Journalist, entrepreneur. Editor @ThePlateIndia a digital media platform focussed on Indian food and agriculture. Understanding India from farm to plate
Feb 14 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
What do Punjab's protesting farmers really want? They essentially want to guilt-trip people like us, the urban consumers. How can we ignore the 'legitimate' demands of 'annadatas' who feed us? This is a group fattened on easy money that's blackmailing us. A thread
Why don't farmers in other states protest with the same frequency and as much media attention? Because, one, farmers in Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra or Karnataka aren't rich and privileged enough to leave their holdings unattended, two, they are too far from Delhi.
Dec 14, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
If you've hit a paywall, you should subscribe to @businessline. Its a good paper! A small thread from the TVS business history piece...
As a young timber merchant in Madurai, TV Sundaram Iyengar (TVS) was fascinated by the gleaming new automobiles that used to whiz past his depot at what seemed a magical speed of 12 miles an hour.
Dec 1, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Hardly a surprise #RahulBajaj said what he said yesterday. A short thread from my notes of a 2007 interview I did with him on being anti-establishment.
‘Having been born in an illustrious family that was closely involved in the freedom movement, I was always aware of the legacy I inherited from my grandfather Jamnalal Bajaj. I was only four when he died and therefore I did not have an opportunity to see him up-close...’
