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Ashwini Panda, an Odisha civil services topper, was caught by vigilance for taking a bribe for land conversion. That’s fine. Bribery in sarkari kamkaj is routine. We understand that. What’s outrageous is he asked for just ₹15,000. Now that’s unacceptable and demeaning to the

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One much ignored aspect of this book is that it pretty much predicts which professions are at risk of being made obsolete by AI. Pattern matching work is basically doomed. Rory Sutherland

You know how important Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road IT corridor is, for India's economy? KR Puram Metro to Silk Board. 19 km. 500+ IT companies. 9,50,000 high paying jobs. ₹1,50,000,00,00,000 IT exports per year! State and Central govts MUST help with infrastructure!

The most idiotic move caused huge jams on the complete road till Whitefield.

Most people tend to compete with each other on intelligence, but the true alpha in the world lies in who can (1) withstand more pain (2) ignore more ridicule (3) survive more failures without losing any of their energy, enthusiasm, and passion.

In #Bengaluru Apartments residents appeal for ‘ROADS’ as the Varthur-Gunjur Road, with potholes and craters coupled with crawling traffic, makes commute a nightmare. Most of the residents are techies who fix glitches globally. The Times Of India

We have spent Rs. 2,82,000 crore on Swachha Bharat mission. And Rs 1,65,000 Crore on Smart Cities. We already have ethanol blended fuel to keep environment clean. Inflation is less than 1%. We are creating 2 Cr jobs every year. Our roads are at par with the US. What else do NRIs

NPCI made ~₹1,500 crores in profits on ₹4,000 crores of revenue in 2024–25, with EBITDA margins above 50%. And they did this while spending just ₹210 crores on tech and another ₹290 crores in depreciation. In other words, just ₹500 crores to run UPI, IMPS, NACH, which is

Richard Hadlee broke his head, Malcolm Marshall knocked out his teeth, Imran Khan knocked him unconscious, and Michael Holding sent him to hospital. And yet Mohinder Amarnath got 3 centuries in Pakistan, 2 in the West Indies and 1 against Thommo in Australia. In those days,

Man of the match in the path-breaking 1983 World Cup final and semi final, the one and only Mohinder ‘Jimmy’ Amarnath turns 75 today. Rarely has a braver cricketer played: was hit all over the body (and head) but still admirably stood his ground and hooked the fastest bowlers of

This means : 1. ROI on reading is exponentially higher now. 2. Books may become rarer to read with the industry under threat /decline.

This is a very good point. At scale compositional synergy is as good as perceived intelligence. The only issue I see is that human biases get magnified. Psychology is not mathematics. And that can lead to very very strange outcomes.

abrahamic faiths are apps (self contained, with one set of instructions & permissions), whereas hinduism feels more like an os with a kernel + a bunch of shells, endlessly extensible, backwards compatible with ancient scripts, etc.

OK. I will tell the Whatapp story. Remember success has many fathers and we are talking about events 16 years past. Events that did not seems to extraordinary when they are happening. This is the memory of memories, and a lot of detail of that time is now lost. As I remember it

This is one of my favorite Peterffy stories that didn't make it into the profile. In 1982, Peterffy was out to dinner on the Upper East Side with a friend. When they walked into the restaurant, three men at a table near the entrance spotted his friend and invited them over.

Earlier this week I tweeted that people who want to get rich should focus on maximizing their career, not investing In a sign of the times (frothy market), a bunch of people told me I was wrong. But I’m obviously not wrong, and it’s worth talking a bit about why Let’s say your