Unicorn founder |CEO-Ela Capital | Rare disease hunter | Geopolitics hack I Polo Lover I 🇨🇦 of 🇮🇳 🇱🇰 origin. Board @SappaniFDN @MLInstitute @Ashacanada
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Poverty & discrimination hit hardest in tough times — and in Canada, the most vulnerable always pay the heaviest price. We can look away… or we can act.
At the @SappaniFdn, we choose action. We help BIPOC girls in Canada break cycles of poverty through education.
In our 5th year, we’ve partnered with @CNIB to create an annual award for BIPOC girls with vision loss pursuing post-secondary dreams.
Meet our 2025 recipient: Keerthana Kelly
Blind hard of hearing, yet unstoppable.
CICE student ✓ Church & community volunteer ✓ Mentor to others ✓ Pure resilience.
She reminds us exactly why this work matters.
If your company has a CSR program, ask yourself: where can your support change lives the most?
#Education #GirlsMatter #BIPOC #DisabilityInclusion #PovertyReduction
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Been an advocate for this. Sri Lanka saves on transaction costs and preserves USD while expanding exports to India and India will get an edge over other countries for trading with SL for import and exports. India - SriLanka has easy potential for 5X current trade, with improved regulatory framework.
Sri Lanka and India are exploring the possibility of settling their approximately US$6 billion bilateral trade in Indian Rupees, with both countries examining the potential economic and operational advantages of such an arrangement.
To advance the discussion, a high-level roundtable titled “Rupee to Rupee: Strengthening the India–Sri Lanka Commercial Corridor” was held in Colombo yesterday, bringing together key stakeholders from the banking, trade, and policy sectors. The forum focused on the benefits, challenges, and practical pathways for expanding local currency settlement between the two countries.
Under the evolving framework, Indian bank branches operating in Colombo can extend Indian Rupee-denominated financing to Sri Lankan importers purchasing goods from India. Similarly, Sri Lankan banks can access INR funding facilities, potentially reducing foreign exchange risks, easing pressure on hard currency reserves, and facilitating smoother cross-border trade transactions.
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TN will crash without north/east migrant workers and more of them should be encouraged to come to TN. But @annamalai_k is right; growing sexual and criminal violence emerging from them means the bad ones need to be prevented for the good of migrant workers and everyone in TN. Identifying and acknowledging the root cause of the problem is key to finding a solution, be it in law enforcement or administration. Who knows it better than Annamalai?
Without North Indian migrant workers, a large part of industrial activities in TamilNadu would simply stop functioning. Construction, textiles, logistics, agriculture, you name it.
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The OG family convoy 😍 a masterclass in leadership, family and collective care by elephants .. the young always walk in the middle protected by mother, aunts & grandmothers. Somewhere in Tamil Nadu. Video @supriyasahuias
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You wouldn’t pay your restaurant bill without knowing what you ordered, so why do we accept a property tax bill without any details? 🤔🧾
I’ve created a calculator tool on my website for residents to better understand their property tax bill.
DipikaForMayor.ca/tax
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When I say chennai beaches are shit and my mumbai friends say chennai beaches are awesome , now I get it 🤦🏽 india needs billions of cameras and AI to fine people . No amount of education is going to work. Or squid games types; if you litter you are shot. Modi , RG, all CMs need to come together and give a big push on civic sense, billions into infrastructure to support it and fines/jail aggressively to enforce it . This is beyond horrible .
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Situation of Mumbai’s famous Juhu chowpati beach under triple engine BJP govt.
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Fascinating journalism on an angle of an industry that I never knew. The caste part is key, but beyond it, the spirit of entrepreneurship is stifled by generational owners preventing workers from becoming owners. This is the kind of free market opportunity the govt needs to create for people. A SME fund to help workers like this evolve to be owners , a skilling/ re-killing localized ITIs for people to be self employed and sell to markets without being struck in suppressing middle man economic mafia groups.
@svembu @TVKVijayHQ @actorvijay
Jun 15
Read a story in the morning that TN govt is trying to have new low risk classification and export more firecrackers. Instead of moving poor people out of this industry!
Feudalism beyond the farmland: Dalits in Sivakasi's firecracker units | thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu…
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French are competitors to canada . We got SMRs, Uranium ,CANDU and India has top security cleared staff with decades of candu and Canadian nuclear handling capabilities. We need to get CEPA done in 2026! @MSidhuLiberal @MarkJCarney @PremierScottMoe
Jun 14
India, France discuss small nuclear reactor says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri. India invites French companies for investment in civil nuclear domain after Shanti law comes into force
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Good thread from William on India and Mekong Region ( cambodia et al) on how Hinduism spread. Fascinating that Hinduism , primarily Shaivism and some Vaishnavism spread with knowledge and love, but what is left today is destruction and rubble the hate, conflicts and looters.
15 Sep 2024
New from @EmpirePodUK
Don't miss our mini series
ACROSS THE BAY OF BENGAL-
How Indian ideas transformed Southeast Asia
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Good writeup on the Angkor Dialogue organized by @indfoundation that is forming strategic relations between India and the SE Asia. Congrats to @rammadhav_ for this fab event.
phnompenhpost.com/opinion/an…
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I hear @airindia your air stewards greeting policy is to say namaste and not to say vanakam even to flights to chennai and within tamilnadu . Why the hatred towards Tamil ? Why not embrace local languages of India ? Your CEO Natarajan is also a Tamilian. @TVKVijayHQ
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Nancy Grewal was Murdered in cold blood. Her family needs our help!
Please go to GoFundMe and please make a donation and share on your socials
gofund.me/f9485c8ca
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Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.
Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.
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That should make him the richest Indian origin person in North America . Well deserved . Congrats .
BREAKING: Elon Musk's best friend Antonio Gracias will make $68B from the SpaceX IPO
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Early morning vibes from downtown phnom penh boutique French hotel. My executive suite costs me $120/ night . This is $1000/ night in India . It is cheaper for me to go to Cambodia than travel within India . That’s why Indians prefer vacationing in SE Asia over India . Fix it India .
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Banteay srei shiva aka tribhuvana maheshwara- lord of three worlds temple built in 967 in pink sandstone with intricate carvings . Every temple in Cambodia was built as shiva or Vishnu or Buddhist and later changed and sometimes again changed by invaders and kings trying to erase everything before and destroying it 😔
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What’s the logic from RBI to offer 6% to USD and only 2.5% to CAD ? They are easily convertible . And frankly feel insulted by this 😭
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You don’t have the water, power or skills to do it and data centres are not big job creators. rather do a partnership with India ; maybe Andhra Pradesh . Get the HVDC hydro deal with India moving faster . SL should push to 100% green energy and EV , get rid of its coal plant and drop cost of power to manufacturing industries including tourism. SL needs to decrease cost of manufacturing that will attract more manufacturing jobs.
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Sri Lanka explores AI data centres to serve regional demand: Deputy Minister ift.tt/1BdIFJA
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Sad that sexual abuse of a 7 yr old is $100 fine and 7 yr jail when no matter who the culprit is , it should be hanging to death or life sentence.
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Tirunelveli POCSO Special Court sentenced a 59-year-old pastor to 7 years rigorous imprisonment & fined Rs 10,000 for sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl in 2020
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Jun 11
Forbes released its 250 most successful living immigrants in America.
The scoreboard:
🇮🇳 India: 32
🇨🇦 Canada: 18
🇮🇱 Israel: 15
🇨🇳 China: 14
🇬🇧 UK: 14
🇹🇼 Taiwan: 11
🇫🇷 France: 10
🇮🇷 Iran: 9
🇩🇪 Germany: 8
🇷🇺 Russia: 8
Indian-origin immigrants are #1.
Not in complaints.
Not in excuses.
Not in victimhood.
In achievement.
So every racist who spent months calling Indians “parasites,” “invaders,” and “job stealers” can finally read the scoreboard.
The people you mocked are the ones CREATING jobs , the companies, building the technology, funding the startups, winning the Nobels, and strengthening the country.
You called it an invasion.
America calls it contribution.
Go back to your basement !
.@elonmusk grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, where he taught himself to code. He became a U.S. citizen in 2002—the same year he founded SpaceX.
Musk is featured on the #Forbes250 America’s Most Successful Living Immigrants list. View the full list: forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2…
📸: Martin Schoeller
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