Sameer Shah

@shanaka86 Love reading your pieces

BREAKING: India’s External Affairs Minister called Iran’s Foreign Minister and asked for permission to use the Strait of Hormuz. He received it. That sentence should be read slowly. The world’s largest democracy, the fifth-largest economy, a nuclear-armed state with the fourth most powerful military on Earth, a country that imports 85% of its crude oil, called Tehran and requested a waiver to transit an international waterway that has been open to all nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea since 1994. And Tehran said yes, on the condition that Indian tankers notify Iranian authorities before entering. Iran now issues transit permits for the Strait of Hormuz the way a border authority issues visas at an airport. China transits via shadow fleet under IRGC protection without asking, 11.7 million barrels since 28 February, because China funds the war machine. Bangladesh negotiated a waiver on 10 th March. India negotiated one on 11th March. Thailand did not negotiate. The Mayuree Naree was struck by a projectile. Three sailors are missing. Four tiers of access now govern a 33-kilometre international waterway. Tier one: China, which transits freely because it pays. Tier two: India and Bangladesh, which transit conditionally because they asked. Tier three: the Western alliance, which cannot transit because Iran declared every tanker serving the US, Israel, or allies a legitimate target. Tier four: everyone else, who transits at the risk of being mistaken for tier three by one of 31 autonomous commands that distinguish targets by presence, not flag. PM Modi’s government told the United States last week that India “never depended on any country” for permission to buy Russian oil. This week, India called Iran for permission to buy any oil at all through Hormuz. The multi-alignment doctrine that positions India as beholden to no single power has produced a country that simultaneously rejects American conditions on Russian crude and accepts Iranian conditions on Gulf crude. India does not take orders. India takes permissions. From everyone, depending on the waterway. The Jaishankar-Araghchi phone call is the most consequential diplomatic exchange of the war that nobody is covering. It establishes that the post-28 February Hormuz is not closed and not open. It is licensed. And the licensing authority is a government whose Supreme Leader is cardboard, whose military command just announced continuous strikes, whose 31 autonomous provincial commands operate on sealed orders from a dead man, and whose foreign minister grants transit waivers that no one can guarantee the military will honour. The waiver is issued by Tehran’s diplomatic wing. The weapons are controlled by the Mosaic Doctrine’s 31 autonomous commands. The diplomatic wing and the military wing do not communicate through a functioning chain of command. The same disconnect that burned Oman’s oil tanks while the president apologised could strike an Indian tanker while the foreign minister guarantees its safety. India has 10 million citizens working in the Gulf. Their remittances sustain families across Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. India imports two-thirds of its LNG through the Strait. India’s March fertiliser tenders went unawarded because no cargo could transit. The permission is not optional. It is existential. And the country granting it cannot guarantee its own military will respect it. The Strait of Hormuz now operates on the same principle as every chokepoint this war has created: the threat is cheaper than the defence, the insurance cannot price it, and the authority that grants passage answers to a dead man’s orders and a living man’s cardboard photograph. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@malpani Fab job

Thanks to free AI tutors like eklavya.io, commercial coaching classes like Physicswallah, Allen and Aakash are a dying business

@nsinghal211 The day you understand inflation, you will go back on this approach

If you have Rs 4 Crore & put it in FD then you will get an interest amount of Rs 2.5-3 lakh per month approximately. Also this Rs 4 Crore will be as it is unused. Still I wonder why people with zero or negative marks are spending crores to get a MD Degree after having 0 or negative marks or two digit marks.

These days, traveling on the Pune-Bengaluru highway is nothing short of a nightmare. Pune to Karad once used to take 3 hours, now it takes 5 hours on an average. Road work has been happening for years, but nothing seems to have been completed! There should be names of contractors, estimated time of completion and cost details on every stretch of the road. @nitin_gadkari

@vivekagnihotri @grok which are the famous 10 ads created by Piyush Panday

Kuch khaas tha… When I joined O&M, as a trainee, everyone spoke the Queen’s English. They wanted India to sound like London. And then there was Piyush Pandey, with Rajasthani moustache, sitting in a smoky corner, writing in Hindi, making words smell of mitti and sound like home. He didn’t sell brands. He sold emotions. He made us feel that Har shabd kuch kehta hai. Har insaan kuch kehta hai. That every heart, every story could speak in our own tongue. And yes, you’ll live on in every ad that feels like India, in every line that tastes meetha, meetha. Kuch nahin bahut khaas tha tum mein…. We won’t let you go from our memories, Piyush, kyonki yeh majboot jod hai, itni asaani se tootega nahin. Om Shanti.

@stockifiabhijit Hard time for them to come back now Indian markets will remain inflated according to their valuations forever due to SIPs and DII inflows

FII ownership in Indian stock market dropped to 15.85% as of August 2025, with assets slipping to less than ₹70 lakh crore. That’s the lowest shareholding in over 13 years levels last seen in 2012. Why are FIIs running away from India when the Sensex and Nifty are at record highs? Let’s decode. Bookmark and retweet this thread to revisit it later

@AdityaD_Shah Commissions from MF Along with MF expense ratio They must have sold it Double Dhamaka Offer

One of my followers had his mutual fund portfolio with a bank, The bank put 14 schemes of the bank's Mutual fund, The mutual fund portfolio is in utter disarray, The customer said, I never checked what the bank really did, Never buy mutual funds from a Bank, They are just interested in commissions, They will never optimise ur portfolio!

@Raka448 Sati became prevalent after the Muslim invaders started ruling Bharat

When Lord Ram’s father died, his mother did not perform sati. When the Pandavas’ father died, their mother Kunti did not perform sati. After the Mahabharata, none of the widowed women performed sati. There is no mention of the sati practice in the Vedas; this evil custom emerged later. And sati was not abolished by Ambedkar but by the efforts of Hindus themselves, through the British, since at that time India was under British Rule

@TheKhelIndia Whyy whyy why?

DID IT ACTUALLY MADE TO THE HEADLINES, NO! Anandkumar becomes the World Champion in a Speed Skating, Still NO COVERAGE AT ALL! Not in Print Media, Not on Television ❌

@NoahEpstein_ Interested share

what if I told you this workflow took me 3 minutes to build? look at this fucking thing... normally this would take 6-8 hours to wire up in n8n I just described what I wanted in plain english to a tool I found 3 minutes later... done every automation I've built manually? could've been done 90% faster add 10 mins of debugging and you're golden the workflow you're seeing closed $73K in sales last week while everyone's spending weekends learning node logic... I'm typing "build me a sales psychology analyzer" and watching it happen been testing this for 2 weeks and I'm still in shock the game just changed and nobody's talking about it yet comment below if you want me to send you the link (warning: this will ruin manual workflow building forever)

@ESPNcricinfo Virat and Rohit hogged the limelight way too much. Good that other players are now being recognised slowly

Axar 'flies under the radar' Patel 🙌 Is he India's most underrated cricketer, especially in T20Is?

@FamyRasheed In Nifty it falls even low to 18 if you exclude just Zomato

📉 Valuations dipped across Large, Mid & Small Caps in August

@aravind How does it weaken China?

@ihteshamit AI trying to fool humans with its Lazy thinking. Give some stick and they come in line

Aravind ji disagrees with you on this. Lack of civic infrastructure is the primary reason for low tourism in India. Anyone who has traveled to Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Malaysia can easily find the difference in their travel experience. Though SM issues might be at play but definitely not the primary reason

The biggest reason for so less tourism to India is an organised and ongoing social media campaign by Pakistani and Chinese accounts making India look dangerous, dirty, and desolate of anything worthy to travel for. "Incredible India" campaigns are a waste of money when this anti-India operation is not directly being tackled by GoI. Take the country of Singapore mentioned here by Tharoor ji. How many of their citizens actually want to travel to India for tourism? Almost NIL. But given their per capita income, almost all of them travel out to China, Japan, UAE, Sri Lanka, Maldives etc All those counted by India as tourists from UAE or Singapore are Indian ethnics who are that country citizens coming for visiting relatives! To those Indians 'blackpilled' by propaganda against India and saying "this is not good in India, that is not good", do not tell me Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh are better than India in tourist faculties, cleanliness, safety and infrastructure! They manage to attract more tourists per capita. So, while those things definitely need to be improved in India, please understand the real reason for tourists shunning India. It is an economic war on India using social media and media by inimical forces programming the world against India and Indians to hurt our tourism, exports, and economy. There needs to be a counter in this regard. It has been left unchecked for too long. India cannot let these inimical forces program the world against India and dehumanize Indians. India has a lot of power over SM platforms due to sheer number of users and revenue contributed by Indians. It is my suggestion to @ShashiTharoor ji and other ministers, especially @AshwiniVaishnaw ji, to please work with the SM platforms and control the unhinged hate being unleashed against India online in every geography.

@recap_david Agent

I built this AI marketing agent to run my entire $100K media company... (and I’m nuts for open-sourcing it) 4 months of prompting and integrations to create an agent that replaced my entire content team How it works (the magic): → scrapes Reddit, HN, X, Google News → ships a Morning-Brew-style daily AI newsletter (10 k daily readers) → repurposes that content into viral Twitter threads (like this one), viral short form videos (for TikTok / IG), Reddit posts, and hooky LinkedIn updates → prints viral content that has generated millions of impressions → creates custom brand-aligned images for any unique piece of content all this is powered through voice commands with ElevenLabs + n8n integration (see video below) no manual content creation no team management overhead runs while I sleep Want the full system + setup guide? 1. Comment 'AGENT' below 2. Retweet 3. Follow me and I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@TheKhelIndia What rollercoaster!!!

In case if you missed the ultimate penalties 🇮🇳🇴🇲

@MrMotilalOswal Sometimes, loyalty outlasts the benefits—true relationships value people over convenience. An umbrella kept after the rain is a sign of gratitude, not a burden Remember popatlal from TMKOC