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Tarun Raju
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Hyderabadi. I notice things. తెలుగు బాతు. ఏంటి?
Sep 21, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
US Born-citizens and Green Cards of Indian ethnicity who think "mere baap ka kya jaa rha" about the H-1B issue, you guys are basically next. The H-1B move is basically "Hindoo exclusion act" (Johnson-Reed Act) of the 1920s, dusted off.

You'll be vilified, excluded, and demonised at every turn the way Jews were in late 1920s Germany (their German citizenship by birth didn't account for shit). The 1920s pogroms against Indians in America (then referred to as Hindoos) caused a near 60-year period of Indian exclusion in the US, until things began to change in the 1980s. Tantrump and his 4 horsemen of dumbfuckery want such a multi-decade ethnic exclusion of Indians.
Aug 23, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
India can invoke articles 4(1) and 4(2) of Vienna Convention.

We already did this in 2009 under UPA govt, when we rejected the US appointment of a regional "special envoy."

This will be a test of whether Modi has the jigra of Manmohan Singh. If India doesn't invoke 4(1) of Vienna Convention against Sergio Gor, it would be irrefutable proof that Jaishankar is compromised.
May 12, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"I you don't stop, we're not going to do any trade..."

With these words, Tantrump just dialed the US-India strategic relationship back 20 years. We're just trading partners, not strategic ones, and should avoid American military hardware like cancer. Understand what just happened. Pak hit Indian civilians, India hit back, there was a military escalation, and Trump's threatened India with economic sanctions, thereby setting a hard limit on what India can do to stop Pak-origin terrorism.
Dec 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
If you disallow commercial ops of Starlink in India, only the bad guys have it, it would be contraband, and sparse numbers mean it’s easily picked up by sigint.

If you legitimise Starlink and let elon flood India with millions of receivers, this becomes a needle in a haystack. If you legitimise Starlink on a pinky-promise by them that they’ll cooperate in tracking down bad guys, know this—they will only let us catch the bad guys CIA allows them to. They are an American company, American interests override Indian.
Sep 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Your 10000-rupee ticket is 0.0000076% the price of an Airbus A321 aircraft. An airline would have to move 1.2 million pax just to break even on the cost of the aircraft. Please adjust your aukaat accordingly, take the refund/reboarding and quietly FO.

Yeah, I know, many if not most of IndiGo's aircraft are dry-leases. Still, this is not a license to behave like a monkey if your flight is delayed. Under DGCA rules, you are entitled to a full refund after a 3-hour delay, or you can hang around.
Aug 14, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Coal-fired power plants that are built to run on imported coal are usually clustered near ports with ore handling (or coal handling) infrastructure. An example of such a cluster is Krishnapatnam, near Nellore, in Andhra Pradesh. These plants use seawater as their water source.
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Image These are all clustered up near the port to save on logistics costs. They then use low-loss point-to-point transmission technologies to sell the power "far" away.

There are over half a dozen private power generation companies that are in on this. The port operator is Adani. Image
Aug 12, 2024 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The Indian republic is not peaceful, it is docile and harmless. It doesn't fight for its integrity and progress, it negotiates and makes concessions to preserve the status-quo. It is led not by rulers, but by merchants. Indian geopolitical behaviour is mercantile in nature, not imperial. It is not a cohesive post-imperial republic like France, but a mercantile collective that's been given a 1.5 billion-strong consumer base and some natural resources.
Aug 11, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Bangladesh's first nuclear power plant, the Rooppur NPP, has 90% Russian financing, and uses Russian VVER-1200 reactors (same kind used in Kudankulam). Russians are brokering fuel supply from India.

I wonder where will all this go now that an American regime is in place. Nuclear fuel isn't as standardised as petroleum, it's reactor-specific. India makes the fuel rods for VVER-1000/1200 and IPWR-700 reactors.
May 25, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The floodlights are on the Indian side, looking into Pakistan, because we are interested in keeping pakis out, they don’t have to worry about keeping us out.

For much of the past 75 years, India and Pakistan have been fighting on Indian soil. We need to fight them on their soil. If you guys want your minds blown, point Google Earth to the India-Pak border at Kutch. You'll see an incredible border management infrastructure on the Indian side, consisting of paved roads, and BOPs (border outposts) every 3 km. There are hundreds of these little fortresses. Image
Feb 29, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
lol nobody will go. When a Muslim in India yells "pakistan zindabad," he doesn't mean that he wants to go to pakistan. He wants pakistan to come to him (i.e. he wants wherever he is to become pakistan).

Hindus still don't understand the exact nature of the fraud of Partition. Image The "maqsad" is to turn India into an Islamic Republic. Migrating to the current geography of Pakistan runs contrary to that basic goal.
Feb 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Science is a means of production, Art is a means of consumption. Art is circus, keeps the masses distracted from the misrule and corruption. Congi regimes tend to cultivate gravy trains in the media and entertainment industries, and for "good" reason. By making Internet affordable to all, BJP democratised content creation. Art hasn't gone anywhere, it's just become amorphous and de-centralised. A political party no longer has the means to manipulate an entire population using Art.
Dec 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
They had just 4 years since the 2019 SC order, including COVID lockdowns, to clear out the Babri rubble, and build a stone-clad Temple that's as big and safe as Tirumala, with the Damocles Sword of being voted out in 2024, and Congress stalling the construction forever via a curative petition in the SC, hanging over their heads.

Anyone finding aesthetic inadequacies always comes across as malicious, or an idiot. The point is to finish the construction and fill it up with pilgrims on the clock. We have an eternity to retrofit it to your exact liking! If the Temple isn't operationalised before the 2024 elections, and Congress comes to power, they can and will get the SC to stall its construction. They'll be powerless to do so if it's operational and bustling with pilgrims.
Nov 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
When in trouble, the Indian State makes a binary choice between Hindus and the Indian Economy; and picks the latter every time.

The Indian State will always pick the Indian Economy over Hindus, even if you happen to be one of those Hindus.

This is why Hindus need to make the Indian State a redundant provider of security, stat.
Let me give you an example: with the firepower and manpower at its disposal, the Indian State can obliterate all trouble in Mewat. It doesn't, out of fear of international economic reprisals. Herein, the State is choosing the Economy over Hindus.
Oct 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Qatar's main source of geopolitical power isn't its natural gas, but its sovereign wealth, which is well invested and well hedged around the world. Every dollar is spent buying power/leverage around the world. This allows Qatar to be a front-office for Islamist pressure groups with impunity.
And therefore it's pointless trying to blame India for being powerless against Qatar in freeing its citizens. Everybody is powerless.
Sep 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Story so far:
-> India pushes farm-sector reforms
-> It's met with not just protests, but a dormant separatist movement awakens overnight
-> India disrupts the movement by withdrawing said reforms
-> The separatist movement grows in scope, recruits local operatives with cross-border weapons training and a corps of suicide bombers is raised overnight
-> Throughout the farm-law protests and in its aftermath, there's a spate of violence in India, countless Indians die
-> India allegedly seeks out a key figure in this movement, and guns him down in terrorist safe haven Canada
-> The US, which has been spying on the Indian high-commission in Ottawa, hands Canada "evidence" of Indian involvement
-> Canada throws a public tantrum, wants India to admit its role, hand over those responsible, and promise never to repeat what it did
-> Canada wants a new normal where Canadians can tread on Indian sovereignty with impunity, and withdraw to Canada, where they're beyond reach
-> India learns just how reliable the US is and keeps this in mind when calibrating its own Indo-Pacific security strategy.

The only thing India can do in this situation is escalate. If Canada is trying to impose a normal on India, then India should try to impose its own normal on Canada. Take out even more Canadians involved in the separatist movement. Couple of important takeaways here:
1. India has implicitly held the US (and not Canada) responsible for the resurgence of the khalistani movement, when it leaked that story to the Indian Express that it isn't touching Pannun because it thinks he's a CIA operative.
Jul 31, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
If you want to know why the Soviets made a dash for the Bay of Bengal with their SSBNs, it is this. They wanted to tell the Americans "we can nuke Pakistan in response," not that those Soviet SSBNs would hit the US Navy 7th Fleet. Same chiraayu paapi. Image
Jun 16, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Imagine, Central Govt spent tens of thousands of crores in Karnataka since 2014 building new railway lines, doubling and electrifying existing ones, and upgrading rolling stock and stations, and Congress torpedoed it by making bus travel free for half the population. Image Karnataka used to be a back alley for Indian Railways, with only a tiny strip of the Golden Quadrilateral passing through its northeastern tip. It mostly had non-electrified single lines, and dilapidated stations. Premium bus mafias had stalled railway development.
Jun 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
MKG was a British agent sent to hijack the Indian independence movement (they took lessons from 1857), introduce an irrational aversion to violence among Hindus, facilitate a clean withdrawal of British interests (loot) from India, and leave India in tatters by 1947. Image MKG and his coterie within congress became the spearhead of the Indian independence movement, sidelining all other parallel efforts (some extremist); because they enjoyed a disproportionate amount of attention and marketing by the Press, which enjoyed ad revenues from the British
May 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This 2-qoudi andolanjeevi beech heckled PT Usha to tears. Andolanjeevi has l-a-n-j-e in the correct sequence.
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The only scale at which Russia can respond to the attack on the Kremlin is that of a superpower, if it considers itself a great power.

It will respond at a scale the US would if Iranian kamikaze drones struck the White House. I expect Russia to flatten Kyiv's central district with zero regard for collateral damage, because that's what the US would do to Tehran if an Iranian kamikaze drone somehow struck the White House.
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pratt & Whitney actually made a shit engine with the PW1500G-GTF.

GoAir fell for its better pricing vs. CFM LEAP, chose PW for all its A320neo orders, and retired its A320ceo fleet. It ended up with broken A320neos which quickly vaporized its financials. Funny thing is, IndiGo had gone with PW for its mammoth A320neo orders too, but had a large enough fleet of A320ceos to realize PW is highly prone to failure in Indian conditions and under low-cost carrier usage (certain takeoff/landing methods); and switched over to CFM LEAP.