Tanushree Nagori

8:42 AM at Mumbai T1. At the gate 8:49. Seven minutes from curb to gate. Saturday night at Ahmedabad was the same story. The India where “leave 3 hours early for a domestic flight” was gospel is quietly dying. Nobody’s writing about it because good news doesn’t trend. But this is what state capacity actually looks like — DigiYatra, a queue that moves, staff who know the script. Boring, repeatable, fast. Another week, another great experience. 😀

We all agree that India needs deep structural change. We also understand that such transformations rarely come from policy alone. They emerge from a broader social awakening. Whether it was Japan, South Korea, or the rise of the United States, change has always demanded long periods of effort, discipline, patience, and collective sacrifice. Yet, when it comes to India, there is a visible gap between what we want and how we act. People want better governance, but remain disengaged from civic processes. We want cleaner cities, but see public responsibility as someone else’s job. We want meritocracy, yet continue to navigate systems through shortcuts when convenient. We want world-class institutions, but hesitate to invest time, trust, or effort in building or improving the ones that already exist. We want long-term national growth, without short-term, individual decisions. If people in the United States, China, Japan, or South Korea had chosen to walk away each time they were faced with a hundred problems, those nations would likely never have reached where they are today.

This 💯 And a few more things .. The speed at which we're seeing new technologies, platforms, versions, upgrades showing up - I wager a lot of the last mile will be an endless upskilling & or change-of-guard of the front line of folks managing that last 20% where 80% of the 'real' work happens. 1 - Burnout is real at this 20% zone. Both at the customer and team end. It's a zone where trust results in upsell/cross-sell or heavy churn. 2 - Teams need to be upskilled at a crazy pace. While we're busy getting the FDE cadre up and ready now, domain experts will increasingly have to show up at the edge too. 3 - Change management takes centre stage. So much of this last 20% is about people and we spend so little time talking about this: people who are making decisions, managing org wide change and adoption. Talent with judgement, 'solutioning' & outcome mindset for this post agentic 'context-first' world will look nothing like the SaaS pre-sales and post-sales skills.

I remember speaking to this VC analyst 1.5 years ago at a mixer. The minute she heard that I work in IT services, she literally said "boring" and turned away to speak to someone who was building AI-something. She could have made her career investing in Sidu's IT services startup :)

yaar just run 2 agents in parallel first without slopping the f***k out of everything, then tweet your theories about "multi agent orchestration" allowing "founders to run many companies like elon"

THIS IS HISTORICAL STUFF FOLKS! 🇮🇳🥹 Vaishali Rameshbabu just won the FIDE Women's Candidates 2026 & Qualifies as Challenger for Women's World Championships Title! 2nd Indian Women after Humpy Koneru (2011) to Play the Women's World C'ship match!

Horrendous horrendous stuff. Rahul has been a vocal supporter of manufacturing and put his own skin in the game and yet this happens. Reaching out to IIT-BHU alumni working as Bureaucrats/IPS might be more helpful here.

In my article, I argue India’s “Naxal-free” story isn’t just about security. It’s about replacing a governance vacuum with presence: roads, rations, schools, IDs, markets. Insurgency didn’t collapse only because of force. It collapsed because the State finally showed up. hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/gov… A foundational achievement of PM @narendramodi and HM @AmitShah

Merchant QR was NOT started in China. It was started in India by Paytm. China had consumer QR that would be scanned by merchants scanners. Real mobile payment revolution happened India when despite payment network opposing, Paytm pushed for & built merchant QR based payment system, to make payments inclusive. It is our honorable PM @narendramodi , whose commitment to India’s digitization made it a global benchmark today in UPI in India and everywhere else similar system in SEA. 🇮🇳 Merchant QR is India’s innovation that went elsewhere.

US is a society run by lawyers, China is a society run by engineers and India is a society run by liberal arts graduates. In a lawyerly society, you are incentivized to follow the process. In China’s engineering state, you are incentivized to deliver the product. In artsy India, you are incentivized to generate philosophy. manochaopinion.substack.com/p/how-does-chi…

The crabs shitting on emergent are the once who’ve never done anything worthwhile themselves, might look fancy hiding behind safety nets of big orgs, and find satisfaction from celebrating when something goes wrong with people who are ambitious and take risks. Be like emergent, not the fufas of Indian startups.

Recently my son asked me why he needs to do mental math when calculators exist. I told him if he doesn't, he will make irrational decisions throughout his life. Let me explain. Say you see two packs of snacks. A 500g pack for ₹100, and a 200g pack for ₹45. Which one should you buy? The math is not at all hard, but people who are scared of mental math will not do it. This is not such an important decision that you pull out a calculator for it. So you make the decision on vibes - say ₹100 "looks too high", or that the smaller pack costs "less than half of the biggest one" or some such. The problem isn't that you made a poor decision on snacks. It is that if you do this repeatedly, you train your mind to make decisions on vibes. Over time your reasoning muscle atrophies - so you start relying even more on vibes. Before you know it, you are taking even big decisions on vibes. Should I rent or buy a house? Let's decide based on "EMI affordability", not rental yield. Should I invest in this IPO? I have heard of the company's brand so I'm all in. It isn't only financial or quantitative decisions either - in my mind the math muscle and the logic muscle are closely correlated, so a decline in one certainly affects the other. Like the Arab who let the camel's nose inside the tent, fear of math is the first step towards thoughtlessness, and needs to be nipped in the bud. Intellectual laziness starts with snack prices.

Most SAP migrations are a specific kind of failure that looks, from the outside, like success. The code moves. The system runs. But it runs on an architecture it was never written for. Finance teams find out when month-end reports start timing out. We refactored 11,000+ lines of ABAP for one of India's largest textile manufacturers in a single day. Zero regressions. Month-end close: 7 days → 1 day. The constraint was never knowledge. It was scale. Full case study: sookti.ai/case-studies/g… @sooktiai @smdcmc

What is the right thing to do. Is it right to practise austerity, travel lesser, take fewer flights or will that have a really bad impact on economy or should we continue to do what we were doing before

Please get the Rolls-Royce CEO to run @F1 and @fia right now. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Nearly two thirds of India is Urban now. Cities generate ~60% of India’s GDP on just 3% land. Urban governance incentives need a relook including empowered mayors or bureaucratic rewards linked to urban outcomes. Urban policy is what will make our break India. Insightful and timely paper by @ShamikaRavi eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/upl…

This time last year, we stopped our product completely while a competitor raised $150 million. We had just stepped back for a full re-architecture. Two months of stopping everything. Honestly, it was frustrating. But my co-founder Akshat was clear on what needed to happen, and I have near-blind faith in his judgement. So I gave him the space to do it right. Now I can see the results. Our AI agents run investigations deeper than a human would, and they do it 24/7. While it's easy to chase what's happening around you, the product you're building needs to come first. Sometimes you have to go backward, even when the market is running the other way. Insane examples dropping soon.

Tough one week with all the commercial LPG shortage across cities. Proud of the way the team hustled to keep the lights on. We are now fully ON across brands with full menu across cities.

I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?