Ujval Nanavati

Data don't lie. Here's your comprehensive A4 cheat sheet with undeniable facts when arguing with vacuous Bhakts. And keep a print with you.

Thank me later.

Desalination, proposed by UBT as an alternative, costs money.
Fadnavis's plan costs only 250,000 trees.

Easy choice, isn't it?
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SEBI warns of high failure rates in F&O trading but doesn’t explain why. Meanwhile, high-frequency traders still dominate the market.

@cynicalujval.bsky.social delves into why navigating India’s F&O market is not for the faint-hearted:

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When every indicator points to stress and strain and global brokerages start using the term "structural slowdown," CII continues to contribute to the government's echo chamber.

How do you cope with a problem when you do not even acknowledge it exists?

SEBI warns of high failure rates in F&O trading but doesn’t explain why. Meanwhile, high-frequency traders still dominate the market.

@cynicalujval.bsky.social delves into why navigating India’s F&O market, dominated by sharks, is not for the faint-hearted:

themorningcontext.com/business/nav...

"On an occasion when praise was all that might have been expected, he also received criticism, and did not take it as a sign of hostility. How different our country would be if more leaders imbibed this spirit".

Raghuram Rajan's tribute to Manmohan Singh:
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Black coffee is the healthiest drink you didn’t know about Multiple scientific studies suggest that habitual black coffee consumption cuts heart, brain, liver and kidney ailments as well as various cancers.

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Black coffee is the healthiest drink you didn’t know about.

Multiple scientific studies suggest that habitual black coffee consumption cuts heart, brain, liver and kidney ailments as well as various cancers.

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I've been listening to This Moment on a loop for a while. I thought Zakir Hussain's life was well lived, but now I think he went way too soon. He was so fab even so late in life.

I am crying all over again today.

“It might seem like we’re heading for a dystopian future right now but I read that book, 1984, and things were way worse back then”
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Today in Parliament:

Musk expects people to "Subscribe" to this buggy hate-filled echo chamber?

Let me show you:

ISB changed its logo a couple of weeks back and it led to similar outrage. TBF to IIM-A, it did a better job than ISB.

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UK has gone from 2nd highest to 2nd lowest. Quite a change.

Dark patterns: Fair play or a tool of mass deception? The recent controversy over Zepto’s differential pricing and lack of transparency trains the spotlight on the deceptions and trickery that digital companies resort to in the name of innovative busines...

The recent controversy over Zepto’s differential pricing and lack of transparency trains the spotlight on the deceptions and trickery that digital companies resort to in the name of innovative business practices.

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On Arundhati Roy. Damn right.
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Biden comes across as a saint compared to...

Mangoes are overrated. I will die on this hill.

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

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It's an excellent movie.

How Rahul Yadav bungled Info Edge-funded 4B Networks At the heart of the current crisis at the proptech startup lies a flawed business model, sham prospective buyers and higher-than-usual payouts to brokers.

We rarely make anything free to read. This excellent story on how Rahul Yadav squandered the money it raised from Infoedge is now free to read. Please read if you didn't when we wrote about it. themorningcontext.com/internet/how...

Pledge agreements show Adani Green could have breached loan covenants The US indictment alleging bribery for solar contracts by the company’s promoters and management has activated many potential issues in loan agreements signed by the renewables major.

Our investigation into three share pledge agreements entered into by Adani Green subsidiaries shows they signed undertakings before March 2023—when AGEL first became aware of the FBI’s probe—to inform lenders of any such matters, which they haven't.
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Also noteworthy? That the interest rates that elderly people, who survive on the yield on their long term savings receive, is now lower than the attrition caused by inflation.
Excellent arrangement to transfer wealth from the vulnerable to the fat cats.

Good god!

So, where are we at?

Inflation is now higher than the real GDP growth rate? Hence, any growth you see in corporate revenue in nominal terms has more inflation than real growth in it.

That's where we are at.

These scenes won't be repeated in January. Because the lunatics will run the asylum.

Dial M for Murder

Grok says Musk is a serial liar. Must be true then 🤔

No. He is the wrong man on the wrong planet.