Arup Roychoudhury

My thoughts on the draft Delhi EV Policy. The elite don't need subsidies. Hence good decision by Delhi govt to have no exemptions for EVs above Rs 30 lakh. deccanherald.com/opinion/delhis…

There was tactical success. Satellite imagery, including the ones carried by NYT and others, showed that we hit most of their bases, and our air defence was better than theirs. Both sides lost planes in the air. We scored on missile hits. However, the govt failed in its most important stated aim post-ceasefire: Diplomatically isolating Pakistan.

@kaliyuga_surfer I need an answer to the 'Limited tactical success' you've mentioned here. Please explain. Is this just like the benefits of demonetization that every bhakt talks about but no one's able to properly explain?

After Operation Sindoor, Pakistan's fortunes have taken a U-turn. An isolated basket case of a nation that barely survived COVID, is now playing America and China. Regardless of the limited tactical success India had, Asim Munir has come out victorious in the strategic sense.

I think govts and vehicle regulators around the world should limit the display screen size of cars. This is now getting out of hand.

@helpvivek4ever Creta, Thar, Fortuner etc are a damning indictment on Indian market's lack of taste and class.

@aruproytweets No serious volume market above 20L. Fortuner will oversell even more accomplished RAV4 .

Why do Toyota and Honda keep their most popular models away from India?

It took me 2.5 hours to reach office in south Delhi from Noida, as compared to 50 mins on other weekday mornings. Half of the roads have been blocked or barricaded.

Bloodbath on the indices come Monday morning 💀

It is now clear that while Pakistan was the mediator, China was the guarantor. Quietly, from behind the scenes, it pursuaded Iran to accept a temporary ceasefire. The US knew and welcomed this. That is what real power projection looks like.

So much for being 'Voice of the Global South'

@sreeharivariar Because for 95% of India's population, the budget would be Rs 5-8 lakh. And we still haven't reached a stage where one can buy a well-equipped efficient EV at that price range.

Big question is, why are people buying cars other than EVs?

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@menonrajeev Agree 💯

@aruproytweets Not sustainable

Lots of heavy lifting by the RBI

Very informative thread

@kushanmitra But will all drivers be on board? The current top four love these regulations, especially Lewis.

This five-week break in the F1 season might have been unintentional but would be welcome for the teams and the FIA. Max has made his thoughts clear. Can F1 afford to lose the greatest driver of this generation? Was Bearman's accident today a direct consequence of the way drivers are being forced to drive the current cars?

Max Verstappen is itching to pour kerosene on this car.

Why did our side allow a businessman to join a call between two heads of state?

@Subhash_ati9 I am getting the other two but not Salma Hayek :(

I have a weird TL right now. Tel Aviv getting bombed to bits, torrential rains in Dubai and hot bikini pics of Salma Hayek.

@adityakalra @MayankBhardwaj9 @Reuters Congratulations to you are your team, Aditya. That was a banger of a story!

Delighted to share that @Reuters has won India’s most prestigious journalism honour — the Ramnath Goenka Award — for business reporting for the investigation that revealed how Apple supplier Foxconn rejected married women from India iPhone assembly jobs because they had more family responsibilities than unmarried women. The story had immediate and lasting impact. Modi's government called for an investigation within hours of the story being published, and the women's wing of Modi's party, India's human rights agency and opposition parties all reacted to it. The story became a major talking point on TV news and talk shows, as well as in newspaper editorials. Indian labour officials visited the Foxconn factory as part of the probe. Foxconn changed its policy: the company quietly tweaked its hiring protocols. It ordered its hiring agents who helped recruit iPhone assembly workers to remove age, gender and marital criteria from job ads. For some Indian women, a job building iPhones is a ticket out of poverty. Between January 2023 and May 2024, Reuters made more than 20 trips to Sriperumbudur. We also reviewed a candidate information pamphlet, dozens of job ads and records of WhatsApp discussions in which four of Foxconn’s third-party recruiters stated to prospective candidates that only unmarried women were eligible for assembly jobs. 🙏 It was an important story. Apple is positioning India as an alternative manufacturing base to China. India PM Modi sees Foxconn’s iPhone factory and Apple’s broader supply chain as helping the world’s most populous country move up the economic value chain. With @PraveenR_P, @MunsifV. Special thanks to our editor for the project, David Crawshaw. @ReutersPR

A gift from the small yet love-filled hearts of Indian children to their classmates at #Minab School in Iran; When an Indian child, with tiny hands, offers their piggy bank as a gift to the children of Iran. Friday, 27/3/ 2026 Iran Embassy - New Delhi We will never forget your kindness. Thank you, #India.