Great statements from both the IB Ministry as well as Delhi Police
But we are a country of 1.2b and should not be seen to get trapped in long back and forth with some foreign private company
Shut down and let Jack explain his Q3 and Q4 figures to his Board
Like going on a vacation with your in-laws, avoiding a fight with Big Tech is impossible. It has to be happen one day
The more you delay, the more difficult it gets
Punch early, punch hard
Shutting down a business is the core competence of the Indian government machinery- a skill honed and sharpened over decades
The whole "preparing legal justification" story is trying to achieve goals without things getting dirty. But important to make an example of Twitter fast
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Mani Shankar Aiyer has just begun a room on clubhouse to discuss how Rajiv Gandhi built digital India. Please join and record for use in 2024. Pretty sure he will end up insulting all kinds of people
Sam Pitroda has also joined. He is speaking very slowly. As if every word is being first approved by 10 JP first
Jai ram Ramesh has now joined. Jai ram has no profile picture. Is he losing his famous hair?
Thrilling conversation on Clubhouse right now - some disco Khalistanis from America alongside some desi Woko Haram trying very very hard to subtly justify the Hindu deaths in the Delhi riots
An American lady EXTREMELY confidently claiming BJP will lose Maharastra if elections are held today. Not sure about Bengal
A lovely lady from Tamil Nadu confidently claims - Dalits are not Hindus. Her argument slightly diluted by the 5 mins she took to pronounce Hindutva
A carefully planned long-term campaign of disinformation creates a fertile ground for justifying extreme acts of violence which otherwise would be indefensible
Since 2019, there has been a well-coordinated and consistent international effort to paint Modi as a tyrant – in 2019 the reason was Kashmir, in 2000 it was CAA and this year the farmers protest
The features of the narrative building have been remarkably similar every instance – untethered from facts, present anti-Modi operatives as neutral experts, out of context visuals and use of democratic freedoms to paralyze the host country
The popular narrative we have always been used to is that democratic societies are much stronger and resilient than autocratic ones - but how does that play out in practice?
Last year an obscure middle-manager in the NBA made some comments mildly supportive of the Hong Kong protestors - China's response to this insignificant event was worth taking note of
Mega-stars like Lebron James, who otherwise would love to ride the Woko Haram bus to glory, said people should think before talking - essentially do not piss the Chinese off as our revenue stream from that market immediately dries up
It will soon be 3 months since COVID shut down the world.
A lifetime worth of important insights can be gleaned from how countries reacted to it. Here are a few which seemed important to me
Trust in what the government says is very high in East Asia (Japan,SK,Taiwan,SGP,HK), robust in India and signs of severe decline in USA/UK
Lack of trust should be a leading indicator of political instability
Scientists and technical experts need to be trained on how to communicate difficult concepts to the mass public - especially the levels of uncertainty in their models and what that means for decision-making