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

  1. This is a good move.
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  2. I am from North Karnataka, BJP won 18 legislative seats in 1983. The reportage on Karnataka is misleading with the whole coastal "radicalisation" narrative.
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  3. This is a dated view. R&D does not lead to brands or products by themselves. You need industrial capacity and backward integration. Indians lack respect for "concept to product" because we overfocus on education, desk jobs and R&D. Simple example, assume a student at IIT comes up with a new type of LED, what happens next? Even if the govt backs the student with 500cr outlay, nothing. Why? The experienced people required to bring the conceptual product to life are not here. In this LED example, it requires a technical management team that can work on setting up the chemical process, a logistical team to source things economically and an industrialist with a pre-existing LED factory with a workforce of 500 engineers and 2-3k electricians specialising in things like soldering. We don't lack in R&D, what we don't have are the above 3k-5k trained non research staff who do the dirty menial work. We end up spending so much money and effort on them that things become economically unviable. It is simpler for the said student to move to the US where a university will link them to a VC firm who will set it up in the US or East Asia.
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  4. This is what the "Sanghis" have been saying for decades. Today it's cutting edge research? 🤣
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  5. Because we don't have industrial experience in our society. We skipped Industrialisation and went straight to services.
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  6. It's not a question of learning. ISRO has less autonomy as it is controlled by the PMO by default.
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  7. How dare they not respect Kejriwal? 😡
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  8. So peaceful bro.
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  9. They are going to take Punjab to the gutters. AAP should have ideally won a smaller state like Goa, Uttarakhand or even Manipur. Here is how I make the claim: 1. AAP is inherently wedded to the idea of Nordic Social democracy ie focus on socialized healthcare, education and high end enterpreneurship. 2. Punjab is in a situation where most of its society is reluctant to see agriculture is no longer viable. Aap has made a Faustian deal with the agricultural elites to get power. 3. They don't even realise the pickle they are in. In the case of Delhi, their narratives work because it's an urbanizer UT. (Corporates corrupting a govt system; public vs corporates; education as an exit point for poverty). None of these work in Agrarian Punjab. The social elite in Punjab(Rich land holding farmers) cannot be dealt with like in Delhi (corporates taxed and weeded out) Education in a city with existing businesses is surely a solution for poverty, not in Agrarian communities where they would want to keep land productive even if they get jobs. 4. They have pandered a LOT in this election(free water, electricity). Who will fund it? They have even proposed an anti conversion bill which points to the influence of religious elite as well. How will they balance it? 5. Talent flight in Punjabi elite is already huge. Will AAP's focus on education make things worse or better? Will 90% of graduates want to work as farmers or will there be even more talent flight.?
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  10.  @zeeshanraza617  who is asking for a genocide? Not my texts.
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  11. Because it's based on reality? Shocking I know.
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  12. ​ @Naruto-Uchiha724 Joffrey is apt
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  13. The main issue is he is the most likely alternative in a non BJP parliament.
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  14.  @mukundvsreyus  you really need to read some history. 🤦 1. You are mixing the existence of slavery with chattel slavery, for which the Dutch king apologised. 2. No Hindu, Buddhist or Jain had chattel slavery. Happy to stand corrected.
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  15. ​ @Shva927 only one? 😂😂
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  16. ​ @NigamMehta  the last bit. Yeah.
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  17. This video should come with a health warning: May cause excessive facepalming.
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  18.  @iamkaisar8052  that reply has me convinced. Keep closing your eyes at the infrastructure built, investment coming in, social programs, Industrial capacity, foreign relations and stable petrol prices.
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  19. From the Muslim community. I completed the sentence for you.
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  20. Yes, a country becomes a sporting power by giving the sport "respect". 😂
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  21. ​ @elliotalderson2007 even if you paint them in the worst light, where are they in power?
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  22. If India does not reduce the pension/ salary/ welfare burden, this is our future as well.
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  23. Free medical facility and education is also revadi culture. Who is paying for it? Is there an entry of few thousand crores called "recovered from corrupt officials" in their ledger?
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  24. For a "flawed, antiquated and dysfunctional model of welfare of the people". Completed your sentance for you. You missed that part.
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  25. Where is the social distancing in these meetings?
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  26.  @prashanthb6521  that figure is liabilities as a % of state GDP. I don't think you understand what that means. UPA cut down debt which funds infrastructure. It's not debt that we need to be wary of, it's how it was spent.
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  27.  @motabhai7287  wonderful words and sentiment. Each time I am wronged, beaten up or made fun of; as a true Hindu, I remember Krishna's advice to Arjuna when he asks why he has to fight his cousins. "Don't fight, when you can Chakka Jaam wearing a Jhola". People are quick to forget that Pandavas won the kingdom back through Urdu naarebaazi and protest skills not by killing. This is true Hinduism 🤡
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  28. I also have a gripe with the print keeping the Vir Sanghvi and Kanisetty. So let's call it even
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  29. They were waiting for your permission. Band kare kya?
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  30. Gujarat is way ahead of Punjab. What kind of copium is this?
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  31.  @sriramsakura  it's quite telling that you don't have an answer to a simple question. You could not name 3 functionaries who can carry out your fantastical villainous narrative and you are telling a native what the politics of the land is. This is what happens when you throw away your history and pretend to celebrate it. Tell me how many DMK leaders can speak a sentence in classical Tamil, then teach me about my own state.
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  32.  @ghhhit9228  thanks. But do realise there is a grain of truth to the other side as well. For the sake of national integration there should be empathy for the earning state, how will KA which is the 3 most water deficient state feel when it is unable to announce a farm waiver but Bihar and UP announce them? The spending States should be engaged in capacity building but most engage in welfarism.
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  33. Isko PM banayenge? Paagal ho kya?
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  34. That is not how you run a government. This insane idea of "copying best practices" is counterintutive. There are far bigger priorities than pink tax and menstrual health when there is a capacity and governance deficit.
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  35. ​ @NationalYouth677 if you choose to believe that, you agreed to the removal of Palestine from the map. Thanks.
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  36. Economists, consultants, responsible voters: maybe free electricity is not such a good thing if the system collapses in the long run. BJP: Imma pass a law Revduddin: "pree edukashun phreebie nahi hai"
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  37. ​ @amandeep9930  Abhijit Iyer Mitra makes this point about services being useless without a manufacturing base. A simple example, Asian paints have manufacturing, years of marketing and decades of data on multiple markets. It makes sense to have an R&D in chemistry and instrumentation; and services ventures in sales apps or interior design. Most people in India don't have domain expertise to conduct any kind of business in the services industry, we pick up the odd jobs that G20 can't fill numerically and call it our "services industry". The best of us have to leave shores simply because there is no backward integration of manufacturing. If I came up with a new LED, there is no pool of low level soldering talent, no shipping network to obtain rare earth from Africa and no domestic Silicon ingot production(Adani has changed this recently).
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  38. ​ @vlvber  Nice alt-history. Please start writing airport novels. The CJI might even end up quoting you.
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  39. And worrying
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  40. Bhai chup raho, aise mat bolo. I am eagerly waiting for this anecdata to be made into a memeable bhashan. "Kya BJP ne aapke truckome acche seate di? Kya radio diya? Aapke accelerator ko kuchal diya, 65 kilometre gati mey"
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  41. Even the methodology he is using here is cringe.
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  42.  @Ahmad-mf7yu  some clarifications are in order: 1. My contention isn't primarily against Kashmir or Kashmiris, it is against the national narrative of the benefits of social spending. I hold similar views on my neighbouring states KL and TN, my own states insane policy of free bus rides for women, AAP's free electricity, BJP and Congress freebies and UP's free cycles/laptops. In a democracy, this is how conversation happens with states/identities becoming markers for policy/direction. Gujarat model/Kerala model, "South feeds, North breeds", Hillbilly middle America, Southern Italian Mafiosi politics, Finlandisation, Chinese Debt diplomacy, EU's Eurocentricism, Argentinian financial mismanagement, need any more examples? 2. Does the 10% expenditure include the defence budget? I am open to being corrected but I have not received a qualitative or quantitative argument. A defence expenditure barring infrastructure is state/region agnostic. There is no special division or equipment that is specific to the state or has a separate defence budgetary allocation. Therefore the expenditure is under the central list, it won't count in state allocation. If the army did build bunkers primarily with that money and let's charitably say that it took up 75%, it still means Kashmir got 2.5% of the budget for 1% population. (Btw, the last set of assumptions are overstated because check the erstwhile JKVAT/ today's GST collection and compare the special allocation history.). 3. Even assuming the charitable 2.5% spent on the 1% premise, look around and visualise the intensity of economic activity in the state. How many profitable industries are present, what is the turnover of the median business or even outliers, did you see the hustle of a Mumbai/Bengaluru/Chennai or even the Kerala style mega gold trade/private individual land deals(Crore plus deals in the 90's). The answer is no. 4. Much like the rest of India, the average state citizen overestimates the economic volume of the state. This is true for the "earning states" too. Kashmiri politicians much like the regional satrapy of the rest of India spent the money pulling people out of poverty and designed policies to have shadow businesses and offshore accounts. No state in India is swimming in money, but some get more than others and Kashmir has historically ranked very high on an absolute and per capita basis. Easy money has always led to progressive politics. Even Sikkim was the same, they currently have a demographic problem due to high rates of female empowerment. 5. I want financial infusion into Kashmir and other border states, but my only issue is the principle of reciprocation, will those states give back to South and West Indian states if and when there is a revenue downturn? Are they willing to accept periods of financial self reliance? I fear not in the case of Kashmir and certain NE states, their politics seem to operate in a premise of a conditional union with India for financial gain. If there is a change like we saw with Assam and Sikkim, there was no need for this wall of text.
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  43. Even if they are man made, that does not take away the value religion brings to the table. As much as i resent religion, fellow atheists are going down a path of neutrality that has severe consequences.
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  44. ​ @LovepreetSingh-vx4hi true but Punjab and Haryana took the lead.
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  45. I used to cringe at Punjabi pop music in the 90-2010s, my friends from NCR and Punjab used to almost take offence. The themes of those songs were Whiskey, European cars and fashion brands, American gun culture and even the "emotional/sad songs" had sets and architecture that looked for lack of a better phrase "European Mahal". The same mfs couldn't listen to Carnatic or folk music from other states that I loved, and mock my jazz/metal/classic rock preference. 😂
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  46. But she can't make a career out of it?
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  47.  @RajKumar-ye4uf  again forced equivalence. 1. Did Graham die in a localised event of 50-200 people or was the entire nation asking for his death? 2. Is this a regular occurance with anyone who converts people? Are there calls ti burn them like any statement on the prophet attracts a call for death? How many missionaries have been killed this way? 3. The two questions can help you discern what is an instance(Staines) and an institutionalised response(Sar tan se juda). What makes you hateful of your own ilk that you say both are same? Very simple questions. Answer them.
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  48. The states reorganization based on linguistic grounds is yet another Congress burden the nation has to bear. People have started to backdate their linguistic identities and associated historical kingdoms and empires to states. Ask any language chaunuvist to name a war started for a language in Indian history. There aren't any but the same person will say that this or that territory belonged to our empire. Royalty is dead, feudalism needs to die and it's time to divide the states on a better rationale. PS: Haul up Fadnavis(for that ill-stated comment), Shinde(for choosing to inherit a bad fight) and Bommai(for retaliation). I'm from north Karnataka and am writing to my local BJP office on this. Nothing good will come out of this tit for tat. It's not just Bjp that needs to take action, its people too.
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  49.  @UttamKumar01 I want to have a conversation on following things 1. Temple movements, economy and sanitation are not competing interests. You can walk, chew gum and listen to music simultaneously. There are several countries that have concurrent streams of activities. 2. I think you either underestimate or misjudge the movement as a political one. This is social. There are plenty of non religious non practicing folk like me who want the temple to be there. 3. There is no moral case for the mosque to be there. Is it a sacred site for the Muslims? Do we have Arabs and Persians flying in to visit this place? It's clear who it is more important to. 4. Yet another fallacious argument is that of a slippery slope of history. If there are Jain claims to the temple, we can co own and run temples alongside as is evident at other places. If the argument is about impossibility of correcting history, no one is asking for that, they are only asking to address the lack of access to one of Hinduism's holiest sites today. There are people alive who's ability to practice is impeded by the capture.
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  50.  @shashwatkumar4204  that explains a lot. But i sincerely hope, the thousands of deaths that happen everyday in China, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangladesh by the Sanghi sleeper cells stop.
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