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Pessimistic mindset can also be added as a reason that kills such companies :) Neither we work to create the next Anthropic nor can we even think anyone from millions of Indians can do it either. Such pessimism and constant criticism without any solutions or work done to improve, then gets manifested as reality (be it fixing our public roads or R&D) - not in some esoteric ways, but in a material consequential way. Because it puts not just the person but everyone around in a "cannot do it" attitude. So first we need to believe "we can." Are there issues? Sure. The issues can be pointed out, spoken about, solutions offered, and if possible put our own effort to solve them to enable the next Claude or ChatGPT from India. Good news is, I know at least two companies from India that are on the verge of creating a top level model for coding and agentic tasks within a year.

Dear FM Madam @nsitharaman ji, I have said it before. And I'll say it again. Loud & Clear. I hope you read this. My audience will repost this until it reaches the Ministry. LTCG of 12.5% on Equities is one of the Lowest in the World. But there are a few issues: 1. LTCG was ZERO from 2004 to 2018. STT was introduced to offset the Loss in Revenue. It incentivised long term Investors to Hold on Patiently and enjoy Long Term Returns. I believe that Step was something Golden and rewards Long Term Thinking. FM Madam should reconsider this. Keep STT. Abolish LTCG. Consider Long Term Investors as a Partner in Growth of India. 2. STT is already taken for every transaction. This is a tax. Again putting Capital Gain, especially on Long Term Gains is not Ok. This is my Opinion. STT is borne by the investor irrespective of Profit or Loss. 3. We are not against Paying Taxes. In fact, we all Pay Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, GST, Excise, VAT, Tax on Dividends and what not. The problem is the Freebies which are Distributed during the Elections. This is not at all ok. We don't want a single rupee of our Capital Gains to be used for Freebies. Please. I humbly request the FM Madam to Abolish LTCG on Equities. Make the Long Term Period 24 months instead of 12 months. You will see Patient Capital 👍 We need Patient Capital to Drive Markets. Incentivise Long Term Investing Mindset. For Indian Investors like me, the Pain is lesser. We will continue to Create Wealth. But what about our FII brothers & sisters. They also deserve to get minimum returns in Dollar Terms. I feel for the FIIs who have suffered due to declining Rupee and they still have to pay LTCG on Rupee Terms. Something the FM Madam and team should revisit. I think that it is a good time to implement this. FII no longer control our markets. Domestic Funds are consistent and plenty. If FIIs leave, let them Leave with Head Held High. That is our Responsibility. India Structually is Brilliant. Let's make it Tax Friendly as well. Patient Capital will Flow More & Stay, if these Steps are Taken. A Proud Indian Investor, #FI

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I am not a business guy but can some business owners take this idea up of buying 2-5 acres land just outside big cities and build good premium nature parks where you can go for a walk/run/ play with kids and offer annual membership? I would be more than willing to take it rather than buying membership of any club. We seriously need some well planned, well managed places of nature close to our cities rather than just choking our mountains. There are practically no places to go to on weekends with kids for most people living in cities except going to some poorly managed public parks or the same old malls and game zones.

Appealing for Work From Home (WFH) won’t change anything. If the govt genuinely wants it, it can strongly push or effectively enforce WFH in sectors where physical presence isn’t essential. It’s common in the West but not in India because Indian companies still operate on a “presence equals productivity” mindset, where managers feel employees work seriously only when they are physically visible. If an employee isn’t exhausted by traffic, long hours, and physical attendance, they assume no real work is being done. There’s also a deeply ingrained feudal mindset where control, surveillance, and making juniors “feel the grind” is treated as management instead of actual productivity. Otherwise, WFH can solve many problems for both individuals and the country. It reduces traffic, pollution, fuel consumption, stress, travel time, road accidents, and daily expenses for individuals while improving work-life balance. For India, it cuts crude oil consumption and import bills, reduces pressure on dollars, inflation, and urban infrastructure, while easing overcrowding in metro cities and saving huge amounts of productive time otherwise wasted in commuting.

They raped her daughter. They killed her daughter. They covered up the rape & murder of her daughter. Now, they are bombing her residence, a mother who fought against TMC and won. This is the true face of the fascist. The despicable duo @MamataOfficial @abhishekaitc

Look who’s discovered "environment" just in time to help foreign interests! @RahulGandhi's "live sabotage tour" in Great Nicobar isn't about trees - it’s about ensuring Bharat stays weak while China smiles.  Here is the reality of the #DynastyDrama: • Beijing’s Unpaid Publicist? While the Indian Navy tries to track Chinese submarines, Rahul is busy trying to blind our "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier." Every tweet he posts is a direct gift to China’s Indo-Pacific stranglehold.  • Jobs? No Thanks! He’s happy to obliterate 50,000+ Indian jobs and a 92,000-crore project just to keep tribal communities trapped in the poverty HIS FAMILY curated for decades.  • The Singapore-Malaysia Love Affair: Rahul seems obsessed with letting foreign ports keep their $400 million annual loot from Indian cargo. Why build a world-class hub at Galathea Bay when you can just sabotage it for your "foreign scripts"?   • Legacy of Rot: The UPA left Andaman & Nicobar rotting with flat tourism and 75 MW of power. Now that the NDA has boosted tourism by 41% and mandated 2x compensatory afforestation, the "Prince of Darkness" is having a meltdown.  This isn’t "development’s language," Rahul - it’s "National Interest Subversion" dressed in a white t-shirt! Bharat will not be held hostage by your family’s anti-development agenda! 🇮🇳  PS: Check out this image to educate yourself on why Great Nicobar Project is non-negotiable for India's strategic future. #GreatNicobarProject #ForeignScriptedPolitics #BharatFirst #SabotageExposed

I read this article and one question immediately came to mind, did the writer actually read their own article before publishing it? 10,000 litres of water per litre of ethanol. Very scary number. But the article itself admits that this water is used to grow the crops, not to produce the ethanol. Think about it simply. Indian farmers grow rice and sugarcane because the government buys it under MSP procurement policies. These crops were being grown long before ethanol blending started. They will keep growing even if ethanol stopped tomorrow. Ethanol did not create this water demand. It was always there. Ethanol simply uses what already exists, surplus rice sitting in FCI warehouses, damaged grains unfit for distribution and byproducts left over from sugar production. No extra water. No extra crops. No extra burden. And India is not standing still either. Maize uses nearly 70 per cent less water than rice. In 2021-22, maize contributed zero per cent to ethanol production. By 2024-25 that number had risen to nearly 48 per cent. The programme is actively solving the very problem this article pretends has no solution. Here is what the article completely forgot to mention. Since 2014, Rs 1.77 lakh crore saved in foreign exchange that would have gone abroad to buy crude oil. Rs 1.54 lakh crore paid directly into the hands of Indian farmers. 889 lakh metric tonnes of carbon emissions reduced. Scary headline. Incomplete story. Now you know the full picture. And honestly, reading this article carefully, it does not feel like honest journalism. It feels like a deliberate attempt to undermine a programme that is genuinely working for India. This has the smell of propaganda from those who simply do not want to see India grow, become self sufficient and reduce its dependence on imported oil. Because when India succeeds, some people lose their favourite narrative.

If you are in India, and have to share one fact to your friends and family this summer, use this: In the last many decades, the whole world has been heating up. Annual mean temperature in every country has been rising 1-1.5 degrees a decade. But India has been an anomaly. It has heated up the least at 0.5-1 degrees a decade. This is a scientific fact acknowledged by climatologists worldwide. India has also increased its green cover, tree cover in cities, and forest cover in the last decade or so. This is not India's own data alone. This is data by UN in their Global Forest Resources Assessment – GFRA 2025 report based on satellite imagery, which can't lie. India has also increased ecological conservation efforts in recent decades as its wealth grew. It has improved its populations of endangered animals like Asiatic lion, Rhinos, Tigers and many birds and animals. This is much better than many other countries - even developed ones (where they will shoot a wolf, shark, or bear if they increase in population, get close to human habitation, and attack a human). Anyway, there will always be programmed Indians who will come to discount India's tremendous achievements in Paris climate goals and in protecting its environment even as a highly populous developing country. We can't do much trying to convince these DS programmed and blackpilled bots. Just watch the comments below. They will come to tell you how numbers are fake, how they saw it has become bad, or change the goal post to another topic to berate India.

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu

Day 1 of travelling in India's richest city mumbai for my internship 🥰🥰 It is really hard to run a massive civic awareness campaign and install dustbins. Location -oshiwara @mybmc

Request CM ⁦@Dev_Fadnavis⁩ to have Mumbai cleaned up- debris all over in suburb, roads with bad surfaces. Needs a massive one time cleanup. Mumbai is India’s biggest city- needs more care! (Photo from airport road) very sad to see this in a great city!

As soon as Global brands started moving to India from Bangladesh, protests started in Noida's garment sector where the businesses were moving. Remember when Mobile manufacturing started moving to India from China, in Karnataka they burned down an iPhone factory & in TN Samsung was crippled by protests? None of these are coincidences. All the "revolutionaries" in India are foreign plants. I wants them crushed! #TruthOfNoidaProtests

The video is from Noida… “Protest in the name of salary increment.” Vandalising public property, targeting school buses, and even attacking women, is this what a protest looks like? I refuse to believe this isn’t an organised conspiracy, just like several earlier “protests.” Anyway, it was bound to happen for three reasons: 1) India is stable despite the global crisis 2) UP is witnessing strong industrial growth 3) UP elections are approaching I hope the gvt handles it accordingly.

Anyone knows anything about Bloomberg having some problem in India with the system. Every day, these days, it religiously carries a negative story on India whether it makes sense or not, whether it is effectively a mish mash of previous stories or not. Most days it looks that a negative story on India is a non negotiable target for the Indian reporters.

Trump: do as I say, or I will bomb you back to the stone ages Iran: best I can do is this 10 point plan where you give us everything we want Trump: deal! FoxNews: Trump is a master negotiator

One US pilot has been successfully rescued from Iran by US forces. For that, they have to use huge man power, air power and lose equipments worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. If US is going to send ground troops to Iran, where even hundreds or thousands of troops may be captured, imagine the consequences. When Abhinandan Varthaman was captured by Pakistan, then Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted to negotiate with India. India refused to engage with Imran Khan and said either send Abhinandan back safely or face disastrous consequences. Abhinandan was safely sent back. During Operations Sindoor, we never caused destruction to hospitals or schools or residential areas. We were extremely precise on targets - terrorists and defence infrastructure. Likewise US is unable to protect gulf countries from attacks. Their infrastructure is crumbling fast. How weak the US defence is? When Pakistan hurled missiles and drones, were they able to cross the border and come inside India? We take sadistic pleasure only in highlighting negatives of our country. We have proven ourselves through Operation Sindoor. US and Israel have revealed how weak they are through Operation Epic Fury.

May I offer a different perspective on the whole transatlantic family feud brewing over NATO. Europeans are furious at what they call American unilateralism and "wars of choice," while Americans are done subsidizing allies who won't lift a finger when Washington actually needs them. Given all the sentimentality and historical baggage, there’s been a lot of bad blood and high grade insults thrown both ways. A lot of pride here is at stake. But given that I am not American or European, what I can provide is an Asian perspective. The whole thing looks very different as there are no blood ties or cultural nostalgia to pull me either way. Because of distance, the default Asian lens on America has always been colder, clearer, and far more pragmatic than the European one. Asians have never lived under the illusion that their relationship to the US is one based on shared values. If they ever did, the illusion was shattered during the Cold War. Instead, Asian nations saw the relationship to America as a cold, interest-driven bargain in a dangerous neighborhood full of communists, insurgents, and bigger powers. Fast forward to today, and this lesson still holds. Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Indonesia all partner with America because their interests (not values) align - especially when it comes to countering China. These nations have reasons to be alarmed about Beijing's ambitions in the South China Sea, around Taiwan, and across the Indo-Pacific. They don't need lectures about democracy or liberal international order to see the value in US forward presence, intelligence sharing, tech transfers, and security guarantees. It's a straight-up transactional deal: the US keeps the sea lanes open and the PLA at bay. Meanwhile, Asian nations host your bases, buy your weapons, and join your alliances (Quad, AUKUS, etc.). When interests diverge, they adjust pragmatically, without the drama and meltdown. Probably not many in the West know this, but one of the forces that shaped this attitude was the US pullout of Vietnam and the rest of America’s Cold War shenanigans. Lee Kuan Yew was one of America’s loudest cheerleaders in Southeast Asia. In 1967 he flew to Washington, testified to Congress, and begged Lyndon Johnson (and later Nixon) not to cut and run in Vietnam. He warned that a hasty US exit would trigger the dominoes - Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and then pressure on the rest of Southeast Asia. Singapore became a logistical hub, providing a haven for US troops on R&R, oil refineries supplying the American war machine, and Lockheed servicing aircraft. At one point, US military-related spending made up 15% of Singapore’s entire GDP. Singapore didn’t support the war because it loved American democracy but because it kept the communists tied up and bought Southeast Asia time to build up its own economy and military. Then came the pullout - the Paris Accords in 1973 and then Saigon falls in 1975. Despite all the lobbying, despite the blood and resources America had spent, domestic politics in the US (the anti-war movement, Congress, Vietnam syndrome etc.) ended it. LKY watched in disbelief as the superpower that had promised to hold the line simply walked away. The lesson was that American commitments are real only as long as they serve American interests and American voters don’t get tired. It’s a brutal one to internalize. LKY was disappointed and noted American “unreliability” but Singapore didn’t collapse into panic or anti-Americanism. They just recalibrated and kept pursuing pragmatism by building its own deterrent, diversifying partners, and later offered the US naval logistics access (Sembawang port) when the Philippines kicked them out of Subic Bay in the early 1990s. Malaysia drew the same conclusion. The Tunku was pro-Western and anti-communist early on, but Malaysia never joined SEATO and pushed ZOPFAN (Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality) instead. When the British announced their East-of-Suez withdrawal in 1968 and Nixon’s Doctrine (1969) told Asians “you defend yourselves first, we’ll just help,” Kuala Lumpur accelerated its neutralist tilt. The message was clear - don’t count on Washington to bleed indefinitely for distant allies. South Korea is similarly pragmatic but it operates under far higher stakes due to baggage from the Korean War and the ongoing North Korean threat. American intervention literally saved the South from conquest, resulting in a bond that is forged in blood. While South Korea had to learn the same lessons - that the American umbrella isn’t permanent, sharing a border with a nuclear-armed adversary forces tighter coupling with Washington. The reverberations of Nixon’s 1973 opening to Beijing cannot be understated. It shocked the entire region that America, the great anti-communist crusader, suddenly would cozy up to Mao to counter the Soviets. If Washington could flip on core principles when interests demanded it, why should smaller states pretend the relationship was about anything deeper? The core Asian critique of the European approach to dealing with America is that it is entirely bound up in moral values and civilizational kinship. This means that every disagreement feels like a betrayal and breeds resentment on both sides. Because Europe is so hyped up on abstract values, it makes NATO feel like a sacred club that America is disrespecting. Asia's interest-based lens sees alliances as tools - useful until they're not. Maybe Europe thinks the Asian approach is cynical but the irony is that this is actually what keeps Indo-Pacific partners far more reliable counterweights to China than many NATO members ever were against Russia.

Woke up in #Mumbai today and actually breathed fresh air. AQI hit 31 on April 1, and no, this isn't a prank. Gamdevi and Andheri clocked an AQI of 8. That's EIGHT. That's cleaner than most cities dream of. How? @mybmc cracked down on 1,000+ polluting construction sites + the Arabian Sea breeze did the rest. More of this, please 🙏