Mohit Soni

This will haunt us for years to come. #COVID19 #Wuhan #coronavirus #WHO

there should be a "follow this thread" feature on X. Some discussions are too interesting to lose. @elonmusk

@gujarat_plus_ Can vouch for that. Almost every house in Ahmedabad has solar. Highest penetration in india i guess.

This is how Gujarat looks from the Sky 🔥

@MENAUnleashed The report says that the banks are strong, central bank can provide extra liquidity if needed. overall strong system confidence. I was more worried about the USD AED peg, but with fx reserves of more than $300bn + ~$1tn sovereign wealth funds, UAE is at very low risk financially.

The UAE financial system is beginning to crack! The UAE central bank says it has approved a 5 pills resilience package aimed at reinforcing the stability of the country’s banking sector. The headline framing is "strength and resilience." The actual content is a five-pillar crisis toolkit. Those two things are not the same. Pillar III is the most telling. Releasing the Countercyclical Capital Buffer and the Capital Conservation Buffer is a Basel III crisis instrument. You deploy these when banks cannot sustain credit provision while maintaining regulatory capital ratios. This is not a proactive measure. This is a response to real stress already materialising in the system. Pillar IV is arguably worse. Allowing banks to postpone loan classifications means there are already loans deteriorating right now, tied to whoever "extraordinary circumstances" is a euphemism for. Businesses hit by Hormuz disruption, trade route rerouting, insurance repricing, energy cost spikes. The CBUAE just told banks they can sit on that rot without calling it NPLs yet. This does not make the loans good. It makes them invisible for a while only. "Extraordinary circumstances" appears four times. The war is never named. Iran is never named. The Hormuz closure is never named. The document is not a transparency document, but a reassurance report. "Without any material impact" is classic central bank pre-denial. You do not say that phrase unless market participants are already asking the question. "Proactive" appears three times. A genuine proactive measure is published before stress emerges. A package covering loan deferral, capital buffer release, and liquidity ratio relief published during an active regional war is reactive dressed up as proactive. AED 1 trillion in FX reserves sounds enormous. It is. But it is also the foundation of the AED/USD peg. Those reserves are not free cash to deploy into the economy. They are the peg's collateral. Any significant capital flight scenario, or a prolonged war disrupting trade flows and reducing petrostate revenue recycling through UAE financial channels, puts pressure on exactly those reserves. The 119% monetary base cover ratio is being cited as evidence of health. What it actually shows is that the CBUAE is running a tight orthodox peg defence posture. That is prudent but it is not the same as having abundant firepower to deploy into an extended shock. AED 920 billion in bank liquidity sounds like a lot until you consider that AED 5.4 trillion banking sector figure cited in the same paragraph. That is a roughly 17% liquidity-to-assets ratio, which is not unusual but is also not exceptional. The document presents the numerator without contextualising the denominator. Mansour bin Zayed chairing this and being named in the headline is not routine. CBUAE board meetings happen regularly. They are not typically headlined by the Vice President's personal role. His presence and the direct quote at the end are designed to put royal political authority behind the stability narrative. That is done when the stability narrative needs credibility support it cannot generate from financial data alone. 2027 is the promised year.

India has been a great partner in maintaining stable oil prices around the world. The United States recognizes ongoing purchases of Russian oil are a part of this effort. India is one of the largest consumers and refiners of oil and it is essential for the United States and India to work hand in hand for market stability for Americans and Indians.

@Fintech03 We have this in Rajasthan as well, not powdered but dried entire thing encapsulated in a silver casing.

Ancient India has been banking them for 3000 yrs in a way that modern science is only now validating. In South India (Tamil Nadu), there is an ancient practice called the Tayittu/Thayittu. After birth, the umbilical cord stump is dried, powdered, & sealed inside a gold/silver amulet & tied to the child’s waist/arm. According to Vedic tradition & local folklore, if the child fell extremely ill later in life, the amulet was opened, & the powder (the dried cord tissue) was ingested/applied as medicine. Modern researchers have found that even in dried umbilical tissue, certain stromal cell signals & growth factors can remain stable. The Tayittu was essentially a low tech cryobank, based on the belief that the source of life (umbilical tissue) could act as a biological reset button for the body.

@aravind @Iyervval 🤣🤣 kamahs karoti, nahaṃ. This was so good!!

@Iyervval Yajurveda, section 61 says "kamahs karoti, nahaṃ" eat meat... eat roti, not ham. Some charlatan brahmins changed its meaning to - "desire does everything, not me."

Anna (rice) is mentioned in the Vedas. Please tell me where roti is mentioned? Eating roti is maha-paap. It is the food of the asuras. Durga killed mahishasura because he ate roti.

@USAmbIndia @worldbankgroup Only a few people from IIM Ahmedabad (my alma mater) who have delivered the most inspiring speech I've come across, Ajay Banga is one of them. I Just listen to him again and again and it gives you a fire power to keep moving forward.

Great meeting with Ajay Banga, President of @WorldBankGroup. We spoke about advancing development, economic growth, and cooperation across our capitals and countries.

During meditation, it is impossible to control the thoughts and make them disappear because the moment you try to make them disappear, you are thinking. One of the ways is to let your thought be absorbed in something all absorbing to you. When it is completely absorbed, then it is not distracted.  There is no distraction from the outside world.  When such a state of complete attention without distraction takes place, there is a possibility that, that thought also will disappear by itself and you will see what it is.  #SriMspeaks

@TheEconomist @aravind one more

Narendra Modi could have responded to his setback at the ballot box, or to Donald Trump’s tariffs, in a much less constructive manner. Instead he opted for economic pragmatism. This reformist turn deserves praise economist.com/leaders/2026/0…

@aravind Hence the sound of "Om" is so intuitive.

Let me try to explain the attached post by Rohan in an easier way to those who may be interested. So, in India, philosophers and linguists have always discussed and debated about sound, words, and meaning. We had this theory called Sphuta (from around Panini times / 2000 years ago) which argued that whole sentences gave rise to instant meanings in our head. For example, "The cow standing there is white in color" instantly creates meaning in our mind of a white cow. Sphuta theory says we do not add the meaning of individual words to make sense. For example, we are not first seeing a random cow, then seeing it standing, then making it white in color as we hear the sentence. Now, this attached post by Rohan is referring to a work by the Vaishanavite saint Ramanuja (1000 years later / ago). Ramanuja argues that words have inherent, timeless meaning. For example, we imagine words to be a social construct. That is, we think a group of people decided to call 'that grass eating animal with four legs of a particular form and giving us milk' as "cow." And then everyone from their community calls it a cow henceforth. But Ramanuja says that's not true. Just like a wood fire gives rise to smoke, which nobody decided (it just occurs naturally), that milk giving animal is just called a "cow" and nobody decided it. He says the word relationship exists naturally without a beginning (at least it only begins with the beginning of your own consciousness). You may think this is ridiculous. But if you take the word cow, it is actually a derivative of word Gau from Sanskrit. And some may say Gau comes from some Indo-European root word Go or something like that. But when did this word originate? Did a group of people sit down and decide that grazing animal is called Go? Ramanuja's theory says, no, none decided. He says the first word (or sound) for that animal we call cow arose in our consciousness by itself and got agreed upon by everyone over time. It doesn't matter it got changed to cow or gau or gai or kho in various languages later. The relationship between the original word and the object always existed. Why is Ramanuja's theory important? This solves for the "divine revelation" of Sanskrit and vedas. Since vedas are supposed to have been heard and not composed by humans, Ramanuja's theory explains how the words / sounds in vedas existed naturally before anyone invented or created them. If you get what I have written above, you will also understand - Why a vedic chant is important to be uttered exactly as heard and passed on for generations - Why it is useless to write down the vedas (as the utterances and complex sounds are impossible to be represented by text) - And why chanting a vedic mantra (like say Gayatri) can "reveal" the meaning of itself and a lot more about the universe to you

@WeekendInvestng Chandigarh is this clean so not sure if it’s from Punjab entirely

It is a localized issue . Delhi cannot put all the blame on Punjab. It is ridiculous that there is no war room, no odd even, no shut down while millions destroy their lungs.

Bumrah just did this.

@WeekendInvestng There you go @WeekendInvestng

lets do a 5 yr comparison also... this is opportunistic bashing of India

Could we shift the focus from dogs to littering? Fine the entire nation if needed, Dear Supreme Court. #straydogsmenace

Not sure if this is accurate but, if true, artificial intelligence is doomed to mass scale stupidity ….. garbage in and garbage out….

@hvgoenka Reading books is overrated. Finding answers rather is underrated.

Take it from me, this is true…

This is probably the best physics joke ever. 😎

This clip which was shared with me is about Shri Inder Jit Singh Sidhu of Chandigarh. Apparently, every morning at 6 AM, in the quiet streets of Chandigarh’s sector 49, this 88-year-old retired police officer begins his day in service. Armed with nothing but a cycle cart and an unwavering sense of duty, he moves slowly and purposefully, picking up rubbish from the roadside. He says he wasn’t happy with the ‘low rank’ Chandigarh got in the Swachh Surekshan listing. But instead of complaining, he chooses action. Each piece of trash he clears is more than just litter removed. It’s a statement. A quiet, persistent belief in a better world. A belief in living with meaning, regardless of age or recognition. In a world often obsessed with youth and speed, his slow but steady footsteps tell us that Purpose doesn’t retire. Service doesn’t age. A Salute to this quiet warrior of the streets. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@IndianTechGuide where is NO LITTERING!!!!!!

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Flights from UAE turns back #IranIsraelConflict #Iran #IsraeliranWar