Ethical Brunette

Daily reminders!!

About 20 yrs ago, I used to visit India from US yearly. I would bring a good amount chocolates and toys for relatives. The quantity was not anywhere near what can be considered commercial and within my personnel luggage and often bought from duty free shops. The airport customs officials would generously help themselves to the chocolates meant for my nieces and nephews. Shameless bunch! Thankfully now the practice is not to be seen at least in BLR airport, but I heard that they get their moolah in other ways - especially in cargos. I can forgive a pickpocket or petty thief as they have some shame and try to hide what they do. These corrupt customs officials are much worse. They are paid fat salaries from our tax and yet demand what is in our pocket! @PMOIndia Please institute large scale audit of properties and assets of all central government employees and their immediate family members (while taking care to apply market valuation for fixed assets). Dismiss anyone having disproportionate assets and immediately seize their assets (the lakhs of crores that would be seized can be used for Army welfare fund or PMCares fund or to fund R&D). Indian public would be forever grateful! 🙏

If there’s one thing America has mastered and India hasn't, is the the art of selling a story. The American Dream was the best marketing campaign of the 20th century. They sold the American Dream so hard that the brightest talent across the world left their homes to chase it. They postured about American Dynamism until every investor believed that innovation could only happen in Silicon Valley. These stories gave them soft power, talent, and capital. I think India today is at a similar moment. Yes, we still wrestle with corruption, bureaucracy, and gaps in infrastructure. But so did the US in its rise. That didn’t stop them from relentlessly selling their own narrative. What India needs now is conviction to sell the Indian Dream. To build for 1.4B people and to create confidence among our entrepreneurs and consumers that Indian products and companies and brands are worth backing and using. There are a ton of challenges we've in health, climate, education & energy. But these are the very challenges that can create opportunities. We should call our problems what they are -trillion dollar opportunities. America didn’t just build companies but built stories the world wanted to believe in. If America won on story and China on scale, India must win by solving the hardest problems for the most people living in India. The media, government & investors should constantly be talking about entrepreneurs here and the Indian Dream.

Abe Chutiye…….Times Square is meant for display of Such performance there is a Reserved area. Where do you see any Disruption being Created or Nuisance Caused to anyone ? Your Problem isn’t with Garba but the fact that these people are Proudly Celebrating their Hindu Festival. If MAGA Americans have Complains better they ask Their President to Amend the Constitution that no Culture and Ritual except Christianity and Judaism will be Acceptable to be practised in U.S.

the problem with many indians on this app is that they think the path to india's rise begins with the downfall of NRIs. they don't want india to rise as much as they want the west to fall. imagine praying for the downfall of your fellow citizens. least patriotic creatures.

I am 100% expecting taunts directed towards NRIs who will come back to India. “Aa gaya na wapas kya hua” “Desh hi kaam aata hai bete last mein” “Aur jao bahar” “Ye usa nahi hai adjust kar le thoda” “Bhai fake accent kyu use kar raha hai” Vultures were just waiting.

I have checked the time lines of Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Arvind Krishna and the likes. Not one of them have posted anything about Trump's decision to hit H1Bs. They don't need to do this because they are of Indian origin and Indians, just like them once, form the highest number of H1Bs. But even their companies will be affected by this Presidential order. Yet, they chose to remain silent as usual. What it means is, they are already useful sepoys to the new US admin. They will be provided with loopholes to continue using H1Bs without much economic strain. And it also means that this Trump order is temporary to arm twist India. Our tech sepoys are the leading indicators for India to decide on how to react long term :)

Some Indians are celebrating Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee hike, thinking it will “end Brain Drain.” That’s pure delusion. Those who want to leave WILL leave, if not to the U.S., then to Canada, UK, Australia, Europe, Singapore and beyond. Talent goes where it is valued. One country shutting the door doesn’t stop migration. The ugly truth is this: Brain drain is fueled by India’s own failures, lack of world-class opportunities, corruption at every level and the suffocating curse of Caste Reservations that kill merit and demotivate the best minds. Unless these are fixed, brain drain will NEVER stop. So instead of dancing over Trump’s decision, ask why India’s brightest feel compelled to run away in the first place. That answer lies in our own system, not in U.S. visa rules. Blame our Babus for corruption and politicians who use Caste Reservations for vote banks instead of creating a system where talent thrives. Unless that changes, the exodus will continue, no matter what America does.

I personally doubt that the Indian Govt. can do anything in this scenario (while I hope I am wrong, somehow everything I have seen about the USA points elsewhere). Trump has decided to basically weaponise H1B visas. Anybody on H1B should book a flight return and just make sure they come back prior to the deadline. Trump administration is trying everything to put pressure on India and if you read the signals it appears that many other countries admire India’s stance and might well help out but nothing avoids the short term pain. Short term Trump has screwed 4-5 lakh people’s dreams. While he might get challenged in the courts, remember that with him WYSIWYG and he is playing to his core supporters wishes and those particular Americans simply do not want Indians or Chinese there (for various reasons outlined sure, but also because they cannot compete on a level playing field with them). Remember NONE of this is new too, in 1996-1997, USA had stopped recruiting Indian doctors after an American newspaper ran an editorial saying that by 2045 the POTUS would be of Indian origin born of DOCTOR parents from India. So remember, there is a core of Americans who don’t like Indians (or Chinese or Koreans or whatever).

"H-1B NRIs will come back and build India now. Yay! Good news for India." No! Doesn't work that way. Firstly, it will not create new jobs but only redistribute existing ones. And: 1. A sudden oversupply of talent would crowd the domestic job market, creating tougher competition, lowering salaries, slowing promotions, and even leaving many underemployed and unemployed. 2. Returnees with US exposure may demand leadership or high-value roles, clashing with existing hierarchies and sidelining Indian managers. 3. Salary structures would compress downward, reducing the bargaining power of local employees, who are already burdened by EMIs. Many locals will lose jobs and will struggle to cope. 4. Cities would face extra strain on housing, traffic, and healthcare, while returnees’ higher lifestyle expectations may cause dissatisfaction and social tension. The key to India’s development is not in bringing NRIs back but in retaining homegrown talent and giving them space to innovate. With the current red tape, bureaucratic hurdles, lack of funding and corruption, even the brightest minds will struggle to create here.

You have no idea what the families of H-1B visas are enduring. Someone just got engaged. Someone has a 7 month pregnant wife on H4. Someone has a student loan of $100,000. Someone came to India to handle her mother's surgery. Someone just bought a home on mortgage. Someone is aiming for Green Card and at a last stage. Stop writing things like - It would stop brain drain. Trump is the best reformer for India since PV Narasimha Rao. US is killing its own tech industry. Make India great now. This is wonderful for Indian IT workers at GCCs. I have seen many writing insensitive posts. Don't. I am personally not affected. No one in my family is. But I know for sure after working in the IT industry for 3 decades, that India cannot absorb 4-5 lakh H-1Bs at high salary tomorrow. Impossible. Be practical and sensitive. Wait and watch. Maybe things might get better with court, deal, lobby at work. Hope.

Tomorrow, if I die, my patients will perhaps feel sad for a day, and immediately seek another doctor for their ailments. I won't fault them, this is correct, life should go on. So, no point overworking myself to death. No point feeling stressed about my work. Once, one has reached some level of financial stability, one has to slow down. In these current times, there is no other way. Ofcourse, financial stability is subjective, but one alone knows how much is enough.

📌 A chilling reality from #Ahmedabad An excerpt from a WhatsApp chat shows the accused calmly discussing how he stabbed his classmate allegedly inside the school campus as if ending a life was a casual way to “settle” a scuffle. The victim, a 15-year-old, has died. This is not just a case of school violence. It has spiraled into a full-blown law-and-order crisis, further inflamed because the victim and the accused belong to different communities. But the most shocking question remains: How does a child bring a knife into school in the first place? Schools are supposed to be safe spaces of learning, not battlegrounds where children carry weapons. This tragedy exposes multiple failures—family, school, society & parents . A failure to instill values, a failure of monitoring, and a failure of responsibility. When children normalize violence, when a classroom conflict ends in a killing, when communities divide over a child’s death then we must pause and ask: What kind of future are we building? School name : Seventh Day Adventist School in Khokhra.

This 4 year old daughter of a street vendor died of rabies in Bengaluru. Badly bitten on the face on Apr 27, family endured months of struggle, panic, and desperation, only to see their beloved child meet a tragic end. 10,000 bites daily in India, mostly kids, almost all from poor or lower middle-class. Never the children of the privileged, never the children celebrities like Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, John Abraham, Raveena Tandon, Bhumi Pednekar, Zoya Akhtar, or Shefali Shah may have today or tomorrow. Since their families will never face it, it’s not their problem. That’s why they never speak compassion when poor kids die of rabies. But the moment the SC ordered action on stray dogs, they suddenly discovered “compassion”, because right now, that’s the in thing and looks good on CV.

I’d argue that women’s bodies were not actually “designed to give birth” tbh. Human pregnancy + birth is an evolutionary nightmare compared to other primate species. The narrower pelvises humans developed in order to become bipedal make birth much more difficult than it could be

Preparing for any exams in India after 25 isn’t just hard. It’s lonely, silent, and mentally exhausting. You're not just fighting a syllabus, you’re fighting time, doubt, and pressure to “settle.”

Karma is 100% "real" in this illusionary Universe (Maya) we consider in our experience as "real." First, the experience or experiencer is only real. Like your consciousness cooking up a dream where you, all of whom you meet, and the world you experience are unreal. If you don't get what I said above and don't believe in either god or law of nature, and consider yourself scientific, I want you to think about this hypothesis: Hold any object you have access to in your hand. Let's assume it is a wooden comb. Is the comb real or the wood it is made of real? Comb is just a shape, name, and form of the wood. It could be a back scratcher too. Or in the hands of a baby, a toy. So let's assume for now the wood is real. Is the wood real or the carbon atoms it is made of real? Of course, you are scientific, you know the wood is just a form of organic matter. It is just carbon mostly. So are carbon atoms real or the electrons and protons they are made of real? Of course, it is the atomic particles you will say. Just change their numbers and configuration, it can become Boron or Nitrogen. So are the electrons and protons (or the quarks they are made up of) real? Of course, not. You are so scientific and knowledgable that you know they are disturbances in the Higgs field. Mass is an emergent property of elementary particles by the Higgs mechanism through spontaneous symmetry breaking. Hmmm, so what is real? May be only the Higgs field is real. But for it to be real, it has to be experienced by someone or something. The obersver effect is real in the quantum world. So who's the observer? Let's not call it god as you are very scientific. Let's say "it is some conscious thing coming out of something that science will figure out someday." Great. But now think about it. This conscious something is experiencing creation and end of what ultimately emerges as matter (one that has mass and occupies space... Duh, elementary school definition.) This experiencer of course knows the past states, and that past affects any new emergent stuff. Just as in your dream, characters may do stuff based on what you know about them subconsciously. It is well established in quantum physics through many peer-reviewed papers in reputed scientific journals you believe in that, both the past state we knoe and, we observing, the "observer effect", changes the future state and actions of a particle. Can we term this continuity, this interplay of past states shaping future outcome, as "Karma"? Great. You got a sense of what is Karma. If you are interested, remember more what I have written without biases as is. Reflect and contemplate more on it. Meditate over it. Suddenly you may experience an eureka moment with this "Smaranam, Mananam, Nidhidyasanam" without prejudices and biases getting in the way. Enjoy it. There is no other way to learn about absolute truths. They have to be experienced. I, as your dreamed up character, can only give you pointers in this illusionary world you are creating and experiencing. You have to wake up to realize the dream insights like a Ramanujan.

The first step towards spirituality is to stop bitching about people behind their backs. People who are really spiritual have the courage to speak their mind on the face. Only cowards resort to the other option.