hymnoptera

Jab bhi Musalmanon par zulm hota hai tab meri awaaz iske khilaaf uthati hai. Par jab Kashmiri Panditon par zulm hua tab Bharat ke sabhi Musalmanon ke munh par taala laga hua tha. Iska matlab Musalmanon par zulm buri cheez hai, par Hinduon par zulm nahin. Aisa nahin chalega. Secularism cannot be a one way traffic. It has to be a two way traffic

‘One Nation, One Election’ can save nearly 7 lakh crore rupees and increase India’s GDP growth by 1.6 per cent: JPC READ: newsonair.gov.in/one-nation-one…

The company not listed here: Ola. You can hate Bhaveesh all you want but him succeeding in EV is of paramount importance. He may have dhandhomaxxed elsewhere but not here. Reliance OTOH: yeh lo, artisanal ice cream khao.

EVs already displaced 1.7M barrels of oil per day in 2025 — equivalent to 70% of Iran's pre-war Hormuz exports. At 200M EVs by 2030 that number approaches 5-6M bpd. The reason why future oil prices are low is that traders know that permanent demand destruction is now the goal around the world. Big Oil knows. The bond market is starting to.

We are also doing the same actually. Allahabad -> Prayagraj. Aurangabad -> Sambhaji Nagar. Ali Nagar -> Arya Nagar. Islampur -> Ishwarpur. You guys are actually late!

@kushanmitra Hybrids are useless

Toyota India announced cumulative Hybrid vehicle sales of 300,000 units in India until now. However, I'm fairly convinced that rising prices at the pump, and a whole host of new hybrid models on the way hybrid sales might hit an inflection point in the coming months. @Toyota_India

@Puyangan5 This crisis will be used as an opportunity to eliminate LPG demand from urban centers and shift them to rural ones.

@hymnoptera PNG will not move the needle. We have 33 crore households. At best, we will move a couple of million to PNG.

Some math on the LPG situation. I was right about import gap not being filled up by US. - We were averaging monthly consumption of ~2.7 million tonnes of LPG pre war. - By April, that has dropped to 2.2 MT. This level of demand destruction is not sustainable because 5/6 of demand comes from domestic cooking. Let's say demand drops by 0.4 MT. - Domestic production which averaged 1MT spiked to 1.4MT in March. We don't have the data for April yet. Let's say, we can sustain this at 1.3 MT or +0.3 MT. - imports which averaged 1.7 MT dropped by half to 0.8 MT in March. It likely fell further in April. As per IEA, imports are down 1.1 MT per month during March-April. IOW india has been able to replace only ~30% of the 1.5 MT supply gap from Middle East. - That means we are looking at a supply gap of 0.3-0.4 MT per month with significant upside risk because our domestic production is also contingent on a steady supply of imported crude oil. This gap is not a joke - it is a 10-15% gap vs demand.

@AkanInyne1 @wholemars Also he is a Teslanaire

@wholemars Different lane, same impact: moving the state of the art forward quietly still changes everything.

Andrej’s not like that. He doesn’t want to raise money. He doesn’t want to manage a team. He’s an academic. He just wants to do research and move the state of the art forward.

@carsonight @PeterDClack @grok Oil that is burnt and disappears into the atmosphere doesn't count for them.

@PeterDClack @grok Compare how toxic solar panels are and their volume compared to the other waste products found in community landfills.

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight. Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go? The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill. Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking. When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem. The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade. This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

@OmarAbbasHyat alll those bookstores have gone, so did the books, i would not find a single bookseller , last time i went, everyone is watching reels. Comics and magazines have disappeared. End of era in mofussil towns.

@hymnoptera How do you mean “no one reads now”? There are still 50 Million Native Urdu Speakers in India, aren’t there?

With my limited understanding - Urdu using Devanagari script would’ve been Hindi. Plus, it would have severed past and present for Urdu (Hindustani/Deccani) Muslims, they would’ve lost access to their ancestors’ literature, religious or otherwise (like Turks).

Not a word @vikramsampath writes is hearsay. Be it Babur’s views on India, Akbar’s deeds in Chittorgarh, or the dark background of how the Taj was funded, everything comes from primary sources. Primary as primary goes. And THAT hurts “professional historians” like this one here. It pokes a hole in the meticulously crafted balloon of Mughal awesomeness. Generation invested all their intellectual energies into keeping that balloon afloat. Of course any threat to its integrity is gonna be a “predicament” to those who are too deep in it to pivot.

@Caatalystt यदा अहं बेङ्गळूरुं गतवान् तदा तत्र क्षणे क्षणे विद्युद्वाहनम् अपश्यम्

Hapur to Gurugram round trip and saw only 10-12 EVs along the way. We talk about EV penetration but the reality still seems far fetched. Surprised to see more than 3 Harriev EVs and XEV. Saw these EVs MG Astor MG Windsor Tata Harrier Tata Tiago Mahindra XEV Tata Punch The future is electric but electrification will take its own sweet time ⚡

Economy can wait. Destroying illegal mohemaddan ghettos, cleaning new market by throwing away the hawkers in Bay of Bengal and complete ban of beef ,friday prayers on road in my beautiful city will give lot of people peace. It is time to clean the streets. The rain is on the way

I think this used to be said with greater confidence a few years ago.. we are now in a zone where the Islamist nation-making ideal has failed, but they dont yet know it yet, so there is recurrent confusion..

ASI has passed order in compliance of order passed by the Hon’ble High court. Now the Hindu community has unrestricted access to Bhojshala complex.

The basic idea of the Places of Worship Act was mooted by a bunch of Muslim ulema and MP’s. They met PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 to demand cessation of Ram Janmabhoomi movement and legal protection to the Babri masjid. When Chandra Shekhar initiated dialogue between VHP and Babri Masjid Action Committee, Gandhi wrote him a letter suggesting ways and means to resolve the dispute. One of the suggestions was to bring the places of worship bill to protect religious sites. It was PVN Rao who brought the bill in 1991, as a tribute to Rajiv Gandhi. It preserved and protected the religious character of places as they were on 15 August 1947. The Muslims wanted the bill to have the threshold of 26 January 1950. They wanted to include Ram temple-BM in the proposed act. The takeover of the site had happened on 22/23 December 1949. If the demand were accepted, the disputed mosque would have been covered in the act and Hindus could not have claimed the Ram Janmabhoomi. But the act did not include the ASI protected monuments. Many archaeological sites do have religious places and their preservation and protection falls under the ASI mandate emanating from Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1956. The Bhojshala site fell under this act. It was an 11th century temple and two centuries later Allauddin Khilji destroyed it and his successors built a mosque. But in 2003, the ASI allowed Muslims to offer namaz at the site. Hindus filed a writ petition to challenge the order. Muslims argued that the places of worship act protects the monuments. First, the breach comes from Muslims in 2003, had they not insisted on their right to worship, the issue would not have resurfaced. Second, the 1991 act does not cover the ASI protected monuments. The MP HC quashed the 2003 directive by the ASI and reaffirmed the character of the site as a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Vagdevi.

The realisation that Indus Water Treaty is not about water to Pakistan but the hydrology information which the army wants for timing infiltrations and filling the border canals to stop Indian invasion makes more sense than a rouge government showing genuine concern for its population. Had it been that sincere enough, it would have desilted Mangla, Tarbela and other major ones decades ago to alleviate the current suffering. Pakistan demanding reactivation of Indus Water Treaty is not for water. Its for the current water flow in Jammu and Ladakh.

Multiple overloaded light commercial vehicles have broken down all over Delhi. Unsurprising since CNG vehicles don’t have the grunt and tend to overheat easily especially when overloaded. All sub 1.5 ton commercial vehicles in Delhi should mandatorily shifted to electric.