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May 26 5 tweets 3 min read
A interesting article by @editoremacb which bears reading esp after the #Texas shooting incident or #TexasMassacre as it can be called. My limited view as a outsider & based on many visits to the #USA & visiting #GunStores out of curiosity is this.

forbes.com/sites/elizabet…
The kind of guns, range, sophistication that you can see in a store is humongous & mind boggling. At the cost of a slight exaggeration the chief of a small country's armed forces can actually really in to one of these stores & equip his forces fully with everything except maybe
bombs & missiles. The offensive capability of the guns sold don't seem to match any of the circumstances explained in real life. In the past one heard of at best the 0.38 made famous by Perry Mason novels or the 44 made famous by Dirty Harry. But why are automatic, sophisticated
weapons of mass killing allowed to be even sold? If personal protection as per 2nd amendment is the key then give small hand guns at best. Guns that are used for hunting grizzlies etc must be controlled so tightly that they don't fall into everybody's hands. In short any attempt
to normalise or justify or explain or rationalize is of little help. IMV over time the nation & it's people have developed a macho, Superman Batman kind of worldview of themselves which is seen in the foreign policy too & drives the tough chaps image which they live with guns

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May 28
Reading about the non stop commentary about @Tesla & #India by @elonmusk i share the following.
Given that the Tesla is an expensive electric car i understand why they want to first sell before local manufacture.
However in the same breath when they talk of manufacturing in
#Indonesia i would also give the cold shoulder to these requests. Is the argument that Indonesia is a huge local market for expensive Tesla cars or that it will be a export hub? If the latter then why not India to manufacture? Exports don't entail any taxes including for imports.
Over 30 yrs of working with global companies I have realised this strange but true attitude barring exceptions. Manufacture in India is only when they see a huge market to sell their product in India at #American/#European prices with little or no taxes. They will gripe & groan
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May 27
The key points to note in this brilliant article by @dharmadispatch in @Openthemag are given in the pictures below. The biggest mystery for me is when you look at 1947 even though a #Nehru could have been sympathetic to the #Muslim cause given the #partition where was the need ImageImageImageImage
to glorify the invaders, the most brutal barbaric rulers of the Mughal period & make them the heroes & representatives of Indian muslims? For someone who claimed to be secular & fighting for united India the #Nehru ecosystem could have found so many other heroes to represent the
Indian muslims. Accepting the extra sympathy for a community in the aftermath of partition #Nehru & his eco system by promoting barbaric figures as their heroes actually did the greatest disservice to the Indian muslims. Fissiparous elements drove the wedge deeper over time.
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Oct 23, 2021
That there are so many of the old ecosystem who hate #NarendraModi is known. But let's dig deeper to understand their hate more. 1) Is it that there's no corruption? No, India still has corruption but corruption is not the one & only objective like before. Today projects must get
implemented, progress shown, work done which is a new expectation 2) Is it there is greater or lesser caste/religion divide? No, it's as it always was before. Today there's parity being brought in with equal emphasis on minority community to progress & develop. The ghetto
mentality is being broken slowly 3) Is it that relationship with Pakistan or China has dramatically worsened? No the same things like before have been happening but suddenly India & it's armed forces are being given freedom to stand up with dignity, honour & courage to fight back
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Oct 23, 2021
90-92 period, Yashwant Sinha was FM & Tejinder Khanna handling import/exports. The IAF in Hyderabad was losing crores in engine damage due to bird hits becoz of many abattoirs there. DANIDA offered to donate a abattoir waste processing plant worth over 10 crores free of cost to
the Hyderbad municipal corporation. DANIDA would also fund free training of their team to work on this sophisticated plant in Denmark. IAF contributed 1 lakh as a token contribution. The HMC gave the land/building free. The above 2 gents insisted that import duty at 130% must be
paid on this free plant & equipment being imported. The state govt, municipal commissioner sent request letters to these two gents seeking duty waiver for something being given free/grant. They said no. The arrogant reply was that if DANIDA was really serious & wanted to donate
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Oct 22, 2021
Any celeb who thinks that only one faith system - #Hinduism - needs change, modernisation, reformation, however right they maybe will only attract negative publicity & create a deeper divide in #India. If they fight & talk of the weaknesses in other faith systems ALSO they gain
credibility. However the fact which nobody will dare to mention is that the slightest criticism of other faiths will attract such instant retribution that these celebs get crucified literally. Their fear is so real the only faith they can preach about is #Hinduism. Even this
would be acceptable provided they didn't act uppity & deride this faith as intolerant. They should be appreciating the tolerance & telling others to emulate. But then for decades esp under the @INCIndia eco system they believed truly that the #Hindus were lambs that could be used
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Oct 22, 2021
Folks like @INCIndia @rssurjewala @RahulGandhi @ShashiTharoor @JhaSanjay need to read this to learn how to connect with people - by CO-OPTING them as a part of your efforts. A leader is supposed to inspire confidence & positivity esp when facing challenges. Cong with its churlish
immature responses to the achievement by INDIA - REPEAT INDIA - by making it an attack on Modi due to their hate end up looking as usual looking like they hate India. 19 years since they initiated the harebrained communication strategy of anti Modi = anti Gujarat = anti India &
the result is they have strengthened @narendramodi at every stage & never weakened him. A young upcoming aspirational India with a youthful population brimming with self confidence, optimism, seeking to achieve greatness will never accept those leaders who come across as negative
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