Ravikumar Rajagopal

@sbalaji1 Happens in work meetings especially when it does not happen in Chennai

Why anchors in English News channels cannot speak English for more than 2-3 sentences and switch to Hindi?

@arroworks Subsidiary will never come.

The only country that has a lot of flexi fuel cars on the road is Brazil . They have the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado . They are highly subsidised, that’s their only USP . Will the Indian Govt do the same with this Maruti ? .

@DivaJain2 Real pain points does exist. Malini maybe be inaccurate but you are also not 💯 right to say that there is 0 impact.

@sandygrains Self inflicted by humanity

Everyday hustle to figure how to pay for next month’s food and rent and bills. Life is so beautiful, just the way our ancestors dreamed it would be, and not at all stressful. La la la.

@PadmajaJoshi Hahaha

This repost dedicated to those who were rendered jobless after Bengal election results and have found gainful employment on my timeline today. Much love.

@cvkrishnan Happy to sell ice cream and bully small vendors.

Swarajya covers Reliance’s pathetic journey from big talk on cell mfg capacity to now packaging battery cells. For a supposed National champion, if it was denied foreign tech, one would’ve expected it to pour own $$ into the deep tech startups it initially invested in to achieve tech dominance. But alas!

@sandhyaravishan That picture is of economy? 🤷‍♂️

En da... Nanum than economy la payanikkiren. Enna patthi oru card pottengala?

@sandygrains If he has rejigged then don’t they not need actual RTO permissions? I know the actual modification rules are pretty stringent

Are there flex fuel personal vehicles in India I’m not aware of? Anyone know what vehicle he’s supposedly describing?

@Schandillia What do you expect? Minster is half baked

One retarded move after another.

@Schandillia 🤣🤣🤣

“Indo-Muslim civilization” 🤡

@unraveaero Corruption at this scale is the #1 reason

yes - we used to believe that Indian urban governance problems were caused by poverty alone. now that states are converging on SEA income levels it is clear that the issues go much deeper. radical reimagination of local governance is needed

@Ravisutanjani @PMOIndia before giving gyan just solve this.

🚨 Never Understand Govt's Issues with Bike Taxi Extremely Popular in South East Asian Countries Rapido Has Been Solving a Big Problem Here Helps Both Rider as Well as Commuters Why Ban? State Govt Should Legalize This

@thekaipullai Freebies will ensure we get to sub Saharan lifestyle rather than 1st world

Fantastic article underlining the challenges for India in the AI era considering our dependence on IT services Considering we don't have oil, we don't have tokens, have a billion people and an Annual Recurring freebie bill that exceeds Rs 1 lakh crore, it looks challenging

@thekaipullai @TVMohandasPai The day these chaos work in private they will understand our issues. These free loaders are pure vile. They are like mosquitoes over shit.

Is it only me or does anyone else think the a section of great thinkers at the Indian Revenue Service wanted to impose a surcharge for foreign travel and other foreign related stuff, didn't know how it would be received, so they leaked it to the press to understand public reaction but were nipped in the bud by the PM himself? Mind you this is the same esteemed organization that wrote a paper declaring their intent to impose more taxes and cess to improve India's fiscal position due to Covid. The IRS unfortunately has ossified so much, that they can never think of anything other than increasing tax, cess, comploaice, penalty or fine, to improve India's fiscal position. For them everything is a nail that needs to hit with the sledgehammer of tax.

@jgopikrishnan70 Vera level delusion

Wow 😎

@DealsDhamaka Yes. The freebie schemes will continue to grow

Rs.3 Hike is just a starting point. Could go to Rs.20-25 total hike overtime OMCs are losing 1000 Cr. a day, it won't be possible to absorb the losses for top long

@priyankac19 It’s 100+ in Chennai

Rupee, Diesel and Petrol .. which will cross the century first?

@Dev_Fadnavis @narendramodi Bike with a very poor mileage!

On Hon PM @narendramodi Ji’s appeal, here’s my bit towards austerity measures for our Nation 🇮🇳 I appeal everyone to please bring lifestyle changes in every possible way.

@RoshanKrRaii Why so many people around?

Bro wanted to do PR of saving fuel so Bro chose a Bike. Bro could have easily chosen an EV Bike but instead chose Bullet which is the least fuel efficient 2 wheeler vehicle. Failed even in doing Nautanki 😭

@Schandillia Nice one

ATAHUALPA’S RANSOM In 1532, the largest empire in the western hemisphere stretched from modern-day Colombia to almost the end of Chile straddling the entire length of the Andes. It was the Inca Empire. Half a million square miles larger than the Mughals would be at their absolute peak. That year, smallpox took out its king and triggered a civil war between two half-brothers. The one that came out on top was Atahualpa. One day as he was resting at the royal estate in Cajamarca, deep in the Andes, word arrived of a strange group of aliens making their way into his territory. These strange aliens were, you guessed it, the infamous Spanish Conquistadores. Leading them was a man named Francisco Pizarro. Atahualpa, taking this tiny band as insignificant next to his empire of millions, agreed to meet Pizarro in the enclosed plaza of Cajamarca. Confident in his power, Atahualpa arrived with thousands of retainers and nobles, but left his main army outside the city. The attendants were mostly unarmed, carrying the emperor on a majestic litter decorated with parrot feathers and gold. Lots of gold. Pizarro had laid a trap. A Spanish friar approached Atahualpa, handed him a Bible, and demanded he submit to the Christian God and the Spanish king. Having never seen a book before, Atahualpa examined it, listened to it for a voice, and then threw it to the ground. Using this as a pretext, Pizarro gave the signal. The Spanish unleashed their cannons and cavalry into the tightly packed, unarmed crowd. The shock and slaughter were absolute. Thousands of Incas were massacred, and Pizarro personally captured Atahualpa, pulling him from his litter. Imprisoned in a room in Cajamarca, Atahualpa quickly realized what motivated his captors. They were not interested in land or harvest. They wanted gold. Sure, silver too, but mainly gold. Submit to Jesus...and hand us your gold. Quite the gospel, but I digress. Seeking to buy his freedom, Atahualpa made Pizarro an astonishing offer. He pointed to the room where he was being held and offered to fill it with gold up to a white line drawn on the wall, about eight feet high. He then offered to fill the same room twice over with silver. The room in question was 22 feet long and 17 feet wide. Picture it filled with gold coins to a height of 8 feet. In case you didn’t know, this is an incredibly dense metal. A single solid cubic foot of gold is well over 500 kilos. Even accounting for empty spaces between coins, this room would have held no less than a thousand metric tonnes of this metal. Am sure the numbers are more of poetic license than accurate retelling, because the room’s structural foundation would collapse long before you even got close to filling it. We’re talking 3 fully-loaded Boeing 747s here. Anyway, back to the offer. Pizarro quickly drew up a contract. Atahualpa was given two months to deliver. What followed was the systematic plundering of an entire civilization’s cultural heritage. Atahualpa sent couriers across the Andes. To meet the ransom, Inca subjects stripped their temples, palaces, and shrines of their sacred objects. Llamas arrived in Cajamarca carrying thousands of pounds of precious metals. The hoard included intricately hammered plates torn from the walls of the Sun Temple in Cuzco, solid gold fountains and life-sized golden statues of llamas and birds, elaborate jewelry, ceremonial masks, and goblets...you get the idea. To the Inca, these were not mere metals. To them... Gold was “the sweat of the sun.” And silver was “the tears of the moon.” Challenge you to find a more poetic allegory for precious metals in all of humanity. To the Spanish, it was merely currency. To maximize space and make shipping easier, Pizarro ordered indigenous goldsmiths to melt down these irreplaceable, centuries-old works of art into standard, unmarked gold and silver ingots. It was brutal. By the summer of 1533, the rooms were essentially full. In total, records show, the Spanish collected roughly “13,000 pounds of 22-karat gold and 26,000 pounds of silver.” Again, this is likely to be gross exaggeration so take the numbers with all the salt you have. Just read it as an ungodly amount of gold and an ungodly amount of silver. Despite fulfilling his end of the bargain, delivering the largest ransom in human history, Atahualpa was never freed. Pizarro knew that once released, the Inca ruler would immediately rally his armies and attack the tiny Spanish force. Rumors were already circulating that an Inca general was marching on Cajamarca. So Pizarro staged a mock trial, charging Atahualpa with inciting a rebellion, “practicing idolatry,” and murdering his half-brother Huáscar. The emperor was found guilty and sentenced to be burned at the stake. To the Inca, this was the ultimate horror. Their religious beliefs dictated that the body must be preserved and mummified to ensure a comfortable afterlife. Destruction by fire meant eternal damnation. In his final moments, Atahualpa agreed to be baptized as a Christian purely to avoid the flames. He was given the Christian name Francisco, and on July 26, 1533, he was executed by strangulation. Atahualpa’s execution decapitated the Inca Empire and paved the way for a total Spanish conquest of the empire. The gold from Atahualpa’s ransom, along with the limitless wealth extracted from South American mines later, all sailed back to Spain. The tragic irony is that this stolen wealth ultimately damaged the conquerors as well. So much gold and silver got injected into the European market so quickly, that it triggered the “Price Revolution,” causing massive inflation that crippled the Spanish economy in the long run. In fact, in 1557, just decades after conquering the Inca, the Spanish Crown defaulted on its debts and declared the first of several state bankruptcies. This was the first sign that “free money” was actually creating a debt trap. You can call this Atahualpa’s Curse.