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H1B visa fee hike.

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The newly introduced H1b visa fee hike to mindboggling $100,000 per applicant could in fact be a blessing in disguise for India.

Think of the past: America refused super computer to India in 1980s. Our own scientists soon developed it and the nation was in the forefront of IT revolution in the 90s.

America and Russia refused cyrogenic engines to India. India developed her own and it was ISRO that landed first on the dark side of the moon, not NASA.

So every curse can be turned into a blessing if we put our heart into it.

Besides, H1b is the internal policy of America. Frankly, we have no say on such matters. An onion seller has every right to sell his onions for 100 rs per kg or even 10,000 rs per kg. Whether to buy or not is up to us. We cannot be asking him to lower his price even if we think that the pricing is unfair. If we find it beyond our means, we have to move on that’s all.

There is no doubt that the American corporates are going to bleed heavily now. India never benefited from the H1b. The incomes and investments went to the US. Marginal loss is probable. We have been trying to factor in job loss from AI for years now. Sooner or later even the H1b legislation was expected. Not quite a shocker. Now we can be looking at a golden opportunity of the silicon valley shifting massively to India. Cannot rule out the possibility. Americans also must get a chance to realize what they took for granted for decades: the sincerity and dedication and more than all the cultural input and harmless presence of Indians who have contributed immensely to the growth of America. Sometimes, only our absence can teach people our value. One of the best and law abiding global citizens, brainiest, disciplined population is the Indian expat community. If they have to leave America, its America’s loss entirely. Thank you Trump ji, thanks to you Indian brains shall now work for INDIA rather than America for peanuts. Just like the chinese sweatshops cannot be worked with American labour, the deadline-chasing round the clock software industry cannot be staffed with Americans who may not have the mental makeup to follow stricter work culture. Indian American medico friends in the US used to say, they are put on back to back duties whereas the white doctors take it easy. They cannot survive the Indian kind of harshest schedules. I think this is also an eye opener for thankless Indians who talk bad about mother country India. See who you have to come back to now. But mother never rejects her children, does she?

Whether it is about tariff or about H1b, that is how I feel about Trump’s policies. We have to respect their internal decisions even if we cannot agree with them and even if they may hurt us. But here is what America must do as well: RESPECT INDIA’S CHOICES. We buy what we can afford. We run our nation how it suits us. 1.4 billion is simply too big a number. We have to feed that many mouths. We have zillions of automobiles. Hundreds of airports. We choose to economize. Its not for Russia, its not for Iran. We do everything FOR US, FOR INDIA. Just like you do with America. Nobody can dictate terms to India. We are not here for 10,000 years going by the same name Bharat for nothing. Who wrote Artha Shastra, the political treatise taught even in ivy league universities in America, and when. Neither are we the occupiers. WE ARE NATIVES, THE ORIGINALS. We know how to run our economy, run our country. To even advise others, you must last 1000 years as a single entity (nation), saving most of your territory and gene pool. India, China, Russia, Japan have done just that. We are all NATIVES, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE SOIL. If Koreans or Filipinos or Indians migrate (only) to America or Canada or Australia, it is because these are immigrant nations whose doors have been thrown open by colonists/occupiers. UK is different because they occupied India, Africa etc., for centuries in a visa free period. Now they are being paid back with interest that’s all.

What about today’s migrants? Today’s migrants are not engaged in violent ethnic cleansing operations of natives. They are not taking over native settlements and building six bedroom villas. They are not slave traders and exploiters. They have not bankrupted gold mine and diamond mine nations hunting down species of wildlife to extinction, making blood money. They are not raising nations over cemetery of locals. Today’s immigrants are merely and honestly looking for better livelihood and safe havens. Some are political asylum seekers. Today’s immigration is really legal and justifiable than what happened over centuries to Asia and North and South Americas and Canada and Australia. Immigration in the 21st century is the way really immigration must happen : for right reasons.

H1b visa hike could be a big blessing to India. A blessing in disguise. It can retain talent and can plug the braindrain from India to the US. It can help our children RETAIN OUR HINDU CULTURE without dilution. It can save generations of Indians from drugs, overt materialism, liquor addictions, mental issues etc., that are rampant in America. Its time we Indians too do our homework. What is there in America except for malls and highways. Of course as I tourist I loved American forest reserves. Nature is at its best element in the United States. Other than that America may be lacking something: THE SOUL . Everything is not about materialism, money, money, money, glamour, glitz, malls, shopping, partying, plastics, etc. In India we spend hours a day in pursuit of our spiritual goals. We still cook in our kitchens. We have happy families. Outings are not to theme parks but ancient temples that are thousands of years old where our forefathers had walked. So it really makes me happy that at last, future generations of bright young Indian minds WONT BE BUILDING AMERICA but will be building India instead. Trump has saved generations of Hindus getting lost in meaningless pursuit of materialism, in my words. There is a limit to chasing money. I would rather want our younger people to spend more time enjoying the classical Indian arts and learning our spiritual ways, living life the way how our ancestors lived: holistically. That is the big quality difference between America and India. They are bhogis. We are Yogis. India to me is class act that can come only with good breeding.

See, nobody is going to be here permanently. Many of us don’t want to think that even within next few years our house, our car, our clothes, our jewelry everything will belong to others. Hundred years later or even far earlier, nobody will know us or remember us. There will be no mention of our name. The next minute we pass away, we won’t be referred to by our name: we become THE BODY. That is what we sum up to finally. May we go with more pluses than minuses. May we go with grace. May someone miserable and poor weep for us because we lent them a helping hand. May someone miss us the good human.

As a Hindu, I believe strongly in rebirth. Our next rebirth will be whatever we despise intensely. We all have our lessons to learn. Being compassionate is not just about showing others consideration or mercy. It is also about doing something good to our own soul and saving it from future trauma in rebirths to follow. No doubt the Abrahamics will think I am a fool. But that is precisely the difference between Hindus and them. These guys think man writes history. No, the pen and the ink in the pen are from Mother Goddess Herself. She scripts nations’ destinies, not just individuals. Its Her wish. If She thinks now that enough is enough, that India has given enough talent and wealth to America and pulls the plug, then so be it. I am writing this on the first day of Navratri, celebrated throughout India in awe of the sacred feminine. Trump is not signing any document. Mother holds his pen. Its Her wish. Its Her thought that its time India starts helping self. With that I round off this post. Direction comes from up above. Why do humans credit themselves with so much power? Even Mother leaves a few pages blank for us to fill on our freewill. That is what decides our Karma. What do we want to fill up those few pages with?

Believe me Modi ji, what is happening is for the best. May Mother Goddess, our universal Divine Mother, always be with India. No need to become the richest nation on earth. Let us be the most humanitarian nation on earth. Jai Maa Kaali! Happy Navratri! Happy Dusshera! God bless India! God bless America! And belated birthday wishes to our beloved Prime Minister! You are the best.

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New GST Reforms

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How Modi govt has decided to tackle the tariff issue with the US is amazing. Thanks to president Trump, we Indians have realized why it is even more important to increase local consumption and depend less on export revenue. Result is the semi conductor industry proposed by the centre among many other developmental projects towards the goal ‘atma nirbhar Bharat.’ But the icing in the cake is how as Diwali gift the BJP government has slashed the GST to unbelievable low rates to encourage consumption by the middle classes and push up demand. Production and thereby the economy will get the boost. At the same time, the DIIs, the domestic institutional investors are in a buying frenzy than ever, outstripping the FIIs, the foreign institutional investors in the Indian stock markets. This is a healthy trend and is more about self reliance. About the US tariff imposition of 50% I want to say this: we cannot have a say or hold on foreign government rulings. But we can tweak ourselves and use every opportunity as stepping stone to improve ourselves. Every setback is a motivation to move two steps ahead. Trump’s 50% tariff imposition on India is a blessing in disguise for the Indian economy. There is not a capital goods sector now in India which is not seeing a heavy investment flow. Simultaneously Modi govt is also on signing spree of free trade agreements with nations and is diversifying our exports portfolio. Significant are the trade deals signed with African nations for rare earth minerals that can see mutual prosperity. Africa has long been exploited and shaved of their valuable minerals and gems. I like the reach out of Modi ji to the various nations across the globe. Very recently he was in Japan and the solidarity expressed by the Japanese with India is remarkable.

I wish Trump too is in the picture. There is no point in animosity and adversity and toxicity. Together great nations can work wonders and do a lot for humanity.

See, you are looking at 1.4 billion nation, one seventh of the world population. We are literally the movers and shakers here. We are shockproof, jolt proof. Nothing can rattle India. India will go on to eternity. Don’t write your history after 300 years of existence. Have a history that is 10000 years old that cannot even be documented.

the diwali bonanze for the Indian public. gst slash

As for as our PM Shri Modi ji is concerned, first of all he does not have a family. He is fasting most of the days or he is on frugal vegetarian diet. He is a yogi and has no self serving interests, as he owns no business or holds anything much by way of movable/immovable assets. The nation is his 24 hour preoccupation. He is unlike any other world leader of present times. He is principled. He is not profit motivated. He is deeply spiritual. He meditates. He has stepped into thousands of Hindu temples within India in the last 15 years. And unlike others, we Indians don’t believe his karma was to head our nation. His karma was to BUILD THE RAM TEMPLE AND BRING BACK RAM TO AYODHYA for which he was bestowed with the right kind of power that could enable him to make it a reality. Who could he have been in his previous janams? Perhaps the maratha warrior king Chatrapathi Shivaji himself? Whosever reincarnation Modi ji could be, I have no doubt in my mind that in every single birth of his, he probably strove to build the Ram temple and oust the mad mugals out of our sacred Hindu nation. His karmic love for our punya bhoomi is what led to this birth of his in which he has already kind of achieved his karmic goals. The PM post itself could be incidental. During his period India has prospered, grown stronger and mightier. He has the love and respect of even our minorities and has admirers through out the world.

Indian history is over 10000 years ancient. Unwritten Hindu history has spanned that longer. Nobody can write off India. Hindus were advanced civilization when the white man was swinging from tree to tree in Europe. We all go through temporary glitches. What we see in India is not development but REDEVELOPMENT, that’s all.

India-US relations will be back to normal soon. I don’t think temporary issues will sour permanent relationships that have been going steady for decades. India shall at the same time have friendly relations with Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Iran, Israel everyone. Why not. Nobody is our adversary. India’s level however is not abysmal low as Pakistan’s, to be shaking hands with them. That is Bangladesh’s job. Now, they are equal partners and deserve each other. Don’t want Pakistan Bangladesh even on BUY ONE GET ONE FREE OFFER. We all relate at our level, right. We have OUR standards. Our values. Through their friendships and alliances, nations define THEIR CLASS. Character is what is elegance. And nations too have character. Not just character, KARMA as well. Leaders write the karma of their nations, good or bad. So far as Pakistan is concerned, it is NEGATIVITY to describe in single word.

Finally a pat on the back to our PM Shri Narendra Modi, finance minister Smt. Nirmala Sitaraman, Ajit Doval ji and Shri Jaishankar. What a team we have. Excellent GST reforms which reflect that India would rather WORK ON HERSELF than try to twist others’ arms. I want to see Sensex soar over 100000 points soon and NIFTY over 50000. Let us make that happen as a nation! Together with you Modiji, in every step.

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முதலில் ஸ்டாலின் வந்து எங்க தெரு குப்பையை அள்ளட்டும்

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Recently was in Madurai and Kumbakonam. In both temple towns, the restaurant waiters etc., were Chattisgarh girls. Its interesting to watch even the women from Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Bihar, the supposedly most backward states of India, travel to other states, on par with their men, in search of work. Shame on Tamil men who are fit for nothing. On the other hand these bright girls have picked up local language, have sindoor in their hair parting and wear bangles presenting such a beautiful sight to our eyes.

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Let Stalin come with Udayanidhi and remove garbage from my street. How dare he thinks he represents entire Tamil Nadu to talk about autonomy for the state. Entire Chennai is STINKING. This is not Singara Chennai. This is DMK’s KUDIKAARAA SEERKETTA BODHAI CHENNAI. Recently was in Madurai and was shocked to see how dirty Madurai is (not really surprising it must have been though). Unremoved garbage everywhere. Stink like the stink of the DMK. When buying flowers etc., the poorest told us how an entire generation of men between 25-40 is getting WIPED OUT in Tamil Nadu because of DMK. The Tasmac is wrecking lives in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil men have nothing masculine about them. Stalin and before him his father Karunanidhi both together emasucated entire Tamil male community with one single weapon called Tasmac. Now the Tamil kudimagan is lying sprawled in platform, naked, not earning a single rupee, in inebriated condition, living shamelessly on PDS ration provisions, sending his wife to work as housemaid. The young of the state have their liver poisoned too soon thanks to alcohol culture promoted by the DMK. They even have the bloody outlets in shopping malls now and just recently was this commercial by tasmac where they boasted that they are selling imported liquor across counter. Imagine government of a state like Tamil Nadu and/or even Kerala engaged in liquor production, liquor business, selling liquor to labour force of the country and building economy with that kind of cursed wretched money. Everything in Tamil nadu is subsidized – from free bus tickets for women to laptops for school children and of course the unmentionable poll money to the vulnerable to cast their votes in party’s favour. Many autowalahs have openly told me, they voted for DMK ONLY because they received money from the ruling party. No literate population will vote for DMK. And imagine ruling government’s family engaged in real estate business, film productions, satellite tv entertainment etc., etc. Literally the corrupt family has bought out the entire state. They say in the airport, from call taxi services to auction in parking lots across the city and to even Aachi spices or whatever, everything is acquired by the DMK. Imagine the state going permanently to scoundrels like these in whose times, crimes soar and criminals wander freely street to street. Tamil Nadu is safe only because of the central government. தூர் வாரினாயாடா முத்தல்ல? Monsoons are already here. This family is doing well in spite of their sins only because their forefathers were singing the praise of Shiva in Thiruvarur temple for generations. They were playing the thavil. One day their punya will run out and karma will kick in. Music will start for the future generations. Already who knows what Karunanidhi is reborn as? Earthworm to be squished alive? Broiler chicken to be hacked to death? That is the amount of sins and corruption this family has done in the state and that is how much damage this family has done to Tamil population. ஒவ்வொரு குடிகாரனோட விதவைக்கும் நீ பதில் சொல்லணும் டா . Every week almost we see deaths of young men in their productive years under the age of 40 years, in our neighbourhoods dying because of liver cirrhosis caused by liquor consumption. The substance abuse is now starting at even 10 years. Ganja street to street in Stalin’s singara Chennai. Was n’t it in the news a few days back as to how a law enforcement official was hacked to death by a dealer. DMK means ganja, criminal, tasmac, fraud, corruption.

Why are Biharis,, Nepalis here? Because Tamil men can no more work. That is the bitter truth. Sonia Gandhi the Italian mafia, already sowed poison called ‘100 days MNREGA scheme’ that made the farmers in the state laziest and addicted to the bottle. The day the Gandhi family and the DMK family are routed out of India, the country will have real freedom. Of course these two are just two out of many dozens who need to be extradited out of India. Why is Rahul Gandhi, the Italian, still here?

Tamil women now welcome Biharis and Nepalis not only to work on our behalf, but also to become the MEN that Tamil men are not. Future generations of Tamils will be cross between Bihari men and Tamil women hahaha. Eventually that’s what where we are heading.

தமிழ் ஆம்பள ஆம்பளையா இல்லைன்னா, ஹிந்தி ஆம்பளைய தேடிக்க வேண்டியது தானே. நீ குடிச்சு விழுந்து கிட. உன்ன எரிச்சுட்டு எங்க பொம்பளைங்க ஹிந்தி காரனா வெச்சுப்பாங்க. உத்தியோகம் புருஷ லட்சணம் டா.

In 2001, we had this newly built government wedding hall during the DMK regime. In 2024, it had to be razed to build a new one in its place. Why? The building construction was so poor and it had to be pulled down. How much kickbacks? In the housing board flats next to the hall, the block of old flats that stood for 40 years had to be pulled down so that in the same place, now a 10 storey pigeon hole apartment block is coming up. Imagine the kind of profits these men are making.

Politicians are shameless creatures. They have no dignity, no shame, no self respect, no conscience. Their only motive is MONEY MONEY AND MORE MONEY and they will destroy anything in the way to achieve just that.

Politics is NOT for people with conscience, shame and dignity and for people with GOD.

Politics is a stinky world but there are boundaries that cannot be violated even in politics. Stalin brand of politics is a threat to Indian national security. Will the central government look into the matter. DMK will obliterate the entire Tamil male DNA with their single weapon called Tasmac.

Definitely welcome Biharis and Nepalis to Tamil Nadu. Soon our state will be Hindi majority and then let us see what happens.

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Who wants Tesla when Electric Auto Rickshaw is here?

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Yesterday was my first time in Electric auto rickshaw from Anna Nagar East to my home. Booked through Uber. I was surprised by the green colour of the auto. Did not even notice the details of booking that stated clearly that my upcoming ride was an EV, the electric auto. It was only on few minutes into the ride that I paid attention to the EV marking of the auto. Then I asked the driver. He said, yes indeed the auto was electric. He was driving it for last seven to eight months. No noise, no pollution. Smooth as silk he said. He said he charged the auto at home as Chennai is yet to have charging points for auto rickshaws. As of now, the city has electric vehicle charging points only in petrol bunks where owners of both cars and two wheelers can have their vehicles charged apart from at their homes. The green electric auto that was my ride was Bajaj make. It was economical – may not be too very cheaper but definitely not expensive, said the driver. Up until now the battery was good and the charging at home held good for entire day. I wanted to take a picture with him and his auto, but I stopped with just a selfie. Let the driver and his auto have some privacy!

my first ever ride in EV auto rickshaw!

Why do we need anything from America when we can have a far better, wiser Indian option. Who cares for luxury sedan? I am carless and happily carless! I love the autos and the city metro that are my favourite modes of transport. And of course I depend on Nataraja service (walking my way around the city’s congested streets). Life is beautiful. India WILL survive. Not here for nothing going by same name Bharat for 10,000 years. Not exactly the mushroom that sprang up in last evening’s rain.

By the way, I am here since the third week of August only – home at last in 2025. The profusion of EVs is staggering as I can see, compared to last year exactly around this time. Two wheelers lead the rally.

See, these are our needs: electric autos, EV two wheelers and then finally EV sedans mid size. We don’t need the plush range. I have no shame in admitting that I am middle class and I come from a third world nation. We have to think about affordability and durability. We will do what is GOOD FOR INDIA, NOT AMERICA!

Autos in the city mostly switched over to CNG fuel many years back, so that has actually supposedly reduced a bit of pollution. But this latest moving over of autos to electric mode is the best thing to happen to our city. I mean, for EVs normally you visualize sedans, SUVs and even two wheelers. How many of us ever factored in the EV auto? Auto is anyway my most favoured means of transport. Excited by the transformation! Hopefully the auto rickshaw walas of Chennai enmasse go electric soon! For that to materialize, may we have more charging points for autos around the city. Jai Bharat!

Posted in Lateral Thinking

World does not know what to do with India!

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Lovely! Just read this. But as I cannot copy the link here, I am doing a copy-paste job.

This was someone by name Aviator Anil Chopra in X (Twitter?).

Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.

“The world doesn’t know what to do with India. We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white. We’re not monotheistic. We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized. We are something they can’t decode.

We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical. We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum. We’re chaos that somehow moves forward. That bothers them.

Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.

We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands. Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived. When we rise, they frown. When we achieve, they doubt. Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.

But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement. They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script. They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.

We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered. We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared. And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.

India rising doesn’t fit their world order. Because we didn’t wait for permission. We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.

And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise. They resist it.

Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”

THE PHENOMENON THAT IS INDIA: BHARAT, MY MOTHERLAND.

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Challenging Aamir Khan to make a film on Changur Baba now.

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Coward and no.1 religious bigot Aamir Khan – will he now make a film on Changur Baba. Needs to be kicked out of India and stripped totally like Saif Ali Khan. The latter is paying for naming his son Timur. Not on Indian soil, you moron. Go and see the grave of Timur these days in Uzbek. Gone is the glory. Now India is having the upperhand and Uzbek is POOR. Its time to pack the ungrateful peacefuls back to where they belong. Let Saif retire to the land of Timur. Aamir Khan is no.1 coward and hypocrite. The other Khan Shah Rukh had to fall at the feet of a police inspector to save his son from dope case. Still the case is open only. With his stinking millions, he can get him out of the case no doubt. See how these people’s money is being spent. This is the sum total of the Khans. The fourth one Salman Khan in JUNK. No better word to describe this grotesque so-called hero, now overaged and looking ridiculous. Its time to cleanse Bollywood of the Khan mafia. These guys made it only because of their mafia, which is an open secret. Just like how A R Rahman was promoted by the same mafia.

If your son cannot fit the bill, you play the role of Jalaluddin, Aamir. Your son can play the role of Amit who is enticing unsuspecting Hindu girl disguising his religion and forcing her into marriage using blackmail.

Its not just Changur Baba, the hypocrite has endless topics to make films on including on grooming gangs of UK. Here the son can be the perfect cast.

Posted in Interests

This is a BIG & BEAUTIFUL CAR !

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Can’t thank Tesla enough for the 2025 variant Juniper!!! Loving this!

Unfortunately I am only middle class Indian who will never get to see this beauty in India and even if its going to be there, not sure if I can afford it! Its okay. Just the name is enough and this made my day!

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!

Posted in Economic

SEBI bans Jane Street

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Not at all surprised. Most of us retailers are minimum or small investors who don’t matter. But our funds are hard-earned money marked for retirement, children’s graduation etc. Our stock investments are our nest egg. We invest our life savings in BSE/NSE, India’s national stock exchanges, and what happens? We are taken to dizzying heights only to be plummeted to unimaginable lows so harshly that most of us have to write off our losses. At the same time, the FIIs or the Foreign Institutional Investors have been spotted laughing their way out of our stock markets. I am not a tech person to talk about this but I can understand when experts explain things to us in layman language.

https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/sebi-bans-jane-street-revealed-list-of-nifty-50-bank-nifty-stocks-that-us-brokerage-targeted-11751616782235.html

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/jane-street-vs-millennium-a-us-tech-feud-sparked-indias-biggest-market-probe/articleshow/122263135.cms?from=mdr

https://www.ndtvprofit.com/markets/sebi-bars-jane-street-group-from-indian-securities-market

Entire market is manipulative, going by its nature, agreed. Still this is audacious. What has America got to say on this. Tight lipped as about Lehman brothers’ losses? The Third world countries bore the brunt of Lehman brothers. Any idea for America to make good our losses? To someone talking tough on immigration, dispensing economic justice must not be a problem. The US govt also holds tonnes of gold of world nations including India, entrusted to them for safekeeping. Sometimes one wonders, whether the gold may be safer in India!

Anyway, ever since Trump came to power and the markets went on bear mode, we have our DIIs in India , the Domestic Institutional Investors, picking up the reins which is a good sign. Anyway I trust the DIIs over FIIs. The industrial growth story looks promising, the order books look good, the net profits are soaring. India shall remain a top economy in Asia registering highest possible growth rate and a top investment destination.

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What India can learn from the American Electoral Process.

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As the Trump-Musk feud escalates, Indian media is out with their speculations. A few influencers are better than the mass media tv channels. One of them was detailing about how Elon Musk may go about forming a third political party in the United States, that is a rare occurrence though not unheard of. The analyst was laying out point-by-point, why it was a monumental task for a third front to make it in America. The first and foremost reason was that, the third political front may require signatures from at least two million registered voters to be recognized by the Election committee as a competent political party. This really left me speechless. I am leaving out the other reasons that are out of scope of this post.

I am from Tamil Nadu where we had those like filmy actor Kamal Hasan start a political party (Makkal Needhi Maiyam) just to divide votes (or so we believe in) in the state. The party was active for a very brief time and is now gone defunct. But it served the purpose. It divided the vote bank by packing home the then ruling ADMK and returning to the Assembly the DMK which was apparently the motive. It is alleged that the party was also church-sponsored. ADMK had BJP leaning. Soon as the elections were over, MNM dismantled completely overnight with key members jumping the ship to get on to other bandwagons. Many simply vanished into thin air abandoning their political careers and the lofty ideals they were touting for months wasting columns in newspapers and hours in tv debate. A key BJP candidate Annamalai lost the Coimbatore seat in parliamentary elections thanks to MNM. The founder/floater of the party Kamal Hasan himself returned to the silver screen soon after the elections, leaving no doubt about the quiet dissolving of the party. How MNM even got funded is a mystery. It came into existence in such a short time flush with resources. Church angle is most probable, that’s all. No ruling out the invisible foreign hand and connections such as Mauritius or Seychelles, just to say. Scenarios like this are very common in India if and whenever vested interests want to divide the vote bank. It happens even at the central level as we saw very recently in the last concluded Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) elections. India has a third front that comes alive around election times always. Modi’s BJP is winning despite all this tamasha.

Both India and the US are two of world’s largest democracies. India has the largest adult franchise bank in the world, with around a billion eligible voters ready to exercise their voting rights.

Indian Election Commission can take a leaf out of the American Democratic/Election process for the sake of stability of our own governments. The third party fronts, the independent candidates etc., may have to be filtered for motives. Sources of funds must be legal and established clearly and published in the gazette. We can have something like the minimum signature consent/campaign within a stipulated 60 days or 90 days based on American model, in order for a new political party to come into existence, like a mushroom shooting up in the previous night’s rains. The new front must have solid grounds by way of logic to come into existence in the first place. Otherwise the third fronts are a waste of our time, energy and resources.

I have been voting in the EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines) since 2001 I guess. Now the list of candidates even for my constituency which is Central Chennai is getting lengthier and lengthier like the Hanuman tail. Too many independent contestants. There should be some basic criteria to check out the potential harmers who have it in them to inflict damage on the free and fair elections in India. Many promising candidates lose out to this third front/independent candidate mafia. Most independent candidates as well as the new third or fourth or fifth fronts, etc., that shoot up in India both at central and state levels have only one agenda: TO DIVIDE THE VOTE BANK UNSCRUPULOUSLY AND UPSET THE APPLE CART. This is nefarious and criminal ideology that needs to be addressed by our Election commission. Very recently actor Vijay from Tamil Nadu has floated his own political party (allegedly aimed at dividing BJP votes). The church connection is bold and written on the wall.

So as per Indian think tanks, even with the hurdles and constraints in his way, Elon Musk stands a good chance of getting successful with his new political party, if he is serious about it.

Things are getting interesting from here. Me taking no sides. Just a curious spectator from India who is keeping her fingers crossed.

They say, when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold. This is so true, believe me. What happens in America can have repercussions in not only in India, but in all parts of the world.

I hope my prime minister as well as the Election commission of India study the American two party democratic system for its merits and tighten the entry for third fronts/independent candidates who may try to destabilize India. If someone is solid and serious like Musk, then they can have no problem with the tough norms laid out to screen potential wreckers of our democratic system. The consolation is that, India and BJP continue to win in dire circumstances!

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Krishna’s Heart

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HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA!

Jagannath temple, Puri

Shocked by the gunfire on ISCKON temple in the US. Krishna lived eons before Jesus when modern communication network was practically non existent on planet earth. Further Hindu history is believed to have happened in another plane of time before catastrophe struck. We Hindus believe, we are someone who picked up the shreds of the lost civilization and rebuilt our society from the banks of the Sindhu yet again. Krishna’s heart lives on for us.

Hindu Dharam never spread by the sword. We don’t bribe or coerce anyone into conversion. On the contrary, Hindu deities may want you to REALIZE them. My Ishta devata is Ma Lalitha. We call Her ‘guhyapriya or rahasyapriya.’ She does not even want ignoramus to talk about Her or think about Her, as per scriptures. The realization has to come to people on their own – if not by birth as in the case of the biologically/culturally born-Hindu. Mostly Krishna devotees around the world thus REALIZE KRISHNA on their own as roads may lead them to Krishna mandir.

Puri Jagannath Mahaprasadam is unique, satwik food.

Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra is also reenacted around the world by ISCKON temples. Its a massive event in Odisha that draws lakhs of Krishna devotees from all corners of the globe.

You simply cannot erase Krishna Consciousness. Hindu deities are very much realizable as more and more of non Hindus in America are realizing Lord Ganesha, Kali, Krishna, Shiva among others. (Deities come to us in the form we may manifest them in. In other words, deities are energy forms with names and images that YOU give them. Nobody can shake them off. Most of us seek deities manifested by our ancestors). Krishna is the most accessible and realizable deity who millions around the world find themselves in the same frequency with.

Dharmic Hindu faith, the Sanathana Dharma, is a conscious choice for millions around the world. Of the six schools of Hindu Philosophy, Vaishnavam (under which Krishna Consciousness falls) is more popular with Krishna as its supreme deity or Brahman. Before Jesus was a shepherd, Krishna was tending to cattle. Before the nuns were married to Jesus, thousands of Gopikas were married to Krishna very much in similar fashion. So tell me who copied who.