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Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Decades later sung that casually in a TV show and dare I say it was even better. Also listen to genius of chitra amma. Maybe this is what is called as ajanma Shruthi jnanam.
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Size and diversity do matter. But most governance challenges are modular, and the right kind of design, incentives, accountability structures and monitoring mechanisms generate great outcomes. Size cannot be an excuse for failure.
Indira Gandhi is said to have once dismissed Lee Kuan Yew’s economic advice with icy condescension: “Prime Minister, please don’t advise me. I run a country; you run a supermarket.”
It was a neat patrician retort, but it captures the perennial excuse of the continental politician, the retreat into sheer immensity whenever confronted with East Asian velocity. Six decades on, the asymmetry in that exchange has only grown starker.
I use the anecdote to open a longer argument about why India keeps underestimating the administrative discipline Singapore actually required.
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Ravindra Jain was gifted beyond measure. I keep wondering how someone who never saw the world could write lines so full of light and longing : “nadiya ke kinaare aaj usi ambva ke tale aana”
Indira Gandhi is said to have once dismissed Lee Kuan Yew’s economic advice with icy condescension: “Prime Minister, please don’t advise me. I run a country; you run a supermarket.”
It was a neat patrician retort, but it captures the perennial excuse of the continental politician, the retreat into sheer immensity whenever confronted with East Asian velocity. Six decades on, the asymmetry in that exchange has only grown starker.
I use the anecdote to open a longer argument about why India keeps underestimating the administrative discipline Singapore actually required.
substack.com/home/post/p-222…
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Shukla ji has attended more events in one lifetime than a lot of us will do in a hundred lives.
Filmmaker @SubhashGhai1 had invited the media to witness @MadhuriDixit in a song sequence choreographed by the legendary #SarojKhan for #Khalnayak, Ooty.
A terrific outdoor. Before we departed, Ghai insisted on a group pic. Memories…@duttsanjay
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Anthropic's IPO was filed on October 26, 2026, and I value it's equity at about $1.475 trillion, which will inform my decision on whether to buy or sell its shares. To make your Anthropic choice, though, you should value it yourself, and I will provide a story and input structure to help you. bit.ly/3UTo3Gj
Hey @Garmin @Garmin_India, my Forerunner 265 is connected to my iPhone via Bluetooth and I’m receiving notifications on the watch but Garmin Connect says I need to add a device.
Why isn’t the app recognising my watch?
It’s clear as daylight which side is right and should be supported in the Tata tussle
Indian stand-up comics have inherited one of the most complicated audiences anywhere.
It wants irreverence as long as the joke confirms its prejudices.
Free speech as long as nobody touches its sacred cows.
Comedy thrives on the gap between what a society claims about itself and what it’s willing to admit.
In India, that gap is wide enough to sustain an entire industry.
TIL: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, ex-CM of West Bengal, was the grandson of Pandit Krishna Chandra Smrititirtha, who wrote Purohit Darpan, the manual Bengali Brahmins consult for karmakanda.
The dialectic, apparently, begins at home.
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Intelligence is primarily behavioural. And its strongest correlate is the ability to make and absorb error — risk appetite!
On Mohamed Choukri’s extreme frankness about hunger, sex, violence, and the underclass of Tangier, and why it remains subversive. Ursula Lindsey in @nybooks
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the human body is absurdly capable. the mind just needs convincing.
#VDHM2026
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
Pew: 74 per cent of Indian respondents are satisfied with their democracy
V-Dem: India is an electoral autocracy
What explains the divide?
Janak Pandya જનક પંડ્યા retweeted
>@navamcapital held our Annual Day 2026 on October 12 in Kolkata, convening founders, scientists, senior policymakers, investors, business leaders and technologists.
Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:
– Dr Swapan Dasgupta, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal @swapan55
– Dr Sudhir Jain, former Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University and former Director, IIT Gandhinagar @SudhirJainIITGN
– Ashish Dhawan, founder of ChrysCapital, founder-chairman of The Convergence Foundation @AshishDhawanTCF
– Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease
Hon. Finance Minister @swapan55 took particular interest in meeting the founders, hearing what they are building and inviting them to come to West Bengal as they scale up their manufacturing efforts!
40+ deep tech founders and executives from across India, drawn from over 20 startups showcased their work through the day, alongside closed-door sessions and direct engagement between industry leaders, our investee companies and Navam's fund investors! We also convened academia and institutional leaders from @iiserkol @IITKgp @IIMCIP @tcgcrestuniv in special sessions to meet with other attending incubators and institutional partners.
It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations that have continued well after the Annual Day concluded.
A special thanks to the 200+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio founders and executives to investors, industry and academia, legal advisors and consultants, and friends and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem, who participated in the program and made the day a success!
We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!
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Navam Capital's Annual Day 2026 will be held this year in Kolkata, on October 12 – like last year nitter.cf/navamcapital/status/19…, we shall convene Navam portfolio founders, industry leaders, senior policymakers and leading scientists for deliberations and discussions on the fast-evolving deep tech opportunity in India.
Kolkata has a unique position as the cradle of Indian science and industry - and we are thrilled to bring the best of deep tech to the city!
Registration link: luma.com/phdpefe3
