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The rot is deep and real. For decades, Hindus have been systematically brainwashed to feel that bindi, tilak, kalawa, sindoor and our rituals are backward, low class, and uncool. And abandoning them is modern and elite. This didn't happen overnight. It's a mix of media narratives, social pressure, and our own silence since decades.
The eyewear retailer or Nashik cases are just the tip of the iceberg. Eyewear retailer's leaked guidelines banned tilak, bindi, and kalawa while openly allowing black hij@bs. Nashik case is far worse. Staff allegedly ran a coercion network, forcing Hindu employees to offer n@maz and eat bee-f, slowly erasing their faith.
The message is loud i.e, Hindu symbols are unwelcome in your own land. That's a clear double standard mocking our identity. And when we quietly accept it, we develop an internalized inferiority. Many of us now self-censor just to fit in. That's how cultures fade and not by force, but by slow abandonment. Call it a loss of cultural confidence.
If this continues, the next generation won't even question it. They will inherit the rot. But we can reverse it. Not with noise, but with steady, deliberate action starting with our children. Here is a simple Playbook:
➥ Own your symbols first: If someone calls a Bindi or Tilak or Kalawa or Sindoor backward. Don't argue. Wear it with confidence. The shame is theirs. Normalize it at home, work, and social events or wherever you go. Kids will follow.
➥ Teach your kids early: Explain that a tilak isn't just a dot; it's spiritual awareness, a mark of our timeless civilization. There's science behind it; documented in vedic practices. Let them lead a small puja or tell a festival story. Connection starts with understanding.
➥ Challenge double standards immediately: If workplace bans kalawa or bidi or sindoor or tialk but allows other symbols ? Ask in writing, 'Why is my identity being selectively erased?' Document everything. Atleast record and document ptoofs. That paper trail is your weapon.
➥ Build your own community networks: The Nashik case proved internal systems fail. Create a private group of trusted friends to verify incidents and escalate when official channels are compromised.
➥ Reject the 'cool' trap: Ditching your culture doesn't make you progressive. Westerners wear crosses and Stars of David proudly. Why can't we? Real confidence comes from knowing your roots, not running from them.
➥ Stop chasing validation: If you need approval to express your identity, you have already lost ground.
This is a long war. The brainwashing took decades; the cure will take just as long. But if we don't start today, we lose our identity within this generation. Teach your kids. Wear your symbols with pride. Call out bias. Our 10000+ year civilization didn't survive by accident. Fight back with confidence, clarity, and an unshakable paper trail.
A civilization doesn't disappear when attacked. It disappears when its own people stop valuing it. Start small. Stay consistent. Stay grounded.
#HinduCulture #Sanatan #Identity
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Guys @imagine is dead on arrival. Here is the reality check:
You are building a Ferrari and insisting it only runs on dirt roads. Putting a mandatory Grok watermark on every output isn't branding; it’s brand suicide. No serious company will pay to advertise your logo on their assets. You are literally asking brands to do free marketing for X while simultaneously making their own content look amateur. It’s not a feature; it’s a poison pill.
Same time the Market Speaks:
Gemini, Midjourney, and DALL-E don't force this nonsense. They understand that commercial viability requires clean assets. Why would a CMO pay for Grok when they can get watermark-free images elsewhere for the same price (or free)?
My verdict is that If there is no plan to remove the watermark for a fee, you aren't building a creative tool; instead you are just building a meme machine. Stop wasting engineering resources on a product with zero B2B or commercial growth potential. It’s a vanity project, not a business.
Bottom Line: X should remove the mandatory logo via a subscription tier, or shut it down. Anything else is just burning cash to stroke an ego. There is no justification in the name of AI content to be labeled as AI generated bcz of some regulations as others are not following it if thats really the case; same can be applicable for personal use but for commercial or B2B use there should be a separate policy. @nikitabier Any thoughts on this ?
Recently I started testing the AI Models like @imagine and @GeminiApp for video generation. The gap in realism is actually insane😳
Just ran the exact same prompt for a video starting frame on Grok Imagine and Gemini (Nano Banana 2). Same prompt, same idea...but one looks like a high end Pixar cartoon (Gemini - left), and the other looks like an actual DSLR photograph (Grok - right).
The skin texture, the natural hair, the lighting... Grok is on a completely different level for realistic video generation. Prompt is in the replies. What are your thoughts? 👇
🤖 Made with AI
MASTER IMAGE PROMPT:
CREATE THE MASTER REFERENCE IMAGE FOR A CONTINUOUS CINEMATIC VIDEO SEQUENCE.
The most important requirement in this image is
PHYSICALLY CORRECT NOTEBOOK GEOMETRY.
Do not prioritize artistic composition over notebook mechanics.
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SCENE
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Premium cinematic animated feature-film aesthetic.
A 16–17-year-old Indian teenage boy sits at a wooden
study desk in a warm contemporary bedroom/study.
He wears a muted dusty-blue long-sleeve shirt with
sleeves naturally rolled below the elbows,
dark charcoal trousers and a simple black wristwatch
on his LEFT WRIST.
Natural youthful face.
Dark brown-black short naturally styled hair.
Calm, intelligent, focused appearance.
Warm natural daylight enters through a nearby window.
Wooden bookshelf in background.
Natural materials.
Soft cinematic depth of field.
Realistic human proportions with subtle stylisation.
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DESK LAYOUT
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A silver-grey laptop is positioned on the LEFT side
of the desk.
A dark-blue hardcover notebook is positioned immediately
to the RIGHT of the laptop.
A black pen is positioned farther to the RIGHT of the notebook.
A dark mug is farther to the RIGHT.
The spatial relationship must remain:
LAPTOP → NOTEBOOK → PEN → MUG
from left to right across the desk.
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CRITICAL NOTEBOOK ORIENTATION
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The notebook is a NORMAL BOUND HARDCOVER NOTEBOOK.
The notebook's FIXED SPINE is on the side
FARTHEST FROM THE LAPTOP.
The notebook's FREE OPENING EDGE is on the side
CLOSEST TO THE LAPTOP.
Therefore:
LAPTOP-FACING EDGE = FREE OPENING EDGE.
OPPOSITE/FAR EDGE = FIXED SPINE.
The notebook must physically open TOWARD THE LAPTOP.
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MAKE THE GEOMETRY VISIBLY OBVIOUS
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DO NOT show the notebook completely flat and perfectly closed.
The notebook must be SLIGHTLY AJAR.
Raise the LAPTOP-FACING FREE EDGE of the
dark-blue front cover approximately 10–15 degrees.
The opposite edge remains completely flat on the desk.
The raised edge must be the edge CLOSEST TO THE LAPTOP.
The opposite edge must visibly remain attached
to the white paper block as the FIXED SPINE.
The slight opening must make the hinge direction
immediately obvious to a human viewer.
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EXPLICIT GEOMETRY
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LAPTOP
↓
[ FREE OPENING EDGE ]
╱
╱
╱ dark-blue front cover
╱
────╱────────────────
FIXED SPINE
FARTHER FROM LAPTOP
The BLUE COVER is attached to the
FIXED SPINE on the FAR SIDE.
The BLUE COVER is slightly raised at the
FREE EDGE on the LAPTOP SIDE.
The cover rotates around the FAR-SIDE SPINE.
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NO ALTERNATIVE GEOMETRY
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Do NOT place the spine beside the laptop.
Do NOT place the free opening edge on the far side.
Do NOT make both ends visually interchangeable.
Do NOT make the notebook symmetrical in a way
that hides the hinge.
Do NOT create a spiral notebook.
Do NOT create a ring binder.
Do NOT create loose pages.
Do NOT create a notebook whose opening direction
cannot be determined.
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HAND POSITION
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The boy's LEFT HAND is the notebook hand.
His LEFT WRIST visibly wears the black wristwatch.
His left hand is positioned immediately above,
and slightly behind, the LAPTOP-FACING FREE EDGE.
His fingertips are close to the raised free edge,
but are NOT yet gripping it.
The hand is positioned exactly where a person
would naturally grip the free edge to open the notebook.
His RIGHT HAND remains naturally at the laptop.
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GAZE
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The boy looks directly toward the notebook.
His eyes are directed toward the slightly raised
LAPTOP-FACING FREE EDGE.
His head is subtly angled downward.
Calm curiosity.
No smile.
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CAMERA
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Use a three-quarter front view that makes
the notebook geometry unmistakable.
The camera must allow the viewer to clearly see:
1. laptop
2. laptop-facing notebook opening edge
3. slightly raised blue cover
4. opposite fixed spine
5. boy's left hand
6. spatial relationship between hand and opening edge.
Do not use a camera angle that hides the notebook's spine.
Stationary camera.
No dramatic perspective.
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PHYSICAL REALISM
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This is a real bound notebook.
The blue cover is rigid but flexible enough to open naturally.
The cover is attached to ONE fixed spine.
The free edge can lift.
The spine cannot lift.
The notebook base remains stationary.
The white pages remain attached to the spine.
No impossible folding.
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FINAL IMAGE CHECK
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Before generating the image, verify the following visually:
Is the laptop on the LEFT?
YES.
Is the notebook immediately RIGHT of the laptop?
YES.
Is the notebook's FREE OPENING EDGE the edge
closest to the laptop?
YES.
Is that edge visibly raised approximately 10–15 degrees?
YES.
Is the opposite edge the FIXED SPINE?
YES.
Is the fixed spine farther from the laptop?
YES.
Is the boy's LEFT WATCH HAND next to the
laptop-facing raised edge?
YES.
Can a human viewer immediately understand
that the boy must lift the laptop-facing edge
to open the notebook?
YES.
If any of these conditions cannot be visually satisfied,
do not generate an ambiguous notebook.
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STYLE
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Premium cinematic animated feature-film visual style.
Realistic human proportions with subtle stylisation.
Naturalistic human behaviour.
Warm-neutral colour palette.
Natural daylight.
Soft shadows.
Natural wood and fabric textures.
Soft cinematic depth of field.
Intimate, intelligent, calm and contemporary.
No fantasy.
No surrealism.
No exaggerated cartoon appearance.
No glossy advertising aesthetic.
@grok , @imagine I want to use Grok imagine for video generation for commercial use but the biggest challenge is the Grok logo on every video I generate. I can not put grok logo on a video which is being used for commercial purpose. So how can I solve this issue ? This is really a big issue & probably limiting Grok imagine adoption.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Can't get over the images from Nepal. Who knows what tomorrow brings. Just grateful for today.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
vTitan Medical Instruments crossed ₹1 crore in monthly revenue for the first time. This year we hope to cross ₹10 crore revenue.
It has taken "only" 15 years. No VC would have continued the investment. vTitan has 10 new products in the pipeline and business is starting to accelerate now. The med-tech software stack is also getting deeper.
I post these so young entrepreneurs know how long it takes in such critical capability-requiring areas.
It takes many years to gain the capability and many more years to convert the capability into business.
There are times when success is quick. That is the exception than the rule. VCs tend to look for such exceptions. You cannot assume you will be the exception when you start.
I learned these from studying the Japanese.
I was recently warned that my greatest danger is being too adaptable to situations and people. I always thought it was a positive trait. How can high adaptability actually work against you ? Thoughts ?
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
My best shot of the 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela from ISS. It is a once in a 144 year Hindu pilgrimage to sacred riverbanks in India and one of the largest events in the world, with millions of people in this single photo!
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Happy Independence Day, to every single one of my Indian friends!
I love your country so much! 🙏🏽
I love all the kind people! ❤️
Jai Hind! 🇮🇳
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Prime Minister Modi-ji's Independence Day call to Indian companies to join the ranks of leading global companies is deeply inspiring.
It means a stronger and deeper commitment to R&D at every level. Bharat must lead in algorithms and atoms, AI and photons, lenses and magnets, robots and rockets and all the technologies in between. We have the brains to do it!
His bold vision inspires us to work harder at Zoho.
Happy Independence Day! Jai Hind 🫡
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all.
Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate.
For context, Global bandwidth is somewhere between 2-8 Pbps (2,000-8,000 Tbps) depending on if your measuring fiber public backhaul (like international fiber) or all public and private connections.
100,000 V3 Starlinks equals 100 Pbps 10x-50x the total bandwidth available today. If Starlinks V4s are 5x more capable we are looking at 50x-250x more bandwidth than world has today over the next 10 years.
This may sounds like a supply shock but remember ~2B people don’t have regular access to the internet today, and we are connecting robots (digital and physical agents) to the internet at an accelerating pace. Distributed sensor data collection (on and off planet) is growing. On top of that individual internet usage does steadily increasing.
In 10 years we’re probably going to move two orders of magnitude more information per second around than we do today.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
I come across a large number of people of various age groups, and I don't find categorizing generations based on age all that meaningful.
A 19 year old employee told me last week that she works hard to earn money so that her parents can repay their loans and support her younger siblings. That is her foremost priority in life. She buys only low cost clothes, she mends her broken footwear and so on because she wants to save every rupee. I told her I would visit her parents and tell them how proud they should be of their daughter.
Recently two marriages happened among our employees (ages around 25) and both told me they took my advice to keep the wedding simple and not spend too much money.
These attitudes are timeless. I find them equally in Gen-Z.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Dear Trolls. My loyalty is to India and not any party in particular- and India belongs to all of us not some crony capitalist triad. Read that again and keep cursing. Pssst im too old and unbothered to care abt chatacter assasination so ... have a good day peeps.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Why do conservative parents have children who turn leftist? I will narrate my own childhood experience.
I studied 6th to 9th standard in a free government aided school started by a DMK affiliated person. I did not hear any DMK messaging there.
Then 10th to 12th, I moved to a free school funded by an RSS affilated person and had an RSS man as trustee. I did not even know what the RSS was and heard nothing about the RSS as a student.
But in my 10th standard in that school, I had a Marxist Tamil teacher. His entire class was about the coming Marxist revolution (this was in 1982-83). For a period I became a Marxist and atheist thanks to him. I was 14.
He taught us to question everything and question authority and I asked him "Sir, when the revolution comes and everything is owned by the government, would everything become corrupt like the electricity board or the telephone department?" and he said "After the revolution, people will develop socialist consciousness and so everything will work better".
I could not accept that answer so Marxism lost its appeal for me but thanks to his influence that one year, I remained an atheist for many years. My mother saw this transformation in me (I used to be a religious kid) and always blamed him for it but even she would say "you must respect the Guru".
This is what conservative parents have to endure. Their very respect for the educational system has been weaponized by the Marxists.
Remember that the school had an RSS man as trustee and as a student I had not heard one word about RSS, yet the Marxist teacher was free to brainwash kids like me. That is right vs left for you.
Genuine question, I have rarely seen children of commie leaders turning into ‘Sanghis’, for that matter @asadowaisi’s kids will never turn into woke liberals, but why do so many @BJP4India and even Sangh Swayamsevaks seem to be raising woke, entitled, abusive brats in their homes, who neither respect their parents nor the ideology they espouse? What’s going wrong?
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
𝗘𝟮𝟬 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗕𝗢𝗠𝗕: 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗙𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗠𝗔𝗙𝗜𝗔’𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬: Let’s cut through the noise. The same voices that kept India’s ethanol blending dead at 1–1.5% for a decade under UPA are suddenly crying engine damage and water waste the moment the current government actually delivered 10% blending and locked in E20. Why? Because E20 doesn’t just reduce India’s oil slavery; it directly loots the oil mafia’s trillion rupee import racket.
➥ 𝟭. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗔𝗫: 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗦: The biggest lie: E20 will destroy your engine. Fact is that E20 contains only 20% ethanol. The overall energy drop is a negligible 4–7%. A car delivering 20 km/l on pure petrol gives 19 km/l on E20. In return, you get cleaner combustion, fewer carcinogenic emissions, and longer engine life because ethanol burns cooler and scrubs the fuel system. Modern vehicles; even two-wheelers are material compatible. The government didn’t gamble; BIS standards and OEM testing were completed. Brazil has been running E27 and flex fuel vehicles for decades without apocalyptic engine meltdowns. The only thing getting corroded here is the oil import lobby’s profit margin.
➥ 𝟮. 𝗬𝗘𝗦, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬: Brazil is the ultimate slap in the face of the ethanol is a scam brigade. After the 1973 oil crisis, Brazil launched Proálcool. Today, every litre of petrol sold in Brazil is at least 27% ethanol. Flex-fuel cars there run on any blend up to E100. Result is that Brazil replaced nearly half its petrol demand with homegrown sugarcane ethanol, saving over $50 billion in oil imports and insulating itself from crude shocks. The US blends 10–15% ethanol nationwide through its Renewable Fuel Standard. Thailand, a developing nation like India, is pushing E20 as its national standard. No country that diversified into ethanol ever regretted it. None.
➥ 𝟯. 𝗚𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗: 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡-𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗗 𝗘𝟮𝟬 𝗜𝗦 𝗔 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗖 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗣𝗢𝗡:When Iran-US tensions spiked and crude rocketed, India’s import bill hemorrhaged. Every $10 rise in crude adds ₹1 lakh crore to our annual deficit. Now imagine if even 20% of that petrol demand is permanently replaced by ethanol made on Indian soil. The Iran crisis, the Russia-Ukraine surge, OPEC’s blackmail; all become far less lethal. E20 is not just a fuel; it’s a national security firewall. The oil mafia knows this, and that’s exactly why it wants the E20 rollout sabotaged.
➥ 𝟰. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗘; 𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗬:Suddenly, everyone’s an environmentalist when ethanol is mentioned. Sugarcane uses water, true. But paddy in Punjab and Haryana, AI data centres, semiconductor fabs, and steel plants guzzle far more water without a fraction of the outrage. The real hypocrite move is thta same critics defend ₹3 lakh crore in fertiliser subsidies, MSP for 23 crops, and free electricity but call ethanol a farmer appeasement when it turns surplus sugar into cash for the same farmers. Ethanol creates an additional revenue stream without a single rupee of forced government procurement. It’s a market based solution, not a handout. And sugarcane isn’t the only source; grain-based ethanol from damaged foodgrain and maize is scaling fast, diversifying both water geographies and crop systems.
➥ 𝟱. 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘? 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗔𝗫𝗘𝗦, 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧: Why mandate E20? Why mandate Bharat Stage VI emission norms? Why mandate seatbelts? Because leaving it to choice while the oil lobby runs scare campaigns is suicidal. India imports 85–90% of its crude. E20 will cut petrol displacement by a fifth, saving an estimated ₹1 lakh crore in foreign exchange; money that stays in the country building roads, schools, and defence. That loss of ₹1 lakh crore is exactly the size of the wound the oil mafia cannot tolerate. So they are peddling engine wear, mileage drop, and food vs fuel lies via WhatsApp and planted news stories.
➥ 𝟲. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗨𝗖𝗛 𝗘𝟮𝟬 𝗖𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗠𝗔𝗙𝗜𝗔; 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗘𝗘: India consumes roughly 35–40 billion litres of petrol annually. At 20% blending, ethanol kicks out 7–8 billion litres of petrol. That’s equivalent to displacing around 14–16 million tonnes of crude oil imports every year. At $80 a barrel, that’s a direct loss of $8–10 billion to the crude cartel and the import-commission ecosystem; year after year, growing. No wonder they are manufacturing chaos. Every anxiety post about ethanol ruining your car is protecting that $10 billion import pipeline.
🔳 BOTTOM LINE: E20 isn’t perfect. But it’s a bold, tested, globally validated move to break India’s hydrocarbon dependency, shield the country from crude weaponisation, and put Indian farmers in the fuel supply chain alongside Big Oil. The engine damage fear is a lie. The mileage panic is exaggerated. The water argument is cherry picked. And the real target is not your vehicle; it’s the ₹1 lakh crore forex savings that a self reliant India refuses to hand over to the crude import lobby.
Don’t be a pawn in the oil mafia’s last stand. Choose facts.
#E20 #ethanol #E10
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
It’s all about the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) bill. Too many foreign countries and their nefarious designs in India will come to a screeching halt.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
Yes will do. Its amazing how many lawyers and activits offering me their free service to fight this one out and give it a public voice.. All victims of @ICICILombard
Do raise a complaint at bimabharosa.irdai.gov.in/ or
cioins.co.in/
Most insurance companies only comply when the regulators step in. Insurance is a facade in India.
Sunil Sanjan retweeted
When @ICICILombard was trying to port me from my earlier insurance company they were so aggressively persuasive. At time of renewal did not even ask for any further paperwork. Now they refuse my claim on some uneducated uninformed grounds claiming I did not disclose relevant facts. What a scam they are uff . I repeat- the qualifications of their doctors needs to come under national/govt scrutiny