Sunday, October 25, 2026

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.

  • 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 President 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.


  • 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. . . . 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 :-)


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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Quick Notes: Choking ISRO | Stagnant SIP...

  • Choking ISRO: 'IN-SPACe like an octopus is stretching its tentacles everywhere and choking ISRO.'

    Who In Delhi Stopped The GSLV Launch?

    India's Rocket Launches Costliest Among Major Space Powers


  • The Indian Investor Has A New Problem: An SIP That Does Nothing. Current high valuations are unforgiving. Corporate earnings could grow in high single digits or low double digits, while valuation multiples decline simultaneously. An investor may thus invest for several years without seeing similar growth in the value of their portfolio.


  • 'Cannot Accept Ranbir Kapoor As Ram': A 'fresh face' would be more suitable for the role of Ram to avoid 'baggage' from previous characters.


  • Has Trump Chosen Pakistan Over India? It is time Indians realise 'Everybody loves Pakistan'! The origin of Pakistan lies in the Western need to have an imperial outpost in this part of the world. India discovered that in the aftermath of the 1965 War when even Cold War enemies the US and then USSR coordinated their approach to India. Our close friend the Soviet Union forced our hand then to sue for peace with Pakistan.

    Destruction of Chabahar port torpedoes India's long-standing effort to bypass Pakistan in its effort to access energy-rich Central Asia, Afghanistan and Russia.


  • Anti-India stance.: First Pak, Now Bangladesh: Why Turkey Is Becoming India's New Security Headache. . . . Bangladesh ready to join Saudi-Pak-Turkiye defence alliance


  • Indian Fountain Pen Journey: Rajahmundry's Ratnam, Ratnamson, and Guider Pen Works



  • Why 90% Jobs are Stuck in These Cities? 3 cities ended up capturing 89% of all Indian startup funding since 2014. IT boom landed exactly where the talent already was.


  • Private sector investment has languished: Indian govt lost roughly $100 billion in revenues over five years due to the corporate tax cuts. Put in other words, the $100 billion was an ‘unconditional cash transfer scheme’ to the private sector. The corporates simply pocketed this money without investing much back in the economy. Corporate savings (retained profits) rose from 10.5 percent of GDP before the tax cuts to 11.2 percent, while the investment rate stayed flat.


  • Why Are Foreigners Not Visiting India? Foreign tourist arrivals in India are still below 2019 levels. Meanwhile Vietnam (the size of Maharashtra), Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Dubai have all recovered and grown past pre-pandemic numbers.


  • Our BRICS trade "boom" is all imports: Imports outpace exports by nearly 4X.... $226 billion trade deficit. . . . India is NET LOSER in BRICS trade economically. 



  • Pakistan-linked ‘honey-trap networks’ target Agniveers: Pakistan-linked honey-trapping networks are allegedly targeting young Agniveers posted at sensitive locations.


  • Podcast: Chinese AI Is Spooking Silicon Valley. . . . . . Fareed Zakaria: Are the Chinese the Better Capitalists?


  • Raag Kalawati: Anirudhha Aithal



  • Children and Social Media: India Should Ban Social Media For Young Children, Says Zoho's Sridhar Vembu. . . . How the UK plans to keep children off social media


  • Unethical: A 2024 Report Showed Meta Earned $7 Billion A Year From Scam Ads. The US-based company earns revenue by hosting illegal content on its social media platforms

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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

what does sovereign AI mean for india?

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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

a uniquely bharatiya management style does exist

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'Gujarat Centric Model'

'Gujarat-centric model': From Chips to Commonwealth Games, Annamalai asks why so much is going to Gujarat.

The Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project was announced for Gujarat after Maharashtra had been in talks with the companies. Since then, Gujarat's position in India's semiconductor push has only grown. Tata Electronics, Micron and CG Power are among the companies setting up major semiconductor projects in the state. The Tata-Airbus C-295 aircraft manufacturing project announced for Vadodara soon after also drew criticism from Maharashtra's Opposition.

The Coast Pays, Delhi Collects: What The Centre's Mineral Bill Takes From States. India's mineral wealth may lie with the states, but the power to tax it is increasingly travelling north.

Truth triumphs: E20 fuel affects BS-III vehicles, parts may need replacement, admits Nitin Gadkari

India's Jobless Rate Climbs as Labour Participation Declines: India's urban and rural unemployment rise, coinciding with a significant decline in the overall labour force participation rate to a five-quarter low

The Great IIT Dream Is Cracking: Why even top degree-holders are unable to find jobs. . . .Age Of The Pink Slip

The Great Korean Loot of Bharat:

‘They hid the truth’: Meta faces pivotal kids’ safety trial. "Meta's business model can be summed up in four simple words: 'hook' the users, 'hold' them for as long as they can, 'harvest' their data, and then 'hide' the truth from the public when making public statements". . . Major implications for company's future.

Cuba Is Low on Oil: Now, It’s counting on solar, with China’s help.. . . As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help


Narayana Rama Ramana: Ust. Fayaz Khan


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Friday, July 24, 2026

Quick notes: Myanmar corridor | Stealth fighter...

  • After Pak, It's Bangladesh, Myanmar: China plans new corridor that runs roughly 1,700 km from Kunming to Myanmar's coast. This is China building Indian Ocean access on India's eastern flank, mirroring what CPEC and Gwadar do on the western flank via Pakistan. Beijing intends to extend the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor to Bangladesh as part of its larger Maritime Belt and Road Initiative to boost its Indian Ocean presence.


  • China's Teesta Move: Why India should be very, very alarmed about China's Teesta move in Bangladesh. The firm involved in the project is PowerChina is also part of the strategic works with the People's Liberation Army. Pakistan, in the meanwhile, reportedly proposed a 'Joint Military Command' that comes alongside offers of 16-48 JF-17 Block III fighters - together with a simulator already delivered two months ago. That's the first piece of Pakistani military equipment to enter the country since 1971


  • Hundreds vs Zero: If war were to break out between India and China tomorrow, one side could send hundreds of stealth fighter jets into battle, while the other may not be able to send even one. China may already have around 500 operational J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighters, its most advanced jet. Delhi's operational stealth fighter inventory today stands at exactly zero.


  • Kaveri To J-20: How China Overtook India In A 40-Year-Old Race To Build Fighter Jets. China's early efforts were disastrous. Many countries would have cancelled the programme. But China doubled down.

    Between 2010 and 2020, Beijing invested approximately USD 42 billion under its "Two Engines" initiative, pouring unprecedented resources into superalloy metallurgy, manufacturing technologies, testing infrastructure, and specialised research institutes. Failures were treated not as embarrassments but as engineering data.


  • The tables are turning: As Chinese Tech Pulls Ahead, U.S. Fears It Will Become Dependent. China could surpass the US in biopharmaceutical innovation within this decade. “For decades now, we’ve been used to a world where the technology and innovation comes out of the West”


  • China takes supercomputer crown from US for first time since 2017: LineShine' beat the USA's El Capitan system and exceeded 2 exaflops for the first time.


  • E20 Petrol Debate: 'No Politician Has The Guts'



  • Security nightmare: Anthropic’s powerful Mythos AI reportedly breached ‘almost all’ NSA classified systems within a few hours during red-team test — report sheds more light on the U.S. government's sudden ban on the flagship models


  • China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race: Chinese cybersecurity company 360 Security Technology released a new bug-finding tool called Tulongfeng. The company said it was comparable to Mythos in finding bugs. Those capabilities have alarmed many national-security officials and CEOs.


  • Top American AI execs sound alarm on Chinese models: Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multibillion-dollar question: Should American companies be able to use Chinese artificial-intelligence models?

    Nvidia CEO: Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models

    China narrows AI gap, challenges US influence . . .


  • Open-weight GLM-5.2 AI model powered by Huawei silicon: Chinese Z.ai's latest model tops AI ranking charts amid Anthropic Fable 5 ban.


  • CATL unveils Tener Sodium-Ion storage system: 15,000-cycle lifespan and 30-year durability. . . Battery breakthrough that smashes coal.


  • Chinese juggernaut: Inside China’s race to overtake European supercars. Nissan CEO: China is setting the auto industry's 'future standards'


  • India's Ghost Projects: Empty Stations, Airports & Schools



  • Strategic autonomy requires defence tech to leave foreign crutch: India remains heavily dependent on foreign suppliers for some of the most critical technologies. Part of the problem lies in a persistent misunderstanding of technology transfer.


  • Every attempt was made to hide the loot: Ayodhya shows why keeping temples outside state control is not enough.


  • Drama over substance: Making an ass of Indian tech.


  • Putin in trouble? Over 40% of refining capacity hit: Expert warns Russia could ‘disintegrate’ over fuel shortage. . . China's Great Betrayal? Has Russia's biggest energy gamble just collapsed?


  • Low cost killing machines: “The average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes”


  • Raag Gaud Malhar: Sri. Aniruddh Aithal - gift to humanity


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Monday, July 13, 2026

the quad is dead.

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