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Those irreplaceable moments in life. When a tradition is handed over. Yezdi Forever… ( @yezdiforever is a @MahindraRise brand) (And yes, they will wear helmets when on the road..!)

If convoy sizes can be cut down overnight, then why were we waiting for an energy crisis to do it?

Pune’s disastrous traffic situation is a classic case of the broken window effect. The system has collapsed because small violations became normalised. Every single day, thousands break basic traffic rules with absolutely no fear of consequences. And why would they? Traffic police are barely visible & enforcement is practically nonexistent. Admin washes their hands off by saying Punekars have no regard for the traffic laws. It’s easy blame the people for all civic failures! x.com/shambhavipatha…

A good start would be limiting the cars in ministerial cavalcade. It's a symbol of VIP Culture and Corruption.

@RujutaDiwekar @CWHimalaya Stunningly beautiful

i went to the most beautiful village in the Indian Himalaya, courtesy @CWHimalaya, lived in beautiful homes and learnt that beauty lies in all that is non transient. #himalay #trekking #holiday

I have two Medha Patkar stories. At the height of Narmada dam agitation, the Greens had a meeting at a place at Grand Road (don't remember the address). The setting was simple for the cameras, yet the Greens were serving her expensive bottled water and gourmet food. A sharp contrast to the cause she claimed to represent. I once went to her house (guess Chembur) and her assistant guided me from front entrance - a stage - old furniture, a single fan, the image of a humble servant of the people. But the back entrance? Fancy, exclusive, and reserved only for a select few. ​The back door always tells the real story.😂

I think India will get solved with just 2 things: 1. Cleanliness: Clean the streets. Punish the litterers. 2. Respect: Treat the citizen with respect. FIRs are lodged. Complaints are addressed. Every government official has a body cam. Just two things. Can be done in two years.

The first state in India to really empower city leaders will win the race to prosperity. Two things must happen simultaneous with transfer of power: - First, more money; - Second, improved governance skills. Can't have one and not the other.

Some pics from @LondonMarathon @sportograf capturing the moments. What a day April 26 2026. Memories for life! ❤️🏃🏻 #LondonMarathon #running #ukrunchat #London @UKRunChat @RunThroughUK

For every smart person that leaves India, 10 equally smart people stay back. Until we find a way to empower those 10, the homecoming of that 1 is going to change pretty much nothing. - someone who returned

Apparently, this is one of the earliest known photographs of the sacred Kedarnath Dham, taken in 1882. Couldn’t take my eyes off it. No roads. No railheads. No helicopters. Just the abode of Lord Shiva, cradled by the Himalayas Back then, the yatra demanded time, endurance, & faith. The journey wasn’t incidental; it WAS the pilgrimage. Today, access is easier. And that’s a good thing because it opens the experience to many more. But perhaps something still needs preserving? The ability to slow down & savour the experience of traveling. Because journeys are about who we become along the way. #SundayWanderer (Photo courtesy @LostTemple7 )

To save 1 litre of imported crude, India is spending 2,860 litres of groundwater. That's the single statistic missing from the entire E85 debate. E20 is done. The government's draft notification for E85 (85% ethanol, 15% petrol) is ready. Most reactions are either "great, energy independence" or "my mileage dropped." Both are shallow. Here is the actual trade India is making. The economic logic is real: India imports 85%+ of its crude. The FY25 import bill was ~$137 billion. Ethanol blending has already saved ₹1.08 lakh crore in forex and put ~₹92,000 crore in farmers' hands since inception. Every 1% of blending = ~$1 billion in annual savings. But ethanol is not a free lunch: 🔹 Ethanol has 33% less energy per litre than petrol. 🔹 US DoE data: FFVs on E85 get 15 to 27% fewer miles per gallon than on petrol. 🔹 The offset is octane. E85 rates ~105 vs petrol's 91. In purpose-built engines (turbo, high-compression, direct injection), higher octane recovers most of the energy loss. The catch. India's fleet is 90% E10-ready at best. You cannot pour E85 into a Swift. Flex-fuel vehicles need stainless fuel lines, upgraded pumps, 30% larger injectors, ethanol content sensors, and recalibrated engine maps. The hidden cost nobody is pricing: 🔸 E20 at today's consumption needs ~1,016 crore litres of ethanol annually. 🔸 At 2,860 litres of water per litre of ethanol, that is ~2.9 trillion litres of water per year. The annual water footprint of 200+ million Indians. 🔸 E85 scales this 4x+. 🔸 60% of India's ethanol now comes from maize and broken rice. India, a net corn exporter, imported 1 million tonnes of corn in 2024 because of ethanol diversion. 🔸 Retail sugar moved from ₹40 to ₹45/kg in two years partly due to cane diversion. The reframe most people miss: The ethanol programme is not an energy policy. It is an agricultural subsidy dressed as an energy policy. The forex savings are real. The farmer income transfer is real. Both are the actual goals. The mileage drop is a tolerated cost. The water and food inflation risk is the hidden tax. E85 will happen anyway. The listed winners sit in three buckets: 🔸 Sugar and distillery players with integrated ethanol capacity 🔸 Auto ancillaries making ethanol-compatible injectors, pumps, fuel lines, sensors 🔸 OEMs going flex-fuel first (Toyota, Maruti and Hyundai are already prototyping) Energy independence is not free. India is trading barrels of oil for billions of litres of water and millions of tonnes of grain. Whether it's worth it depends on which constraint matters more in 2040 — your oil bill, or your aquifer.

Beautiful video!👌🏽 Asha Bhosle sings for 35 actresses! Who according to you, suited the most? I would say Madhubala, Helen, Zeenat Aman, Asha Parekh, Nutan, if no. of songs are also considered. But it was in the 80s she peaked with Rekha in Umrao Jaan, Khoobsurat, Ijazat, etc

Dear @collector_pune the road between Paud and Kolwan - superbly renovated for the Pune grand - today has at least 22 new speed breakers and 8 rumblers. None of them have any warning signs. Who gave permission for this? @Dev_Fadnavis @SunetraA_Pawar

#Pune Massive Tunnels/Flyovers Projects planned for Pune

Pune isn’t “facing traffic”—it’s losing traffic sense. And that’s far more dangerous. We’ve gone from a city known for discipline to one where: • Signals are “suggestions” • Wrong-side driving is normalised • Footpaths are parking lots • Honking replaces patience This isn’t infrastructure failure alone. It’s a collapse of civic behaviour. Every rider jumping a signal saves 30 seconds… …and costs the city hours in chaos. Every car on the wrong side says: “My time matters more than yours.” And slowly, that becomes the culture. No amount of flyovers will fix this. No smart city tech will solve this. Because this is not a road problem. It’s a mindset problem. Pune doesn’t need just better roads. It needs better discipline. 👉 Enforce rules strictly 👉 Penalise consistently 👉 Educate relentlessly But most importantly— 👉 नागरिकों को खुद बदलना होगा 👉 नागरिकांनी स्वतः बदलायला हवे A great city isn’t built by projects alone. It’s built by the behaviour of its people. Right now, Pune is at a tipping point. We either restore order… Or accept chaos as our identity. #PuneTraffic #CivicSense #UrbanIndia

Tragically I am continuing to find that the most effective guardrail against slop is extremely talented engineers doing very thoughtful, human code review

@aparanjape एक काम करायचे का? वाढीव ४ लेन पैकी २ वर रेल्वे लाईन टाका. स्वस्तात काम होईल. दर तासाला एक गाडी सोडा. खूप लोकांची सोय होईल. एरवी तुम्ही १० लेन करा, नाही तर २०. पुरणार नाहीतच. पहा विचार करून @nitin_gadkari जी @AshwiniVaishnaw

Every Indian passenger car — Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, every one — has its electronic brain designed by a foreign company. We checked the scorecards. Across passenger cars and commercial vehicles, the number of major ECUs designed in India is zero. @mchellap

LPG shortage reminds me of an incident from Childhood. In late 80's we lived in Panchkula and there was a shortage of LPG. All of us were complaining "Cylinder nahi mil raha". My dad arranged a backup Cylinder from someone he knew. Now, a few days later our booked cylinder showed up but we didn't have an empty cylinder to exchange. So, we asked our neighbours if they could give their empty Cylinder. Turns out, nobody in our neighborhood had an empty Cylinder as everybody arranged from outside, while saying "Cylinder nahi mil raha". We had to refuse our legit delivery because there was actually a shortage of empty Cylinders in our neighbourhood