Ramkishor Korada

I don't think people outside TN understand the scale of what Vijay has managed to achieve today. Most people in Tamilnadu themselves are shocked with the kind of numbers Vijay has pulled out of his sheer cinematic popularity . They said Vijay was no MGR and he proved them right. Even the mighty MGR with decades of prior political experience took 5 years after starting ADMK to become CM. Vijay did it in 2 years. They said you needed booth level agents, an organizational cadre strength, and last mile campaigning across 234 constituencies. Vijay gave 15 minute speeches that were emotional, rhetorical and repetitive. He barely covered 50% of constituencies. They said he won't even find 233 candidates. He did. Except for KAS, almost all of them were debut candidates. They said no party has won without making coalitions with caste or religion based or communist parties. Not even smaller parties allied with him. But Vijay went all alone. They said he was a WFH politician whose fandom was merely a social media illusion. His fans made a celebration out of the voting day, moving mountains and crossing oceans to cast their vote. They said he can never breach the Chennai fortress of DMK. He pitted a nobody against sitting CM MKS and made him won. Entire Chennai has been breached They said he won't even cross double digits in seats. He now has won three digit seats. They trolled him as Anil, a comment he made about being a squirrel that helped ADMK win long back. But now he has become a giant slaying dragon that breathes fire. Many things that were considered impossible were made possible today, just because of VIJAY and his popularity. Rules are being rewritten. Expert psephologists are being humbled. Sitting ministers are being taken down by unknown debutantes. A lot remains to be seen in terms of Vijay's policymaking and governance and if he can remain truly secular. The criticisms can wait. But for today, we can all wish him well for SINGLEHANDEDLY putting a full stop to the Dravidian megafactory that had all the money and the muscle. For today. we can all breathe in this fresh air of change, where our sacred Tamilnadu shall be ruled by a non-Dravidian party after 50 long years. V for Valiant. V for Victory. V for Vaagai. V for Vijay.

I started investing in the US market in January 2021. Depositing the money wasnt straight forward. Used to take about 48 hours for the INR money to reach your trading account in USD. The AI boom wasnt there yet but it was the period of Hyperscalers, Cloud Solution providers, Chip Manufacturers. I was working as a Cloud Solution Architect and had a fair idea about what enterprises were doing interms of their Data Centre migration to Cloud. Started investing in fractional shares of Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia, AMD, Apple and a couple more. 5 years from there, I am sitting on an XIRR of 35%. Did I know the profits were going to be this huge, of course not. Did I know the market cap of Mag 7 would expand this big, definitely not. What did I know: That US is not a market to ignore. US is worlds Technology capital. There was funding available for innovation. Is it right time to start US investing : I believe so. ETFs are a good place to start.

CEA to CEOs: Reach into your pockets, invest more in India. “Companies, 2nd 3rd gen entrepreneurs choose to accumulate cash profits and probably setup family offices elsewhere, rather than investing in real assets ”. This has been the primary complaint of some of us and have only been shouted down by blind cheerleaders of these big biz houses.

🚨Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged. A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it. 3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking. Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better. Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement. But that's not the bad part. ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes. When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed. Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later. A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material. You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality. The interest rate is permanent.

I have a theory about why some Indians have such extreme apathy about things that don’t directly affect them whereas they have significantly more empathy towards friends and family. First of all, it is important to recognize that there is no malice in this behavior. It is just that, by and large, people don’t fundamentally care about anything beyond their immediate convenience. I think it boils down to two reasons: 1. The concept of India is pretty new. There is no shared sense of identity and pride, at least not in the way you see in other countries. Americans take pride in being American and proudly put up the American flag in their homes and places of work. Europeans don’t put up flags everywhere, but they take immense pride in being German, French, British etc. They don’t show it but it is there. Also European countries are extremely homogeneous and almost every country has a dominant language. That already makes a huge difference. Indians don’t take pride in being Indian. In fact, a lot of upper class Indians are busy trying to shed their Indian identity. And significant portions of the populace are still exclusively tied to their caste, region and linguistic group. It has been 80 years since independence and we still don’t have a coherent national identity that trumps regional loyalties. 2. Indian culture prioritizes loyalty to family over everything else. It is perfectly okay to pull some strings and get your brother a government job. A corrupt politician in his head is probably a selfless parent: he is building generational wealth so that his sons and daughters may have opportunities that he never had. This attitude shows in everything. Our homes are clean but streets full of filth. Every day, ordinary people will happily cut corners, pay a bribe for the slightest bit of convenience. But you see the same people making extreme sacrifices for their families. Indians are capable of all the things that are needed to build a functioning society: sacrifice, understanding 2nd order consequences, delayed gratification. When I was younger I saw nationalism as an irrational sentiment because our nationality is determined by pure luck. I now think it is a useful sentiment to nurture. Whether it is rational or not, is besides the point. It must be seen, at least by the intelligentsia, as a means to an end. Especially the left liberal types who are typically wary of such sentiments.

Over the past 34 years the average Chinese man became, on average, 3 inches taller than his grandfather. But entire population can't rewrite its DNA in 35 years. So what made them grow so fast? The answer might surprise you.

Saw Sridhar Vembu's open letter to Indians in US. The letter sounded really genuine. I just want to share a small quote from Charlie Munger: "Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome. ​The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor." In general, people react only to incentives. If you search web, you'll know how China was able to get back talent from America. Sridhar has the ears of government. He need to discuss about incentives to attract NRIs come back to India. An open letter is unlikely to bring even one person back. We are human beings. We are not completely rational or logical people. All of us respond to incentives.

The irony of trolling Vembu is that people are critiquing a man who actually 'de-colonized' his own career. I personally went to the similar insti (not M), but while most used that pedigree to secure a high end lease on an western life, Vembu used it to build a sovereign estate in an Indian village. Trolling him for asking talent to return is like a passenger on a luxury cruise mocking the man building the shipyard back home. We do not have to agree with his timing, but you cannot ignore his math: A civilization that remains a talent-exporter will always be a policy-importer. People are reacting to his political framing, but they miss the Geopolitical Deduction. If you are an Indian in the US, you are a high-performing minority whose presence is tolerated as long as you are useful. Vembu is pointing out that Respect is a byproduct of Power, not Pity. For those of us from the same elite institutions, the letter is uncomfortable because it acts as a mirror. It asks: "Did you use your education to solve the world's hardest problems, or just to get a better mortgage in New Jersey?" :((

Trees per person in India vs Rest of the world… If it isn’t alarming right now, it will be in a few years from now…

@ShivrattanDhil1 @SriLankaTweet @SriLanka Indian tourism is overpriced period. under delivers - on cleanliness, class, quality, hospitality. Countries like SL, Thailand offer much better quality at much lower price points. Reflects acute market distortion

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

@bznotes Thanks for highlighting the greatness of American system.

I grew up in Pakistan barely able to afford a bicycle. Today I drive a Tesla with FSD through Silicon Valley and invest in companies building the future. That gap, from there to here isn't about me being smarter than anyone. There are 200 million people like me back in Pakistan. The difference is that America has this amazing system. We go find the smartest people around the world and bring them here. Give them an environment where they can thrive. Let them build things that wouldn't exist otherwise. I hope we continue to do that till eternity. It's the greatest asset we gather and build. And immigrant founders are building America's future. Episode 3 of Deployed with myself and @BradPorter_ is live. Link in comments.

College tuition has exploded 1,200% since 1980 while wages rose just 213%. In 1963, a student could work a minimum-wage summer job and pay for a full year at the average public university. Today, that same job covers roughly one month of tuition. The culprit isn't corporate greed or underfunding. It's government intervention distorting every price signal in higher education. Federal student loans created artificial demand that universities exploited ruthlessly. When government guarantees endless credit to teenagers with zero income or assets, colleges face no market constraint on pricing. Why charge $3,000 per year when students can borrow $30,000? The money flows regardless of educational quality or job prospects. Universities responded predictably: they jacked up prices and hired armies of administrators to capture this guaranteed revenue stream. Easy credit always inflates asset prices, whether houses in 2005 or degrees today. Free market economists warned this would happen, just as they predicted the housing bubble. When you subsidize demand without increasing supply, prices skyrocket. Colleges simply absorbed every dollar of increased lending capacity into higher tuition, fancy dorms, and bloated bureaucracies. The 1950s model worked because students paid real prices with real money; either their own or their parents'. This created immediate feedback between cost and value. If Harvard charged too much, students went elsewhere. Today, that price mechanism is completely severed. Students don't feel the true cost until years later when loan payments hit, and by then universities already pocketed the cash. Every additional dollar of federal aid generates roughly 60 cents of tuition increases. The government created this monster, feeds it annually through increased lending limits, then acts shocked when colleges behave exactly like the rent-seeking cartels they've become.

@CCUaviator I remember those carpets and the difficulty in dragging the bags. I have not experienced these kind of carpets anywhere else.

I was going through some old photos and I found something. A picture of one of the concourses of DEL T3 from 2012. Just look at how it has changed vs now. The 2012 picture was taken by my father, and the 2026 one is mine, you could easily point out the difference.

@IndiGo6E I just boarded flight # 6425 to Vizag from Delhi. I fly by Indigo regularly. The boarding process can be streamlined and improved. There is no discipline and everyone is pushing each other while boarding.

@prasannavishy 100% correct!!

India's cities are crumbling because state governments (across every party) starve urban local bodies of funds while splurging on welfare schemes that win elections. State governments have historically treated municipal corporations as subordinate offices by controlling their finances, delaying devolution, and redirecting urban tax revenues to fund welfarist schemes at the state level. Cities generate the bulk of India's GDP, but receive a fraction of what they need to function. Some good news. Municipal bonds may be the structural fix that breaks this dependency. BMC and AMC are in talks to raise ₹1,000 crore each via the bond market. Patna, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Bengaluru etc lining up for ₹200 crore issuances. The total municipal bond market currently stands at just ₹4,340 crore outstanding. Very nascent but moving. The Union government is actively incentivising this shift. Under the AMRUT scheme, smaller municipalities get ₹13 crore for every ₹100 crore raised. For larger corporations like Mumbai and Delhi, a new scheme offers ₹100 crore incentive on ₹1,000 crore issuances. This alone can effectively lower borrowing costs by 1-1.5 percentage points.

India electricity generation from renewable sources are rising to now 26.4% of total, so that's an offsetting factor for the crisis.

This is a sad reality which we need to accept. Although, India is the only other Top 10 nation (alongside China & South Korea) to record +ve growth in this elite bracket. To trigger a massive, sustainable Reverse Brain Drain, India has to move beyond the emotional pitch & solve for the economic & structural friction. Patriotic fervor gets a scientist to look at a job posting in India; a globally competitive salary & a frictionless lab environment get them to sign the contract.

Back to books - Sweden's schools give up digital learning bbc.in/41CvrFS