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Aravindh C. retweeted
Lack of public transport & walkability is pushing buyers to outer fringes of the city. Your city isn't slow, personal vehicles are making them to be. Your city isn't loud, the cars and traffic is. There's no consideration for parks and third-spaces too. Wake up Hyderabad.
Residential high-rises: a dying (f)art!
Hyderabad’s high-rise boom attracted investors, end users and speculative money. But the honeymoon may be ending.
The reality of living in these towers is beginning to catch up with the hype.
1) Water resources: Buyers are now waiting for concrete water solutions to be built, instead of trusting proposed infrastructure. They are not convinced by the water tankers.
2) Traffic Nightmare: Buyers are noticing Hyderabad's already existing gridlock, even before the wave of supply incoming is completed.
3) Air quality: Quality of life and longevity are becoming more crucial for buyers, especially in a perpetually under construction city like Hyderabad.
4) Low Differentiation: Buyers are looking past the sky-gardens and fancy amenities, they are looking for real differentiation in terms of open spaces, loading factors and more.
5) Job Layoffs: ₹1-2 CR homes are observing a significant slowdown, as they are directly linked to mid-level white collar IT jobs in Hyderabad.
6) Increasing demand for space: Space is becoming the new luxury, low-density communities and villas near the ORR are increasingly becoming preferred alternatives. Buyers are ready to drive 15 min extra for a better quality of life.
Hyderabad's future may not be about building higher, but living better.
Psychologically, people rate unfamiliar risks as much worse than familiar risks.
In reality, pollution is far worse than radiation because its far more common. It doesn't seem terrible because we're familiar with it.
We live in more dangerous areas than Chernobyl.
Aravindh C. retweeted
> anti-nuclear (France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear power)
> “100% renewable energy by 2060”
anti-nuclear “environmentalists” are worse than fossil fuel magnates ffs
🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à 1.700€ net par mois, soit une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
The irony:
Phasing out nuclear power (6g of CO₂ per unit) in favour of solar (37g) or wind (12g) will actually INCREASE emissions from electricity use.
Not to mention additional emissions from grid batteries that will be required.
(solar PV, polysilicon is the most common)
Aravindh C. retweeted
Ten years ago today, Narendra Modi sacrificed the economic momentum in India for the sake of winning the Uttar Pradesh elections.
Some are in deep denial about the unfair support some cities get from BJP
Forget CBE, compare metro allocation with HYD or BLR:
Nagpur in few years will soon have bigger metro (81 km) than HYD (69 km) or BLR of 2025 (73 km)
Will Nagpur be bigger than HYD now or BLR of 2025? 🤷
Most Tamil folks have zero knowledge beyond their state & cities. Coimbatore like tier-2 city was never comparable to Pune, not even 50 years before. Get a basic understanding of manufacturing, technology and R&D scale.
Moreover, Coimbatore is comparable to Nagpur only on economic activity at this point. Nagpur’s infrastructure & scale mogs not only Coimbatore but most of tier-2 cities of India. It just that MH tends not to run extensive PR like most south indian states for merely getting few crores of investments.
Cities like Nagpur, Sambhajinagar & Nashik are going through a wave transformation without much PR on any SM platform. You will be talking about Nagpur just few years down the line, just like how you’re talking about Pune.
Aravindh C. retweeted
Aura? Retard has his wife sitting without a seatbelt, kid is sitting in the front seat on his mother's lap thinking the mother's hug will save him? Any respectable country would seem them as unworthy parents and get child services involved. Peak stupidity.
Aravindh C. retweeted
ハイデラバードの美しい夜景。5年後はドバイになる？と本気で思ってる。空気も澄んでて綺麗、渋滞も少ない。気候も年中過ごしやすい。あとは無いのは日本食だけ。でも、そんなの関係ねー、でも、そんなの関係ねー。だって、ここにビリヤニがあるから。
Happening Hyderabad.
This is one reason India’s growth hasn't mirrored China’s
Redistribution isn't wrong, but shouldn't come at the cost of impeding growth
Redistributing from the industrialised South to the rural North slows growth, as it works against economies of agglomeration & clustering
Aravindh C. retweeted
Tamils hate their capital city of Chennai more than people from other states. But they will be happy to work from Bengaluru or Hyderabad. Harsh truth!!
Aravindh C. retweeted
Only people who think india is "second biggest ally of Isreal after the US" are either biased Pakistanis or people who make their opinion based on Hindutva twitter. Materially, india has provided Isreal way less than what many European and Arab nations have done.
Correct. Mao's failures like the Great Leap Forward led many in the party to seek change.
This collective fatigue was well used by Deng to promote reform.
In contrast, India never had a concentrated crisis like the GLP. Instead, India's failures were distributed over decades🧵
Deng needs Mao to happened first. The turmoil and chao caused by Mao is a blessing in disguise to accelerate reform. India never had that clean sweep fresh start or urgency from the political ruling class to do anything
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Poor healthcare & primary education in India were long-drawn crises, but were not as visceral as GLP or Cultural revolution
This meant that when Narasimha Rao started reforms in the 1990s, he barely had support from within his party, unlike Deng
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Aravindh C. retweeted
Precisely why India’s next High Speed Railway corridor should be constructed in Kerala. It will also enhance Kerala tourism by 5 folds.
And if not centre, Kerala can do it at state level.
Aravindh C. retweeted
Chennai's unwelcoming image is largely a facade. Its vocal resistance to Hindi imposition is often mistaken for hostility towards outsiders. Yet, the city has largely avoided the kind of ethnic or communal violence unlike Mumbai, Bengaluru or Delhi. It's PR is severely damaged.
Aravindh C. retweeted
Why does PM need to come all the way to Bengaluru to inaugurate a mere 7 km metro stretch?
Crores will be spent on security n arrangements, commuters will suffer in traffic, and the city will be flooded with banners.
That money could fix potholes n improve govt schools instead.
It’s official! A historic milestone for Bengaluru! 🩷
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate Namma Metro’s Pink Line on November 13. He will travel from Tavarekere to IIMB-Bilekahalli Station and launch the services.
With this, Bengaluru Metro will cross the 100 km milestone, reaching 103.6 km and becoming India’s second-largest Metro network after Delhi!
In 2014, Bengaluru had just 7 km of operational Metro. Today, that network has grown nearly 15-fold, with over 96 km added since 2014.
Prime Minister Modi has consistently prioritised Bengaluru’s infrastructure and connectivity, making this remarkable transformation possible.
This is another major step towards easing traffic congestion, improving quality of life and building a Bengaluru where public transport comes first.
A big day for Bengaluru. Many more milestones ahead!
@narendramodi @PMOIndia
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