Pushpinder Singh

Sign of a third world country with the attendant compromised political class, executive, and judiciary. Even the Reserve Bank of India, which should be the custodian of institutional standards, gets a free pass. What can be more symptomatic of a failed weak authoritarian State?

Its because of rent seekers like the gentleman that we missed the manufacturing bus and now the AI gold rush. If it were for him we should still be doing per seat billing of bug fixing staff. Alas the era is over and the comments are one of denial !

If Narayana Murthy approved the decision of Vishal Sikka to invest $1B into openAI he would have made $45B

@Aunindyo2023 Wow ! The way things are we should not be surprised if it goes further below given a weak monsoon+Iran war+weak rupee+negative FDI flow+High deficits+AI+depleting reserves....

Have the new apps that provide household services generated more employment? No idea. But one thing is clear - there are fewer jobs around for household helps, cooks, security guards, and other such personal non-skilled service providers. IT'S DOWN 28% IN TWO YEARS.

@darab_farooqui One of them did say that he is disturbed and wants a dip himself

Watch this clip carefully. Three people. Two Hindus, one Muslim. A comedy show called 'Teen Taal'. Khan Chacha, through his self-deprecating humor, describes his dip at Har Ki Pauri. And he makes two observations, almost in passing, that should make you stop. One: He removed his taweez before entering the water. *"What if someone objects... the way things are now."* Two: He paid via UPI. What if his Muslim name showed up. The room laughed. He hid his identity. Twice. At a river. To bathe. The thing that gets me is, he's done this dip before. Many times. He never had to think about any of this before. That's the new thing. Not the river. Not Khan Chacha. Just this quiet new math he does now before stepping in. Amulet off. Name hidden. Don't give anyone a reason. And the way he tells it, light, funny, unbothered on the surface, you can tell, maybe he's made peace with it. Which is somehow worse. Now, I get the room. I get the affection. I get that comedy has its own language and you don't stop every joke to make a point. But here's what I can't get past. He is the powerless one in this story. And he is the one making fun of himself. He is doing the work of making everyone comfortable with his own discomfort. Packaging it so nicely that the room can laugh and move on. And the two Hindu men, who clearly love him, I'm not questioning that, they just... laughed along. Warmly. And moved on. Just one line. That's all. "Yaar, Ganga kab se sirf hinduon ki ho gayi? Ganga-Jamuni mein bhi aadhi Ganga hai." Or anything, really. Any small moment where the joke turns outward instead of inward. Where it pokes at the thing creating the discomfort instead of just cushioning it. One funny, throwaway, irreverent line that tells the Muslim man watching at home: Haan yaar, this is wrong, you shouldn't have to do this. That's it. That's all I'm asking for. Because somewhere a Muslim watched this clip and recognized every single beat. The taweez coming off. The half-second before the UPI payment. The quiet calculation, am I too visible right now? He laughed, because Khan Chacha is funny and warm and the joke lands. And then the clip ended. Maybe it's too much to ask. Maybe in this climate even a throwaway joke feels like a risk. Maybe I'm romanticizing what comedy can do. But I also think, what is the point of humor between friends, on a public platform, if it doesn't do this one small thing? If it can't, just once, say I see what's happening to you, and it's not okay? Khan Chacha made it funny. He did the hard part. All they had to do was to put the hand of humor on his shoulder.

@D_Brat @virsanghvi As far as I know he has a degree in economics from none less than Oxford !

@virsanghvi You are only known for reviewing food. Did not know you had monetary policy and economics expertise. Or just mixing it up for fun?

This is what happens when you outsource your currency management policy to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar…

While we argue whether there is a mandir or a masjid beneath our archeological sites the world is building this !

@Aunindyo2023 @Pokemonhedge Spell errors in typing should be forgiven 😀

@Aunindyo2023 @Pokemonhedge Startup founders have probably realized that's the best and possibly only way to make profitable ventures in India. At least these guys are trying to solve a broken problem by adding some value. No surprises here why India missed the AI bus. There is little reward for innovation!

Every business journalist (and probably every big investor) knows how big corporates finance mega projects. Banks (usually PSUs) promise to give an 80% loan if the company puts up 20%. So, the company fudges the projected costs: If it was 100, it is shown as 125. The bank gives 80% of 125, which is 100; the company puts in NOTHING. It earns all the profits, but has no skin in the game if the project fails. If things do go south, the company can exit and tell the lenders to recover their money by selling assets. The banks then realise there are no assets to be sold; the company's directors had already siphoned off a large chunk of the loan to build personal assets. So, the next time you hear that some company has promised to invest mega bucks in some project, please understand that the money will come from a PSU bank. Your deposits will be used as a base to generate loans for Big Business.

@rodinhood I think I can write a similar book

INDIA: I never do it again From a shocking article in the ET: (link in comments) Must read! “A former colleague and boss of mine, a British executive who ran our real-estate company through some of its hardest years, watched his close friend go to Arthur Road and decided it was time to leave India himself. “We were doing everything right and by the book,” he told me later, “and we still had FIRs against us and trumped-up tax demands.” He summed up his view of running a business in this country: I-N-D-I-A. I Never Do It Again.” The story has incident after incident of how criminality using the judicial system has entered mainstream corporate India and threatens anyone in a leadership position. This was shocking Take Patrick Casserly, the former COO of Cambata Aviation, who spent three months in Arthur Road jail because his employer had failed to pay around ₹18 crore in service tax. “How can I guarantee the repayment of service tax?” he later told an interviewer. “It’s not my Money. I don’t have that Money.” In my book “Getting Dressed and Parking Cars”, the cornerstone chapter is “Getting Arrested”. In it, I describe how an INTERN downloaded a “trial version” of a file compression program, forgot about it, and which ended in a FIR being filed against me at Tardeo Police Station, Mumbai. I spent 1.5 days in that station. Takeaways: - Being a business leader in India means being a person who can be subject to ANY treatment by the police and courts without logic. - “To do or not to do” is the question one should ask before taking on a leadership role in India Vineet Relia is the author of this article in the ET. #dhandhekibaat : India mein dhandha karna matlad marne ke liye tayaar rahena.

@veira_veira @kaypeem Not surprising ! x.com/mihirsv/status…

@kaypeem Indeed a true reflection of where we stand!

Did you know, as of 31 Dec 2025, India does not have a single senior Asian record, either male or female, in athletics in Olympic events. China dominates the record lists, expectedly.

@kaypeem @veira_veira Not surprising x.com/mihirsv/status…

@veira_veira Yes. But experts/fans in India might not be agreeable. Barring Neeraj Chopra we can't boast of world-class either, at least from a longer-term perspective. Once in a while someone might come 4th or 5th in a WC the cry for "facilities, coaches, scientific backing" etc will begin.

@Alan_Couzens Current 6 hrs. If you include gym/strength etc its ~9. What would it need? 15? 20?

@pushpinder Train more.

The most important chapter in my book - that's why it's chapter 1... If you want to be in top shape in your 70's, you need to keep slowly, consistently, persistently building that year-on-year aerobic volume. #PaceYourself alancouzens.com/my_book.html

@kaypeem Wow ! Never knew that.

The 3 girls have gotten 500/500. Why are they 1/2/3?

@VishankRazdan @jon_selvaraj @olympic_indian It is not a Delhi phenomenon. It gets highlighted in Delhi as Delhi has the largest concentration of G1 officers and Delhi has the best sport facilities in India. Its a phenomenon of how bureacracy works in our country

@pushpinder @jon_selvaraj Me and @olympic_indian were pondering about this after reading Mihir bhai's article.. Delhi has done these blunders many-a-times in the past! Despite several whistle blowers and good job by many reporters, the administrators seem to be unbudged!

A pathetic story about Indian sport. Funds meant for sports are used to fund officer's clubs. Especially since we want to host 2036 Olympics. Indian sport fans must see this. @VishankRazdan @jon_selvaraj

@Alan_Couzens How can this be done?

@Alan_Couzens How would you find Z1 without a lactate test?

A question arising from my last tweet... "What do you mean by #Zone1 ?"👇 Where is it? Zone 1 is the zone just before the first rise in the lactate curve. It encompasses the lowest lactate numbers that the individual athlete can get to. How wide is it? Wide enough to be a practical zone, i.e. 10-15 bpm below that point of the first rise in lactate to just before the first rise in lactate. What is it good for? 1/ A lot of training in Zone 1 will push the entire curve to the right. Zone 1 is the only zone that has this effect on the whole curve. With time (& with a lot of zone 1 contractions, the entire curve will gradually shift to higher power numbers. 2/ It typically coincides with maximal End Diastolic Volume, i.e, for most athletes the heart is maximally 'full' & 'stretched' at this point. Over time this leads to morphological changes that increase the size of the heart and enable higher cardiac output & higher #VO2max 3/ It favors #FatOxidation. By spending time in Zone 1, the #FatMax of the athlete will increase. Also, because a significant share of the energy comes from Fat, tolerance to Zone 1 training is much higher than the zones above. ##### Zone 1 is, IME, the most generally beneficial zone for most athletes & it should make up the bulk of the total training time.