Quick notes: Richest hypocrite | Desktop Linux rising...

• India seeks a partner, not bully: India spent 25 years believing it had moved from America’s waiting room to its drawing room. Trump’s second term is showing New Delhi the door.



• The US Wants India To 'Obey', Not Negotiate: Washington had renewed diplomatic engagement with Pakistan. The largest importer of Russian oil and gas, China, was left untouched while India was punished.



• America First, Hypocrisy Always: Trump's Double Standards On Russian Oil. . . The diesel pact, double standards and the price of strategic partnership.



• World's richest hypocrite: A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch.
  
  Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist? Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi? No!
  
  Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't.
  
  Dr Bharat Karnad: Whether Reliance succeeds or not in having an LEO operational complex this soon, neither Starlink or Eutelsat can be an option. It will be like putting the country’s neck willingly into foreign nooses. The country can carry on without Musk’s Starlink and Mittals’ Eutelsat services.
  
  
• Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans: Musk has already given more money, about $366 million, than he did during the 2024 election, when he laid out roughly $290 million to help return Trump and Republicans to power.
  
  
• Elon Musk Is Aligned With China, Warns Taiwanese Op-Ed, Advising TSMC To Reject Terafab Chip Making Project Partnership



• Indian stocks: 'The 'great bull-market' that began in India in 2003 is over'.
  
  
• India's national debt rose from 50 lakh crores in 2014 to 200 lakh crores today: Shan Shanmuganathan questions India's official GDP growth figures.
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  Price of Rupee stability: RBI has spent half of $140 billion FX capital haul in rupee defence, bankers estimate. . . $143-bn boat fails to shield ₹ from shark



• Linux in 2026: Why millions are switching away from Windows for good. Governments and entire countries are moving. . . Desktop Linux is now inevitable. Here's why.
  
  
• Lesson for India: US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem — trial programs running now, first release expected at end of 2027



• BikAss: Kedarnath generates 50.30 tonnes of waste in 5 months



• Beyond the language wars, Bengaluru’s migrants are learning Kannada.
  
  
  
• Trump's weak points: China has quietly got Trump by the soybeans :-)