Until a week ago, BluSmart was set to destroy the Ola-Uber duopoly

And now their cabs are being painted in Uber Green

But how can a 3000 crore company go down the drain within 5 days?

THREAD: Everything you need to know about the BluSmart scandal in the easiest way possible🧵 BluSmart was founded in 2019 with a bold promise:

India’s first all-electric ride-hailing platform with cleaner rides, no surge pricing, and better treatment of drivers.

It positioned itself as the ethical, eco-conscious alternative to Ola and Uber,

India is quietly dying of underpopulation.

But how can that be when we have the largest population on Earth?

The Crazy Part? India’s fertility rate has already fallen below the replacement level.

THREAD: Why India’s underpopulation crisis could be worse than Japan’s🧵 In 2023, India's fertility rate stood at 2.0 children per woman — below the ‘replacement rate’ of 2.1.

Translation?

Not enough children are being born to maintain a steady long-term population.

Our population is still growing, but that’s only because people are living longer.

Everyone laughed when Dyson launched ₹50K hair dryers in India

Most believed Indians wouldn’t splurge in a Philips-dominated market

But to their SHOCK, Dyson is doing so well that it’s pumping ₹1055 Cr more in India

THREAD: How Dyson cracked India’s ‘cheap product’ mindset🧵 See, Dyson is an engineering-first company, and it shows!

Right from their initial product, the world’s first bagless vacuum cleaner-

James Dyson went through 5,126 failed prototypes before the 5,127th iteration was successful.

Waqf owns more land than 30 countries including Singapore

But how did a charitable trust end up owning this much of India?

Relax boys & girls, we read the entire waqf bill so you don’t have to

THREAD: Everything you need to know about WAQF(in the easiest way possible)🧵 A waqf is a permanent dedication of movable or immovable property by a Muslim for religious, pious, or charitable purposes recognized by Islamic law.

Once declared as waqf, the property becomes inalienable—it cannot be sold, transferred, or inherited.

3 lakh Indian students go to the US every year!

But when 50% of young Americans call college a bad investment,

And 30% of Indian firms won’t employ foreign graduates,

then are these Indians walking into a trap?

THREAD: The end of foreign education & the reasons behind it🧵 To understand why Indian students abroad might be getting a bad deal, we’ll first need to understand why more and more American students are opting out of their own universities.

The biggest winner of IPL isn’t CSK or MI or even KKR

It’s RCB!

The SHOCKER? They’re the 2nd most valuable team—ahead of 5-time champion Mumbai Indians!

But how can that be when RCB hasn’t even won a trophy yet?

THREAD: How a trophy-less RCB became the biggest brand of IPL🧵 RCB found out who they wanted to be very early on.

Not just a sporting team, but a premium brand, with high levels of loyalty.

That’s because the most loyal sporting fanbases in the world don’t form on the premise of winning trophies.

Bengaluru Airport was named the “best airport for arrival globally” for the 3rd time straight

—Beating even Singapore’s Changi & London’s Heathrow

And yet, many say it’s not worth the money

THREAD: What’s all the hype about BLR airport & if it actually lives up to it🧵 If you’ve ever landed at BLR Airport, your first thought might be: why is it 30 km away from the city?

The old HAL Airport was much closer, but it had only six runways.

By 2007, it was handling 8M passengers—more than double its capacity.

Expansion became inevitable.

Bhutan wants to become the 29th state of India

But why would a country willingly give up its independence?

Crazy as it sounds, Sikkim did the same in 1975 — it wasn’t always part of India!

THREAD: Bhutan’s potential merger with India and the reasons behind it🧵 Rewind to 1947.

India is finally independent, but now comes the tricky part—what happens to over 500 princely states?

They had three choices: join India, join Pakistan, or try to stay independent.

Most of them merged with India.

In 2017, ICC scrapped the Champions Trophy, calling it a useless tournament

After all, it’s a mere clone of the ODI World Cup

Then why have they brought it back from the dead in 2025?

THREAD: The unexpected rebirth of the Champions Trophy & the reasons behind it🧵 The 2013 edition was supposed to be the last—too similar to the ODI World Cup, and the ICC wanted to replace it with the World Test Championship.

But then India won the 2013 Champions Trophy, and everything changed.

Indians are crazy for foreign liquor, and love to shit on ‘desi daaru’

But foreigners are picking premium Indian whiskies like Indri over their own!

The Crazy Part? Premium whiskey exports from India DOUBLED over 2023-24 to $6.3 million!

THREAD: Here’s why this is happening🧵 Listen to what Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, had to say about the demand for premium Indian whiskey in Switzerland.

In 2024, Yogi Adityanath was sad that citizens were risking their health with unsafe street food

But instead of banning it, he set out to make it hygienic

The Crazy Part? 20M street vendors serve food to 400M Indians daily!

THREAD: How India will finally eat safe street food🧵 Everyone loves street food.

You won’t find a single person who doesn’t crave golgappas, pav bhaji, or chole bhature.

But let’s be real—no one enjoys golgappas at Haldirams.

No one dreams of eating chaat in a fancy restaurant.

Street food has an irresistible charm.

Indians are dying to live abroad

But NRIs living there want to come back to India

The Crazy Part? 80% of NRIs in Australia, 75 % in the US & 70% from the UK want to return to India

THREAD: what’s causing the reverse migration of NRIs🧵 Fundamentally, what are the reasons for migration in the first place?

For most people, it’s:
— Better education

— Standard of living

— Career opportunities.

Right?

Then why would someone want to come back?

Nitin Gadkari said he can fix all of India’s road problems—except Bengaluru’s traffic

And this comes from the man who built 90,000 km of highways in just 10 yrs!

The Crazy Part? At peak hrs, you can literally walk faster than your car

THREAD: How to fix Bengaluru’s nightmare🧵 Ever tried reaching Bengaluru Airport from Manyata Tech Park at 6 PM?

You might as well check in for tomorrow’s flight.

Relax boys & girls, we read the entire Budget 2025, so you don't have to!

THREAD: Everything you need to know about the Annual Budget (in the easiest way possible)🧵 Go ahead, celebrate—this time👀, the budget has given us all a major tax relief!

Social media is flooded with hilarious memes and people are cheering over their extra savings.

Analysts are calling it a budget designed to boost consumption, and there’s a lot of buzz around it.

In 2017, UP was one of the POOREST states of India

But then, a policy made UP go from the POOREST to being the 2nd LARGEST economy in just 6 yrs!

The crazy part? It’s so good that Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, & even the Centre copied it

THREAD: What made UP go from zero to hero🧵 Until few yrs ago, UP was one of the poorest & backward states of India along with Bihar & Jharkhand.

But now it has become the 2nd largest economy & holds a share of 9.2% in India’s GDP.

According to SOIC, it has outpaced Tamil Nadu (9.1%), Gujarat (8.2%) & West Bengal (7.5%).

PM Modi was sad that Indians don't get proper justice due to a clogged judiciary

So, he’s setting out to reform our judiciary the Singapore way

The CRAZY part? 50 million cases are pending in courts costing us billions each year

THREAD: How India is fixing its justice system🧵 On the TRS Podcast, Sanjeev Sanyal, member of the advisory council to the PM, gave a very fundamental perspective about how a slow judiciary acts as a bottleneck for the economy.

First, we have to understand that the basis of any business or economic transaction is a — CONTRACT.

In 2016 Dunzo invented a way to deliver everything in 24 mins

It could’ve changed delivery forever much before Zepto & Blinkit were born

But Reliance entered saying:

“That’s cute, but if I want it, I get it”

What happened next is the most painful lesson in startup history🧵👇 In 2022, we wrote a piece on Dunzo, preaching their model.

We said that one thing which separates Dunzo from all others is that they work very hard to get one city right.

Basically while scaling, they never leave the customer experience behind.

Indians have given up cooking.

They're spending more on takeouts, food delivery apps, and processed food.

The CRAZY part? The consumption of staples like rice, wheat and pulses has gone down from 24.2% to 10.5%.

Thread: Here's why Indians are spending less on food 🧵 If you want to understand someone better then look at their bills and you will find:

- What they prioritize
- What they ignore
- What they value

The same can be said when you look at a country’s bill of household expenses.

In 2021, everyone criticised Blinkit saying they'd rather need Ambulances in 10 mins than groceries

To their SHOCK, Blinkit introduced their 10 min ambulance service yesterday

But why is a grocery app now running ambulances?

THREAD: Here's the real reason behind this move🧵 As soon as they shared this news, everyone is going gaga over the move.

But a lot of others are also asking a lot of important questions like...

In 2013, Just Dial had the chance to acquire Indian startups like Ola, Zomato, Paytm etc.

It could have become the biggest Indian company ever!

But they buried it, saying:

“We’d rather build than buy”

What happened next is the most painful lesson in Indian startup history🧵👇 Long before you could google directions and contact details of any local business, there existed yellow pages

— a directory that listed businesses & services in a specific area, organised by category.

In 2010 when Dr. Manmohan Singh launched Aadhaar everyone called it useless!

14 yrs later, it has become the main catalyst for India's digital boom

The best part? In front of the whole world, IMF set up India's Aadhaar as an example

THREAD: remembering PM Singh’s finest work🧵 India has emerged as 'a bright light' at a time when the world is facing imminent prospects of a recession.

IMF has hailed it for its digital innovation and said the country is at the forefront of digitalization.

Let’s unravel the mystery of India’s strong economic outlook!