Rohit Sharma is as fit as Virat Kohli!

We’re not saying this, India’s fitness coach Ankit Kaliyar said this

But how can that be, when Rohit is constantly fat-shamed and Virat looks super fit?

THREAD: How Rohit Sharma’s trolling reflects India’s poor understanding of fitness🧵 Rohit Sharma’s dad bod is often trolled when juxtaposed with chiselled players like Virat Kohli.

The reason? His visual markers don’t tick the conventional boxes of aesthetics.

But the truth couldn’t be further from that.

Until May’24, India was way behind tiny Singapore in number of data centres

Everyone thought we’d never catch-up due to tech inferiority

But to their SHOCK, India’s building so fast, it can outpace Japan & Korea combined — a 28x leap!

THREAD: India’s silent data revolution🧵 In 2025, the average Indian scrolls through Instagram reels, sends money via UPI, and watches a show on an OTT platform.

It seems ordinary—just daily life in a hyperconnected world.

But multiply that by 1.4B. Suddenly, it’s no longer routine. It’s a tidal wave of data.

BREAKING: India’s inflation just fell to a 6-year low!

But when prices are rising all across the board and everything seems to be getting expensive,

then how is the data showing otherwise?

THREAD: Here’s what’s being hidden from you🧵 On the face of it, the inflation numbers we’ve been seeing seem to be a cause for celebration.

3.16% year-on-year in Apr ’25, down from 3.34% in Mar ’25!

Seems like a dream, right?

Or maybe more like… a mirage.

India lost ₹12000 cr every year because of long waiting at Toll Plazas

While FASTag reduced this loss to some extent, it is still inefficient

To bring it down to ₹0, Nitin Gadkari has joined hands with ISRO to get rid of Toll Plazas

THREAD: here's all you need to know🧵 FASTag has been a boon for the toll system in India.

It has reduced the average waiting time from 8 mins to 47 secs.

But has it really?

India’s biggest win isn’t beating Pakistan, it’s beating China

Not on the battlefield, but in every nation buying arms from China

The Crazy Part? In just 9 yrs, India’s defence exports have jumped by 1453%

THREAD: How this conflict could turn India into a defence superpower🧵 You see, most global defence giants – the US, Russia – are too expensive.

But more importantly, they often miss the unique, real-world insights.

That’s where countries like Israel – and increasingly, India – come in.

Yesterday, India neutralised ALL the Pakistani missiles & drones aimed to destroy 15 cities 

Because not just S-400, but our entire defence system stood tall

The Crazy Part? Our system’s even better than Israel’s Iron Dome

THREAD: Here’s what’s guarding your life as we speak🧵 India’s air defence isn’t just a collection of missiles and fighter jets.

It’s a full-fledged architecture, carefully designed to work as one seamless shield.

Each part plays a specific role, but what makes it powerful is how they’re all connected, like organs in a living body.

In Pahalgam, terrorists told a grieving widow to go & tell Modi, before sparing her life

In response, India carried out Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in Pakistan & PoK, sparing civilians & army

But Pakistan wants war!

THREAD: How India will win, if we go to war🧵 Disclaimer: This is a strategic overview based on publicly available information and historical military context. It is not intended to predict, promote, or speculate on any future conflict, but to provide a structured understanding of conventional warfare dynamics.

It took Asian Paints 83 years to capture 59% of the paints market

But Birla Opus has already eaten 6% of the market in just 1 year

The Crazy Part? Birla is silently pulling off a Jio moment in the paint industry 

THREAD: How Birla Opus is coming to take over Asian Paints🧵 On February 22, 2024, Kumar Mangalam Birla announced the launch of Birla Opus with a ₹10,000 crore war chest. 

This isn’t just another business foray. It’s a direct assault on one of India’s most impenetrable industries.

MRF might take back Shubman Gill’s bat sponsorship, weeks after signing him

Just like they did with Prithvi, Sanju, & even Gambhir

But why does India’s Vice Captain need to prove his worth to a local tyre brand?

THREAD: How MRF turned into cricket’s most iconic bat sponsor🧵 Picture this: India took revenge from Australia in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy.

Shubman scored only 8 runs.

And yet “The Prince” was all over the news.

Simply because it was the 1st time he was seen wielding the most prized possession in world cricket

—the MRF bat.

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?