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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. 😂

@himantabiswa Does it benefit Tata's Jagiroad plant in any way? Curious to know

This is a huge strategic win for India’s semiconductor ecosystem. ASML is a global leader in lithographic solutions. And lithography is a foundational as well as one of the most precision driven processes in chipmaking which includes printing the circuit on the wafer. Once India is able to ramp up to this critical tech, we will be closer to becoming a key player in the global chip industry.

Bad days for....(You know who) @SuvenduWB

We are making Oyo We are making Dream11 We are making Ice cream We are making Faluda We are making cookies We are making taxi apps We are making Rental Bike apps We are making instant Grocery Delivery We are making instant Food delivery Let me drop a hard fact: by 2047, when AI and automation rule the world, We 🇮🇳 will be cooked. Nothing will remain except our huge population. Believe it or argue with the wall.

🚨 BREAKING: India to send Omprakash Mishra to meet Balen Shah

Given that Nepal gdp is around 45bn and Mumbai gdp is about 310 billion, someone with equal stature to Nepal PM would be Bandra ward ka MLA. Maybe that’s what he’s asking for.

ModiJi thinks every office employee already has the option to WFH, but we are so passionate about work that we willingly travel to office enjoying the smart cities he has built for us.

This 65-year-old 🐘named "Chanchal" is no more (Feb 26). This gentle soul died after this photoshoot, said owner, Shadik Khan. Now legal action should be taken against Russian photographer Julia Buruleva, no matter what excuse is given. Forest depart has called for investigation

A Pakistani man transiting through India was surprised to see that even cities smaller than Delhi and Mumbai have such modern airports- this was Hyderabad airport. As I often say, had Pakistan focused less on obsessing over India, it too could have achieved similar levels of development.

People in corporate who don’t have life outside work are handsdown the most toxic people at work!

Standing at Jagiroad, Assam in front of the under-construction ₹27,000 crore Tata Semiconductor Assembly & Test facility. Soon, this plant will produce 48 million chips every day for automobiles, EVs and electronics. India is moving from a chip importer to a chip powerhouse and global semiconductor destination. Made in Assam, Made in India, Made for the World — PM @narendramodi 's vision taking shape on ground zero. 🇮🇳 #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

The economy is going to get divided into two extremes. We will pay premiums for Super fast experiences and mindful, slow ones. 1. Super fast experiences - Quick commerce (Blinkit, zepto) - Quick services (Urban company, crew, snabbit) - Quick answers (ChatGPT, Gemini) - Quick snacking (Swiggy bolt, ready to eat meals, protein bars, pre-mixes) 2. Slow, mindful experiences - Meditation, Yoga, Vipasana - Health retreats - Food Tours - 6 course gastronomical experiences - Long runs/ walks/hikes - Coaching/ Therapy - Reading rooms/Libraries The average experiences such as slow commerce, driving to a restaurant for a 3/5 meal, waiting for a hour for a 3/5 haircut.. will have no takers If you are building. Optimise for lightning fast experiences Or meditatively slow ones.

@ESPNcricinfo ...and we decided to play Pakistan even after Pahalgam. Those 26 lives don't matter as long as we're raking the moolah right? @JayShah

BREAKING: The government of Pakistan has said that Pakistan will boycott their T20 World Cup match against India

In 10,000 years, your country won’t exist. The borders will be dissolved, and your language will be extinct or unrecognizable. Your digital footprint will be gone, and data will rot faster than stone. Most of what defined us today, money, politics, status and online lives, will vanish without context. What survives will be fragments: misread, mythologized, guessed at, and wrong. The uncomfortable truth is this: human certainty is an illusion built on missing data. We don’t know where we truly came from. We don’t know how many civilizations rose, advanced, and quietly reset before us. As history shows us, it isn’t a straight line of progress, it’s a series of collapses, with survivors writing the story. And we don’t know if we’re evolving… or just approaching another reset.

@CricCrazyJohns @grok what's a yo yo test in this context?

GOOD NEWS FOR INDIA 🇮🇳 - Riyan Parag has passed the Yo-Yo Test, India now has backups ready for the T20 World Cup.

I’m from the Northeast, so I remember how the story used to be told. In the 90s and 2000s, when Delhi spoke about us, it was insurgency charts, AFSPA briefings and “sensitive border states.” Investors were advised caution. The region existed in files.. Contrast that with how global capital actually moves. Microsoft didn’t come to India by accident. In 1998, Chandrababu Naidu sat with Bill Gates and pitched Hyderabad as a place that could execute uninterrupted power, land, policy clarity, speed. That single meeting didn’t just bring Microsoft; it created Cyberabad and changed Andhra Pradesh’s trajectory. Fast forward to Davos. You again see Chandrababu Naidu, this time discussing health systems, AI, and digital public infrastructure. He met Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and discussed the development of the Google AI Data Centre in Visakhapatnam. Same logic, different decade: credibility first, capital follows. Now look at Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma walking Davos with Assam. This is not symbolic tourism. Assam is there for the first time as a serious state delegation, pushing concrete MoUs energy, infrastructure, manufacturing. This comes after years of groundwork: insurgency numbers collapsing, bridges like Bogibeel and Dhola–Sadiya stitching geography, highways replacing isolation, governance replacing drift. That’s the real shift. The Northeast is no longer being pitched as a frontier that needs patience. It’s being presented as a corridor that can deliver.. India’s eastern gateway, not its forgotten edge. Taking the leap! For decades, we waited to be “included.” Now, for the first time, we’re entering rooms because we’re ready. That’s how regions change their fate. Not with slogans n fake promises but with state capacity and timing. And Davos is where that change becomes visible. @himantabiswa 🙏

@himantabiswa @SThinkTnereffid Sir, please try to bring IT company offices like @Wipro to Assam. Let's make Assam the IT hub of Northeast India @RishadPremji

@SThinkTnereffid This is precisely our aim - to make Assam the epicentre of the East India growth story.

At this rate, Assam will turn out to be the epicenter of Eastern Bharat, replacing Bengal.

My father in law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. I showed him these pictures and asked him what it would cost to build this in the US. I will never forget his answer.. "We can't, we don't know how to do it"

Indigo’s was that rarest of rare feat in creating a top, globally respected Indian brand. In its 25th year, it has blown it in just a week’s madness. The genius brand-building, and fastest ever brand destruction.