Ramesh Kumar

#TRUMP-#XI #MEET One of the best commentaries I read on the recently concluded Trump's China visit... @nytimesworld @SoumayaKeynes @ChadBown #US #China

Get well soon, @RishiSunak

Vande mataram at the oath taking ceremony in TN ? Winds of change!

@speakyourkind @manickamtagore Wait for next parliament election. This Manickam will lose deposit without alliance .

@manickamtagore Remember, you're Manickam, not Manik Basha. The verdict was against the DMK Congress combine. Congress has been rejected in every single election since 2014. India literally doesn't have a congress ruled state. What are you even blabbering about?

The verdict has gone against the DMK government. Half the ministers in the Cabinet have lost their seats. We faced collateral damage for no fault of ours. Now, BJP is eyeing Tamil Nadu. The question before us is clear: Should we stand with those rejected by the people’s verdict, or should we unite with the force that fought against BJP and fight to stop BJP from ruling Tamil Nadu? #Tamilnadu

@Fintech03 @VikasLohchab12 This story took me back to the 1960s-70s . The Amrutanjan factory and office was in Luz, Mylapore, Chennai. As a child we used to spend time n play in the adjacent Nageswara Rao park, built in memory of Amrutanjan founder. Nothing to beat Amrutanjan. Sorry, Zandu n Tiger balm!

@VikasLohchab12 Good 1, Sir 🙏

Before the world knew the power of Big Pharma, a journalist in a tiny lab in Bombay created a substance so potent it triggered a trade war with London. It was a yellow grease that did not just soothe headaches but funded a movement, bypassed British blockades, & became 1 of the few Indian products to make the Empire's own medicine look like scented water. Unlike other brands started by chemists, Amrutanjan was founded by Kasinadhuni/Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, a man who was primarily a journalist & a freedom fighter. In the late 1800s, the pain balm market in India was a British monopoly. If your head throbbed, you bought imported ointments. Rao saw this as a tax on pain. He retreated into a lab & perfected a formula that was significantly more potent than anything coming out of London. The British tried to push their own balms like Vicks/early menthol rubs as sophisticated & odorless. They attempted to smear Amrutanjan as primitive because of its overpowering scent. Rao leaned into the scent. He realized that in a country where literacy was low, a brand could not just be a name, it had to be an experience. He distributed free samples at music concerts (Sabhas) & religious festivals. By the time the British tried to patent the market for pain relief, the entire Indian public had already associated the smell of camphor & menthol with trust. The British balms felt alien & weak compared to the sensory explosion of the yellow tin. The smell of Amrutanjan... that piercing, camphor-heavy aroma became the literal scent of the freedom struggle. If you walked into a room & it smelled of Amrutanjan, it was a silent signal: A patriot is present. It was a scent the British police could not arrest, yet it was everywhere. The British had a Patent Medicine Tax that made imported drugs expensive. However, by classifying Amrutanjan as an Ayurvedic Proprietary Medicine, Rao managed to navigate a complex legal gray area. He essentially used the British legal system against itself. By proving his ingredients were ancient yet his manufacturing was modern, he avoided the crippling taxes that applied to purely Western drugs, while maintaining a price point (initially 10 annas) that made British imports look like daylight robbery Rao fought back not just in the market, but in the press. He used the profits from the balm to fund Andhra Patrika, 1 of the most influential anti-British newspapers. The British were literally paying for their own downfall. Every time a British officer’s wife bought a jar of Amrutanjan for a migraine (because it worked better than the London balms), she was inadvertently funding the printing of revolutionary literature that called for the end of the Raj. By the 1930s, this Indian yellow grease was being exported to Indian diaspora & locals in South Africa & Ceylon. It became a global symbol of Eastern Wisdom defeating Western Chemistry. It was 1 of those few occasions, an Indian OTC (Over the Counter) product achieved cult status internationally w/o a single pound of British investment. In fact, the yellow tin became so iconic that it did not need a label in the villages. The color & the smell were the brand. It was a biological Swadeshi. While others were fighting with words, Rao was fighting with molecular relief.

#Apple ... @nytimes provides space for #PatrickMcGee, author of #AppleInChina to turn spotlight on #TimCook"s "misdeeds" ... How patriotic was he? nytimes.com/2026/04/23/opi…

#TimCook ... a villain or hero? @Apple ... He did a major disservice to the USA, opines Mike Wilson... freebeacon.com/america/the-ap…

@ssmumbai @FinancialXpress A brilliant piece, Sri! Your articulation comes at a time when the deluge of "doomsday" narrations highly stresses the mind. Although Altman, in his latest blog, repeated the huge benefits of AI, you, as an outsider, add value and true context.

#Artificialintelligence is rapidly reshaping not just jobs, but the very architecture of economies and societies. In my @FinancialXpress column, I observe in human resolve - empathy, judgment, and the enduring capacity for hope and resilience. financialexpress.com/opinion/ai-vs-…

@TheVikasKhanna @Iyervval Congrats @TheVikasKhanna .. but Ranbir Kapoor in that listing. Most influential? Joke, @TIME

When God has a plan… From selling bhatura chole at Vivek Public School in 1989, to opening Lawrence Garden Banquet from the back of my house in Amritsar in 1990. In 1991, I chose culinary arts— a decision that embarrassed almost everyone except my grandmother. There were years of humiliation I rarely speak about. Moments that nearly broke me. In 2000, when my banquet was torn down, I almost gave up. Instead, I moved to the United States and started over. Cleaning homes. Selling food on the streets of TriBeCa. Sleeping at Grand Central. Experiencing homelessness at NYC Rescue. Sleepless nights. Being called “Curry Boy” on the 7 train. And still, I kept going. From there… 8 Michelin stars. Then losing myself again. Then starting over—one last time as a promise to my sister—with Bungalow. And now… TIME100 Most Influential People in the World 2026. I’m still trying to process it. The journey continues.

Hi @sriramk, the AI dons are partly to blame for having articulated the negative aspects of #AI. The long-term benefits may be good. But ordinary citizens are worried about today, tomorrow and the day after. Remember John Maynard Keynes' IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE ALL DEAD?

@NewYorker .... A Brilliant takedown on @OpenAI #SamAltman .... Moment of Truth by @RonanFarrow & & Andrew Marantz (April 13, 2026) issue. #AIEthics

@michaelpollan .... #AWorldAppears:#AJourneyIntoConsciousness .... @newscientist

Mobile World Live: MWC26: Keynote 7 Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View mobileworldlive.com/old_latest-sto…

Mobile World Live: MWC26: Keynote 7 Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View mobileworldlive.com/old_latest-sto… Thank you, @ezraklein, for directing me to Azeem through your recent NYT opinion piece. #AI @AnthropicAI @OpenAI

Transporters are becoming better and law-abiding citizens. Hera pheri days are gone. Is it?

Which international law did @realDonaldTrump follow, and now global nautical rules are cited to have the Hormuz Straits opened to all? #IranWar‌ Height of hypocrisy.

#DATACENTRE WATCH @washingtonpost edit.... unsurprising. Earlier, too, WP editorially lampooned #BernieSanders. @JeffBezos ... His Master's Voice! #Artificialintelligence

"Substack and X are better sources for living-brain analysis of current events than much of the traditional press ...." Fully agree.

Watch "The Capture" serial on #HBO to grasp how "Simon" (An AI avatar) decides the fate of the UK. It plots the assassination of the country's Home Minister and succeeds. Chilling. @FinancialXpress @AnthropicAI @PalantirTech @OpenAI