The Emissary I've said it before, Akshar and will repeat it. For all the rhetoric about corruption, there simply wasn't enough prosecution after 2014 to create a sense in the middle class that justice was being done. A voluntary disclosure of corruption scheme might have worked better here,

And the award for the most linked-in like statement not made on linked-in goes to...

Trust deficit. If the government had a couple of high level authorised figures who were willing to work with Wipro, asking what it wanted on the ground, for its security, how much money it sought, etc. things could have been better. This is the difference between China's

If I was in Gadkari's place i would've been working with the IT department to make Fastag the standard for all parking and all congestion charges in all cities. Congestion charges have to come to Indian cities.

Ek business ki maut!

Good day to re-up this.

Paying a bribe to a public official should not be a crime. Everyone should be able to confess it without fear of prosecution, because to a first approximation all bribes are made to get legitimate work done, not to bend rules. This will break the corruption Omerta.

If this was Delhi, the second elephant would be saying, "Why're you pushing me? Do you know who my father is? "

A malarial cure. She's probably saved so many Indian lives as to pay back Dr Kotnis 50 fold. Congratulations Madam.

It's much simpler to keep adding block standard deductions per child.

Crypto is a scarcity game, but then so are Gold, Silver, fine art, watches, luxury goods, etc. The only long term solution is for multiple nations to agree on a multi commodity standard, include energy benchmarks, compute benchmarks, etc. and either peg their currency to this

When things are dark, might as well shoot for the sky. Horrible escalation. I hope there isn't "reply" to this.

Remembering the old joke about startups " We didn't do this thing because it was easy. We did it because we *thought* it would be easy." Looks like all of capitalism, especially what is happening in China and US is basically "We didn't do this because it would be profitable. We

Mandviya just zoomed past Gadkari as the No. 1 enemy of the salaried class. 25% straight out confiscation is ridiculous. Ira Dugal Monika Halan 🇮🇳 शिक्षित बेरोज़गार Assuming this confiscation happens, what does that make the effective Income tax rate?

GCs should create an org like AIPAC or NAACP which clearly states GC demands and openly suggest alternatives to quotas for affirmative action.

Self usage of government education and health is the clearest hard-to-forge token of deprivation in India. Those using government education and health can be given tokens/preferences/quotas for other purposes. This is a self policing policy. One may need caveats where a KV or an

Without a clear white money path for clean politicians to come and thrive in Indian politics, we cannot progress. Mostly this will mean state funding of elections with awards for not just 1st place, but also 2nd and 3rd. ( Now you may draw the swords out and point at my neck)

2 thoughts. 1. Gujarat is fast turning into the Qatar of India wrt sports, i.e. no personal achievement, but a lot of purchased valour. NE India is probably the opposite end. Most talent, but most lacking in Infra, relatively. 2. I hope that they do this in the post monsoon or

Wingchunlion Balaji Any country having a trade agreement with China which doesn't have China agreeing to buy a certain amount of manufactured products from it is signing up for becoming a resource colony.

I really don't understand how difficult is it to do a simple pareto of all districts in India with high T&D losses. Get a central armed force, any of them, even RR if you need to and screw those who steal power. Is there any nat sec issue more important right now than electric