@Iyervval The logical reason would be ... "you need to be at least 37 years old to become a member".
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Jassi Jamsher
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Because I like good food, great cigars, fine single malts & refined company. Gymkhana does none of the above.
Truth Seeker@Senthil_Blr
@Iyervval How come you don't have the membership? 😀
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"Why not build a school, university, or a hospital on Gymkhana land?!?"
- said not one from the gang who usually says it about the rest of land disputes
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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Vivek Sen@Vivek4real_
SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”
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@NBDwrites @tavleen_singh Rs 10,000 Cr of public assets being allocated to 5000 privies !! If security is not an issue, make it a public garden.
If 26 acres are reqd, Ghazipur is available. With the right incentive, surely 5000 of India's brightest gymies should be able to do a Negev-miracle of that heap.
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@tavleen_singh When you were a child this is how the President took the Republic Day salute
Dr Rajendra Prasad, 1952.
A different era, a simpler threat matrix.
Your other reasons aside, if you’re still benchmarking security against this, you’re not serious.
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Most people demanding the closure of the Gymkhana Club seem angry about being denied entry. It is a private club. Having known it well since I was a child it puzzles me that it suddenly became a ‘national security threat’.
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@vakibs @Puyangan5 and "urbane" = suave, refined, and well-mannered
Btw "gawaar" has acquired similar connotations to "dehaati".
Don't know the cultural basis for that one.
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@Puyangan5 The word is borrowed from Persian and the derogatory sense comes from the Islamic period where the Iranian countryside proved more difficult to convert and Islamize than the cities. A similar pejorative exists in Christian culture with the word “pagan” (meaning villager).
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Dehat is a hindi word which has caught on big time. Basically equates to the term village bumpkin. It is used in an extremely condescending and derogatory context.
In Tamil, the word is Pattikatan. But it will not become as popular as Dehat because Tamilians are way more connected to their rural roots or at least are more respectful towards rural life.
In that sense, Tamils are Dehats, and I mean that in a very good way.
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Pradeep Gupta sharing his experience of Bengal:
“In 2017, employees of Axis My India were arrested by Bengal Police and were in jail for 30 days. In this election as well, employees were arrested and spent 18 days in Dum Dum Jail. All gadgets are still in police custody.”
That is fine and expected, but why did he never share these stories when TMC was in power? He sat next to the husband of a TMC MP and never raised this issue.
Everyone was a victim of TMC rule, but the silence of powerful people during TMC rule is not acceptable.
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Is a single Muslim ever going to accept that Mohammed was morally wrong when he and his men seized female infidels as sex slaves, and that widespread present-day sexual depravity within the ummah stems directly from Mohammed's lies and crimes?
Nimco Ali (OBE)@NimkoAli
I am so tired of people confusing culture, extremism and the abuse of women with Islam itself. Selling daughters is evil. It is exploitation. But reducing 2 billion Muslims to “animalistic” because of the actions of abusive men says far more about your prejudice than it does about Islam.
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A reporter asked Japan's Minister for Foreigners, Kimi Onoda, about "permanent residency rights" for foreigners in Japan.
Onoda cut her off: "Be careful with your words. Japan does not have permanent residency rights."
"It is a permit. Granted after meeting the requirements. Not a right. Calling it a right leads to misunderstanding. Please be careful when you speak about it."
The minister was unapologetic — and she has reason to be. No country in the world hands foreigners a guaranteed right to live there forever.
Japan is one of the few willing to say it out loud.
- via Japan Insider
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It doesn't stop. We lost>40000 temples. The latest one being lost in Telangana last week to secularists. Why should the reclamation stop?
Padmaja Joshi@PadmajaJoshi
Across India, there are countless structures like the Bhojshala, which some believe to be a mosque while others call a temple. Visited one such in Malda, called Adina Mosque. Locals call it an Adinath Temple. These contrasting claims have existed for centuries, leading to several agitations. After several such squabbles, all photography inside is prohibited by the ASI. (Pictures of the bell, lamp, lotus motifs on the walls are available online) The question though is, with hundreds of such examples, where does the demand of reclamation stop? outlookindia.com/national/a-jou…
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What people see of Mamata Banerjee’s house.
What people don’t get to see of her opulent life behind the fake facade.
Her life is no commoner’s life. Don’t believe her. She is an inveterate liar.
#ChorTMC
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Our traditions are traditions.
For your traditions there is PETA protest and mechanical elephants!
The Royal Family@RoyalFamily
The King and Queen leave Buckingham Palace by carriage procession as they travel to the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament.
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Just so Hindus in US know @RoKhanna has never sponsored /cosponsored a Resolution in the US Congress on the erasure and dispossession of the Hindu people of Kashmir or the Hindu Bengalis of Bangladesh.
If he has ever raised these two issues in Congress I will delete this post.
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What Hamas did on October 7, 2023 — cutting off women’s breasts after gang-raping them — was done to Hindu women in Kolkata on August 16-18, 1946, during Direct Action Day.
Such depravity and savagery of jihadis can be traced back to many, many genocides.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
In a new report , a survivor from the October 7th attack, using the pseudonym Sapir, told how a woman was gang raped by terrorists, during which one cut off her breast. 'He throws it on the road, and they are playing with it,' she said. A terrorist then 'shot her in the head' while still assaulting her. This is the reality of Hamas’ sexual violence, which some on the Left still choose to ignore.
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A lot of people don't know how big a genius Dr. Singh was
The year was 1974 ... and Dr. Singh was Chief Economic Adviser to Indira Gandhi
Inflation was out of control
The team of Indira Gandhi & Dr. Manmohan Singh came up with a brilliant idea
If people don't have money, they can't buy stuff.
And if nobody has money to buy, nobody will be able to sell. So prices will come down.
And thus the idea of "Compulsory Deposit Scheme" was born.
The government would take your money sitting in the bank and lock it in a "compulsory deposit" that you cannot touch!
So you have money, you just can't touch it.
You will even get interest on that "compulsory deposit" ... interest at 5-6%, when the inflation rate is 28%
Brilliant, no?
Hope Ravish Kumar tells his viewers about this.
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@krishashok Portuguese landed on the west-coast ... but their techniques were adopted on east-coast (1000s of km away) ... but not on west-coast !!!
Doesn't add up
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India came closest to a cheese tradition in 19th-century Bengal. Portuguese settlers brought acid-coagulation cheese-making techniques. Bengalis turned that into rasgulla, sandesh, ras malai, chhanar payesh etc. Of course, we had to take high quality dairy protein and turn it into dessert
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India makes more milk than any country on Earth. Italy has 400 cheeses. India has roughly zero aged ones. Ever wondered why?
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LOL
UPA's best growth years were in UPA 1, not UPA2
Shows Dr. Singh mostly benefitted from Vajpayee's work, and then everything collapsed after few years
During 2008-09 crisis, only thing Dr. Singh did was give a stimulus ... an artificial steroid boost to economy for exactly 1 year
And then inflation went to ~10%, GDP growth rates fell, deficit skyrocketed
Btw, India's GDP as % of China was cut in HALF during 2004-14 ... go check it!
Not just China, India's economy was beaten even by Russia and Brazil ... officially making India the worst performing BRIC economy in 2004-14 ... again, go check it!
With PM Modi, India has already crossed multiple crises, including Covid.
Covid will be remembered even 500 years from now. The world goes through a recession every 10 years ... a pandemic of this scale like this comes every 100-200 years, or even more.
CA Ruchita Vaghani@R_N_Vaghani
I Said and I am Saying Again You will start realising that How Great Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh ji was. During 2008 World Financial crisis , due to agressive policy of Man Mohan ji effect was minimum. Now you all will see what this BA in Political science will do to this country. You will start regreting for your every single votes very soon.
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My favorite question:
Why did Dr. Manmohan Singh, greatest economist in the world, not predict the 2008-09 crisis in advance?
Btw, media has always claimed that Dr. Raghuram Rajan did predict the crisis.
So why did Dr. Singh ignore Dr. Rajan's warning?
Or did media lie about Dr. Rajan actually predicting the crisis?
You decide and tell me...
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@suhasinih Your ability to reduce everything to the trivial never ceases to amaze.
Can’t even say surely you recognise, because you don’t, the difference between a vacation for pleasure and a PM’s 7-Nation tour where trade advantages for the country and security concerns are addressed.
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