Greetings from London where I’m sitting at a nice bar trying to enjoy a drink, and guess who the loudest, most obnoxious people in the place are carrying on as if the entire room has been invited into their stupid conversation? Fresh off the boat Indians!! I told the bartender who is also of Indian origin but from Sicily and Mauritius that it was either them or me. To his credit, he went over and told them to STFU. Cheers! 🤡

The first step is to create policies for reverse brain drain. China did it in 2008 with Thousand Talents Plan. It offered relocation awards, research funding, new labs to attract overseas talent. Within a decade, program attracted 7000 people. We need something similar ASAP!

Reservation system means poor people from Upper Caste give up seats for the benefit of rich people from Lower Caste.

On the left is Nikhil Ravishankar. He went to school in New Zealand, worked all his life in NZ. Yet in 2025 when he was appointed CEO of Air New Zealand, the wave of online racism directed at him became such a tsunami that the country's 3 leading media outlets, the New Zealand Herald, 1News and Radio New Zealand, had to shut down their comments section. The sheer volume of racist comments made it impossible for moderators to do their job. It was like half the population of New Zealand had decided to be racist on Ravishankar. On the right is Air India’s current CEO - New Zealander Campbell Wilson whose appointment in 2022 attracted no such backlash in India. Wilson hails from Christchurch, arguably the most racist city in New Zealand.

Indian-American couple Brij Agarwal and Sunita Agarwal have donated $5.5 million to expand healthcare services in Texas, including support for St. Luke's Health–Sugar Land Hospital and a new primary care clinic. Funny how stories like this rarely go viral. The same people obsessed with pushing anti-India narratives won't be making podcasts or headlines about Indian-Americans funding hospitals, improving healthcare access, and giving back to the communities that helped them succeed. The donation is the largest single gift in the hospital's history, with its main patient tower and pavilion now being named in the Agrawals' honour.

#BREAKING: 3 Indian sailors killed in US attack on ship off the Oman coast, confirms Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.

I am an Indian, and everyone says I lack civic sense. They can overturn cars, burn streets, and vandalize a city after a championship game. I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense. I am an Indian, and everyone says I steal jobs. They move factories across oceans, shift profits through tax havens, and automate entire industries overnight. I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system. I am an Indian, and everyone says I am everywhere. I build your software, treat your illness, teach your children, drive your taxis, and open your stores. The world became a village, yet my presence remains a problem. I am an Indian, and everyone says I am too loud. The evening news screams outrage. Political rallies shake entire cities. The internet echoes with anger day and night. I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory, and I am told my joy is too loud. I am an Indian, and everyone says I smell of curry. The world smells of gunpowder, of hatred, of division, of endless arguments about race and religion. I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen, and somehow that is what offends. I am an Indian, and everyone says I have no culture. I come from a civilization that counted the stars when much of the world was still learning maps. I speak languages older than nations. I celebrate hundreds of traditions, yet I am told I have no culture. I am an Indian, and everyone says I am backward. I send missions to the Moon. I build vaccines for millions. I run companies across continents. Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people. I am an Indian, and everyone says I worship celebrities. I celebrate my favorite actor's success with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk. Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war. Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines. I am an Indian, and everyone says I gather in crowds. We walk together in processions, celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions. Everyone is welcome. No shops are looted. No neighborhoods are burned. No one is threatened for thinking differently. We sing. We dance. We pray. And somehow our gathering becomes the problem. I am an Indian, and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere. I light a lamp in a foreign land. I wear a saree in the snow. I teach my children the language of their grandparents. Others build walls between neighbors, argue endlessly over identity, and forget where they came from. Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind. I am an Indian, and everyone says I live in the past. But my past gave me yoga, mathematics, philosophy, meditation, and the idea that the world is one family. The future keeps borrowing from my past, while telling me to be embarrassed by it. I am an Indian, and everyone says I should be ashamed. Ashamed of my accent. Ashamed of my food. Ashamed of my festivals. Ashamed of my traditions. Ashamed of existing. But I am not ashamed. I am the child of farmers and philosophers, scientists and saints, workers and dreamers. I come from a land that taught the world that truth can be many-sided, that all paths deserve respect, and that the entire world is one family. Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does. But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes. For I am an Indian. And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself. For I am an Indian. The world may mock my accent, question my customs, laugh at my celebrations, and judge me through a thousand stereotypes. Yet I stand tall. For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend. Jai Hind

On my way to India… Leaving my fate in the hands of the Constitution. #JaiBhim

India's population is about that of all the Americas (North and South) together combined with Western Europe. Almost five dozen odd countries together have say 1.4-1.5 billion people, same as just India. Now imagine if you wake up and read about all the terrible news in the entire Western Hemisphere (ex-Africa, but also adding some regions). Murders, rapes, accidents, scandals etc. And you form a view basis that. This is what is happening to people who are consuming too much news off social media where virality needs are pushing algorithms (no Indian oversight here, only American - and for TikTok, Chinese) to accentuate the bad. Please get a perspective. An accurate one, not a ugly one or rose-tinted one. Just a balanced and contextualised one. And please take care of your mental health.

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Everyone is completely right to hate Gautam Adani. He is a terrible entrepreneur. Instead of doing real business like importing ₹50 plastic electronics from China, slapping a minimalist logo on them and burning $50M in VC money to build a revolutionary D2C brand he is just wasting time. Look at his utterly boring businesses: • Building massive deep water ports that actually handle global trade. • Constructing the world's largest renewable energy parks in the middle of a barren desert. • Taking on brutal, high risk, decades long infrastructure projects that actually require guts and physical execution. Nobody else in the private sector has the guts to build such heavy infrastructure businesses. If there is anyone in India who can make India a superpower, it is none other than Mr. Gautam Adani. But how dare he build the physical backbone of an economy? He has absolutely no vision. If he really wanted to help the economy, he would launch a podcast and sell a cohort based course on productivity.

I promised we would fix our broken railways. Today Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express return to public ownership. Run for the public good, not private profit. This Labour government is putting passengers first.