Despite all the hot air about #MakeinIndia, when India needs something important, #Modi has no faith in Indians, even when they have proved themselves.
Our own government organization, #CDAC has made world class supercomputers. They are the #PARAM class of clusters.
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The article in today's Hindu newspaper says that India wanted to get an 18 #petaflop (PF) computer. Well, the fastest computer in India is the #PARAM#Siddhi, located in #IISC Bangalore, with a peak speed of 5.3 PF. Now you want 18 PF.
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In 2002, PARAM unveiled its first #teraflop (TF) computer. One PF is 1000 times faster than a TF. By 2020, they had come up with a PF computer. 1000x in 18 years. How long do you think it will take them to go 3x from their existing level?
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This is one of India's areas of excellence. Rather than encourage it, #ModiJi is spending Rs. 4500 crores buying computers from #France. Imagine what so much cash could do for #CDAC.
A friend sent me a video that is apparently making the rounds. It's titled "#Modi the Boss," and features various world leaders praising Modi's popularity and greeting him.
Modi's #Bhakts are clearly in orgasmic bliss with this, and opponents say it's pure propaganda.
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But there's more to this than meets the eye.
1. It's a fact that Modi's popularity fills world leaders with awe. They would give an arm and a leg to be as popular in their countries as Modi is in India. He can screw up worse than anyone can imagine and still be popular.
India is a veritable #TowerofBabel, with more than two dozen official languages and hundreds of dialects.
This has caused lots of tension because everyone wants to preserve their culture. There's also the feeling that there should be some link language to connect the whole.
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For a long time, #English was the link language, but self-styled nationalists, especially from the ruling #BJP, felt this was a betrayal of "Indian" values.
They are just playing Modi's game. And if you play his game, you will lose.
Modi is far better at optics than any of you. He understands that #Hindus love the idea of a Hindu symbol in Parliament. They don't care about the historicity.
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And Modi also knows that, for all the talk about Constitutional propriety, nobody gives a damn about either Ram Nath Kovind or #PresidentMurmu - they know these are just puppets installed by Modi.
Modi's fans, which today are a majority of Hindus, want him to inaugurate it.
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I don't have a problem with it. Frankly, I think the office of the President is a massive waste of taxpayer money, and should be abolished.
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Rashtrapati Bhavan should be sold to the highest bidder and converted into a 7-star hotel, with a portion of their revenues going to the government.
Think about it. For a very long time, the Indian President has been just a #rubberstamp.
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Whether it was Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed or #PratibhaPatil or #RamNathKovind or #DraupadiMurmu, the office has usually been filled with non-entities. These are political appointees who simply obey the diktats of the people who appointed them.
3. In fact, #Corruption under the BJP is likely to be far worse than under Congress rule, because the media (which is now entirely under the control of Modi's corporate cronies like A&A) simply refuses to investigate any BJP corruption scams. Examples: #Vyapam, #Rafale...
The BJP claims to hate socialism, but that's a lie. They love it when it suits them.
The BJP is a North Indian party.
Just look at this chart. It tells you that for the same amount of tax contributed to the centre, UP gets 11 times as much money back as TN.
Why?
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Because UP is poor, cannot generate revenue for its people, and would starve if not for massive central aid.
It's a similar story across all the Hindi speaking states. Bihar gets 66 times what Karnataka gets from the centre, MP and Chattisgarh get 20 times what KA gets.
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Now, South Indians are not hard hearted, and don't mind helping out their less capable brothers and sisters.
But when you are living on our scraps, you don't come and tell us how to live.
You don't tell us to speak your language, viz., Hindi.