Vedica Kant @vedicakant Twitter profile

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Vedica Kant

@vedicakant

3 years

Most of Indian edtech is basically how to crack entrance exams. We’re building a society of test-takers.

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3 years

Can't disagree with Pritchett here on India's education system

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@vedicakant

4 years

The Indian wedding industry truly is agile and recession-proof.

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4 years

US: still debating masks India: "The 2020 Indian wedding has a new essential: Matching face masks"

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I died a little seeing this. You don’t step on books.

⋆ ✧ bec. (tv) ✧ ⋆

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girls don’t want boys girls want a book staircase

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I never need an excuse to post PJN pictures, but today I actually have one. Haters gonna die hating.

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@vedicakant

3 years

In the '80s India was a "loser country". That it would build a mighty software industry was never a foregone a conclusion. I explore how it did through the story of Infosys, which turned 40 this year!

Source Code

Liberalisation helped make India the world’s software capital. This is what it looked like to the men who built its most successful company, Infosys — A new story from India to the world, every week...

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Vedica Kant

@vedicakant

3 years

Kamala Harris joins a long and distinguished list of women of South Asian descent who have reached the highest echelons of elected government. - Sirimavo Bandaranaike 🇱🇰 - Indira Gandhi 🇮🇳 - Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰 - Chandrika Kumaratunga 🇱🇰 - Sheikh Hasina 🇧🇩 - Khaleda Zia 🇧🇩

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My favourite thing is that they brought along the doggo <3 <3 <3

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First Family of ⁦ @FreshworksInc ⁩

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4 years

What even is a neobank? How do they operate? Who are the neobank players in India? Can they succeed in the country? My first piece exploring the consumer banking space in India. @anmolm_

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@vedicakant

4 years

Thanks @benthompson !! Totally made my day 😀

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@benthompson

4 years

I wrote about Jio today, and am sad that I didn’t see this really fantastic two-part write-up on the history of Reliance until I had already published. Highly recommended

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How did Reliance go from being a staid oil and gas company to one of the most sought after investment targets globally? The answer is, of course, data (aka, the new oil). (1)

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3 years

Hike today did not disappoint 😍😍

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@vedicakant

4 years

Truly gone too soon. RIP. Such a lovely tribute by @aamozish

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@vedicakant

4 years

Finished the first two episodes of Bad Boy Billionaires and feel rage at the financial institutions more than anything. It’s also a good reminder that if we had proper bankruptcy laws in place a lot of this could have been avoided. Business failures can and should be normalised.

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Vedica Kant

@vedicakant

4 years

Feel wretched about the Calicut plane crash. Thinking about the families who were waiting for loved ones to come home. Calicut was a very formative place for me. I went back recently only to fall in love with the city again. So, I wanted to write about why it is special. (1)

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4 years

Reliance's AGM starts in a short while, and there's intense speculation on what the company will announce today. Everyone wants to know and speculate about how Reliance will shape India's future. I will get to that, but am starting with a wider lens.

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1 year

@Arati1411 Indian metro property prices make no sense to me

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@vedicakant

4 years

Watched Mississippi Masala again yesterday. Surprising (or sad?) that it is *still* one of the few films depicting the complexity of interracial relationships between two non-white characters. Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhary are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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4 years

😶😶😶😶

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This lovely photo, I learn, has a rich history. It was taken at the Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, in 1949 by the Institute photographer, VK Sharma - and belongs now to the personal collection of @Ram_Guha , whose father and grandfather were both scientists at the FRI!

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@vedicakant

4 years

I never need an excuse to post PJN pictures, but today I actually have one. Haters gonna die hating.

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4 years

America’s National Parks are amazing - I have now been to four! When I first moved to the US and knew nothing about them, I was amazed by the contradiction between what I thought of (and is) a massively capitalist society and the conservationist ideology the Parks represent.

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@vedicakant

4 years

This compliance chart by @TeamLease 's regtech arm Avantis made my head hurt. It's a great visual of exactly how regulation has choked India's ease of doing business.

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@vedicakant

4 years

The good folks @MRKR asked me to write about Reliance. A great opportunity to refine / build on some of the writing I’ve done on the company over the last few weeks.

How Jio Became the Darling of Silicon Valley

Why have Facebook and Google invested billions into an Indian telecom company?

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@vedicakant

5 years

I’m really glad this stupid question is getting push back. I loved when in “Becoming” Michelle Obama wrote this was one of the most useless things an adult can ask a child, as we should constantly be defining and refining who we are and what we want to do.

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4 years

Sorry, but you have truly sucked this week.

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RIP Rishi Kapoor. What is up with Me and Bollywood this week.

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4 years

I feel you, Don.

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@vedicakant

3 years

Hey Indian newspapers, can you pls use @Razorpay to power your online payments? I really want to give you my subscription money but your payment flows suck

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@vedicakant

3 years

Really shoddy - and dismissive - writing here. @sriramk and @aarthir aren't just a pair of users.

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@vedicakant

4 years

Wait, it that a Nehru jacket?

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4 years

Spent most of last week hiking in Utah and it was awesomeeee.

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3 years

We have a new baby, Maya. Twitter might only be doggie pics from now on.

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4 years

First-hand experience 👋🏽When I was doing my M.Phil, I would *always* get asked why I was interested in studying the Middle East. Often by white folks who were ... studying the Middle East. Control over knowledge production by former imperial/colonial types is still very strong.

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@itihaasnaama

4 years

And there is a growing body of scholars from South Asia and of South Asian origin who are historians of other regions. Though the automatic assumption is that if you are a scholar of color you only study your own people

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8 years

The UK's post Brexit hustling for trade with the Commonwealth always makes me think of the Empire Marketing Board.

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@vedicakant

4 years

There’s nothing in @andymukherjee70 ’s piece that I can argue with. It’s a grim summation of all the challenges that face India at the moment. (1)

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@vedicakant

4 years

Post-Ottoman world.

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@Magraki

4 years

So the CEO & Chairman of Pfizer is Greek, originally from Thessaloniki, while the CEO and co-founder of BioNTech is the son of a Turkish immigrant in Germany.

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1 year

. @supriyan once told me we could have either become the country of Rangeela or the country of DDLJ. Sadly, we went down the path of the latter…

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@sachdeva_pankaj

1 year

Two films that released in the same year. On women and their right to dream. #Rangeela

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@vedicakant

4 years

The East India Company is back with a a vengeance! Foreign funds = EIC Amazon = EIC Google = EIC Utterly ridiculous comparison. Historian in me dies a little every time I have to read this rubbish.

Foreign funds colonising Indian startups: Naukri.com founder Bikhchandani

Naukri.com and Zomato investor said foreign funds are the new East India Company that are colonising successful Indian startups by transferring ownership abroad to skip Indian regulations and taxes

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Vedica Kant

@vedicakant

10 years

Men of the 45th Sikhs marching with the Guru Granth Sahib in Mesopotamia during WWI. Via @I_W_M ( @PiyuK ) http://t.co/1iur2khoYQ

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@vedicakant

3 years

Today’s start-ups stand on the shoulders of a group of upstarts who wrote software for the world when their country was still known as the land of snake charmers. Very grateful to NRN Murthy, @NandanNilekani @TVMohandasPai & others for speaking to me.

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Liberalisation helped make India the world’s software capital. This is what it looked like to the men who built its most successful company, Infosys — A new story from India to the world, every week...

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@vedicakant

3 years

Indian startups need many, many more women in leadership roles. @anmolm_ and I talk about this a lot, so we are really excited to sponsor two scholarships for women applying to the latest cohort for @StoaHQ (one of our portfolio cos). Please apply here:

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@vedicakant

2 years

📣📣📣 I’ve been very quiet on Twitter because there has been a *LOT* going on! Very excited to share that after working with @anmolm_ on the newsletter and syndicate we are launching our own small fund @untitledvc_

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@anmolm_

2 years

🚨 🚨 @vedicakant and I are excited to announce the launch of our firm @untitledvc_ . Untitled Ventures is an early stage fund, through which we will continue to back founders from India.

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3 years

If I’m not on Twitter much these days it’s cos our lives has been taken over by this little terror. People don’t honestly tell you how much work puppies are 😥🐶

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4 years

Watching Bay Boy Billionaires: India and realised that all the business journalists covering they showed clips off are now policy heads at tech firms 👀👀👀

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4 years

Gitanjali Rao is obviously super smart and impressive, but the Time Kid of the Year thing is just awful. I even hated the picture with all the medals - talk about reinforcing very set notions of success and unhelpful stereotypes.

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4 years

The movie to beat right now is Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, the story of two cut-throat TV journalists jostling to get higher TRPs for their coverage of a sordid murder. The movie flopped because it was perceived to be too outlandish in 2000; 20 years later here we are.

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@vedicakant

4 years

Indians in US are overwhelmingly well-educated and upper caste. Despite inherited privilege, they have fashioned an American success story of struggling against the odds to achieve their status. This case suggests the need for a healthy dose of skepticism.

Cisco caste discrimination case busts the myth of the South Asian diaspora as a model minority

It exposes upper-caste anxieties about the introduction of the caste question in the West.

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Vedica Kant

@vedicakant

6 years

DUH. "For too long British politicians, journalists and voters have enjoyed a patently distorted vision of the nation as indispensable world player. Now the nation is facing the painful truth that the UK is not as pre-eminent as it has liked to believe."

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@vedicakant

3 years

Why is there a McKinsey for kids??? 😣😣😣😣

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@McKinsey

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McKinsey for Kids heads to Asia to explore K-pop, containers, and Asia’s role in global trade. Drawing insights from our #FutureofAsia research initiative, learn about the journey of all our stuff—alone or with your little one—here: #TheAsianCentury

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@vedicakant

2 years

Good god. The love with which she speaks of the Raj is … something

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“The British empire that brought Infrastructure, legal system, civil service, military to many countries [and that’s a good thing]”. No Suella, that’s called colonisation. We didn’t want you there. You took our language, culture and land. We didn’t need or want “your help”.

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3 years

The one start-up @anmolm_ and I are super bullish about is @JarAppHQ . The company just raised $4.5M this week, and we spoke with founders @misbahspeaks and @agNishchay to learn more about their journey and future plans!

A conversation with Misbah Ashraf and Nishchay Ag of Jar

6th September

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@vedicakant

3 years

NGL. I worked for *months* interviewing people and researching this piece and I’m so excited it’s finally going to be out tomorrow!!

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3 years

Tomorrow: "Source Code," by @vedicakant .

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@vedicakant

4 years

Also the birth anniversary of this Indian. I never need an excuse to post a picture.

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@vedicakant

4 years

No filter as they say.

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@vedicakant

4 years

@palakzat Great thread. Nirma also became a case study for companies looking to address the mass market segment in other lower income countries. At Wharton, our marketing prof played the Nirma ad in class when we’re discussing this lol.

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@vedicakant

4 years

Seeing another start-up highlight JEE results and feel sad that sad that edtech companies aren't able to essentially break out of old models. Indian education is so deeply broken.

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@anmolm_

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Too many start-ups teaching kids how to code. Not enough startups teaching kids how to have fun.

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4 years

This pandemic has been tough for everyone and I’m homesick. Thinking about Calicut today at such a time made me so upset because it is a lovely place with such warm people, and in my memory it is a symbol of all the things I love about my country. (12)

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2 years

I find graphs like this v sobering because it’s a reminder that economic growth is not a given for any country and working towards growth requires constant striving. Not just taking things for granted. It’s a good reminder for India

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In 1990, Mexico was richer than Poland, Turkey, Romania and Malaysia. Not anymore.

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3 years

Rainy weekend.

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The North Cascades in morning light.

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3 years

Happy diwali!!! So homesick 😫

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3 years

We have a fun edition of the newsletter out this week! A great conversation with @Rahul_J_Mathur on his BimaPe journey! @anmolm_

A conversation with BimaPe's Rahul Mathur

July 5

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4 years

R&R time.

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@vedicakant

2 years

Love Pasoori, but the idea of South Asian unity is more true in the diaspora than in South Asia (it’s always been so to some extent). I don’t think the lines of partition have ever been more real.

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2 years

Startups have only begun to scratch the surface of their potential contribution to the Indian economy -- a story that is still playing out and is, as yet, untitled. 🚀🚀🚀🚀

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@vedicakant

4 years

Really upsetting news to wake up to. What tragedy in the middle of this already awful time. Calicut was my home and it’s people are the most warm hearted and caring. Praying for all the passengers and the city.

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Just in: #AirIndia Express aircraft from Dubai to Calicut with 191 passengers crashes after overshooting the runway and going into the valley. Fire tenders and ambulances rushed to the spot. - @jagritichandra reports Courtsey- Airport source

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The very 1st one. Happy 75th 🇮🇳🇮🇳 (I look at this picture and want to say they were simpler times, but they weren't)

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@vedicakant

3 years

Another hike 😍😍😍

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4 years

So appalling - and unsurprising - to read this excerpt from Devaki Jain’s autobiography. The predator is quite obviously Gunnar Myrdal. Yet another example of how academic superstars have forever been given a free hand to destroy women’s self worth.

The Story of an Unwelcome Advance by a Globally Renowned Economist at Oxford

Devaki Jain's memoirs recount an act of sexual assault by a reputed economist when she was young, which affected her both academically and personally.

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The latest edition of our newsletter just went out. We look at all the big Indian start-up news and @anmolm_ writes about why he's so bullish about @Razorpay .

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@vedicakant

3 years

Let no one say @anmolm_ isn’t committed to our newsletter 🥰🥰

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@vedicakant

3 years

Christmas sunrise this morning. 🎄🎄🎅🏽🎅🏽

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@vedicakant

3 years

Sorry, but this is just a *terrible* ad.

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@iHrithik

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Ordered samosa on @zomato and… koi mil gaya 😄😄 #Ad

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4 years

this is actually really good and blunt from @chetan_bhagat "Right now, our youth — ironically, the most affected — doesn’t really care. An entire generation will be unemployed or underemployed. Cheap data has been our youth’s bane"

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@vedicakant

7 years

The various fashion statements going on in this image are just amazing. Dhoti, churidar, kilt FTW. #decolonizingfashion

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@vedicakant

4 years

We wrote about WhiteHat Jr's attempts to silence its critics in our Mon newsletter. The company clearly has a large + eager customer base. But seeing the # of people tweeting negatively about the company, I wonder how much reputational damage the company will suffer. @anmolm_

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4 years

some really deep analysis of the Reliance AGM with @anmolm_

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@vedicakant

4 years

To understand Reliance, one has to understand how it was shaped. In Part I, I write about Reliance's origins and the now legendary Dhirubhai Ambani. It is the story of an India in transition - from colonialism through License Raj to free(ish) enterprise.

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h/t to @dhume for sharing this absolutely fantastic piece of writing by Gulzar Natarajan. It's the most clear eyed and level-headed assessment of the state of the Indian economy. Highly recommended reading for anyone who is interested in India. (1)

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3 years

This is a great initiative from ⁦ @PineLabs ⁩. Would love to see more pvt sector orgs take the lead in this. Corp speak is full of sports jargon, but not many orgs in India recognise the skills athletes can bring to their orgs…..

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2 years

My two cents is that Netflix caters more to the diaspora audience than an domestic Indian one.

Netflix: Why the world's biggest streaming service is frustrated with India

With 5.5 million subscribers, the world’s biggest streamer is lagging way behind its main rivals in India.

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3 years

There is nothing wrong in asking friends for help when you need it and India really does right now. And, of course, you can tell who your real friends are in times of crises. But pls also remember that this govt has made a virtue of atmanirbharta.

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4 years

On Armistice Day, remembering the 1.5 million Indians who participated in WWI. Their images, stories and voices were a constant in my life when I was writing my book. And while their stories are more known today than they were before the centennial, there’s a long way to go.

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TIL that out of 993 universities in India only *SEVEN* are licensed for online learning. That amounts to ~25,000 of 37 million university students in the country.

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@vedicakant

2 years

We are excited to share @untitledvc_ ’s first publicly announced investment in DPDzero! When we met @Ananthshroff and @ranjith19 and heard what they wanted to build we were bowled over by their conviction (1)

Fintech startup DPDzero raises Rs 3.9 crore in funding led by Better Capital

The fintech startup will use the funds to make technology accessible to all cohorts of lenders, allowing them to focus on acquiring new borrowers.

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7 years

I have to write in American English these days. Organization. Favor. Color. This is killing me.

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@vedicakant

3 years

Please drop everything and go read this oral history of Dil Chahta Hai. So, so good. Aamir really has some zeitgeist capturing movies under his belt: Rangeela for the 1990s, DCH for the early aughts.

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🇮🇳 Republic Day is a good time to remind ourselves how radical in many ways the Indian constitution was and is. Always return to @MenakaGuruswamy speaking about it.

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4 years

Was thrilled to find fresh kari patta today. Made kadhi 😍😍😍😍

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@vedicakant

4 years

We ate a lot because Malabar food is really the best. (10)

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@vedicakant

3 years

For a young country, India places too much emphasis on age / experience / gender. Very conservative

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@anmolm_

3 years

Need more Gen Z in Indian Venture firms- too many boomers.

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A year and a half since I was last home. Terribly homesick.

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4 years

Gorgeousness.

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The city’s public library is still heavily used. It gave me so much joy to see parents come with their children to check out books. It was also a sad reminder of how public spaces in so many of our other cities have utterly shrivelled up. (9)

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3 years

Genuine Question - why is the term “promoter” still in circulation in India vs investor or founder? IMHO, it just seems like a term that only further entrenches the notion that business is sleazy somehow...

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@vedicakant

4 years

On Gandhi jayanti, a reminder that Gandhi was perhaps the most revolutionary political thinker of the 20th century. Gandhi’s Satyagraha obliged practitioners to “always keep an open mind and be ever ready to find that what we believed to be truth was, after all, untruth.“

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I'm sorry, but...?!!