पीयूष कु. श्रीवास्तव

“बाबू” यह शब्द बच्चों के लिए बुलाया जाए तो बड़ा प्यारा लगता है, लेकिन जब से कुर्सी को परिभाषित करता है तो ये आपको दूसरे शब्दों में चीख चीख कर बोलता है, “incompetency, arrogance, stupidity”

Stop throwing a fit. Delhi Gymkhana is a private club. No one’s taking away your membership of it. Just that, leave aside valid security concerns, taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidise to the tune of thousands of crores, your stale cutlets and evening swims. My views:

🚨 This Anti-Temple Bill MUST BE WITHDRAWN Immediately! The Maharashtra Devasthan Inam Nirmulan Draft Act 2026 is an open attack on Hindu Temples. Lands that were granted by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Peshwas and our kings for the service of Deities, for puja, annadana, festivals and temple upkeep, are being snatched away and distributed to tenants, occupants and encroachers. Temple property belongs to the Deity, not the government. It is inalienable. This bill will make thousands of temples landless and bankrupt while conveniently exempting Waqf properties. This is not reform, this is selective discrimination against Hindu Institutions. We strongly demand: WITHDRAW THIS BILL NOW! Do not tamper with Hindu temples and their lands. Jai Bhavani! Jai Shivaji! Protect Sanatan Dharma. Protect Temple Lands. #Bill_Against_Temple_Land

These are the people who never donate a penny in a temple or never get any anushthan done from pandit, calling it dhakosla But they are the first to ask welfare from temple money Why? Hindus donate money to temple for deity and temple management, not for your mulla welfare scheme

@msethy5 @SachdevaAmita @pvsubramanyam And it’s not looted by Government? Does the government manage church or masjid or gurudwara? I believe it’s other way around.

@SachdevaAmita @pvsubramanyam Amita Madam, temples money & treasure have been looted by priests & managing people from the last many thousand years Hence Hindu Temples cannot be given to any TRUST or group of Hindus Like Minority Ministry There should be a Ministry for Temple & Temples can play BANK rile

दिल्ली जिमखाना क्लब १. एलीट हर समाज में होते हैं, उन्हें एक्सक्लूसिव जगहें वैसे ही चाहिए जैसे मिडिल क्लास से तुरंत बाहर आए लोगों को ‘अपनी स्टेटस की जगह’ चाहिए। इसमें कोई समस्या नहीं है, पर हम जब वह स्टेटस चाहते हैं तो हम पैसे देते हैं। कोई पीएम आवास के बगल में, 22 एकड़ की जगह का किराया ₹1000 प्रति वर्ष कैसे दे सकता है? २. खुशवंत सिंह का टेनिस खेलना ऐसी बकचोदी भरा तर्क है कि क्या कहें। वो क्या डेविस कप खिलाड़ी थे? या बुढ़ापे में टेनिस की शॉर्ट्स पहन कर टाइम पास करने आते थे? ३. कल्चरल हैरिटेज है ये। सच में? कौन से संस्कृति को योगदान दिए जाने वाले कार्य यहाँ पर हुए हैं? ४. जो बवाल काटे हुए हैं उनमें से भी अधिकांश का कोई उचित तर्क नहीं है कि क्यों यह सही हो रहा। उनका यही है कि हम भिखमंगे हैं, तो अमीर अपनी टोली बना कर साले क्यों रहते हैं। भाई, तुम भी कमाओ, तुम भी सर्विसेज में जाओ, टॉप के लॉयर-बिजनेसमैन बनो, सदस्यता पा जाओ यदि 37 वर्ष की प्रतीक्षा कर सकते हो तो। बात यह है कि हम सब ऐसी एक्सक्लूसिविटी चाहते हैं, अवैध हो तब भी चाहते हैं। हम चाहते हैं कि हमें मंदिर में किसी जान-पहचान के माध्यम से लाइन में न लगना पड़े। इस पर यदि आप इसलिए प्रसन्न हैं कि सरकार के बगल में ये लोग इतने कम रेंट पर एक ‘व्यवसाय’ चला रहे थे, तब तो उचित है, परंतु यदि आपकी समस्या अमीरों का एक्सक्लूसिव क्लब है, तो उत्तर है: तुम भी कमाओ भाई!

That’s the customer service expected for every consumer product. But we have Ola and Samsung here and many others, including airlines.

Membership criteria for this old babus club. Professional Quotas: The club traditionally uses a quota system, reserving slots primarily for Civil Servants (IAS/IFS), Defense Officers, and a smaller percentage for general civilians and corporate figures. Sponsorship: You typically need to be proposed and seconded by current, long-standing permanent members of the club. The "At Home" Interview: Applicants and their sponsors are generally required to attend an "At Home" session, where club officials and existing members informally assess if you fit the club's social and cultural standing. All this because these guys passed one exam and gained permanent supremacy as our overlords.

@shantanugoel Samsung service is very poor. You lodge a complaint to CC and they’ll share your details with unauthorised vendors Those unauth vendors will come & do shoddy service and will provide fake invoice. When issue will persist and you’ll call CC, and they’ll share will deny any service

I came back from my vacation to see the fridge conked off and went out to buy a new one. Croma: No one interested to show anything. Sales guy busy on phone. 30+ sales people and maybe 10 customers in store but nobody getting any assistance. Vijay sales: Sales shows various options but price quite high even compared to official online stores Samsung offline store: Good sales, price quite close to online. But not all models available and cc discounts only on emi Samsung online: All models, great prices, huge cc discounts. Bought there. Let's see the delivery experience in a few days

@scribe_prashant If you love driving, you won’t prefer SUV over sedan. Driving a nice sedan beats any SUV any given day.

Virtus is unarguably the best sedan in 20L range in market right now! Bas thoda petrol kam piye toh it will be the best seller in the segment! A Damn good car. Beats all those inflated-sub 4m SUVs hands down!

बाबू लोग और उनके चोंचले अंग्रेज बनने की कवायद और फिर भूरा अंग्रेज बनने के बाद भूरा अंग्रेज बने रहने के लिए देश के ये राजा लोग कुछ भी कह सकते हैं। मेजर ध्यानचंद किस स्टेडियम में हॉकी खेले थे ये नहीं पता होगा, लेकिन खुशवंत सिंह जी कहाँ टेनिस खेलते थे ये ऐतिहासिक मामला है इनके लिए

"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it. Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak. Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people." 1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support. 2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade. 3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility. 4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing. India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.

are you sure @SecRubio you have not fallen for propaganda? i volunteered only for 1 day at her home in Kolkata, because it didn't feel right for an untrained foreigner to be around the dying. But a German nurse friend stayed for 6 months and told me several stories, which are NOT living examples of the Catholic faith. like forcefully taking away a sick woman, surrounded by her protesting family living on the pavement, and loading her into the van. In the home, her head was shaven. Next morning she was dead.

Many see SBI as just a bank. But look at what SBI owns: SBI Life - Life insurance - 55.4% stake - ₹1 lakh crore value SBI Cards - Credit cards & payments - 68.6% stake - ₹58,000 crore value SBI Mutual Fund - 61.9% stake - ₹75,000-80,000 crore estimated SBI General Insurance - 69.1% stake - ₹35,000-40,000 crore estimated SBICAP - Investment banking - 100% stake - ₹12,000-15,000 crore estimated SBI DFHI - Bond trading/money markets - 72.2% stake - ₹3,000-5,000 crore estimated SBI Pension Funds -NPS pension - 60% stake - ₹5,000-7,000 crore estimated SBI Payment Services Merchant payments / POS business Majority stake Total hidden value - roughly ₹3-4 lakh crore. SBI market cap - ₹8.7+ lakh crore. SBI is much bigger than what most people think.

हमे अपना इतिहास ढंग से जानने की जरूरत है। 10/n

लेकिन आज ही क्या, उस समय भी कांग्रेस के कई बड़े नेता जो महलों में राजनीतिक बंदी हुआ करते थे, उन्हें ही इसका कोई फ़र्क़ नहीं पड़ा। उनके हिसाब से तो अंग्रेज़ सरकार राजनीतिक बंदियों के साथ अच्छा व्यवहार करती थी। महल में रखती थी, महीने की तनख्वाह देती थी, नौकर चाकर देती थी। 9/n

शरीर से मांस का एक-एक कतरा गल चुका था। पसलियां बाहर आ गई थीं। हिलने-डुलने तक की ताकत नहीं बची थी। जब अंग्रेजों ने देखा कि यह 25 साल का लड़का टूट नहीं रहा, तो उन्होंने जबरदस्ती नाक में नली ठूंसकर दूध पिलाने की कोशिश की। वह नली खाने की नली की जगह फेफड़ों में चली गई। 1/n