This is an utterly brilliant note, if am not mistaken, written by @anexcommie (please correct me if am wrong), on why India is privileged to have Narendra Modi as its PM. Article is in Tamil though.
b. That a Lion hunts only when it is hungry. Same with Modi.
c. If the 1st tenure was about looking outside, the 2nd one is focusing inside after having strengthened the external relations.
A farmer separated the bulls and cows to prepare them for the mating season a few days later. He built a wall with barbed wires on top.
A young bull could not resist his temptations and wanted to mate a cow.
Other bulls told him there was one veteran consultant bull amongst them that could help...
The bull went to him and asked how to cross the wall to the cows..
The consultant explained: "First of all.. stand 60 feet away from the wall. Then run at 60mph. Then jump at a 60° angle. Do what you want then come back the same way..."
#IndianEconomy In a Group Discussion of my Alumni, most of who are industry seniors or leaders, what is emerging that India is on its recovery path. Salaries that were reduced by as much as 50%, is on the uptake and is going back to pre-covid levels.
Another person mentioned that large MNCs are signing contracts and closing them. In another case, no salary reduction.
To quote another, "Hurried layoffs and furloughs are making it harder to come back online. People are realizing the value of human capital and bench strength".
I would like to share a write up by my friend Balachandran's old FB post. This is a translated work and the translation is just outstanding and Bala has a way with words as one realized while reading the post.
The following text is from a work by Vallathol Narayana Menon, one of Malayalam's Maha Kavis (Great Poets) who was himself part of the famous Triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor Parameswara Iyer.
The whole poem is called Oushadha Apaharanam (Oushadha means medicine and apaharanam means the same as apaharan or stealing)
#Thread - My gratitude to @rupamurthy1 for originally narrating it. It is her narrative which am privileged to share.
The king of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV and Sir M. Vishweswariah were in a pensive mood. They had reached a dead-end.
The proposed KRS dam was 6 months away from completion and they had run out of money. Just 8 months ago, the king had mortgaged his family jewels to king of Benaras (now called Varanasi – the oldest inhabited city in the world).
The queen has given her favourite necklaces and family heirlooms for the project. But eventually, that too ran out in mounting labour and construction costs.
#JustSaying On this platform, I express my views on few topics. Current affairs, a mix of politics and economics, humor, birding and tech.
What I look for is handles, who write well, not abusive. There are times when I ignore or not able to view and respond to tweets because of the sheer volume of info that needs to be processed.
Number of followers is not a criterion at all. There are handles that I follow just for learning - it could be about a subject that I want to be aware of but I know nothing about, it could be the way one communicates and so on.