You scroll more in a day than your ancestors walked in a week.
Every 24 hours, the average person scrolls the equivalent of four Mount Everests.
That's over 23,000 feet of content… every single day.
This is not just killing your attention span.
It’s rewriting the future of humanity.
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The mega-thread on Doomscrolling.
And why the algorithm is your new God.
In 2006, the average human attention span was 12 seconds.
By 2023, it dropped to just 7.4 seconds—shorter than a goldfish.
What caused it?
Not just short-form content.
Jun 27 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
He didn’t own a phone.
Never drove a car.
Lived on no sugar for 50 years.
While others chased stock tips, he spent days reading balance sheets and the Bhagavad Gita.
They called him the Warren Buffett of India.
This is the untold story of Chandrakant Sampat - India’s original value investor.
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In 1955, at the age of 26, Chandrakant Sampat left his family's business and entered the Bombay Stock Exchange.
No CFA. No MBA. Just a chequebook and a pen.
Back then, that was all you needed to start investing in India.
His inspiration? Peter Drucker.
Jun 25 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The biggest scam in Indian stock market history didn’t involve fraudsters outside the system.
It was engineered from within.
Here’s how the ₹50,000 Cr NSE co-location scam unravelled and why NSE just offered ₹1,388 Cr to quietly settle it.
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What is the NSE co-location scam?
In 2009, the NSE launched a co-location facility, allowing brokers to place their servers within NSE’s data centre.
This gave them microsecond access to live market data. Legal on paper.
But what followed was pure market manipulation.
Jun 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Those mocking Air India have no idea what the Tata Group really stands for.
This isn't just a business house.
It's a legacy built on sacrifice, integrity, and courage.
Let me take you back to the night of 26/11—the darkest hour for Mumbai.
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On 26 November 2008, when terrorists stormed the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, chaos erupted.
Bullets flew. Lives were at stake.
And yet…
Not a single Taj Hotel employee ran away.
Chefs, concierges, waiters, managers—every single person stayed back to protect guests.
Jun 17 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
In just 48 hours after the first Israeli strikes on Iran, crude prices jumped 11%.
Why does that matter?
Because India imports 85% of its oil.
When that oil crosses $90/barrel, your petrol bill isn’t the only thing exploding.
Your food, rent, stocks, and salary all feel the heat.
Here’s how
India’s shipping routes rely on peace in the Persian Gulf.
But with Iran firing back, and Israel targeting a key energy hub
The Strait of Hormuz, through which 30% of the world's oil flows, becomes a battleground.
And more than 39 lakh of these are completely abandoned, no one wants to rent, buy, or even visit them.
This isn’t just bizarre.
It’s a warning.
What went wrong?
Here’s the shocking story behind Japan’s ghost homes:
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The root cause: Population collapse
Japan’s population peaked in 2008 at 12.8 crore.
It’s now fallen to around 12.1 crore and it’s shrinking every year.
Add to that:
• Nearly 30% of Japanese are over 65
• Youngsters are fleeing to Tokyo, Osaka
• Rural areas are turning into ghost zones
Jun 13 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
924 km.
5 ports.
₹60,000 crore.
India’s longest coastal rail line is coming to Gujarat, and it might quietly do what highways and airports never could.
Why is this a game-changer?
Because currently:
* 95% of Indian trade by volume moves through the sea
* But only a fraction of port cargo moves by rail
* Rail logistics are up to 40% cheaper than trucks
A 1% reduction in India’s logistics costs = ₹1.5 lakh crore saved annually
What’s coming isn’t just a railway. It’s a transformation.
Gujarat’s 1600 km coastline is India’s longest.
Yet, most of it remains disconnected from rail infrastructure.
Moving cargo from Gujarat’s ports inland involves long truck routes, traffic jams, and time loss.
But the upcoming 924 km Coastal Rail Line aims to change that
Jun 12 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
240+ lives lost.
₹1,500+ crore in insurance liability.
Air India pays ₹250 crore+ annually in insurance premiums.
This single aircraft loss wiped out years of those payments.
Global reinsurers are now reassessing Asian aviation risks
And India just entered the top league of high-cost aviation geographies
One of India’s darkest aviation days just became a global financial ripple.
The story behind this crash is not just tragic, it's terrifying.
PRAYERS FOR all the victim families 🙏
Air India’s Flight AI171—Boeing 787 Dreamliner—took off for London.
It never made it.
Instead, it crashed near Ahmedabad.
But the horror didn’t end with the crash.
This single event triggered one of the largest insurance payouts in Indian aviation:
₹1,500+ crore.
To put that in perspective—
That’s more than what Go First owed in total dues when it collapsed.
Jun 10 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
In 1949, China was poorer than Sudan.
In 2024, it has more millionaires than the entire European Union.
90% of China lived below poverty line in 1949.
GDP per capita? $50
Life expectancy? Just 36 years
The West laughed at the idea it could ever compete.
Today?
China is a $19 trillion superpower.
This is mega thread behind the fastest economic rise in history:
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When Mao Zedong came to power in 1949, China was wrecked by civil war, famine, and colonial scars.
Its entire economy was smaller than Italy’s.
So they did what desperate nations often do: copied the Soviet model.
They nationalised everything.
Forced collectivised farming.
Launched Soviet-style Five-Year Plans.
But in 1958, it all went horribly wrong.
Jun 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In FY25, one company paid more tax than Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple combined in India.
It can single-handedly fund 5 Vande Bharat trains every single day.
This is Reliance Industries.
A thread on India’s most powerful company
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Reliance paid ₹1.86 lakh crore to the government in FY24.
That's nearly ₹510 crore per day in taxes, duties, and levies.
Or ₹21 crore per hour.
Every 3 minutes, Reliance funds a new school, bridge, or metro line.
Jun 6 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
She pitched it to 100+ investors.
All said no.
Today, her startup is worth more than ₹3.5 Lakh Crore.
This is the story of Melanie Perkins, co-founder of Canva.
A global unicorn built without code, connections or design degrees.
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In 2007, Melanie was a 19-year-old university student in Perth.
She was tutoring her classmates in graphic design.
Most of them hated the software, finding it too complex and too expensive.
That’s when it hit her:
What if anyone could design? Like ordering pizza.
Drag, drop, done.
Jun 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The Internet didn’t start in Silicon Valley.
A genius dropout didn’t invent it.
It wasn’t even made for the public.
The Internet was born in a Cold War lab, by the US military, to survive a nuclear war.
And its real story is WILDER than fiction.
Let’s break it down:
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In 1969, while the Beatles were topping charts and humans were landing on the moon...
The US Pentagon quietly activated a network called ARPANET.
No fanfare. No press.
Just 4 computers.
This wasn’t a tech experiment.
It was a weapon of survival.
Jun 3 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
What Block Deals Are Telling You Before the Market Opens?
And all of them? Owe to banks, funds, and each other
May 26 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Morbi, a small town in Gujarat
is Less than 1% of India's landmass
But it manufactures
> 90% of India’s wall & floor tiles
> 80% of India’s clocks
> 70% of toys and calculators sold in the country
This is how a small Indian town is beating global giants.
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It all started with… a broken pipe.
In the 1980s, local potters began making ceramic accessories like bathroom fittings.
Then came tiles.
Then clocks.
By 2005, Morbi had quietly become the ceramic capital of India.
No govt grants.
No foreign investors.
Just Gujarati jugad.
May 25 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Every time US bond yields rise, stock markets panic.
Every time DXY moves, your portfolio bleeds.
But no one ever explains why.
Let’s break it down without the jargon.
This is how Wall Street quietly pulls the strings on Dalal Street.
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US 10-year bond yields hit 5% in 2023.
Indian equities saw $20 billion in FII outflows.
Coincidence? Not even close.
This isn’t just global finance.
It’s an invisible lever system — designed to keep you reacting instead of understanding.
Let’s decode it.
May 24 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
What if I told you one company controls what half the world eats, drinks, and feeds their babies?
From your morning coffee to your midnight munchies
Nestlé has quietly captured your kitchen.
This is how they dominate the global food chain.
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Nestlé doesn’t just sell food.