How can India become a wealthy, prosperous nation? A customer-centric, combinatoric application of general purpose technologies is required for raising economic output 40-50x over a few generations.
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Big blow to elite matrimonial service agencies (who call themselves “universities”) 😂 twitter.com/rmantri/status
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Third rate UK universities desperately need Indian students for their lucrative Masters programs. But nobody does cutting your nose to spite your face better that Braverman :)
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Why Offering Higher Education In Local Languages Is The Way To Go swarajyamag.com/ideas/in-depth
Great piece by
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“First the internet reduced the marginal cost of distributing content to zero. Now AI is reducing the marginal cost of producing content to zero.”
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> goes global – India is in talks with nine African countries to export its technology, which has helped the South Asian nation to successfully build a biometric identification system and a digital payments network.
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PhonePe CEO Sameer Nigam estimates that at least twenty unicorns want to flip back to India if regulations enable it. The govt needs to launch a ghar wapsi programme for flipped startup’s
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I am disappointed, but still happy to see that the disinformation and misinformation on India presented in Guha’s expertly photoshopped “history” has purchase.
Happy because, “markets will somewhere remain inefficient” till such third-rate books are popular 😄
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OK so basically I am hearing that I should start with "India After Gandhi" 
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10 million more tap connections done in 5 months!
A total of 110 million / 11 crore tap connections completed under
#HarGharJal #11crHarGharJal
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A great feat, indicative of the ground covered to ensure ‘Har Ghar Jal’ to the people of India. Congratulations to all those who have benefitted from this initiative and compliments to those working on the ground to make this Mission a success. twitter.com/gssjodhpur/sta…
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They have - and abuse - the “freedom of expression” to write such nonsensical stories, others have the right to criticize them - nay, lambast them. What kind of a society have we become, to accept and even promote such rubbish as “entertainment”.
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The insensitive, shameless and anti-India stance of writers like in portraying terror-sponsoring ISI’s agents as friendly partners of India’s RAW in their made-up “Spy Universe” is an insult to the victims of terrorism.
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Hmmm…so Pakistani ISI agent Zoya is “friends” with RAW agent Pathaan!
Too bad they insult the intelligence of the audience in this ridiculous manner – but then I guess anything is possible in the nonsensical world of Bollywood.
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Attaining industrial and technological self-reliance and #sustainability, especially for critical emerging technologies (CETs), is now a high priority for both established and emerging powers, argues . #emtech
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The awareness on these issues has gone up, thanks almost entirely to the internet 👌
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WE CREATED HISTORY!! 🇮🇳
Proud and privileged to share that #NaatuNaatu has been nominated for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards. #Oscars #RRRMovie
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Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu – In response to the strong domestic demand for Apple products and Foxconn's aim to diversify away from China, 'brisk construction' is going on at a 20-acre plot in Tamil Nadu
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Sad to see some politicos becoming serial offenders on India's security issues.... repeatedly questioning our own armed forces' successful operations.
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#WATCH | J&K: They (Centre) talk about surgical strikes and that they have killed so many of them but there is no proof: Congress leader #DigvijayaSingh
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I am still trying to get over the heartbreaking news of India’s elimination from the #HWC2023. But just wanted to share a small story which will hopefully give people something to smile about. (See thread) 1/4
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An Indian story getting such a tremendous response in our fellow civilizational power, Japan.
Heart warming 💗
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Two important charts from the article.
Productivity multiplying reforms and capital expenditure have been the keystones of Prime Minister Modi’s governance.
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Must read thread. Very important perspective.
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Since there has been considerable angry debate about BBC, the following lines are quoted from page 83-84 of my book, The Ultimate Goal. In fact, the whole chapter may be of interest to some.
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Great to see the brilliant ji taking up this debate. Analysts and economists should dig deep into this area, run all the numbers and push for balance. It is important to get this done.
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'The Necessity Of Taxing Farming Income In India'
newindianexpress.com/opinions/2023/ - @bibekdebroy
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Why is a farmer earning Rs 12 lakhs or Rs 7 crore a year for ex. privileged over an executive or businessperson who earns the same amount?
Zero direct taxes on farm / agriculture income are just one more colossal subsidy from services and manufacturing sectors to agriculture.
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Nobody even mentions anything about taxing agriculture income and making rich farmers pay their share. Don’t regurgitate constitutional blocks on such taxation to me - those may be solvable. Sadly there is not even any policy debate on how farmers’ income should be taxed.
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Personal income taxes in India are too low—not too high . Successive governments have lavished the upper middle classes with very generous tax breaks.
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The Global Economy Needs a New Powerhouse. India Is Stepping Up bloomberg.com/news/features/ by and
Good summary.
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Isn’t it amazing, that the first Indian to be awarded the Param Vir Chakra is named सोमनाथ ?
Maj. Somnath Sharma’s heroic actions in the 1947 Battle of Badgam saved Srinagar Airport, and thus Kashmir en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of
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This is revoltingly stupid - innumeracy and financial/economic illiteracy on steroids. And, Oxfam is a filthy, scandal-ridden NGO independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n
Would be best if this corrupt, scam-ridden NGO is ejected from India, not allowed to corrupt our discourse with its stupidity
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You and your buddies are not “Indian cinema”. The days of the dominance of your Bombay-based, Communist-leaning cabal are practically over…the world dances to Naatu Naatu not Besharam Rang.
Get over it, angry old man ✌️
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#WATCH | ...Indian cinema one of the strongest goodwill ambassadors in world. Compared to Hollywood, our stars better recognised. If you go to Germany&say "I'm an Indian", you'll be asked "You know Shah Rukh?" We're a major soft power of India&it should be protected: Javed Akhtar
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On Parakram Divas, 21 Andaman Islands to be Named after Param Vir Chakra Awardees indianexpress.com/article/india/
👏 terrific
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To smash Glenn McGrath in this manner, when he was at the apex of his powers 🔥
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Amazing, but not surprising! One titan recognizes another.
The Bollywood dynastic establishment that likes to think of itself as the be-all and end-all of Indian cinema will writhe in envy. Whatever they might say in public, privately they must be very frustrated.
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So much misinformation and disinformation. Where does on even start…astonishing that he is still in circulation after being continuously wrong for so many years on all the big issues, including most recently the Covid response economic strategy.
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Here is Raghuram Rajan:
"Spend what you need, spend what it takes" [April 2020] economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/expert
"Government's plan plan to conserve resources for a future stimulus is self-defeating" [September 2020] economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/p
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It has been a remarkable run! Payments in India have metamorphosed - alongside that, businesses are getting formalized and the tax base is widening with reduced cash use. The second and third order effects of digital payments are colossal.
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One of the best happenings in the last few years is how Indians have embraced digital payments.
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On time, within budget, without scam! #NewParliamentBuilding
A structural break from Nehruvian India…where sloth was artsy, waste was accepted as inevitable, corruption was an “unfortunate” side effect of dynastic entitlement.
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Constructed on time and within budget. Not the India I grew up in. twitter.com/sonal_mansingh…
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This is why #WTO reform is so important. We need to update the rules to better reflect the more active role of the state (i.e. industrial policies); to deal with the green + digital transformation; to create more transparency on the use trade tools for security objectives.
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VR / MR waiting for its Apple moment
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Me: Oops, I just tripped on a VR headset
Friend: what do you mean “tripped on a VR headset?
Me:
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“Apple asked if 17 suppliers could open shop in India. 14 were approved” ped30.com/2023/01/18/app
You can guess how this movie is going to end…
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“India is set to have the largest base of social media content creators globally with the figure crossing 100 million in 2023”
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