The Kaipullai
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Not worth for a bio. Or Physics. Or Chemistry. Or Anything for that matter.
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Joined August 2011
In 2024, Indian people have given a verdict that will be remembered for a very long time in Indian politics. They have given BJP and partners a victory that feels like a defeat. They have given the Congress alliance a defeat, that feels like a Victory.
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I feel bad for Kamal Hassan. Poor guy had to go all the way to Gujarat to find a Granite scam, because the people involved in the actual TN Granite scam are co-producers of his latest movie and his political allies. Funny part is, Gujarat doesn't even have Granite.
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There are 9 crore farmer families in India. Out of which, 10 Lakh farmer families are in Punjab. That is barely 1%. I don't know what problem this 1% repeatedly has, which the other 99% doesn't have.
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Two days ago, one of the greatest Indians in the history of India, passed away. And most of us didn't notice. Which is very sad. Because this guy is the greatest, not only in India from 1947 but our whole 5000 year old civilization. He is MS Swaminathan. And this is his story.
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Just to put things in perspective, every two days, we vaccinate one entire New Zealand. .
Hey New Zealand, can you lend us @jacindaardern for a few months to help us deal with #COVID19 ? #COVID19India.
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If India ever has a DOGE, it will have 1 Secretary, 3 Joint Secretaries, 15 Additional Secretaries, 30 Deputy Secretaries, 60 Under Secretaries, 90 Section Officers, 120 Typists and Clerks and 150 peons, drivers and attendants. And they will hire a big 4 consultant and an.
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I think India is basically an anarchy which somehow survives because a few people have the conscience, morality or spirituality to do what they are supposed to do. I read a case in Trivandrum about a lady who wanted to buy a Skoda car to fulfill her dying mother's last wish.
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We have now reached a point in human history where the United Kingdom is condemning invasions.
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Everytime you now travel from Mumbai to Pune, in addition to the toll, always factor in paying Rs 2000 as a speeding fine. Because now the entire road, including one's in Vashi, Panvel and Pune have speed cameras installed, but govt conveniently skipped telling us the speed.
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Once upon a time, Navjot Singh Sidhu eliminated Bhagwant Mann from Great Indian Laughter challenge. Today, Bhagwant Mann eliminated Navjot Singh Sidhu from Indian Politics.
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l Really like the new Karnataka CM. A month back, he opposed Amul because it was from Gujarat & supported Nandini because, Kannada pride. Now he is posting images of his grandson studying in the Canadian International school. How quickly he went From Kannada pride to Canada pride.
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I think Indian YouTube now has so many podcasts that we have run out of guests to be on those podcasts. I mean the situation is so bad, that podcasters are now going as guests of other podcasters.
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Indian equity market is now at a point where every theory, thesis, formula and literature about stock markets, stocks and investments, has been run over by a king size bulldozer, and whatever remained has been burnt with a flamethrower. Let's take the recent IPO of Ola Electric.
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Pushpa 2 is not actually a movie. A movie is supposed to have a story, screenplay, a plot, an arc and in most cases, a closure. Pushpa 2 has none of that. It is a patchwork of incoherent and illogical videos, written by a group of people who have Allu Arjun tattoos on their.
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Me and my wife watched Kalki 2898 AD Yesterday. She asked me what did you understand from the movie?. I told her, I understood that the director has watched Mad Max Fury road, Black Panther, Iron Man, Dark Knight rises and Star Wars. Other than that, I had no idea.
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Rana Ayyub basically was half Robin Hood. She voluntarily took from the rich. But forgot to give it to the poor.
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If you can call a dictator, dictator, and then live to tell about it, post it on all forms of social media & make tons of money from it, chances are, you are not living in a dictatorship.
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The only reason why business like 10 min delivery, instant delivery, restaurant delivery succeed in India, is because of huge availability of low cost labour. The day we industrialize big time or ramp up manufacturing, all will collapse faster than a PWD Bridge in Bihar.
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PVR Inox announced a quarterly loss of Rs 12 cr for the Jul - Sep. This is after declaring a 179 cr loss in the previous Quarter. Therefore, is India the only country in the world, where all big movies earn more than 500 crores but the theatres showing them, make a loss?.
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Everyone : USA is doomed, USA is gone, USA has become lazy and bloated, USA is no longer the superhero of the world. USA after bringing 50% of the world to a grinding halt for 4 hours with one small accident.
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Shinzo Abe believed in India, when nobody else did. He was our genuine friend. The best way to honour him is by becoming the technological super power that he wanted us to become. Thank you sir for everything you did for us. .
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Nalanda University was one the world's most sacred and advanced learning centres for 600 years. Then it was annihilated ruthlessly by Bhaktayar Khilji in 1200. For 800 years, it was in ruins. Till Shinzo Abe came along, initiated and funded the redevelopment of Nalanda.
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No Youtube influencer should ever abuse Jio or Mukesh Ambani. They owe their livelihoods to him. Mukesh Ambani is singlehandedly responsible for creating the YouTube Influencer economy. If anything, they should put a photo of him in their homes and worship him everyday.
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In the last 7 years, Byjus raised almost ₹48k crore, spent more than ₹20k crore, hoodwinked thousands of innocent, poor parents, sponsored Football & Cricket World Cups and did many more things, only to come to the conclusion, that classroom education is the best education.
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Aadar Poonawala invested quarter of a billion dollars, on a Vaccine that wasn't certified yet, and was ready for this horrible time. Investing 250 million dollars is not a joke. And with him on our side, we have a chance to stop this wave.
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If you can vote against it, chances are, it isn't fascism.
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Triggering Opinion. What's the point in JEE being the toughest exam in the world, if we take 40 years to develop a fighter jet. What's the point in UPSC being so tough and picks only the best minds, if we don't have basic infra & Governance Delivery, 70 years post independence.
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In India this car will always be in the air.
BYD has released a new video of its Yangwang U9 supercar jumping 6 meters forward over a pothole using its "jumping suspension" feature.
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Population of Australia is 2.6 crores. That is less than the population of New Delhi. Their weather is hot and 90% of that country is so hostile that nothing can live there. But that country has won. 6 Men's Cricket world Cups.3 Men's Hockey World Cups.2 Men's Rugby World Cups.
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GDP data comparison . India China .2014 $2 Trillion $10 Trillion.2019 $2.7 Trillion $13 Trillion. If you haven't noticed, China has added an Entire India, in terms of GDP in the last 5 years. We haven't even completed the Pallavaram Flyover.
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Sachin Tendulkar's last Ranji match was in 2013. Virat Kohli's last Ranji match was in 2012. It is somewhat surprising that a batsman who retired 10 years ago, has played a domestic test match more recently than the current supposed star batsman and the stand in captain.
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In today's India, especially in a corporate setup, it is very important to learn good English. Because with good English you can get away with almost anything. Let's take MamaEarth earnings call this quarter for example. What they actually wanted to say was, "We dumped too.
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I woke up from nap and found the CEO of the World's fourth largest EV company (Excluding China) talk like a thug from Trilokpuri to a washed up stand up comedian whose last funny joke was in the Bronze age. A Mortal Kombat contest between a guy who makes scooters that don't work.
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If you ever think you are useless and jobless, remember, there is an Industries Minister for Kerala. .
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I can't believe that the Indian Olympic association hired an expensive designer, paid him a fuck ton of money all for a saree that they could have got in Pothys Aadi sale for 300 bucks.
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Hyundai sells more cars in India in a year, than the total automobile sales in Pakistan. In fact, Hyundai alone sells 3 times more cars in India, than the total automobile sales in Pakistan. They really should be more careful, on what they say.
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What a world we are living in today, where a company in Austin, Texas can push a bad update and ground flights are in Australia, take shows off air in the UK and shut down Hospitals in India. The question is, if this what US can do accidentally, what can they do deliberately?.
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Only an Indian govt body, like the BMC, can wash their hands off of a tragedy that tragically killed several people by saying they didn't approve what was supposedly India's largest hoarding and they didn't know it was there. So they aren't responsible.
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Dear @airindia, I had booked a flight for today to Bangalore which was supposed to leave at 9:00 Am. I get a message at 5:15 Am that the departure time has been revised to 11:45. So I change my departure time. Now I get a message, half an hour ago that the flight is revised to
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Price the Vaccine at 400 : People will call it loot. Price it at 250 : People will call it fraud. Give it away for free : People will question the Vaccine, bring in Illuminati, tell that it is a conspiracy to reduce global population and will say it turns a guy to a frog. .
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I keep seeing tweets by people who say that India putting a halt on all visas for Canadians, is a stupid move as no Canadian wants to come to India. It's like a poor country stopping visas to a rich country. It is India's loss not Canadas. Etc etc. The thing is, it is not about.
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My new year resolution is to develop the confidence that Mama Earth has, in seeking a valuation of Rs 24,000 crore, when their net profit is Rs 22 Cr.
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The most transformational aspect of This Asian Games, has not been the medal tally. It has been the way we won it. India has always been strong in sports like Shooting, Archery, Hockey, at the Asian Level. But what is stupendous is our Performance At the track and field.
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I would any day prefer a team like Papua New Guinea prosper over a Canada or Oman. Because PNG is a proper indegenous team made up of locals who loved & learnt cricket, then moved up the ladder. They are not a group of expats who masquerade as a team. That is a team cricket needs.
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40 years ago, China was almost as poor and as despondent as India was. They had a massive population, was largely agrarian, had no industries to speak of and daily life was a struggle. Today, they have the biggest network of high speed rail, have their own 5G chip, have 7 of.
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Actual size of Netflix's India market. 28 states, 8 Union Territories, 755 districts and 7935 towns. What Netflix thinks its market is. Napean Sea Road, Cuffe Parade, Bandra and Andheri Lokhandwala.
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Apparently Puja Khedkar, after doing all the frauds in the world, had to give UPSC exam 12 times before clearing it. Had she not gone batshit crazy, not only would she have survived, she would have been promoted year on year, retired as a secretary, gotten appointed on different.
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You guys remember Mihir Sen, the first Indian to swim the English Channel, the Palk Strait, The Dardanelles, The Panama Canal and pretty much every other long distance swims that exist? . We all remember him as a swimmer. But there's another story, most of us don't know.
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Indian elections are uncertain, but I think the results for the 2024 polls are more or less done. I think, we will witness a govt with the highest majority since 1984. And this means an amazing opportunity. I know this post means nothing, but here's my Wishlist for the next govt.
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Mumbai Local train is a problem that cannot be solved. In 1976 : The population of Mumbai was 79 Lakhs and the predominant office areas were in south Mumbai. Today the population of Mumbai is 2.4 crores. But the offices are still majorly based in South Mumbai. The population of.
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In the last 5 years, the Brit Royal family is averaging scandals a day. The latest one involves a lady called Rose Hanbury. Now, I normally stay away from regal scandals. But this time I decided to make an exception. Because this one has a Mumbai connection. Intrigued? Read on.
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Apparently, the IAS officer about whom I had posted yesterday, has so many skeletons in the cupboard that it resembles a graveyard. Her dad declared assets of Rs 40 Cr when he fought the elections. Her mom is Dr. Her Grandfather is an IAS officers. But somehow, she qualified.
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Shark Tank India is a show where a group of individuals running loss making companies, reject other businesses because they aren't making enough profits. With dramatic background music.
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Unpopular opinion : All our aspirations of replacing China as an advanced electronics manufacturing hub, Building 3 nm chips, becoming the biggest ship builders on the planet can wait. We first need to lay roads that don't resemble the lunar surface at the slightest hint of rain.
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I will never forget the famous reddit post on rabies. Read it. And never fucking take Rabies lightly again. You go camping and While taking a nap, a tiny bat bites You and gives you a tiny scrape that goes completely. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood.
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Ukraine is in a state of war. Pakistan has no food, no fuel, no money & lots of terrorists. Myanmar just had a military coup. Palestine is well, Palestine. But somehow the people there are happier than Indians. Some good quality weed is speaking here, not facts and figures.
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Me : I bought a car. YouTube Financial Guru : What a dumbkoff. You should never invest in a depreciating asset. If you had invested the money that you spent for the car on Maruti Suzuki shares, in 10 years you can buy 5 cars. Me : Can I go to work on Maruti Suzuki shares?.
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Apparently the UK Home Secretary hs said that Indians are the largest group that overstays their visa. I don't think people from the UK have any moral standing to speak on visa overstays. After all, they overstayed their Indian visas by 200 years. .
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Sri Lanka defaulted because it shifted overnight from normal fertilizers to Organic. El Salvador is about to default because it invested in Bitcoin. This tells us what happens to a country, which runs on advice from YouTube.
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All those post 2000 born Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma fanboys, don't have any idea how competitive cricket was when Sachin was in his prime. Australian team was invincble. South Africa was unbeatable. New Zealand was New Zealand. Sri Lanka were the World Champions. Pakistan.
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95% of the Padmashri awardees, over the last 5 years, were unknown people before they got the award. Even Google didn't have enough information about them. And that is the Padma awards' greatest Success. .
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What is the difference between an Ultra rich wedding and an Ambani wedding?. The Ultra Rich go and organize a wedding anywhere in the world. But Ambanis organize a wedding and the world comes to it.
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Byjus acquired Aakash and apparently is their only profitable venture. Unacademy is now opening physical education centres. Both these companies started of trying to "disrupt" these physical educators. Now they are becoming physical educators themselves.
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Going by how Foxconn Chennai and Sterlite Thoothukudi, are being sabotaged by Indians at the behest of someone, one thing is now certain. Be it 1757, 1807, 1857, 1907, 1947, 1977, 2020, 2057, you can easily find Indians who will betray other Indians, for 10 pieces of silver.
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Once upon a time I used to read everything this guy wrote. Then he went over to the dark side. And has become pitiable. Now for the Ranchod story. Lord Krishna didn't run away. He walked away on his own. Jarasandha attacked Mathura 23 times. And Lord Krishna defeated.
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In 10 years, India has moved from watching Cricket matches crowding around TV Shops, Hotels, Barber shops and whichever shop there was a TV, to watching Cricket on their own mobile phones, over the Internet. .
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Mukeshbhai is worth a 100 billion dollars, which is about Rs 7.5 lakh crore. But yet people are questioning a purchase of 523 crore. A rounding error in his wealth. But nobody questions certain journos on how they can afford palaces in South delhi, on a Journo's salary.
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I think there exists a high powered committee of babus, whose only job is to find newer and newer ways to harass the citizens in the most painful manner possible and then recommend them to the Govt.
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For all the King Kohli, Victorious Virat, Roaring Rohit and Smashing Sharma PR that happens on Star Sports, it has always been players like Bumrah, Shami, Ashwin & Jadeja who have pulled India out of the fire. I don't even remember the last time Kohli / Sharma won us a big match.
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TCS + Infosys revenue : $40 Billion. Apple revenue in wearables alone : $39 Billion. Services may be awesome, but having a Product is very important.
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Olympics happen every 4 years. Immediately follows are our recriminations, on why we suck in them. So, I decided to do some digging. I wanted to know who actually runs the sport federations, in which our athletes compete. And the results are not very surprising.
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India is not a priority market for Apple. In fact, most say Apple is insignificant in India. Yet, last year, their revenue in India was Rs 33k Cr. That is about $4 Billion. Apple generated more revenue than Bajaj Auto & Asian Paints in a market where they are supposedly absent.
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Sanjay Raut is not even a mainstream politician. He was an editor, who was sent to Rajya Sabha and has never ever, been a minister. He is literally in the bottom of the class, when it comes to Politicians . And that guy has 1000 crore in cash. Indian politics is truly rewarding.
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India's best Election commissioner - Malayali. India's best Civil Engineer - Malayali.India's best space scientists - Malayali. India's best Astronauts - Malayali. Malayalis are pushing the frontiers of awesomeness everywhere, including outer Space. Except in Kerala.
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Apparently Pakistanis try to taunt India by "drinking tea" which refers to them capturing Group Capt Abhinandan. Imagine how bad you have to be militarily, that your biggest flex is that you captured an Indian fighter pilot for less than 24 hours, whom you had to release.
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All old MI movies shifted from Netflix to Amazon Prime. First it was free. Now it is on rent. I don't understand who decides this, but you can't ask me to pay again for a movie, that too an old movie, after I pay for the Amazon Prime subscription, for watching those movies.
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The Bajaj Chetak is one of the best examples of why Capitalism trumps Socialism. As you all know the famous "Tilt the Bajaj Scooter" for it to start. What many of us don't know, is why this was the case.
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Electrified kms on Indian Railways from 1925 to 2014 : 20,059. Electrified Kms on Indian Railways from 2014 to 2021 : 24,080. We electrified more of our Railways in the last 7 years than we did in 90 years preceding that. .
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The story with the Andhra Capital Amaravati is as legendary as the old capital of Amaravati. When CBN got brand new state in 2014, he decided he wanted a brand new capital. So he spent upwards of Rs 10,000 cr to start work on his dream project. He convinced farmers to part with.
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When I posted on the contrasting growth trajectories of India and China over the last 40 years, a lot of people commented that India is a democracy, we have freedom while in China govt controls everything. Let me ask you this. Do small businesses in China need 76 different.
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One of the things that rich people, especially the ones who are already rich, podcasters, social media celebrities etc, need to stop saying is, "I deserve this money because I work very hard". Guys, let me tell you something that you probably don't know. Everyone works hard.
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I think every civil servant, before getting appointed has to mandatorily undergo a background check by the vaunted IB. Now Random people with free Jio internet published the entire horoscope of Pooja Khedkar's last 7 births, attested by a gazzeted officer, in triplicate, within.
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So Ola is launching a more expensive cab service called prime plus, where they promise cleaner cars, better drivers and no cancellation. Wasn't that Ola in the first place?. And what does it say about normal Ola? You will have bad cars, worse drivers, who will keep cancelling?.
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Reliance after spending $1.5 Billion on Research and Development over the last 4 years. "We are now a deep tech company" . Meanwhile, Amazon, Google, FB, Microsoft and Huawei, after spending $73 bil, $39 bil, $35 bil, $27 bil and $24 billion on R&D in the last ONE year.
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I still can't believe Uddhav Thackeray threw away his legacy, his political future, a formidable political party and trust of Lakhs of party supporters, just to be a CM for two years. Talk about a bad deal, this guy threw away a lifetime of influence, for 700 days of power.
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India might be the only country in the world where citizens pay income tax, goods and services tax, fuel tax, road tax, cess and other taxes for good infra like roads which they mostly don't get. And for the good roads the govt builds, they have to pay extra tolls for that.
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My Favourite IPO MamaEarth is back. Last time they wanted a Rs 24,000 cr valuation for having a profit of 24 cr. This time around they have made a net loss of Rs 151 cr. So they are being very very reasonable now. They are only asking for a Valuation of Rs 10,500 cr.
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I know BCCI is guilty of a lot of things but one thing they deserve credit for is their unwavering support they have to the Afghan cricket team. Giving them a stadium to host international matches, giving access to training facilities when they had none and supporting Afghan.
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The Chola empire was one of the greatest empires in the history of empires. Most of us, who didn't study CBSE history, know that they pretty much controlled the Indian Ocean. At their peak, if Indian Ocean was Mumbai, then Cholas were the Manik Baashas.
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I like Ashneer Grover's Spunk. This is a guy, who ran a business with a revenue of Rs 6 cr and a loss of Rs 229 cr, inflated bills, was caught & was sent out in disgrace, calling a guy who ran the world's 49 largest bank, with 22k branches & 51 lakh crore in assets, useless.
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A lot of of us might be wondering why our parents, at 30, could raise kids, buy a house, run a family and save some money, while many of us struggle to do it, inspite of us earning significantly more. What was the secret of their energy?. Then I realized, like us they didn't.
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Today, Pakistan's biggest weapon in the international arena is the importance that India gives to them. This makes the world believe that they are somehow important / relevant. Otherwise they have absolutely nothing beneficial to offer to the world. Zero. Zilch. If India.
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We are living in a time where people, who have studied two degrees, cleared multiple interviews, gotten into jobs, worked hard for 2 decades keeping aside family and pleasure to rise to the top, are being outearned by random guys, who belly dance for 90 seconds on a mobile app.
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Has anyone asked, how the current son in law of Tamil Nadu CM, has built a beach side palace in Chennai, which is probably larger than some sports Stadiums, on how he built it and where he got the money for it, without any noteworthy business or a source of income?.
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Apparently Reed Hastings is worried about why Netflix is not picking up in India. If you cast a Malhotra and a Dassani in a movie about Tamilians based out of Madurai, how will it pick up?.
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Accidentally stumbled onto the page of Devyani Khobragade, which more or less answers the question on why 10 lakh people waste 10 years of their lives for an exam which selects 500 people. Because once you are in. You can't get out. Imagine a lady, getting caught for visa fraud.
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Imagine you are the son of a 1920s baron, who has princes to call for reference. You are sent to study in England, in the most of elite of schools. You crack the prestigious ICS, which will give you the stamp of Royalty, that was only reserved for the whites.
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I still cannot believe how the ICC & US, were able to erect a 30k stadium, from scratch, in 3 months & manage to make it look better than 90% of Indian stadiums, which are built in a timeframe that is longer than a JNU graduate college tenure & costs more than the Pakistani GDP.
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Generations to come will scarce believe that a country, which was colonized for 200 years, completely looted and bankrupted, which transported rocket parts on cycles and bullock carts in the 60s, will successfully land on the moon within 60 years.
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