Seeing many Pakistanis seething in Indian defence threads. Believe your tales of Pak victories if you want, fill your school books with squadrons of IAF fighters and bases downed. But expecting Indians also to believe them is just silly.

No Indian PM should ever go to UNGA until we are made a permanent member of the security council. Send the EAM or the foreign secretary.

Russia’s GDP is just half of India’s, yet no U.S. President would invest to stage such a grand setting for an Indian leader’s visit. In geopolitics, soft power counts for nothing. Raw hard power is what really counts.

The next “reset” will come in a year or so, when China resumes its salami-slicing in Ladakh or Arunachal. India will then rush to Washington, with our journos and “experts” gushing about the welcome thaw with the US and reminding us that China can never be trusted.

Beautiful. For the life of me, I’ve never understood how the sides of the nation’s prime road could be left with just gravel and no footpath all these years. it looked ugly as hell

The reason our cities are overrun with slums is that the small percentage of the population with means would rather cut off their arms than pay even bare minimum living wage to the unorganized working class, who then cannot afford anything more than a shed in a city like Mumbai

It is funny how people think that “talented folks” leave India because of reservations. Most folks leave India at two stages: - after BTech: so that they can get admission in MS/PhD courses in US as a path to getting green card eventually. They move to US for money, better

Finally, India has come full circle. Down to the worst policies of Nehru/Indira. The problem with our industry is the monkey clinging to its back, the Indian government machinery. Take that monkey off and watch manufacturing take off.

I see criticism in the comments. To be fair, this is how all major Chinese cities look outside their core CBD. Surat looks like it has better quality infra even at a cursory glance. It will be better prepared for any future growth than 99% of Indian cities out there.

interesting…. idrlabs.com/what-religion-… via IDRlabs

Nincompoops who use this phrase to sound smart think Samuel Johnson’s quote is about how patriotism is bad. It was originally meant to highlight how politicians run to patriotism when they run out of ideas

Indians still believe this. “A lot of insanely wealthy people are miserable”…quoted from which survey? And poor people are happy? The people from lower strata has some of the most f***ed up families. Get wealthy, or at best find a stable job. That’s the only way.

If you want to know the future of a nation, look at its factories, not its stock market.

Singapore, Switzerland, HK all have populations less than 10M. They can thrive on finance, trade, niche industries etc. India on the other hand has more than 1.4B people and growing. You can’t employ a billion people in banking & consulting. Manufacturing isn’t optional here.

Indias new GST rates for cars is just a continuation of the horrendous policy tailor made to suit only one manufacturer. This has stymied our automobile industry for decades and made it non competitive globally.