Lloyd Mathias

The sudden exit of @HDFC_Bank ’s Chairman is a wake-up call for Corporate India. Time boardrooms become more accountable & transparent. Directors must prioritize accountability over politeness. My take on what this means for the future of corp governance in today’s @timesofindia

@SpectacledMonk Well he called TVK right….but he predicted 92 seats for DMK and 23 for AIADMK!! 🙄

.@LloydMathias looks like Gupta ji has a new lease of life 🤭

@n88proc @gulu1959 😂 Lance….

@gulu1959 Herschelle Tibbs

This snack was named after a legendary late foreign cricketer as the owner in Mumbai was a fan after watching him in India. Guess who?

India is an AI powerhouse in the making, but is our governance ready for the speed of innovation? In this op-ed in @HindustanTimes today, @gbhagowati and I call out why India must bridge the gap between market momentum & institutional readiness @SecretaryMEITY Article link below

@sidin Happy birthday Sidin!!

Happy 47th birthday to this handsome fellow. Me. Time flies friends. Make the most of life.

India’s smartphone buyer has evolved They’re paying for better cameras, faster charging, and real performance - not hype. Tech Reviews, YouTube & value drive decisions more than ads. Brands that haven’t caught up are being left behind. Sharp report from @CounterPointTR @Flipkart

Likely reason why Pradeep Gupta held back Bengal Exit Poll: • Axis prediction of TVK win in TN seems based on a sample with incorrect caste arithmetic. See @Iyervval ‘s tweet.👇Too late to withdraw #TNexitpoll at this stage. • Now if Axis’ Bengal #ExitPolls misfires (it already seems too tough to call) the double whammy will mean his career + @AxisMyIndia credibility will be finito.

Digital payment fraud in India is skyrocketing. OTPs no longer enough to stop sophisticated scams. By replacing OTP with device-bound biometrics (Face ID/Fingerprint)@Flipkart @AxisBank & @PayUindia are addressing the root cause to fix the issue. Real security must be proactive! @bsindia @sunainaachadha #CyberSecurity #DigitalFraud #DigitalIndia business-standard.com/finance/person…

@_YogendraYadav @AxisMyIndia Great observation @_YogendraYadav Besides opaque methodology & sub-optimal sample sizes the elephant in the room is the biases of the data gatherers and researchers themselves. I wonder how many do honest introspection after some of their predictions are way off the mark.

Valid concern. Frankly, the entire polling business has turned rogue (barring a few exceptions), if not a joke. No one offers any details on sampling technique, no sample profile, no information on weights or non response or on vote-seats conversion. To be fair, @AxisMyIndia has bothered to put out something on methodology and given vote share break up by weighted demographics, some basis to raise these valid questions. The rest don’t even bother to report their sample size or vote share estimate. They just flash seat forecast and want you to believe it. Clearly, the editors who put it out either don’t bother or don’t know. Sad for a country that has and continues to produced world class statisticians. Can’t some of them step in and conduct an audit of this national shame?

@SanjoyRoyTWA @PrannoyRoy7749 @X I miss this bunch, Sanjoy.

.@PrannoyRoy7749 will you be going live on @X or any other channel with the exit polls. Saddened we cant by default go to the channel that was stolen from you!

Nandan Nilekani & @rvenk outline what India must do so AI can enhance human productivity NOT replace it in @EconomicTimes • Use AI to drive growth not just a cost cutting tool • Build AI as public infra (like UPI) open, inter-operable, low-cost • Enable mass entrepreneurship

@realmanubhaker Congratulations!! Thank you for the glory you brought to India 🇮🇳

Completed a decade in my sport today. Could’ve never imagined my journey to be so beautiful, so giving and inspiring 🤍 Over 100 international medals including— gold in Asian games, world championships, world cups, commonwealth games, youth Olympics games; 2 bronzes in Olympics games and so many more medals in other international competitions. ✨🇮🇳 I remember getting my first Indian team jersey and I would just never take it off!! Even in the summers 😂 I would spend all the time I had with pistols and my equipments There would be a literal natural disaster happening and I would be practicing in a corner ☠️ In all my ups and downs, failures and successes; my family have always been the strength for me, always tried to make everything easier for me.♥️ Time really flies by.. I realise how young and restless i was ✨ My first senior world cup win 2018.. i had just turned 16. It gave me confidence and I cannot thank you all enough for giving me so much support and love 🤍 April 2018– commonwealth games, Australia. I had won the gold and broke the records.. I was 16 and I remember being so oblivious of what commonwealth games actually were until I came back to India to a big celebration ✨ The earlier days were not struggles, they were different kind of experiences, different learnings and also fun💖 Right before Paris 2024.. I had so many thoughts of Tokyo 2020; I took up Bhagwat Geeta, and it helped me overcome my past and become strong for my present and future Jo bhi ho, taaliyan to banti hain, itna safar tay krne pe or aage badhte rehne ke liye 🫶🏻 Be good, Have faith, Keep going 💪 Bas life aisi ho ki piche mud ke dekho to maza aa jaaye ♥️

The dinner was prepaid at $400 per head. And the only proper approach to get through an evening like this was…..drink your way through 😁. Which was probably the plan of most people attending ! Just because the President is not most of the journalists favourite; doesn’t mean the evening should be wasted. Especially after the tasting committee went through all that trouble. And good journalists are know to be cool under fire! It’s not like they stole the bottle from a bombed out shelter in Lebanon or Tehran. The leftovers would have gone into the cellar to be used during the Grand East Wing Ball room opening ! Or discarded - and we all know what a tragedy that is. Much ado about nothing, Peter.

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

India’s political morality tipping point is here! #Revadi #LakshmiBhandar #LadliBehna #LadkiBahin #RaghavChaddha #GruhaLakshmi

@Capt_Ck Keep rocking Captain!

You don’t stop flying when you get old… your get OLD when you stop flying 💪🏼!! 31 years and counting, a mesmerizing adrenaline filled journey. Wishing all the pilots on my TL a #HappyPilotsDay

@kushanmitra @mnreindia @NSEFI_official @SolarEnergyInd @suryagharyojana @PMSuryaGhar Indeed, Kushan. Storage solutions have to evolve. If even a fifth of houses in India adopt solar via roof top panels our dependence on coal fired power plants will be minimal. I wonder what’s the response to the PM Surya Ghar subsidy program? @PMSuryaGhar

@LloydMathias @mnreindia @NSEFI_official @SolarEnergyInd @suryagharyojana @PMSuryaGhar Lloyd, there are still some structural issues in solar adoption. Storage for one, which will be the easiest to solve. That said, 22% load going to solar is remarkable

India’s renewable energy jump - driven by solar’s growing contribution is among the biggest (and unsung) successes of the past decade. Of last Saturday’s highest ever peak demand of 256 GW, solar contributed 57 GW, 22%. Many more homes in N India must adopts solar panels though!

@thenitinnarain @prabhupradeep @Vivek_Nayer @DPrasanthNair @shuklanchinisha @MalharBarai @anvaya_anand @TweetsAnup @jkamath @hvgoenka @reachShriram @being09 @KingKhanna @achyutmenon @miten @lion_india @DILIPtheCHERIAN @SensingSenses @rajcheerfull @ashoklalla @amitchoudhary @EconomicTimes @p_shabi @RupakChatto @livemint @beastoftraal @amithpr @arijitbarman76 @ratnabhushanET @gaurav_laghate @HUL_News @SagarMalviya_ET @hrnext @SudarshanEMA @media_rajnish @Probasibangali @SEBI_India @SrBachchan @htTweets @senjam @airindia @samir_kapur These seem like general space-fillers Nitin. Noting substantive - just random gossip. Many of these descriptions could fit almost anyone in the room. Seems like @EconomicTimes 's #SuitsAndSayings is running out of steam. ♨️

@prabhupradeep @Vivek_Nayer @DPrasanthNair @shuklanchinisha @MalharBarai @anvaya_anand @TweetsAnup @jkamath @hvgoenka @reachShriram @being09 @KingKhanna @achyutmenon @LloydMathias @miten @lion_india @DILIPtheCHERIAN @SensingSenses @rajcheerfull @ashoklalla @amitchoudhary @EconomicTimes @p_shabi @RupakChatto @livemint @beastoftraal @amithpr @arijitbarman76 @ratnabhushanET @gaurav_laghate @HUL_News @SagarMalviya_ET @hrnext @SudarshanEMA @media_rajnish @Probasibangali @SEBI_India @SrBachchan @htTweets @senjam @airindia @samir_kapur Good Afternoon All, Start of a new week,last week of April!4 months of 2026 gone! Dishes for today, straight from mega award function or a big family gathering of India Inc! Attendees in the group do share, how was this grand party! but which industrialists are being spoken abt?

Today’s #SuitsandSayings in the @EconomicTimes keeps us UP TO DATE on the LG, CEO’s visit being closely tracked by Korean stablemate Hyundai. Also predicts a BUMPY RIDE for Spinny. Now who is the auto major keen to buy a stake in it?

Wow! What an illustrious set you were part of @sreekantafaqs !

@PreetiChoudhry Well said @PreetiChoudhry ! Glad you’ve called this difference out. This is a culture thing. Our more commercially advanced cities - esp in the North - have much to learn from Kolkata’s inherent sense of egalitarianism. Economics notwithstanding.

My exit poll! As I leave #Bengal, it would be a disservice not to say this: I have come to deeply admire the way women inhabit space here. There is a quiet, almost subconscious elevation of women as independent beings . something that stands in stark contrast to the entrenched misogyny that still finds resonance across much of northern India. Perhaps it stems from a cultural understanding of shakti. A form of empowerment that manifests here in ways both subtle and profound, unlike anywhere else in the country, even in the south. Any woman journalist who has covered political rallies across India will recognize the difference immediately. Other states, a crowd is not just a logistical challenge, it carries risk. the inevitability of wandering hands, the violation masked by chaos. Here, the crowds are no less dense, the air no less heavy with sweat and alcohol—but the hands, for the most part, do not grope. Men step aside to make way. When contact happens, as it inevitably does in chaos, there is visible embarrassment rather than entitlement. What you encounter is not chivalry, but something far rarer: equality. And equality feels far more meaningful. Was never a fan of chivalry in any case :)  There is more. Women politicians across party lines campaign with a striking freedom, aggressive, sharp, unapologetically irreverent, often using what would elsewhere be labelled as ‘masculine’ rhetoric. In most states, such behaviour would invite judgment, even censure. Here, it is met with acceptance,  applause. What feels liberating to an outsider is, in Bengal, simply normal. What we frame as empowerment  here is a cultural undercurrent. I have covered four elections in this state, and each time I have returned with the same sense of awe. Bengal, meanwhile, ambles on with a certain bemusement, as if unaware of what sets it apart. But it is a big deal. And perhaps the most remarkable part is that Bengal does not think so. Governments will come and go. One can only hope that this constant endures, not just how Bengal sees its women, but how, in many ways, it doesn’t. ♥️♥️♥️