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To put it bluntly, since 2017, India has chosen the worst of the available paths. By aligning itself with the US, it has obtained almost none of the resources that would strengthen its strategic autonomy and has instead grown more dependent. By confronting China, it has lost manufacturing capital and technology that could once have been acquired effortlessly. Counter-intuitively, these flows of capital and technology—though they appeared to deepen dependence—were in fact the essential foundation for Atmanirbhar Bharat. India now finds itself stranded between the two powers and exposed as collateral damage, as Marco Rubio puts it, in their strategic contest. This has left it vulnerable to American pressure on multiple fronts—tariffs, trade in Russian oil, killings in the Strait of Hormuz, and access to advanced AI models. Washington did all the above with little concern for India’s basic dignity or core interests. The roots of this grand misjudgement lie in India’s long-held belief that the US would always remain dominant and that the safest course was therefore to stand with the strong. That assumption is now being questioned even inside the Trump administration, throwing India’s strategic planning into disarray and leaving it without credible contingency plans. Three uncomfortable realities have become clear: 1) an America gripped by anxiety is unlikely to offer its partners meaningful support; it is rather more inclined to treat partners as expendable assets to be drawn upon when needed. Yes, India is simply seen as the bloodbag. 2) The path dependence created by long-term reliance on American financial systems, software ecosystems and geopolitical arrangements has become a potent instrument of leverage precisely because India has few realistic alternatives. 3) for reasons of elite izzatl and face-saving, Indian policymakers have so far refused to undertake the necessary recognitive rerouting—above all, to seriously contemplate the possibility that China may be prevailing in the broader contest and to adjust its choices accordingly.
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80% of these are being bought for investment only. Most buyers have no desire to move / build. Zero holding cost Capital Appreciation (Land price can never go down logic) driving it to the benefit of Politically connected players who develop it
How this unplanned real estate hell is going to be reversed is unfathomable. Ppl are buying these at multiples of crores each without any consideration for urban planning, utilities, amenities or traffic patterns/public transit.
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I really like this article. I think that the capabilities of a country are fully dependent on the local buying capacity and the size of the local economy. Whether physical or digital, the farther away you have to distribute something, the more expensive it is. Local distribution is always much easier but if local buying power is low then companies have to export which carries a bigger distribution cost because you have to compete against locals in other countries who have a much lower distribution cost. Actually it’s not just distribution: it’s everything from consumer insights to feedback to key relationships that are a distance away. So if you do innovate but you have to necessarily export that innovation to make money, you’re at a disadvantage against local players. One personal example is that India has never made high quality games simply because the local purchasing power is low. If we had a lot more PCs things would be very different. China has roughly 320 million PC gamers and India is about 39 million. So on players alone, China’s PC base is roughly 8x India’s. BUT China’s PC game spend is on the order of 80–100x India’s, even though its player base is only like 8x larger. The difference mainly is monetization as Indian gamers spend much less (core ARPU has run around $0.29/month), so 39M PC players translate into very little premium game revenue. Game Science’s art director Yang Qi confirmed that nearly 70% of Wukong’s sales came from China itself. Knowing a local buying market exists justifies spending. The only way we can justify what we are spending now on UTA is because we found inroads into global markets through content otherwise this would be a money losing exercise. The other problem is that low purchasing power economies have too tiny a market for early adopters. If you built an OpenAI in India before anyone else 50% of people wouldn’t believe you and 50% of people will tell you it won’t work or doesn’t have use cases. I think you need a crackpot high purchasing power early adopter network with high failure and bullshit tolerance to make truly innovative things and also forgive crazy companies during early mistakes because history teaches us that the best companies all had v0.1s that were not very convincing to the masses. Thats why it’s critical for anyone who wants this country to succeed to first really create more jobs, more disposable income, even if that means creating the nth packaged food brand (American grocery stores still have a much wider variety of biscuit brands than India for example) or food delivery apps before they take bigger bets. Not because they need the capital themselves to try bigger bets, but so that they can diffuse more capital into the ecosystem via jobs and the rewards of equity ownership such that that cohort of people become early adopters for other innovative companies. Success comes from satisfying local market demand (sometimes like in the case of Tesla or Ford there is hidden demand and entrepreneurs need to unlock it) and rarely comes from creating something that has no local demand. After studying Chinese social media so much I have a long thesis on why they did well (bans on global social media platforms constrain desire of products to local players only who now get revenue and profit to do RnD. Think about what % of disposable income from India is being spent on global brands where the desire to buy starts on a global social media platform). Anyway people complaining about India building “easier businesses” are really not spending the mental energy to think second order. And 9/10 times this same type of person will completely ignore local innovation that is almost always happening in parallel but gets less media coverage.
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Xi Jinping took charge of China in 2013. Modi of India in 2014. Maybe instead of comparing Modi with Nehru ji, it'll be a more fruitful exercise to compare his performance with that of Xi Jinping. On AI On R&D On STEM On Exports On Employment On Manufacturing On Public nutrition On Public education On Mass prosperity ... Maybe that'll help all of us much more in setting our national goals better.
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Sovereign AI requires Sovereign Chips as well. US has already shown its hand by disallowing exports of advanced chips to China. Who is building our NVDIA /TSMC?
Spine always grows in the back that is against the wall. America denied us crucial LOX/LH₂ cryogenic engine technology. We developed it indigenously and using it we now send American satellites into space. India can remain sovereign only if it has a sovereign AI. @narendramodi
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Every few days, Indian Twitter discovers that some country has something we don't and goes into sharmaji ka beta mode.
Replying to @Balancing_Actor
Oh Korea has Ram. Oh Taiwan has Fab. Oh Vietnam has Samsung investment. Oh US has Anthropic. Oh Germany has Bosch. Oh Netherlands has ASML. Oh Thailand has tourists. Oh UK has Pakis. Blame Ambani, Adani, Infosys, Nilekani. Mudi MUST rejine.
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Agree. Where is the Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund in India. The big guys have failed us 😉
Replying to @Crazynaval
don't understand why most of MF schemes have HDFC, ICICI , AXIS bank, which are all underperforming, don't they have expertise to find out new stocks, we don't need funds which invest in same old underperforming stocks, no brainer or no brains
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If you’re one of these rich people it’s not just that you’re doing better than 99% of the world’s population. You need to find ways of remembering that you’re doing better than your previous self. awealthofcommonsense.com/202…
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The one universal thing about Babu's is that they stop dreaming. Spending decades not dreaming doesn't allow one to see the dreams of the new generation either Full Video: youtube.com/watch?v=pr6UrIta… Credit: @KenKirtland17 )
Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”
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Everyone seemed to be rightly concerned about the demand. SpaceX started Starlink and got that demand to go up from 25 Satellites a year to 25 per launch. Demand problem solved
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Th easiest way to raise revenue @DKShivakumar || Raise circle rates to real rates at which transactions happen.
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On thing any tw wheeler driver will say - Never go into water where you cannot see the road and if you have to, follow where the track of tires of the one ahead of you are going.
Look at the size of the potholes in Lonavala - Gift from Double Engine Govt. Road Straight To Hell.
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Academic freedom has extraordinary breadth and reach, but trust on it rests on a bedrock foundation commitment to truth, reasoning, evidence, & a willingness to learn that one was mistaken. The non-curious and the non-open-minded do not belong in academia braddelong.substack.com/p/cr…

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As late as 1985, prominent economists were writing articles in the New York Times suggesting that “far more than China today, India is an economic miracle waiting to happen.”
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China succeeded because it spent decades on the basics of human development and social modernization. India did not. The rest is just commentary. davidoks.blog/p/why-china-go…
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A counter to the article (Thread) x.com/jsensarma/status/20640…

Analysis on countries (or firms) that credits one factor (human capital here) for success is by definition off. Market Talent Capital = Outcome (Talent substitutable by Natural Resources as well) Questions & Counter-Points: 🧵
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Stupid to try to intervene when he is on a rampage with a knife. So many instances where the guys who have tried to intervene have paid with their life. No one ran in the video either, more people actually came.
Look at the Men here. Running like headless chicken. A life could have been saved.
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Indian equities faced headwinds in May 2026, as the market's post-April optimism gave way to a risk-off environment. Benchmark indices slipped, with Nifty falling approximately 1.7%, as escalating tensions in West Asia kept crude oil prices elevated, reviving fears around imported inflation and pressure on India's current account deficit. Against this challenging backdrop, the Valtrust Momentum strategy demonstrated meaningful resilience, delivering a positive 3.9% return for the month — outperforming both the S&P BSE 500 TRI (-0.2%) and the Nifty 50 TRI (-1.7%) by a wide margin. This ability to preserve and grow capital even in turbulent markets underscores the strength of a disciplined momentum approach in navigating shifting market conditions. Detailed deck: docsend.com/view/84aukc94ts6… Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like to discuss your investment strategy further. Performance relative to the other portfolio managers within the selected strategy can be accessed at apmiindia.org This is a PMS scheme managed by Valtrust Partners LLP (SEBI PMS Reg. No.: INP100007578), distributed by Valtrust Capital (ARN: 143829 | APRN: APRN01688) @khoslaamit , @BhutoriaRahul , @arihantbardia , @Prashanth_Krish #InvestingStrategy #MomentumInvesting #Update #MultiFamilyOffice
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