N.T.Arunkumar (NTAK)

With reverence and love, remembering my Guru, my Swami Sri Sathya Sai Baba on His Mahasamadhi anniversary today. My last physical interaction with him was in December 2010. His last words, “Very happy” accepting my humble salutation, continues to light my life. #OmSaiRam

Dear @RBI: Do not let the psychology of Rs 100 per dollar determine your policy response. 100 is just a number, like 99 and 101. Whether the oil shortage is short-lived or long-lived, the right response at this moment is to let the rupee depreciate. 1/6

“Elections can deliver power but only policies can deliver prosperity”. India stands at cross-roads of reforms-fuelled growth & an aspiring class waiting for opportunities. The time for radical change is now. The @narendramodi govt has the right intent but needs to show urgency.

Amidst all the economic gloom India’s low per capita household debt is something to be cheerful about. India has ~340 million families vs US ~133 million. US - per family debt - $158,000 India per family debt - $5333. India’s low household debt of around 41-42% of GDP, is a structural advantage protecting the economy from severe downturns. It provides families with strong resilience against income and job losses, leaves enormous headroom for credit growth & minimises systemic financial risks compared to highly leveraged developed economies

“When everything is on the line you’ll do better with someone trying to solve you than with someone who is trying to save you”. ~ John Creasy / Man On Fire.

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.” — Umberto Eco

“If you're writing code in any traditional way: stop. It's over.” - Eric Schmidt #AI #FutureOfWork timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tec…

Clarity comes from action.

This is perhaps one of the most defining social impact visuals of India in the 21st century. A map that captures the transformation of and for the common Indian on a metric hardly talked about - DIGNITY. And, additionally, for women - SAFETY. Salute @PMOIndia @narendramodi

A terrific growth trajectory in an otherwise slow market! The intersection of {People}+{Professional Services}+{AI/Digital} covering the org horizontally is the new winning formula - great show, team CIEL - super excited (& grateful) to be a part of this evolution… #HR #AI

An excellent perspective. But it is innovation on technology, it getting repurposed and reused in different contexts, that truly democratises and makes access cheaper. The economics of expertise is tightly coupled with continued innovation of technology.

"He [Ashwini Vaishnaw] stated that the last financial year was the safest in the 150-year history of Indian Railways, as accidents had been reduced by 90 per cent" We don't appreciate this kind of unsexy progress enough. As a frequent night train traveller, thank you Ashwini Vaishnaw-ji 🙏 I agree with him that most of our flying should be replaced with high speed trains. India is the ideal geography for trains, both high speed trains and local trains. We can travel Delhi-Mumbai or Chennai-Mumbai in 4-5 hours (Beijing-Shanghai is about the same distance). Now let me come to local city/suburb/exurb train networks. Japan's local train networks are a marvel of both engineering and business planning. Japan has real estate companies that run private local train networks, connecting various suburbs/exurbs. They combine train stations with shopping malls, hospitals and the like. In India, a lot of idle capital locked up in semi-urban or urban real estate can be used to finance the build up by private companies. Japan presents a very interesting model. Now my personal passion: we must build trains to every panchayat in India (250,000 station network!). Building the network will massively stimulate the economy and create rural jobs. Once the infrastructure is done, it will attract higher value economic activity. It will set off a 10-15 year economic boom!

#WATCH | Gujarat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "The moment the holidays begin, children are handed tickets to go abroad. The trend nowadays is to travel overseas—often for destination weddings. There are many people here who do not send me invitations anymore; they used to send them in the past because they would hold their weddings abroad, but now they are stopping that practice. This trend of destination weddings abroad is growing rapidly; however, consider the fact that this entails a significant expenditure of foreign currency. Ask yourselves: are there no places within India where we can spend our vacations, where we can teach our children about our history, where we can take pride in our own local sites. It is essential that we celebrate our vacations right here in India; furthermore—even when it comes to weddings—I do not believe there could be any place more beautiful or sacred for us than our own India..." (Source: DD News)

“The Human Use of Human Beings” ~ Norbert Weiner, 1950. #AI timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/meet-n…

A rare India-positive piece in @washingtonpost: “The BJP is consolidating power just as India takes its place among the world’s great powers: largest by population, second-largest by military personnel, on the way to becoming third-largest by economy, and the only nation with the potential to counterbalance China in Asia.” The piece argues, “More votes have been cast for Modi than for any politician in human history, by a margin in the hundreds of millions. Modi has comfortably outperformed every other democratically elected leader in the world in Morning Consult’s global leader approval tracker for many years, despite the longevity of his tenure.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

"Jana Gana Mana" (Bengali: [ɟənə gəɳə mənə]) is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the #NobelPrize in Literature in 1913. Pictured: An English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Tagore

Concrete it understands. Cognition it does not. My @IndianExpress piece with Raghuram Rajan on why India may end up inside the AI economy at the wrong layer. And why even diffusion has uneven foundations: AI is not a payment rail.

Listen. Very. Carefully.

BASIC launched on this day in 1964.

Why did it take so long to invent the walker for the elderly? To put wheels on suitcases? To invent the menstrual pad for a problem that affected half the population in the world? Why necessity is not always the mother of invention. Today in the TOI

@DPrasanthNair True. Empowerment is not just about giving freedom to act. It is about developing ownership and accountability.

#HRSutra 1573: Empowerment is usually defined as allowing someone else to make decisions. That's not real empowerment. Real empowerment is about the person not being blamed if the decision he/she takes does not succeed.