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20 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
To all my non TN friends a little intro to the council of ministers in ADMK

Sengottaiyan - Defended NEET, upgraded outdated syllabus and trained teachers.

MaFoi Pandairajan - Investment banker turned politician and defends corporatization in farming and swears by free markets
M.C.Sampath - Industries minister who worked with bureaucrats to setup country specific investment guidance cells to attract investments from Taiwan, US, Japan, SoKo, UK. Unabashed industries and FDI supporter.
Nataraj - Former IPS officer who led CRPF counter insurgency Ops in Kashmir and brought in police reforms. A die hard nationalist who understands terrorism, is a fan of KPS Gill and defends removal of Art 370 wtc. Takes special interest in Taiwan relationship & fosters it.
C.VijayBhaskar - Health minister who is a Doctor by profession. Leading the Covid response efforts of govt from the front. Daily updates and articulation. Chennai Corporation with a team of doctors do medical check up and call on everyday when under quarantine. They designate a
person for Covid affected house to buy necessities. Corporation volunteers come everyday to check up health. 24 hours doctors helpline & police station too calls to verify ppl do not move out. Clear mapping high hit zones & running fever clinics. Highest testing rates in country

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9 Oct
This is about India-China not US-China. China has ingressed into our border, fights us at UN, NSG and funds Pak. We shouldn’t balance but fight it. If we co-opt US for it it is because we need them on our side. It will be on our terms largely.
This whole “we shouldn’t get entangled in the war between two superpowers” thing is exactly the sort of irrelevant Non Alignment nonsense that essentially states to do nothing and allowed to be bullied around.
We are fighting for our territorial integrity, for our influence in the Indian Ocean Region and for our place in the world. That you think that is itself a move egged by US is the sort of colonialist mindset when you fashion yourself as the brown babu to the white man!
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8 Oct
Pardon me for this very linear thought process. This is about TN's tryst with manufacturing and the what I think should be the path ahead. Comes from many discussions with @VinTN @CkAkash77 and others and also from my reading of the political rhetoric in TN over last decade. (1)
TN has been doing well in terms of manufacturing for quite a long time. From the days of spinning mills in Kovai, Tirupur and the auto ancillaries in Padi and small machine shops in Ambattur to hosting manufacturing plants automotive behemoths over the past 30 years (2)
TN's economic growth has been solidly grounded on manufacturing taking advantage of the shoots of tier-1 suppliers, the entrepreneurial skills of the different regions, stable manufacturing policy regimes of successive governments & the port infrastructure that was available (3)
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1 Aug
The only thing transferable is mfg. It is not like stealth aircraft design or jamming is a single package of knowhow that could be somehow given on a platter. A know how comes only when the engineers themselves become experts in the subject by years of learning & experimentation
There’s a lot of follow on steps required to capitalise on an IP given as part of a technology transfer deal. As any typical business, the OEM will not share know why but only know how with respect to its own specific design to some extent. It then completely falls on the (2)
Capability, motivation and resources of the receiving Indian company to capitalise on the given knowledge. What one has is a specific design that has specific instances/design iterations suited for a pre determined set of quality requirements and parameters. (3)
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13 Feb
Country lacks testing facilities for aircraft engines: Kota Harinarayana - The New Indian Express

Hard facts right there. We do not have the kind of manpower, the infrastructure to test and develop the Jet engine on a industrial scale. newindianexpress.com/states/karnata…
Wind tunnels are not standard test facilities. There are 20 odd different parameters that go into designing each wind tunnel based on the applications. Usually a user spends time and energy in determining the configuration of the wind tunnel they need based on calculations.
This might be part of the reason why we asked Boeing to invest in a Transonic wind tunnel in India as part of offsets obligation. They have long history of building wind tunnels for various applications. Disappointing to see that that offset obligation didn’t go through.
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20 Dec 19
The fundamental mistake that many Americans, Indian liberals, think tankis and South Asian Profs make about India is that they assume a plural, democratic, developed India will and should be the same as US with a curry. That’s never going to be so (1)
India will never be as capitalist, as Judeo Christian, as pursuit of happiness seeking, as individual self interest pursuing materialistic society as the US is. We will always be different. Integral humanism as espoused by Pandit Deedayal Upadhyay will exist and thrive (2)
India was not formed from scratch unlike the white US that eliminated the indigenous population and set “conquering the frontier” and “pursuit of happiness” as the goals. We have over 2500 years of recorded history and our ideas will stem from these passed down wisdoms (3)
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16 Aug 19
A disaster happening in slow motion right before our eyes. Patch work over patch work isn't going to cover up the organizational & technical incompetence of GTRE-DRDO & the MoD babus-politicians who've repeatedly failed to appreciate the gravity & nature of the problem here (1)
Let's start with the problems the Kaveri engine faced(s). Decayed performance at high altitude, combustion flicker, insufficient thrust & noise at high throttle testing. Leaving out the noise, the rest of issues, all point to a similar problem area, combustion (2)
Combustion research is a high end research area. Controlling combustion in a jet engine to realize high performance is like developing a super car. The paradigm of technologies applied itself is different and the margin for errors is very very low (3).
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