Siddharth Chhallani

In 2025, we mark 700 years since Amir Khusrow's passing in 1325 - yet his qawwali "Chaap Tilak Sab Cheeni" endures to this day. Empires rose & fell: Delhi Sultanate, Mughals, British Raj. Kings forgotten, but his memory lives through his work. Lesson: Power crumbles but art - rooted in peace and harmony - transcends time and generations.

@ShabeehRahat Apparently, the human rain can only record the absence of happiness not the presence of it.

I hope I have not lost the ability to feel happiness.

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last year, we spent months building this book for our LPs - the india technology review. it became the most special project we put out last year and honestly the thing i'm most proud of. we're now giving away a few copies! it covers everything from meesho's full journey, our AI thesis for india, and how the long tail nature of india's economy creates opportunities most people miss. we also go deep on economic policy & some early-stage bets we're tracking. we built it for our LPs but figured founders, investors & operators would get a lot out of it too. giving away 20 copies at random. drop a 👋 below.

@adadithya Highly recommend reading chip wars to get an understanding of the scale and complexity of the semiconductor industry

TIL: ASML, the Dutch company that supplies systems (photolithography - fascinating read) for the entire semicon industry was born out of Philips, nearly shut down multiple times & was saved by a single board member who worried about Europe’s dependence on Asia for strategic tech.

@KaeCapital zotok.ai - bring structure and intelligence to your business WhatsApp and connect it to your ERP. It's for the Indian MSME's

We're curious - what are you building? Drop your startup in the replies. One line: what it does and who it's for.

Madness 💥

@devaiahPB Hard relate. I've maintained a clear boundary at work coz I don't want that baggage with work. I like the freedom to fallout anyone in their BS. Plus once you've hit 30s , your close friend circle is more or less set. Nd that's freeing.

The fastest way to get disappointed at work is to develop close friendships. I took a month off in 2018. Went and stayed with some of my closest friends halfway across the planet, along with friends from my side of the planet. There was no agenda, just a break. At the end of it, I had an insight that kinda truly changed my life. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a LinkedIn kinda statement to farm engagement. If it was, I would have started with that line to pull people in. Not many would make it till here, trust me, I know the new algo.) The Insight: I have enough really close friends. I don’t need to make any new ones anymore. This was the most freeing feeling I had ever felt. I realised I had collected about 14 people in my life I truly loved and cared about, and vice versa. I mean, people find it hard to build 3-4 deep connections, I have 14. I realised I would be absolutely fine if I didn’t make a deep emotional bond with anyone new ever again. And that realisation makes one brave and immune to any kinda emotional setback caused by another human being. I don’t have to attend anyone’s birthday party for the fear of missing out on friendship. I don’t have to drop someone a nice message worrying no one will do the same for me when I’m low. The fact that I don’t need to emotionally invest in anyone new is freeing, especially when you meet people through work. Now imagine nobody being able to let you down because you never let them in in the first place. Corporate structures don’t allow for deep friendships. It is loaded with competition, ambition and greed. And a layer of friendship is just too much pressure on that kinda relationship. If there is one thing I have noticed, people who seek deep friendships at workplaces have the most fallouts and emotional turmoil there. When I see teams partying together and oversharing feelings with each other, I know there is a train wreck on the horizon. Mostly, I have been proved right. Because expectations and outcomes of corporate friendships are super hard to align. I’m not talking about regular friendships, I’m talking about deep ones where you emotionally unpack every problem to seek solace in someone. Funnily, this “no deep friendship” policy has actually helped me make 3-4 new deep friendships along the way. Because when you never put any effort into making it work, an effortless friendship somehow forms once you move on from the workplace. But me not caring about friendship has improved me as a colleague. I can be brutally honest with people with zero fear of losing anyone or feeling betrayed by their actions. I don’t have to stab anyone in the back, I can just stab them from the front. I have walked out on people I was putting up with zero regret. There’s a line from the movie Heat where Robert De Niro playing a conman says, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” True for criminals and corporates.

Hilarious 😂

Do you know how hard you have to abuse a mammal for them not to have children? Right on!

Bro that's the most hilarious shit I've read in a while 😂😂

This was me , why aren't your friends on Twitter when you need them to be 😂

@ShubhAgrawal26 It used to at some point in history. Google TN Sheshan

saw my younger cousins social science books and it says the election commission on india ensures free and fair elections in the country 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ku1deep @is_rajvardhan I'm in

So I went down the tangaliya rabbit hole and checked in with @is_rajvardhan about this. This is an extremely labor intensive fabric. One thing led to another and I have managed to convince him to do a bespoke run for this. Raj expects the shirt to cost 11-15k. It will be bespoke and guaranteed to fit. I am in. So I need 9 more of of you to sign up. Who wants in.

@Dhavall_shah Done, thx

@Dhavall_shah 🙋🏽

@adadithya He is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the country. I've done a video on him. youtu.be/v78MCuEC0qg?si…

From a toffee company (Ravalgon) to building in aviation (HAL), Seth Walchand Hirachand's vision for an independent, self-reliant India is truly remarkable. Worth noting the strategic foresight he had in embarking on nation-building ventures form shipbuilding to aviation

kya Savage aadmi hai ye bandha 😎

If an ecosystem ran on conversation for centuries, ripping it out is foolish. Digitize the conversation. Let AI do the heavy lifting.

This manual bridge causes margin leakage. Buried orders. Delayed ledgers = delayed payments. Misapplied schemes eat into net profits. The whitespace isn't in building another B2B app. It's in making WhatsApp smarter. Digitize the backend, don't force a new frontend.

$10 Billion. That’s how much was spent trying to force Indian kiranas to use B2B ordering apps. Almost all of them failed. Here’s why 🧵