Comments by "Rutvik" (@rutvikrs) on "ThePrint" channel.

  1.  @perambu3441  fact check: It was not a state government decision, it was a municipality decision. Neither of them are good policy choices. If a neta's kid is getting away with a crime, should we protest to free poor people imprisoned for the same crime or should we protest for the neta kid to be imprisoned under common law? 🤦
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  2.  @MegaLeoben  do you have access to any databases? I am just asking to send you the right way to validate what I claimed. If that is an unfair ask, check out the 2016 article by TCA Sharad Raghavan writing for The Hindu titled "J&K gets 10% of Central funds with only 1% of population". Parallely Google the number of special packages the state has received since 2021. India is spending a lot on J&K and the Northeastern states, while UP/BH require infusions to increase the per capita outlay. Yes it is true that UP/BH receive 300-900 for every 100 of revenues the state earns, but the regions I mentioned are in the 1000+ for 100 earned, worst of the lot being Arunachal getting a central allocation of 4000+ for every 100 the state earns. If these states stuck to their independence agenda of the 80's, they would have economies reduced by the factor of 2-40 times.
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  3. After reading this comment we know why removing that border and renaming the region as Akhand Bharat is needed.
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  4. This conversation is an embodiment of why data has no meaning without qualitative analysis. He is wrong on several counts(Oh and I am a Kannadiga not from the north): 1. India has chosen states to become "earners". Example: MH's high GSDP is due to the financial center Mumbai. If FDI flows in today, it comes in through the state even if the resulting factory is in Gurugram, Coimbatore, Pune, Bengaluru or Noida. The concentration of Banking/Financial institutions is the reason. Just like that, PB and HR were chosen for the green revolution. 2. Coming to the south, TN was chosen for industrialization via Freight equalization policy. The entire belt between East to Central India lost its industries because of this. That is why TN which has not been the source of ores has the industry, but JH, BR, MP, CH, OR, AP, KR and even MH have the mines but the value add production is concentrated at TN. Another example is Coimbatore's mills are run predominantly by people groups from AP while India's cotton fields are predominantly between AP to GJ. 3. The nativist/regionalist/separatist sections of these selected states like PB, TN, MH have a spurious assumption that their inherent geographical advantages that caused their selection exists everywhere but the other states fail because of their "politics" or "education" or even "ideology" (Additional points in replies else YT will delete this comment)
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  5.  @AliRazaIAS  yes we have heard it all. If we went by social and economic issues, the world would be terrified of Tibetians.
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  6. I don't like Revduddin's policies, but let him go. Raita phailane bhejo.
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  7. Went through the report. It does not count the debt of the entities held by the government. So the picture is far worse for every single state.
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  8.  @dpashokk  if you go into depth, you will lose any respect you have for Nehru. 😂
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  9. Same here. My family sold a flat to fund this idiot. I even volunteered in my professional capacity.
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  10. Everything and everyone is godi media 😂
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  11. 💯. Same with Karnataka. I hope the conversation on how useless these freebies are proving to be, increases.
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  12.  @MegaLeoben  because they are accounted for by the state and center. The Army's expenses like logistics, mobilisation and daily consumption are entered into the Ministry of Defence's books while the outlays I am mentioning are taken from the tax devolution and special grants. If it included defence expenditure, it would be the easiest form of double entry scam that doesn't require an education in finance to figure out. And your politicians are pretty rich, not MH/KA/TN/DL rich but pretty rich. Just open up old reports to see how much economic activity takes place in terms of exports from your state and you will know the state of affairs in the past.
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  13. ​ @berserkhorimiya in short they introduced the private sector into the ecosystem and Indian defence exports are valued at a Billion every year. DRDO wasn't accumulating achievements, they were accumulating capacity to reverse engineer some defence systems. When it came to "concept to product", they had a very limited success. So that is something to be proud about. Also it makes me happy to see this panel filled with domain experts, no fluff netas or their progeny.
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  14. Rupee has stayed where it is. It's USD that has appreciated in value. Compare GBP-INR; YUAN-INR; EUR-INR and YEN-INR for Mudi ze's tenure. 2014 to today.
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  15.  @MM-ue4ol  literally everything you said is wrong. 1. BJP is working on structural change in economics. It's benefits will be seen in 10-20 year horizon. GST, Bankruptcy bill and many other reforms are in this direction. They should be critiqued for bad implimentation. But "doing the right thing badly"(BJP) is not the same as "doing the bad thing correctly"(Congress and AAP) 2. Economic reforms lead to social change. Social reform is a byproduct of the change. No country developed economically because of egalitarian movements. Name one social movement that led to formation of businesses and economies. 3. We are a third world country if i am not mistaken. At our stage of development it's always the case that it is dominated by a govt fuelled oligarchy which creates an industrial base. In every single developed country this is the case. Examples: Japan(Zaibatstu like Mitsubishi, Toyota, Kawasaki) Korea( Chebol like LG, Samsung, SK Honda) and even communist China( businesses associated with Shanghai clique)
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  16. "Anshul Gupta never tells the truth"- Manish Sisodia
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  17. Khalistani vs Christian. Kiska side lein? Hindutva angle laye toh kahaan se laaye? 😡
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  18. But coercing someone using money, aid and jobs is not
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  19. Eternal victimhood.
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  20. ​ @ed5928  people forget that Modi's most cogent critics are ones to the right of his government. Be it market oriented or civilizationally oriented.
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  21. Haan Bhai. That is the right framing. A PM aspirant and primary opposition has taken more vacations than any in his fraternity. But people should be celebrating that he is "getting some".
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  22. This guy deserves a chapter in our future text books as the prime example of correlation does not equal causation. 1. His answer should have been, MH earns most of its GST in the city of Mumbai. As the financial capital, it recieves the foreign direct investment even if the economic activities happen in other states. They are one time or statutory transactions. KA/TN/HR on the other hand see this money first hand. MH was always going to see a smaller share of tax devolution, commensurate to the amount of economic activity in the state. 2. Instead he brings the cuckoo narrative around the axiom of population change. Correct me if I am wrong, but no state in the Hindi belt has a baby boomer policy around linguistic majoritarianism. South Indian TFRs dropped due to chunks of its population involved in manufacturing/ trade and relative local inflation due to economic mobility. 3. He straight up lies on population criterion being 75%, when the 14th and 15th finance commission caps it at 17.5 and 15% resp in written policy. 4. As a native of the state, Karnataka politics never revolved around the central allocation. 1.3% voted to spite the BJP, not for freebies. If anything the "son of the soil" JD(S) took the largest hit. This is simply infusing the kind of freebie politics that DMK has on to Karnataka. 5. I wonder why he focuses on BIMARU when there is another correlation that has worse cumulative ratio. Border hill states, J/K and NE India. If Bihar gets 900 for the 100 rupee it earns, all of the hill border hill states(Except HP) recieve north of(pun intended) 1000 with Arunachal at 4000. I may have a working theory on why these former set of states are in focus, it could be the percived political nature of the language spoken in Belt. 6. We could have had a far more interesting conversation if we discard propogandists like him because I bet he will walk away once his political objectives are met. Regarless of the state we need to spend more on capex instead of welfare policies so that states get to leverage their relative advantages to catch the fish instead of being fed.
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  23.  dark-footage  PoK also has its own space program, 50+ skyscrapers, 300 universities, 25k hospitals, 85 nuclear reactors, unicorn breeding farms, 80 lane highways, free healthcare, oil reserves, ocean facing properties, quantum computers, semiconductor fab, and rive Olympic villages. J&K are regretting the decision to stay with Endia. 🥲
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  24. YES! Brother has given us the correct answer. Petrol and inflation is the cause. I remember my neighbour Pancharmar Khan used to go to his school in a 5 stage rocket. Today minorities are being persecuted through petrol prices(which is actually falling in world market. Sri Lanka is selling 3 tonnes for SL₹ 1/-. Mudi ze down down! 😡
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  25. Australia too. It's saddening to see human potential wasted on menial labour.
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  26.  @anshuraj4277  the Brits left behind a pro British government/leader/structure from each place they "freed". Why did they choose to make India the exception? 🤔 I want to be educated. Please let me know.
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  27. I fear our society has not understood the language challenge. We are being taught and to some degree are operating as a nation-state(a technical term in civics which means confluence of language, ethnicity and culture. Therefore German/Italian identity is German/Italian language, their ethnicity is German/Italian and their culture is German/Italian). We still think along these lines so the only plausible model is linguistic states(Tamil or Mizo language/ethicity/culture). We should move away from the nation state model and start restructuring to a civilizational country model. It's details have to be worked on as we will be on Terra Nova.
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  28. 4. This chap is either from TN or strongly influenced by political narratives from TN. He is using data purely from 2 filters. a. Where Money is earned/spent. b. Per capita govt expenditure coming from outside. feeding an egregious narrative that "South earns, North spends". 5. I wonder why the filter is applied only on a national level and not on a state level. I can just as easily say "Bengaluru earns, North Karnataka spends" or "East Bengaluru earns, North Bengaluru spends" or even a specious "Father earns,family spends". The fundamental nature of administration and governance is reallocation of resources from the earner to the spender. 6. The earning states also have to remember they are being paid because they have tax free access to resources from the rest of the country. Bengaluru draws talent nationally. We are not paying KL or other states for the money spent creating talent. TN does not pay JH, CH or any other state for the raw material. PB or HR does not pay taxes to states upstream in the river. If you go at it alone, your "self generated economy" will be left a shadow of its former self.
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  29. Punjab sambhal nahin raha hai. Aa gaye bhaisaab, Kashmir pe tippani Dene. 🤔
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  30. We could have prevented corona if only India was an Islamic republic. 😭
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  31. 1. Majority of Indonesians do not like to acknowledge Hindu roots and India. This includes Balinese Hindus who I have been in touch with. Reason? VHP and RSS are not great mediums. Their trust has eroded on the Indian diplomatic system which secured them thier status as a recognised religion. 2. Indian diplomats are hyper obsessed about their frame of domestic politics and policies. There is no official recognition of their identity in Indian systems. They have completely avoided their language Balinese and Bahasa. They have shifted to trade as a locus. 2. This leaves non-governmental and civil societies to converse with the groups and these groups are severely under equipped to deal with them. There is only so much one can listen to about how Sanskrit and Tamil influenced them, how we share gods and philosophies. A person who runs a social media outreach for Indonesian Hindus told me he only gets replies and DMs that amount to "do you know Tamil/Sanskrit" and "You used to be a part of us" and the indirect "Cholas conquered you". There is no further conversation, no monetary support, no sharing of literature or history, and not even an enquiry on their current challenges. The person shut down the handle last month. 3. The only success is a couple of people from VHP who are sharing information with them but even there, they are not happy with the effort or localisation.
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  32. Too bad the Congress won't be around the power corridors to appease them. 😢
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  33.  @tapemaj  could you let us know where the Sikhs, Assamese Muslims and Gujarati Muslims vacated and migrated to?
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  34. This is simplistic thinking. I don't like goons in the parliament either but that is still a part of the society we live in. The education bit is entirely unnecessary. Good managers and administrators have emerged from our uneducated classes too.
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  35. 1. Labour 2. Land 3. Logistics 4. Textiles 5. Transport 6. Skill development 7. Education In that order. Mess up the order and watch us add one more decade. UPA ruined two decades of growth focussing on demand focused policy funded by debt and printing money.
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  36. For what? 🤣
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  37. Well a cursory reading of history tells you Patel ceded because of Gandhi. He frequently had disagreements with Nehru to the point, he offered to quit multiple times.
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  38. Roots of the issues start there. It's like a day trader who made a bad trade and had to take higher and higher risk to compensate. It worked till it didn't. Total collapse.
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  39. I have learned that it is not happening without a fight.
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  40. While that undoubtedly has an impact, it is not as straight up. We(Indians) have a very rudimentary understanding of the dynamic.
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  41. Haha first world country has better standards than third world. Such an amazing observation. Now i must feel shame for my identity and ask for revolution. Mudi ze rejin. Not my prejident. 😭
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  42.  @aaditya4556  your sarcasm detector seems to be down right now.
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  43. Congrats Jay. Please pass on my heartfelt thanks to Arhana. Hope she excels in the field she chooses! 😁
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  44.  @abijithp92  goverment cannot keep funding every need. Bihar needs basic things, not a facility that even first world countries and oil monarchs don't provide.
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  45. It is a naked attempt to start communal tension between land dwellers and sea dwellers. As a native terrestrial Kannadiga, i am concerned about the possible usage of the bridge by Kannadiga sharks. Once the sharks enter the land, hindutva will be employed to stir up communal tensions against sharks. This is Hindutva 101. Only way to prevent this is the secularisation of this structure by Kumarswamy or DK Shivkumar. But our society is already big fans of communalism. Mudi ze must rejin. 😡
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  46.  @Vizorfam  it's gotten so bad under the fascist regime that every 60 seconds, a minute passes in India. Not my prejident. Rejin Mudi ze. 😡
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  47. Why would we want Siddu or DK Shivkumar back? 40% government to 80% government?
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  48.  @MegaLeoben  state police is an expense, already under the state list of the constitution. We are talking about proving revenues. So till the time you get back, my premise of disproportionate outlay stands proven with multiple references.
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  49.  @RajKumar-ye4uf  yeah we would not call for the death of the person. Forced equivalence?
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  50. As I like to put it, when a minorty(also known by the eminent phrase "a particular community") does it it's just an individual, when the majority does it, it's an institution. Doesn't take a genius to figure out an institution replicates across time and geography and everyone know who does that. The weave of apologia seems to be a maladaptive historical trait of Indian religions keeping peace. A survival mechanism long past it's sell by date.
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