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Somnath Mukherjee

@somnath1978

1 month

Even after the Baltimore guv described the crew as "hero", racist tropes dont stop. Exhibit 101 of why US can never be a "friend", ever...

Foxford Comics

@FoxfordComics

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Last known recording from inside the Dali moments before impact

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BJP is the single largest party (in # of MPs) in South, but heck why let data interfere w/a nice long essay;)

Bloomberg

@business

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India's south is rejecting Modi, and that will have profound implications, writes @andymukherjee70 , as the more successful part of the country drifts away from the poverty-ridden north via @opinion

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Iran isnt Hamas. Cradle of one of the oldest civilisations. Iranian kids top Maths Olympiads, Maryam Mirzakhani was the 1st ever women's Fields winner. Despite crippling sanctions for 40 yrs, it flies its F14. If this👇 happens, wont be only Iran, be careful of wht you wish for..

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Future of Tehran, Iran ? 🤭

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UK also has an official religion - Church of England. Shd we...

Hartosh Singh Bal

@HartoshSinghBal

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bullshit, which left? the UK has inheritance tax of 40 % for inheritance above a wealth threshold. it also has an nhs, a govt run school system. bad ideas i guess. then go read about germany. such commie countries, really.

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Hitler was part of the "western civilisation", as was Stalin (unless Tchaikovsky is Eastern these days). Churchill had a comparable mass murder count than Hitler, Stalin comfortably exceeded Hitler. Extraordinary indeed...

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Modern Western civilization has extraordinary empathy compared to its power. This is also arguably its greatest weakness. With the nuclear bomb, America could have subjugated every nation on Earth with ease. Hitler and Stalin would certainly have done so. Instead, America…

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Hasina is a rare subcon politician who actively and overtly supports India even in normal BAU times, not when the cntry's in trouble...

Sidhant Sibal

@sidhant

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Bangladesh PM Hasina challenges BNP leaders amid India boycott campaign, asks "why they don't burn their wives' Indian sarees", not use Indian spices in the kitchen.

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Loony activist isnt much of a surprise. But heck, recently @ericgarcetti told us mere threats fall in the category of "freedom of speech" in the US. How come this loony lady was arrested then? Sauce, goose, gander et al....

Collin Rugg

@CollinRugg

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NEW: Pro-Palestine protester gets arrested after calling for the murders of Bakersfield City Council members. Riddhi Patel accused city council members of targeting her with metal detectors as she made the threats. “We'll see you at your house, we'll murder you.” “I hope one…

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Going arnd South Mumbai for 3-4 hrs today. Remarkable - not a single patch built by the Brits is devoid of charm and elegance, not a single patch built by us has even an iota of the same. How average are we?

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India tried land redistribution too, in WB. The "dynamism" reduced a once-proud state and its capital frm Asia's best to below-Indian-avg. Indian cricket didnt "redistribute resources", rather generated massive new ones, enabling small townies to emerge. Social science types....

Asim Ali

@AsimAli6

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Land redistribution in E Asia (Japan, China, Korea) fuelled their economic dynamism, a sequence missed here But we did redistribute our cricketing resources, from metropolitan centres to grassroots, finally replacing pitiful medium pace spinners for real world-class fast bowlers

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"Indian leaders...should remember that a Pakistan focused on trade and growth will be one that’s less likely to descend into extremism" - @mihirssharma On the contrary, Pak's behaviour has been @ its virulent worst when it was relatively stable...

Cash-strapped Pakistan needs to get India onboard on trade matters

The problem is that Pakistan needs India far more than India needs Pakistan. The Indian economy is stable and India remains deeply reluctant to open its markets to other developing countries

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Journo logic + facts👇. A v large proportion of wealth in India, disproportionately so, is w/Jains, Parsis, Sikhs. But dog whistles agnst "upper caste hindu" have become normalised. Its the most declassé characters who repeatedly invoke caste in every discussion..

Hartosh Singh Bal

@HartoshSinghBal

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fight the damn fight. go after hindu upper-caste elitism - inheritance tax for the rich, reservations in the private sector. the cong fears upsetting the wealthiest of the banias simply because as a hindu upper-caste party it really caters to those who most prefer the bjp.

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Interesting - a plot to kill a foreign citizen by state agencies. Sovereignty, red lines, values - US never does this stuff, eh....

WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

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'CIA Director Pompeo instructed the agency to make plans to kidnap and murder Julian Assange after WikiLeaks published documents related to massive, warrantless spying on American citizens and foreign politicians' #FreeAssangeNOW

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There is no federal inheritance tax in the US, there is estate tax which kicks in at $13.6mn (level of wealth only a few Indians have).Sam Pitroda has ensured INC opponents will position this👇 as GOI taking away 50% of 25 lac lifetime savings of a Class B employee frm his kids..

ANI

@ANI

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#WATCH | Chicago, US: Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, Sam Pitroda says, "...In America, there is an inheritance tax. If one has $100 million worth of wealth and when he dies he can only transfer probably 45% to his children, 55% is grabbed by the government. That's an…

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Remember folks, if you are in a useless profession (ie, writing 800 word essays), its becoz you failed to crack meaningful exam (JEE/CAT) in life, +wasnt smart enuf to choose productive trades in lieu of Pol Sc. Not due to nasty "hindu middle class", thts garden variety bigotry..

Asim Ali

@AsimAli6

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Remember folks, if you are scummy to your parents or kids, its because you are a scummy person not due to Communism, or Muslims, or something. The country only reflects the moral rot of the Hindu middle class, which stems from its incapability towards any honest self reflection.

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When those science students graduate, what are they going to do - emigrate (to US fabs set up w/CHIPS Act subsidies)? Rajan's no longer a case of intellectual dissidence, but wholesale intellectual delusion based on antipathy to an individual...

Indian Tech & Infra

@IndianTechGuide

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🚨 "India needs to focus on more pressing needs, such as putting spectrometers into colleges to produce first-rate science students, rather than wooing chip manufacturers with subsidies," says Raghuram Rajan.

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Nice. Looks like a rather competent, sophisticated operation spanning multiple cntries. Comparable to the best Mossad ops. Grt advert for Modi's "ghar mein ghus ke mara" promise;)

Hannah Ellis-Petersen

@HannahEP

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Our investigation into how the Indian government ordered assassinations in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists on foreign soil, according to intelligence officials. It's a lengthy read but worth it for the eye-opening details

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Anyone who thinks Inderpal Gaba voluntarily boarded a flight to India is smoking somethng really nice;) Good, Brits are now being forced to extradite undesirables...

NIA arrests UK resident for 2023 London high commission attack | India News - Times of India

India News: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a key accused involved in last year’s violent attack on Indian high commission in London. The suspect

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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@somnath1978

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On 2 consecutive days, @guardian has declared: 1. India is knocking off terrorists x-border 2. India is refusing to sign FTA not lopsided towards India Either its a victim of a canny info op by Indian intel, or it is batting on Modi's side😎

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@somnath1978

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Surprising there isnt promise of re-education and gulags, yet;)

The Times Of India

@timesofindia

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Former Congress president #RahulGandhi Saturday said Congress, if voted into office in the Lok Sabha elections, would conduct a financial and institutional survey to ascertain who is in possession of the wealth of the country, and would then undertake an exercise to redistribute…

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If this was w/ALH, IAF vets wud be crying blue murder..

Four Apache helicopters ‘down’ in 44 days; IAF’s is fifth

An IAF source told THE WEEK that the helicopter suffered a ‘technical malfunction’

www.theweek.in

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@somnath1978

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@GabbbarSingh Pandya/Parag are light yrs behind Zlatan. Same Indian audience worships Kohli.

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This is big, arguably bigger than Apple. MH shd pull out all stops, get MH's richest citizens to lobby w/GOI for appropriate nudges - if there is a time to flex the tax muscles, its now. Giving up 0.1% in share of central taxes shdnt be out of scope either😎 @Dev_Fadnavis

Financial Times

@FT

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Breaking news: Tesla Motors will send a team to scout locations in India for a proposed $2bn-$3bn electric car plant

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"Narendra Modi, author of a virulent Hindu nationalism...., sees little merit in a trade deal with the former colonial master unless it overtly favours India"👇. Horrors, Modi isnt striking trade deals w/the British like Shah Alam II...

Naomi Canton

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The latest in the Guardian:

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2 digit IQ journo trying taunts on combat flying @ a test pilot...

saliltripathi (वो बनाये परिवार, हमें पसंद रविवार)

@saliltripathi

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I admit I am fat. But I can't figure out how this Bhadauria chap could fit into any cockpit of a fighter aircraft, juging by his paunch which is bigger than mine. What made him the chief of the Indian Air Force? Laddus? Or French dessert?

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Abt 15 Cr families are covered under food security. 1 lac per family = 15 lac cr = ~45% of this year's tax revenues. Scintillating Ides of April;)

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When the shoe is on the other foot, it pinches rather hard;) Freedom for thee, none for me😎

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“When protesters surround opposing speakers or otherwise prevent students from freely moving around campus, they cross the line separating protected expression and unprotected misconduct.” [Fine to yell your dumb slogans. Not fine to block fellow students from any part of…

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Indians are emigrating becoz of lack of "voice"? Wonder why Andy emigrated, ge did so when presumably an uber secular progressive govt was in power;)

Bloomberg Opinion

@opinion

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🇮🇳 The future of an entire generation is at stake in India, says @andymukherjee70 . Here’s what the upcoming #indiaelections mean for the country

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The sneer and snarl of Tellis is a sight to behold. Impotent rage more than confident disdain one typically sees in US grandees. Why @Barugaru1 pt abt uselessness of Indian-origin guys as interlocutors is memorable. All of them shd be taken as anti-India, till proven otherwise..

Rishap Vats

@VatsRishap

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Interesting answer by Ashley Tellis on what the US government has asked of GoI on the Pannun issue. (At the Camden Conference) “This admin has demanded ‘full accountability’ from the Indian govt, now how far this accountability goes and what it will reveal remain to be seen”

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Food is a strategic commodity, has been for millennia. Wud be so much better if India cud optimise production instead of wasting $ on wasteful subsidies for rich farmers...

WLVN🔍

@TheLegateIN

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Bangladesh requests India for a secured supply of 45 lakh tonnes of wheat, 7 lakh tonnes of onion, 30,000 tonnes of lentils, 20 lakh tonnes of rice, 15 lakh tonnes of sugar, 10,000 tonnes of garlic, and 1.25 lakh tonnes of ginger.

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India is unique in its organic germination of useful idiots w/heavy Stockholm Syndrome quotients. Kamla Bhasin's ancestors got brutally displaced by islamist hordes, she picks up motifs frm the same cohort to use as a rallying cry. Astonishing idiocy...

SANJAY HEGDE

@sanjayuvacha

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The Azadi chant came in from the Indian feminist movement, especially from the late Kamla Bhasin. It has now become a worldwide call to freedom and I am waiting for some international musician or rapper to take it to the next level

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Can @BoothCricket estimate ICC's revenues if India simply refuses to play? And BCCI organises a multi-cntry tournament itself? Chaps who wud be all stiff upper lip abt access to Lord's pavilion are developing egalitarian impulses becoz India's playing the nasty boy ;)

The Final Word

@Final_Word_Pod

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“Is the reason we’re allowing this to happen that people are scared of standing up to India?” Upon the release of the 2024 @WisdenAlmanack , editor @BoothCricket cuts straight to the point with how the ICC carved up the pie last year. @westfieldlondon | @collinsadam

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Most of his professional life,a faceless bureaucrat implementing the worst of IG's policies. Brought in a veneer of technocratism for PVNR. Was an ok-ish PM, but nuke deal was his crowning glory - used every tool,fair or foul to swing a pivotal moment. Complex,like all legacies;)

Shruti Chaturvedi 🇮🇳

@adhicutting

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For Dr. Manmohan Singh

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Right, China has elections every 6 mths, a raucous society critiquing the govt every day, foreign journos allowed to operate within the cntry freely. Its the same thing...

Gerry Shih

@gerryshih

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Promising growth, overlook the other stuff— US chamber and many in DC said the same about China 1996-2016. Then DC came to a realization and had a change of heart. (And JPM settled for $264M with the DoJ for hiring children of CCP officials in exchange for business)

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"country’s election process is overseen by a body that is now staffed by ex-bureaucrats selected by the government"👇. Now, eh? Wonder who the election commissioners have been since 1951 - journos?;)

Hartosh Singh Bal

@HartoshSinghBal

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The BJP's goal isn't just to win elections, it sees political power as a means to a grander end. It aims to restructure the Indian state as a Hindu nation, to put Hinduism at the center of public life, make full Indian citizenship contingent on being Hindu

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Basically means @pravchak thinks there are 1 cr "poor" households in India = 5 cr poor people. Out of 140 Cr. This is as ringing an endorsement of Modi as anythng BJP cud have thought of😎

Ankur Singh (Modi Ka Parivar)

@iAnkurSingh

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Must Watch! Praveen Chakravarty, who prepared Congress Manifesto, says they have no idea about how many people will get benefit from their promise and what will it cost. Later says total cost will be '1 lakh crore per year' Congress has promised: 1. 1 lakh per year to…

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Income Tax contributes 26% of all tax revenues. Anyone who thinks this is "minor" is smoking somethng nice, Cubans perhaps;)

Vishal Bhargava

@VishalBhargava5

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After initial hesitation, I have for long found the plan of @Swamy39 of No Income Tax to be plausible Income Tax revenues are a minor contributor. It doesn’t impact a big population But it needs courage to go for it. Today’s Govt has that political capital to attempt it

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Aga Khan Palace, Pune. A lavish, massive affair, quite lovingly preserved till date by the Indian state. It took a lot of $ to keep the Mahatma in poverty, both inside and outside of prisons, paraphrasing the peerless Sarojini Naidu (nee Chatterjee) ;)

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Gandhi's jail in 1942.

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NRIs shd not have voting rights.Only those invested in the fate of India (any1 mentioning remittances here will only reveal his riffraff education) shd have a right to vote. Those who have emigrated shd not have that right, incl to give political donations (at par w/foreigners)..

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PLA has "informatised war" w/35% of its recruits being conscripts, but Agnipath is a disaster. Chetan Bhagat of mil commentary👇, but at least CB is a super smart guy....

Pravin Sawhney

@PravinSawhney

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A Lt Gen Anil Puri from DMA under CDS has been defending #Agnipath scheme by saying in 6 years, Army soldiers will have younger profile. If 10th pass, they will become 12th pass; 12th pass will get diploma & will get tech savvy by handling sophisticated vehicles so on. He…

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It made infinitely more sense for India to carry on normal trade w/apartheid South Africa, but we didnt. It will be morally, politically and strategically wrong to normalise trade w/a bunch that babysits 1992 and 26/11 killers. They need to be defanged, not given respectability..

C. Raja Mohan

@MohanCRaja

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On the politics of Pakistan’s trade with India:

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Not sure abt "sophisiticates", but fact that w/the same "access" some end up @ IIM/IIT while others end up as journos is proof enuf of massively different (SRT vs Swapnil Asnodkar type) outcomes determined by "self made" quotients...

Abhinandan Sekhri

@AbhinandanSekhr

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The good thing about the clever, kinda well read, kinda successful & kinda well spoken Indian sophisticates is their belief they're 'self made'. If it wasn't for social access most of us including me would be sitting in a waiting room hoping for an interview. Self made is a myth

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Partition never happened, it was borne out of a separate political process in Mars. It didnt require endorsement of a pan-islamist cause to bring muslims arnd the INC platform. Calcutta schooling is a panacea for illiteracy (or not)...

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@saliltripathi

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There are many wonderful things about #AeWatanMereWatan , but one of the striking, understated aspects is how truly united, secular, and inclusive the freedom movement was, including Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, men, women. @darab_farooqui 1/2

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0% of PolSc variety taking UPSC do so on a "calling" - its their v best option. 99% waste their time in the process, join a queue of chaps asking for govt jobs. Separately, India's flag has flown proudly coz its bankers/coders have made us richer, they did the real "God's work"..

Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳

@NMenonRao

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Teacher, teacher, can I ask a question? Why not seek a career in government? While I agree that taking the UPSC exam multiple times may take away from an individual’s best years, seeking a career in public service does NOT embody a poverty of aspirations. Government work is…

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Many more Americans visited/traded with/invested in India than in Pak, between 1950 and 2015/16 - the ratio isnt even in the 2nd decimal pt in inverse. Yet, US supported Pak on key issues, incl cavorting w/a mass murderer. So....

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Surprising congruence between Indian military and Rajan - our local stuff is only 60-70% of the global best, ergo its a waste of time. We shd buy the global best and fund it w/money plants and remote consulting services...

Indian Tech & Infra

@IndianTechGuide

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🚨 "India is making 28 nm semiconductor chips, but the best chips in phones are 3 nm. We've got to subsidize a few generations of chip factories to reach the manufacturing frontier" - Raghuram Rajan.

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US strategically is today in a space India was in 1990 - IPKF in SL, insurgency in Pb, jihadi terror in J&K, ongoing simmer in Nagaland + nuke sabre-rattling by Pak. Its a minor miracle we came out geopolitically unscathed, but we were fighting for our home, not fuzzy values...

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US designated Pak as Major Non-Nato Ally, even as Pak-sponsored Quetta Shura tangos were killing US troops in Af. At the same time it kept juggling between Zardari, Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif and Army, choosing favourites depending on the time of day. US wont try in India? Really?;)

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For weeks and mths post 26/11, adjectives like "alleged" and "suspected" were used by the western commentariat while discussing Pak role, despite Ajmal Kasab. But everyone needs to swallow a few instant ISIS claim videos instantly hook, line, sinker...

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Not sure we shd complain. This is precisely the sort of myth-making/legend-creation that bestows God-like status to covert/special units. Creates deterrence via legend - Israel has been a massive beneficiary. India's getting it, bring us more!

sushant sareen

@sushantsareen

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Regurgitating stuff that was already in public domain and calling it an “investigation”? A great example of swallow and vomit ‘journalism’, taking handouts from Pakistanis (who never speak the truth from the day they are born) and presenting it as a scoop. But good to see…

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This cannot be a serious promise. Nehru, in his all-powerful 1950s avatar, had to pull back frm nationalising agri - which was the original wealth redistribution program. Today, it will be madness..

Congress to conduct wealth redistribution survey if voted to power: Rahul Gandhi

The Congress will conduct a financial and institutional survey to determine the distribution of people's wealth in the country, party leader Rahul Gandhi said at a rally in Hyderabad.

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@somnath1978

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In India, if the Finance Minister so much as even mentions policy rates under the breath, the commentariat cries "death of institutions" in evangelical fervour;)

Investing.com

@Investingcom

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⚠️ JUST IN: *U.S. PRESIDENT BIDEN: WILL BE RATE CUT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR *BIDEN: STAND BY PREDICTION FOR RATE CUT *BIDEN: RATE CUT MAY BE DELAYED FOR A MONTH

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India contribution to global demand is alrdy a lot more than China. India's the 2nd largest trade deficit in the world = it generates demand for rest of the world. China's the largest trade surplus in the world = it imports large volumes of global demand into itself..

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

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Even if China grows at only 4.5% this year - a very pessimistic scenario - India would need to grow at 22% to generate as much growth. This is because China's economy is 5 times bigger than India's. Size matters - a lot - in economic terms. Once you grow huge, catching up with…

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There is rather less congruence we have w/Iran today than w/Israel. But that doesnt make Israel's Iran itch our problem. For sure, if Pak was a viable entity or US didnt have a China problem, Israel wont be as passionate in its Indophilia. India's SM RW are idiots...

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History hasnt been v kind to him - PVNR was India's best PM till date. Well deserved Bharat Ratna...

Narendra Modi

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Every Indian cherishes what PV Narasimha Rao Garu has done for our nation and feels proud that he has been conferred the Bharat Ratna. He worked extensively to further our country's progress and modernization. He is also known as a respected scholar and thinker. His contributions…

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@dhume Wonder if Washington Post apologised abt describing Baghdadi as an "austere religious scholar"? Or the zillions of journos who attributed the vandalism in some delhi churches to "hindutva intolerance"?;)9

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Coz Modi isnt. Just as he didnt become a Wagah-candle-wala by dropping in at Nawaz Sharif's. LKAdvani didnt become an islamist-sympathiser by shaking hands w/Yasin Malik. The commentariat on the other hand, is so transparently shilling that *even* twitter trolls can make it out..

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Wonder why so many Chinese are illegally emigrating, they are 5x richer than Indians. Issues w/its GDP growth? Ashoka Mody is a 3rd rate also-ran typical economist, but Calcutta-bred econometricians have/shd have much higher datum levels;)

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

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Indians now constitute the third-largest group of undocumented immigrants coming to the US. Ashoka Mody drew attention to this alarming fact in his talk today at the Roosevelt House, New York. This raises big questions about India’s GDP growth & where it is going.

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@somnath1978

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So many Jains in that cohort - good lesson for chaps whining abt "brahminical upper caste hindu domination"...;)

Shafiullah Anis

@KungfuPasmanda

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1% of India owns 40% of the wealth, but who are those 1%? This data gives a glimpse. #Caste

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@somnath1978

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Recently Modi spoke of respecting taxpayers. GOI can do a few things - graded PAN cards, w/diff shades of metal (credit card type) - platinum @ (say) 5/10 lacs of taxes. Make access to select public facilities - Passport Seva/RE regn, eg, fast-channeled to those w/metal cards.

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@somnath1978

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1992 Mumbai bomb blasts, serial blasts in Mumbai/Bangalore/Ahd/Varanasi. India's attitude shdnt chg till Pak gives up nuke weapons and hands over Sayeed/Dawood/Azhar/Lakhvi

Husain Haqqani

@husainhaqqani

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Some in Pakistan are complaining about hardening Indian attitudes towards Pakistan. It is result of Kashmir insurgency (1989-2019), Kargil (1999), Parliament attack (2001), Mumbai terror attack (2008), & much more. Accepting that might make dialogue honest & easier.

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@somnath1978

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Exhibit 101👇 of grt strategic comms/infowar. Enuf in @rajnathsingh 's syntax for both domestic and foreign audience to think he's endorsing covert hits, + retaining plausible deniability via Balakot. Uber liberal POTUS claimed credit for hit on OBL in Pak -sauce, goose, gander😎

Christopher Clary

@clary_co

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Modi yesterday, Rajnath Singh today. This is clearly now an intentional messaging strategy in advance of the national elections. I would say it's one thing to kill terrorists in Pakistan, another to broadcast that fact on the campaign trail.

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@somnath1978

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"Brilliant economist" is as much of a thing as "brilliant astrologer". Further, RR has become such a Quixote that even a half-reasonable pt frm him sounds like Kathreen-Mayo-meets-Paris-Hilton...

Tara Deshpande

@Tara_Deshpande

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Maligning a brilliant economist appears to be in keeping with the current views on anything scientific or logical that appears not to align with dysphoric nationalism. Anyone who plays the stock market knows not all predictions are correct. But to go from a developing to a…

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@somnath1978

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Sania is a real role model, an Indian GOAT in tennis (only Leander and Mahesh have more glittering trophy cabinets).

ANI

@ANI

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#WATCH | Delhi: Former Tennis player Sania Mirza says, "...We as a, as a nation, as a society, we have to encourage more and more girls to follow their dreams. We have to encourage more and more girls to do what they love, no matter how out of the box it is. And I think that…

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US doesnt have federal inheritance tax. The state of NY, where Prof Basu lives,doesnt have state inheritance tax. Prof Basu's home state, West Bengal, tried out state expropriation of land holdings, rather successfully - led to pauperisation of the state. Evidence based policy?);

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

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The biggest inequalities in life occur at birth. Some are born abysmally poor, some rich beyond imagination. This has nothing to do with their hard work & has no moral justification. This is the reason why an inheritance tax to curb inequality is a must in any civilized society.

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Bulk of the wealth created between 2012 and 2021 is stock mkt valuations. The pragmatic soln to socialise that wud be social security a/c for all poor, invested in equities, withdrawals after 5/10yrs. But heck, some folks are even litigating a movement of NPS back to OPS;)

Jairam Ramesh

@Jairam_Ramesh

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The Prime Minister will never tell you that: * More than 40% of the wealth created in the country from 2012 to 2021 has gone to just 1% of the population * Approximately 64% of the total goods and services tax (GST) in the country comes from the poor, the lower middle…

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@somnath1978

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Among those who opposed Quit India movement was Rajaji, Ambedkar and the communists. And had minimal muslim participation. Wonder who in that list can be condemned?;)

Jairam Ramesh

@Jairam_Ramesh

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When the Mahatma launched the Quit India movement 82 years ago under the aegis of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad, Prasad, Pant and many others were jailed. The movement went underground, enabled in part by the Congress Radio. The newly-released OTT movie…

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@somnath1978

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From the Bosphorus to Malacca, frm Amu Darya to Palk Straits, there is only 1 other cntry w/a consistent tradition, since WW2, of electing its own representatives w/universal suffrage. That other cntry is Israel, but given its size, not really a patch on India - glorious perch:)

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@somnath1978

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If we need trade and a High Commissioner to get a "sense of play" on Pak, wonder why we have intelligence agencies? India's useful idiots are particularly idiotic..

Nayanima Basu

@NayanimaBasu

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The new government in India that comes to power after 4 June should start talking to Pakistan and allow the resumption of diplomatic ties so that it can assess where the state of play lies when it comes to Rawalpindi — My take #StrategicTalkByNayanimaBasu

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@mihirssharma 1965 - tail end of Ayub's golden decade - war 1990 - flush w/Af war $ - started jihad in J&K 2001 - again flush w/$ for another US excursion in Af - Parliament attack 2002-08 - period of fast growth, coinciding w/string of terror attacks Pak's best when its knackered...

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@somnath1978

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GOI + pvt sector shd sponsor a large fund to finance new air conditioning tech, one that uses less energy.

Siddharth Singh

@siddharth3

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Heat waves and air conditioners in India are in the news again. A thread based on @IEA ’s World Energy Outlook 🧵 Over the past five decades, India has witnessed 700 heat wave events, claiming 17,000 lives. Heat waves have only been intensifying over time, and this year the…

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@somnath1978

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+100. Pak shd continue, full on, w/hostility towards India...

Abdul Basit

@abasitpak1

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Pakistan needs to reflect seriously before taking any decision vis a vis India lest it regret again some years down the road. Kashmir is too important to be sacrificed for greed of a few Pakistani traders/industrialists. We also had serious economic problems before 5 August 2019.

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@somnath1978

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Constitution has alrdy been chged 200+ times...

Shashi Tharoor

@ShashiTharoor

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After Anant Hegde let the cat out of the bag, BJP leaders hastily stuffed it back in and dropped him from their candidate list. Now another BJP candidate openly says the BJP’s aim is to change the Constitution. How many more candidates can the BJP disavow for revealing the truth…

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@somnath1978

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Wonder why Raghuram Rajan, presumably w/Sunil Gavaskar mentality, emigrated? He wasnt happy w/uber liberal/secular India?

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

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Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, stated on Wednesday that a large number of young Indians are going abroad to set up their businesses because they are not happy in India. He noted that the young Indians have a "Virat Kohli mentality" and they move to…

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Its good if it gets "worse", all rose tinted blinkers on Indian eyes will be wiped off. Hopefully we scrap the GE414 deal and double down on an Indian engine effort, also scrap the white elephant MQ9. Ask US to remain txn-al and lay off our businesses...

Derek J. Grossman

@DerekJGrossman

1 month

US-India ties aren’t in “free fall,” but as I’ve also said, the two nations had a really bad week, and it could get worse from here.

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@somnath1978

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But why? Wht was really cooking?

Nistula Hebbar

@nistula

1 month

As a special gesture PM @narendramodi was hosted for a private dinner at the Lingkana palace in Thimpu, Bhutan by the royal family there, where he dined with the entire family, including the royal children and Queen Jetsun Pema.

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@somnath1978

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Freudian slip👇, Indian champagne liberalati are too much of 2 digit IQ;)

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@somnath1978

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Gold loans are a function of credit reaching the bottom of the pyramid. For the longest time, a political moan was abt banking/credit not reaching the less well-off. Now that it is, suddenly ita a bad thing?;)

Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳

@priyankac19

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@RealGopal Then please show this to the PM. Thank you.

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@somnath1978

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Endgame of this👇is withdrawal of implicit sovereign g'tee on state borrowings. For starters, it wud mean an instant spike in borrowing costs of many states, starting w/Kerala.

Ira Dugal

@dugalira

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This is going to be such an interesting case. It all stems from the centre’s decision to say that they will adjust state borrowing limits by the amount that was borrowed off balancesheet by state run entities but were effectively liabilities of the state. They adjusted some…

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@somnath1978

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IAF staff planning 101👇. J20 is "overhyped", so 36 Rafales will outclass 200 J20, ammuntion for the former will be exhausted within 4 days of an active fight. Of course, we wont have any proof of such outclasses, as Rafale + its champagme munitions left no € for recce sensors..

Aviator Anil Chopra

@Chopsyturvey

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Questions on China’s J-20 Stealth, at best 4.5 generation. No foreign buyers, low aircrew exposure, exaggerated production figures, Indian @IAF_MCC Rafales will outclass ‘Overhyped’ PLA Jets @Chopsyturvey via @THEEURASIATIMES

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@somnath1978

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India's financial services, incl its regulatory architecture, is world class - an extreme right-side exception for a relatively poor cntry. But we need to remain twinkle-toed to preserve the leadership position. My article in @livemint

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@somnath1978

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Mayank Yadav hits 150kmph for fun. Even Bumrah cudnt at his fastest. This is Shane Bond level stuff..

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@somnath1978

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Such claims of empricism👇 are typical of the social science types - invent a hypothesis, then make up claims of data...

suhas palshikar

@PalshikarSuhas

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Apropos nothing. More people think EVMs can be manipulated than those who think the machines cannot be manipulated. So, if we are looking for trust factor and public impression as yardstick of decision making, something needs to be done to restore that trust in EVMs.

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@somnath1978

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Even comrade Vladimir Ilyich Uliyanov didnt make such a sweeping conflation of pvt inheritance and public largesse...

Siddharth

@DearthOfSid

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Indian elites oppose reservation by arguing that one shouldn't get benefits solely by virtue of birth. But when it's about #InheritanceTax , the very same people argue that children should acquire ancestral wealth by virtue of birth. The hypocritical idea of 'merit' in India.

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@somnath1978

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@dhume Sauce, goose, gander is a fn of speed and not principles? Nice...

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@somnath1978

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Even Americans dont take Tom Friedman seriously anymore, but....

Jairam Ramesh

@Jairam_Ramesh

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The Minister's NYT buddy Tom Friedman some months back compared Dr. Manmohan Singh's response to Mumbai's 26/11 with Netanyahu's response to Israel's 7/10 and concluded that Dr. Singh behaved more wisely, maturely and ultimately more effectively.

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@somnath1978

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The 2nd pt (on GST) is obviously, clearly wrong, sourced likely frm an NGO staffed by a bunch of daddy-paid-US-degree types who cudnt get better jobs for themselves. Also cute conflation of income on 1 line and GST on the 2nd...

Congress

@INCIndia

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𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

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Finally watched the film 370. Yet another example of Bollywood being utterly useless. Lok Sabha looks tackier than BMC chamber. A mid 30s PMO officer ordering a bunch of govt officials arnd. Jr NIA officer "suspending" an IB officer. General sitting w/PM w/epaulettes inversed.

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@somnath1978

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Easy to take potshots @ Sanjeev Sanyal, tougher to look in the mirror and ans why WB's per capita income is lower than Orissa's. Why Calcutta is a retirement home, its best going out w/1 way tickets.

Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

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A piece about #SanjeevSanyal 's 'let-them-eat-cake' moment of an elite economist. "Poverty of aspiration" is an easy out, displays a poverty of imagination.

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@somnath1978

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Its an insult to several generations of women who competed on equal footing w/men, gave/received no qtrs, rose to the top (banking is a grt example) to argue women need quotas to rise. By the time we are done w/ quota fetish, we wud have consigned India to perpetual mediocrity..

Amitabh Dubey

@dubeyamitabh

28 days

My Times of India op ed on the Congress party’s 2024 Nyay Patra manifesto.

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@somnath1978

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Both @ashishchauhan and @svembu are grt appointments - hopefully they start the process of dismantling UGC. Its a worthless org. All unis shd be run by boards dominated by alumni, publicly-funded via an outcome-linked formula. Gatekeepers r seldom useful, UGC is nothng but one..

Siddharth Zarabi

@szarabi

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Brilliant appointments to the UGC @PMOIndia @narendramodi @ashishchauhan and @svembu bring top notch private sector leadership, and organisation building skills to the Commission, and will certainly contribute to the ongoing efforts to reform university education in India.

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@somnath1978

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@dhume Did NYT apologise abt this? Qtn of principle cant be moot..

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@somnath1978

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US isnt anti-India, but pro-US, as it shd be. And as the pre-eminent power, it isnt avuncular. As India gets closer to the US, it needs to be more wary of it, not less - we are not white and Kissinger's adage abt "being friends w/US" rings loud. Trust, but verify every time..

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Its truly miraculous. And right now it takes a tricky turn frm Worli seaface. Once the Sealink - Coastal road connector is in place, Bandra to Nariman Pt in <30 min. A drive over and under the sea, savouring India's only grown-up city skyline;)

Gopal Srinivasan

@GopalSri

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Worli to Marine Drive in 15 minutes 💕🎉. The miracle of Mumbai’s Infrastructure revolution

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@somnath1978

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Military trivia - 1 of 2 highest kill record in the fighter jet era belongs to an Iranian - Feridun Mazarandani, 18 confirmed kills, mostly flying the F14. The other one is Israeli - Giora Epstein, 17 kills. In a knife fight, there wont be a walkover;)

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@somnath1978

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Completely understandable in realpolitik terms. But next time an American grandee holds forth on democracy, freedom, freedom of speech....

Derek J. Grossman

@DerekJGrossman

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US-Pakistan reset is progressing, India won’t be pleased. “Both sides expressed satisfaction with the current positive momentum in bilateral relations.”

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@somnath1978

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Unknown gunmen resurrected after a brief hiatus...

Shiv Aroor

@ShivAroor

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BREAKING: Sarabjit Singh's killer Amir Sarfaraz shot dead by ‘unknown men’ in Lahore. Sarabjit was murdered by him in Lahore in 2013.

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@somnath1978

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Even Indians (media incl) shd not. Words are cheap, and neither Indian nor US corporations are looking for validations frm a diplomat to make investment decisions. Thankfully, US has shown its hands rather cheaply too - for a 4th rate pawn like Pannu...

Smita Prakash

@smitaprakash

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US media listening?

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"India’s attractiveness for investment, and as a geopolitical partner for countries wary of an increasingly authoritarian China, relies in large part on its image as a democratic, law-based state"👇. China says "hi" ;)

The ‘mother of democracy’ is not in good shape

In India, the gap between pro-democratic rhetoric and reality is widening

www.ft.com

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@somnath1978

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US is surely twisting the knife in. And India can do jack abt it. Big lesson, if ever such a lesson re US was needed..

The Times Of India

@timesofindia

1 month

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti has said that India and the United States are working together in the investigation of the alleged failed assassination plot against Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.

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@somnath1978

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Long before "simping" was a thing, a bunch of influential Indians, starting w/Nehru were Russia-simps. They discovered belaboured cultural linkages and civilisational affinities. Fact is, Russians are non-judgemental transactors - Yeltsin pulled off cryo engine on US pressure...

Alexander Dugin

@Agdchan

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India Aims to Emulate Chinese Strategy To the surprise of many, India currently boasts the fastest-growing economy in the world. In 2023, the country’s GDP grew by 8.4%. By 2027, it is projected to become the third-largest economy globally. If this trend continues, India might…

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