UPA get a second term despite so many scams and terror attacks? I mean, a few months before the elections, India faced its worst terror attack in Mumbai on 26/11, and didn't even retaliate. Yet, the UPA got back to power with even more seats than in 2004.

@theskindoctor13 EVM was programmed to be a Bong?😃

Today, I voted in Meerut. Although I'm a BJP supporter, I wanted to vote for Maqbool Shaikh of Congress because he is really a good man. BJP was first and Congress was second on the EVM. As I was about to press the hand button, the EVM abruptly shifted one inch downwards, resulting in me accidentally voting for BJP. I was shocked. The EVM started laughing and said, 'Kyu be, Gaddari Korbe?' I got scared and ran out. EVMs are not only getting hacked but are also autonomously controlling the polling too. I hope the Election Commission takes notice.

@mimansashekhar @Shraddh56141048 We just watched the episode again yesterday-Utpaljj stole the show. Wished-the ending would’ve shown his reaction post Diamond being recovered from him-nothing was shown of his character.

@Shraddh56141048 You remember!! 🙂

Who remembers #UtpalDutt's appearance in #ByomkeshBakshi? A little before his demise, he played a sculptor in the episode 'Seemant Heera' (1993) Here's a clip from the TV show 👇 What's your favourite movie of Utpal Dutt? (I want to see your choices beyond Gol Maal) 🙂

The 2019 US Congressional hearing on Kashmir, in Washington DC was an enlightening moment in my life—I was finally able to put faces on the criminals who had till then, hidden themselves in the plain sight, and whose truth I had long ago figured out on my own in Kashmir while working there for almost two decades. The picture was now complete and the 360 degree truth was crystal clear. The hearing was a trap, laid against India by the highly corrupt US Democrats, in connivance with Pakistani Army and ISI and their Indian stooges— @BradSherman @Ilhan @PramilaJayapal @ChatterjiAngana @NitashaKaul & Co. In the end, it did not really matter that it was a fight between 9 versus 1 or an assault of wolves on a deer in a jungle. What mattered was that I fought like no one else in the history of Indian media and that too on the American soil. Not only did I survive but I cracked the Matrix in that battle. The details of that significant story is for future. What is amazing is that as I walked out of the US Congress while processing the revelations, Nitasha Kaul escorted by Pakistani and Kashmiri Muslim ISI agents in the US, followed me. After her orchestrated performance for her allies at the hearing, she looked sheepish and wanted to make peace with me. I refused to shake hands with her and told her that she should instead take a good look in the mirror. She is culpable for the very cause (human rights violations) she has been delusionally espousing. I told her to get lost. Red in her face, she left. A black limousine had come to pick up Nitasha and her aides who were holding umbrellas. I stood there, waiting for a cab in the rain, fully liberated. Few days ago, the UK based pro-Pakistan activist Nitasha Kaul was denied entry in India and since then, she has been crying hoarse. Not sure, why! Those who are part of the Cabal funded by the corrupt Globalist Elite, the US Military Industrial Complex and the Jihadist machinery, shouldn’t be complaining. You chose your side. Long ago.

@TimesAlgebraIND The first deity on the left is Kaal Bhairav and isn’t inside Gyanvapi.

BIG BREAKING NEWS 🚨 UP CM Yogi adityanath reached Gyanvapi Cellar to perform Puja 🔥🔥 CM worshiped the historical idols kept at the Gyanvapi cellar. He reached Gyanvapi for the first time after puja started at Gyanvapi cellar. CM Yogi also worshiped historical idol of Nandi Maharaj at Kashi Vishwanath Temple.

@banerjee1993 @greatbong Normal hole hoyte bolto na, kintu jei hetu Shakchunni…😃 Jokes apart- she’s awesome and makes a great Bong duo with her Dad!

@greatbong Tomar meye Bangla bolte pare?

The third part of the interview with my daughter on Shakchunni. Available now on Amazon outside India and on pre-order in India.

@vivekagnihotri Kudos Vivekji-What a movie # VaccineWar. Gripping, Factual narrative of Indian Scientists fight against Time & Media! Audience clippings reverberated the theatre- AMC East Brunswick-NJ!

@bhak_sala Nothing better than ekal.org/us. Please visit the website.

A friend is looking to contribute 10-20 lacs through CSR. He wants to contribute it to organisation where this money can have good and real impact. Please suggest some options.

@RAMESHS17365448 Best wishes for Siddhartha! My son would be going to Kelly beginning this fall.

My Son Ch. Siddhartha achieved Doctorate Degree in Economics (2020 Batch) Subject Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA. Currently He Is a Professor in Kelly School Of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington USA.

🚨 NRIs will soon be able to make payments in #UPI without having to get an Indian mobile number! @NPCI_NPCI says NRE/NRO accounts from select countries can access UPI using their international mobile numbers. To begin with, NRIs in these 10 countries will get UPI access ++

@ClevelandFed Do we have link of the recording?

TODAY AT 3 PM ET: We’re kicking off the 2023 #FedTalk series with our annual #EconomicOutlook! Senior VP Bruce Fallick, who leads our microeconomics research team, will share his views on the year ahead. Join us: clefed.org/3hMDA7s #monetarypolicy #inflation #labormarket

Over the last 20 years the share of countries in global GDP sees large changes. US, Europe & especially Japan have lost big. Share of developed markets down from 80% in 2000 to 59% now. Emerging markets doubled their share from 20% to 41%. China gains 17% pts & India 2.2% pts.

Why are Rajdeep Sardesai and Shekhar Gupta afraid of Prof Salvatore Babones? @sbabones @sardesairajdeep @ShekharGupta @DrAmitSarwal @Pallavi_Aus @EthnicLinkGuru @SarahLGates1 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…