Kushan Mitra
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I wish Dad could have spent some more time with Boyzilla; but at lest their lives intersected for a short while. Anyway, life carries on…
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So now the Delhi and to-be a Punjab CM can coordinate on Parali burning every winter?
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Every Indian celebrity who endorses a Chinese brand beyond today is taking blood money.
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My concern with Narendra Modi wearing an Apple Watch is not anything to do with the price but more to do with the Americans having potentially sensitive health data of our Prime Minister.
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While bypassing the protests at the Rajasthan-Haryana border
@iraghava
and I drove through a village that had this sign.
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Studying science at the high school level SHOULD NOT be optional. I rest my case.
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Since it is already out there; Dad passed away late last night. He had been suffering for a while.
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What I've always found peculiar about the Khalistani movement is that many of them base their claims around the empire of Ranjit Singh, but they've NEVER demanded the capital of Ranjit Singh. You know why.
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I'm hearing from friends in the US that Indian techies are desperately trying to send their non-insured parents back to India. Selfish buggers.
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Peaceful protests are only allowed to block the Indian economy y’see
Canadians have the right to protest, to disagree with their government, and to make their voices heard. We’ll always protect that right. But let’s be clear: They don’t have the right to blockade our economy, or our democracy, or our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop.
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Taking a chopper over Mumbai over the last two days made me awestruck at the infrastructure build-out in the city, much of it centrally-funded. Made me wonder, what the fuck we were doing under the UPA?
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The UK-India FTA is pretty much dead in the water now, if it wasn't earlier. The Brits have torpedoed relations with both China and India. Spectacular diplomacy.
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Indians are getting richer, we need more leisure facilities inside cities beyond malls and movie theatres. Paintball, off-roading, even karting tracks. This rush every long weekend is unsustainable.
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While I’m sure critics of Modi will point fingers at the administration for
@FordIndia
shutting manufacturing operations, the fact of the matter is that it was a product and marketing failure.
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Someone I know was on the Shatabdi train with the Bengaluru
#COVID19
runaway. He got a message to get tested immediately.
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Let me throw up something about the Shaheen Bagh protests. They’re costing me at least ₹75 and 30-60 minutes every working day.
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That attack on a Sikh protestor by Mamata's goons will not get a fancy speech by
@MahuaMoitra
or protests abot the 'Death of Democracy' by
@derekobrienmp
because they're the worst type of hypocrites.
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The case for trade with Pakistan, as propounded by the Pakistanis is that they have an attractive market. A quick glimpse of Pakistan’s automotive sector belies that.
There were 30,000 cars sold in Pakistan in ALL of 2023. For the full year. That is fewer cars than India’s
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The idea of India running 'Death Squads' in North America is a bit funny.
That said, maybe it is time for an OTT series about a desi guy who is a IT support engineer by day and a 'Indian Death Squad' member by night. Where he meets a super-successful female Wall Street Options
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I know
@sanjeevsanyal
has rubbed lots of people the wrong way lately, but his statements on Bengal and Kolkata hit hard. Because he is right. Even today, the city continues to lose its best and brightest.
Another weird way of measuring how Kolkata has fallen is property values.
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Well done Public Works Department. Flooding on top on an elevated road is an achievement!
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Keep in mind that COVID-19 isn’t the only killer. By bringing the healthcare system to its knees, many people with treatable conditions are dying because they’re being denied care or are too afraid to go to hospital.
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There are tens of witnesses who dragged this guy out of the car from the drivers seat...
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Quite clear after the NYT story today that the ‘Rafale Scam’ was a Chinese-funded disinformation operation. What does that say about those who perpetuated the scam?
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Ford made some great cars in India and the Sanand plant was one of the best this side of the planet. But they only have themselves to blame for failing in India. Kia India, selling cars for just two years has outsold them by a hefty margin for its nature existence.
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A quick note on the luxury car industry in India. Despite a decline of 5% in China, Audi alone sold 701,289 cars in China last year. And despite doubling sales in India last year
@AudiIN
sold 3293 cars.
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These Lithium cells for automotive applications are made in India by
@log9materials
and today the company is inaugurating a mass production line for Lithium cells in Bengaluru. A genuinely important and proud moment for the Electric Vehicle transition in India.
#KushanDrives
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Problem is that no-one will call Nasir out as a sexist. And therein lies the rub.
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I’m in a taxi in Delhi, and while I’m no believer in ‘taxi journalism’ my cabbie, a middle-aged Sikh gentleman told me this, ‘ek mauka milega toh yahaan bhi kar lenge.’ If you don’t believe this country took a hard turn against ‘mohabbat’ then you’re mistaken
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Some people will keep ranting against Modi, but this is going to supercharge India's growth over the next two-three decades. And honestly, you have to see it to believe it.
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Pakistani media has so far shown footage of a Hawk that went down in Odisha in 2016 and a MiG-27 that crashed at Jodhpur in 2017. You can verify anything from tail numbers of the planes.
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I’m no friend of Chidambaram, but I do find it ironic that a woman who killed her own daughter is the one who will send him to jail.
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My mother shared this with me, would have been late 1986 or early 1987. Baba
@shakyamitra
and myself
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The wife
@nandz
owns a post-facelift EcoSport. And this car basically created the sub-4m SUV segment. Yet, a combination of pricing and poor marketing allowed first Maruti, and then the K-Pop twins to run away with the segment.
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While Rahul Gandhi fulminates against the RSS, he should visit the north-east and see what a role the organisation is playing in promoting local traditions.
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No matter what your politics Atishi Marlena was doing work that successive governments have failed to do; that is improving our public school system. Her ideas should be emulated across the country. Her removal is a regrettable decision.
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Here is the thing, no-one likes what Arvind Subramanian did today. Because he has come out as a coward. He had the ability to speak out because he was in power. Now he is just trying to sell a book. No matter what your politics, such people are despicable.
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The big winner from the Singur episode turned out to be
@narendramodi
because it helped burnish his credentials as a pro-business leader.
I covered the Singur episode extensively for Business Today; personally, I wanted the factory to be built. Singur is close to my ancestral
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Snarling, hypermuscular Hindu beasts seen near Delhi Airport.
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I know Rahul Verma of MapMyIndia for many, many years and let me assure you that he is not an arrogant prick like the guy who stole from them. Also, I’ve seen a lot of the stuff MMI builds and quality of GIS data they have and yeah, they are a proper Indian success story!
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Watch the first episode of
@TheDailyPioneer
Conversations where I talk with
@sbikh
on a host of issues ranging from data nationalism, Chinese money for startups and how to survive slowdowns and recessions.
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I guess he is angry because Royal Enfield is running away with the 350+ segment. The RE Hunter is sucessful despite taxes.
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Even the Figo which had the best petrol engine in its segment, could never really make a dent on Tata products let alone Maruti and Hyundai.
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Baba and Swapan were the two leading young leading left historians, educated by the best. Yet, they were smart enough to realise very early on, unlike your garden-variety ‘intellectual’, what India really was.
And while they gave intellectual cover to the BJP by starting the
I managed to secure this photograph with some effort. It is a small reminder of that historic day in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. I was there with my close friend Chandan Mitra
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The sad thing is that the Americans - Ford and GM were among the first new carmaker’s to come to India when the market was opened up alongside Daewoo. It was the fourth carmaker, a relatively unknown company then, Hyundai Motor that stole the show.
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Lanka deports 600 clerics, including 100 Indians
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The Aspire, possibly the most-proportional looking sub-4m sedan could never take on the Amaze let alone the Dzire.
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Will you find one crazy isolated incident in a country as large as India every single day? Yes. But do not use it to make sweeping generalisations of the country.
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Everyone would do well to remember how the Sri Lankans finally stopped the LTTE; no ‘eye for an eye’ bullshit. Just savagery. And full backing from India (because one particular person wanted revenge - not mohabbat)
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The last time calls for 'redistribution' filled the air, it destroyed India's wealthiest city. Yes, Calcutta was the richest city in India, it was India's cultural and educational hub. And you don't need me to tell you where it is today. But I do anyway.
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On a positive note with
@Dev_Fadnavis
back, the Mumbai Metro, the HST, the trans-harbour link and the Navi Mumbai Airport projects will not be delayed.
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The SC has effectively called Sanjiv Bhatt and Rana Ayyub liars.
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Remarkable just how many journalists he gave a start to. They are all part of his legacy.
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Let’s be honest, no one stopped buying cars made by a Chinese carmaker with direct links to the CCP after Ladakh incidents, so if you think people will cancel their Crete’s after a social media post are living in la-la land.
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Something that irritates me in North India is that partition is seen solely from the Punjabi lens and the insane violence of Bengal ignored
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Another shot of the Rani Ki Vav from above. Let me put it like this, if this was in Europe y'all would go out of your way to visit and even pay 50 Euros for the pleasure. Here, entry is ₹40.
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Stupidly long election followed by a stupidly long delay in counting. And you wonder why rumours are flying thick and fast? I believe in EVM's and I believe in the Election Commission but I don't think anyone can argue that these elections haven't been too frikking long.
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To the moron who took his Scorpio under a waterfall and whose sunroof failed as a result. Congratulations on voiding your warranty and best of luck getting money from the insurance company!
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Any Indian who has lived through terrorism, that is pretty much everyone, is nodding in quiet appreciation of Modi and Doval right now. And to think such a report appeared in British Pravda of all places.
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The major disappointment of the election season so far is the apparent gag order by the Congress High Command on Mani Shankar Aiyar. This must be rectified -
@smitaprakash
@Nidhi
@ShivAroor
get him to say something!
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THIS IS A BIG DEAL! In more ways than one.
So
@IndiGo6E
has 1330 planes on order; that is going to create an incredible number of jobs in the aviation sector in India in the coming decade.
At least 150,000 direct jobs but then imagine the jobs created in the ancillary
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I remember when the post-election BJP-SS split happened, a very senior political journalist told me simply this, "Remember Macbeth, and remember how it ends."
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In a story I'm writing I'm mentioning GIFT City in Gujarat - GIFT standing for Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City. But it is far from being the first city that is an acronym in India. That honour will always go to Noida.
But here is a fact that blows my mind.
Noida
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Bengal was the richest province in India even during Mughal rule. All thanks to the finest textiles. The textile mills of Manchester killed Kolkata, so I do find it ironic when a Bong supports ManU.
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Will be interesting to see which direction a particular media organisation takes now 🤔
"Today, the Congress party is not what it used to be," says
@JM_Scindia
after joining the
@BJP4India
.
Read more:
#JyotiradityaMScindia
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Just spoke to someone doing number crunching in UP and I’ll go out on a limb and predict that we very well might have a federal front government come June. And possibly a Southern PM.
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This was the return trip, you can watch the entire video on the way from Mumbai to Shillim here
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So at the lunch after the drive of the
@HondaCarIndia
Elevate, they went all out to impress automotive journalists by having this at the lunch spread…
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So, no cheap Scotch happening anytime soon in India. Although, Glenlivet 12 is cheaper in Gurugram than in some duty-free outlets.
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So two-wheelers then... The collapse of the Pakistani economy led to sales collapsing to just a million units last in 2023; a decline of 32 percent.
India's two wheeler market has also been tepid but has seen recent growth but in February, a total of 1.5m two-wheelers were sold
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Rajiv Gandhi’s signature achievement has been reversed by the Supreme Court.
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Let us remind ourselves what Hirohito did on August 15, 1945. He surrendered, without any guarantees that the Americans would spare his life. Why? Because he didn’t want his people to go through unimaginable suffering. Hamas however take joy in the suffering of others.
Hamas & Hamas apologists are calling for a ceasefire to “avert the impending human catastrophe”. Well here’s a very simple way Hamas can ensure no harm comes to Gaza
• return all Israeli hostages immediately
• return corpses of Israelis
• hand over all those who entered
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The next rich kid in an overpowered car who does something stupid in India is going to get lynched by the mob. And this builders kid, the cops who arrested and stuffed him with pizza and the judge who bailed him are going to be to blame.
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A couple of things to note. Six airbags on most cars are the following. Front driver+passenger; front knee or seat airbags and side curtain airbags for six. There are no airbags as such for rear passengers. 1/n
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The 13-th century era Tambdi Surla Mandir deep inside Mollem National Park in Goa is one of the only surviving temples from the pre-colonial era inside the borders of Goa. The brutal Portuguese Inquisition destroyed most traces of the vibrant culture across the state.
Built in
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For example
@MercedesBenz
has MBRDI in Whitefield, Bengaluru which is their main software development hub. In fact, every single of 2,093,476 Mercs sold in the world in 2021 had most of its code written by Indian software engineers.
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Deliberate, will blame Modi for not making it free. More drama like the fake letter
Another DRAMA....In Metro how can Delhi Govt can decide free - without Centre's approval?....full DRAMA
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You can fool some people some of the time, but satellites don’t lie…
#WATCH
| On air pollution, AAP leader Priyanka Kakkar says, "...You may have read the news that there are 20 districts in Haryana and 2 in Punjab that are in the most polluted 52 districts of the country... Haryana does not do monitoring properly...In Delhi, there is one monitor
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'Democracy is Dying in India' is being highlighted by...
- A nepo kid on a channel owned by an autocratic state that treats dissent with a cane. Or a sword.
- A nostalgic Bhadralok working for an American Billionaire living in a place where democracy has ACTUALLY died
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I would love it if the Judges of the Supreme Court and the 'learned' senior advocates instead of having petty ego battles, read some of the comments on social media platforms about this 'encounter', because this is a stinging indictment of the judicial process.
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As I said, Delhi is flooded. Lutyens Delhi is underwater. Almost.
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The Mallu Media Mafia always first to praise Mallus, should work overtime to find the group of Mallu boys who fed that poor mother elephant that firecracker stuffer pineapple.
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Imagine what would have happened without social media. This kid would have been allowed to get away with murder.
BREAKING: Pune Police arrest head of Forensics Dept & a Sassoon Hospital doctor for switching blood samples of the underage driver to show no alcohol content during his medical test on May 19, reports
@divyeshas
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Indian automotive dealers association FADA releases their November figures and the big, big surprise is the massive jump in two-wheeler sales by 49% MoM.
For a long time, many of us observers of the auto industry have felt that the lack of sales of two-wheelers is an indication
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This is not a change for the Government to make. Whether one is a Armed Forces Officer or not, you determine who gets your assets and entitlements after you pass.
AFAIK all members of the armed forces write a will, and if Captain Anshuman Singh said that his wife should get
Captain
#AnshumanSingh
's father and mother said they want change in NOK rules as their daughter-in-law
#SmritiSingh
doesn’t live with them any more and she has changed her address (in office records) and that she now receives most entitlements after their son’s death.
Details
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This is how you build right-wing resentment
@vikramchandra
by being so patronising. How will this video be played out on social networks?
Patronising Joker Vikram Chandra of NDTV gets his bubble burst by STINGING REBUTTAL by Abhijeet Dwivedi of ABVP
#FoE
#FreedomofSpeech
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Keep in mind that the two London-based business 'newspapers' are nothing more than hafta-seeking grifters. They had both gone full-tilt against MbS, special reports and all. But then Aramco threw them some crumbs and silence was bought.
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Mr. Pachauri doesn't give 2023 data though when India recorded record four-wheeler sales and two-wheeler sales recovered smartly. But of course, you couldn't expect that from him, could you?
People are buying less cars than 2018.
And less 2wheelers than 2013.
A sure sign of stagnating purchasing power of middle & lower middle classes.
Specially in rural India.
Those claiming otherwise are manufacturing data.
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What I don't understand about people paying so much to go to the US - 1.25 crore? To work a dead-end job and with crazy healthcare costs?
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And let's not forget, Ranjit Singh was a Dude! I don't think there was a ruler like him in modern(ish) Indian history. And I'm very sure Ranjit Singh would have dealt with this lot with extreme disdain.
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