vijayanand samudrala (@vnands) profile picture

Technocrat who thrives on left brain but is inspired by right brain...

Joined April 2010
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సామాన్యులం…ఎవరన్నా కాసింత ఎక్కువ మెచ్చుకుంటేనే ఎబ్బెంట్టనిపించి మొహమాటపడిపోతామే… అవతారపురుషుడు, యుగానికొక్కడని ప్రెతిక్కొరూ పొగిడేస్తుంటే మరీ వ్యంగ్య ప్రహసనం అయిపోలేదూ? భట్రాజుల భాగోతం ఎక్కువైపోయి రోత పుట్టిస్తోంది. No more grace? Why underestimate public intelligence?
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Communists in India always differed with govt with good intention but never constructively with alternate solutions to what they oppose. Noticing a similar pattern about the coalition govt in AP, but less by communists this time…1/2
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Failing to come back to power will undo many initiatives and disrupt the momentum. The political world out there isn’t an ideal one and requires political acumen not just to survive but win. The methods followed for this may appear unacceptable and worth the criticism….3/4
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…but only as long as better alternatives are constructively articulated along with the criticism. I wish sanity and statemanship returns to AP politics in particular. Till then, most important thing is continuity of developmental work and administration. Idealism can wait. 4/4
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Update - @IndiGo6E has been consistent with their #IndigoMadeDifficult experience and they charged us again for +1 kg over weight on a 15kg limit for each passenger. This time we were very compliant and paid without complaints because of the anticipated behaviour. 😅 1/2
#IndigoMadeDifficult”-is an art @IndiGo6E has mastered. Round trip with family of 3 members involving multiple flights with overall ticket fare of more than 1. 1 lks and what do you get to experience-a very cold staff demanding to pay for 2Kg extra where the limit is 15X3kg (1/2)
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To top it all, now the flight back to Hyd is delayed by >3 hrs, an announcement made only after security clearance, 15 mins before boarding. Reason - President Murmu is expected to fly out and hence incoming aircrafts are denied permission for a defined window of time. 2/3
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Now it is our turn, after having paid xtra luggage charges for 1kg overwt, to wait in a crowded security hold area for next 3 hours, where seating capacity is scarce and no @IndiGo6E staff can help to make it easy. But they were very righteous in collecting xtra luggage charges.
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#IndigoMadeDifficult”-is an art @IndiGo6E has mastered. Round trip with family of 3 members involving multiple flights with overall ticket fare of more than 1. 1 lks and what do you get to experience-a very cold staff demanding to pay for 2Kg extra where the limit is 15X3kg (1/2)
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The check in counter staff and her manager are adamant, argumentative and tried to establish that they don’t have any authority to waive 4% overweight which I know is untrue. Extra Amount is not the issue here but the inflexibility and unpleasant experience certainly is. (2/2)
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"Every second child born anywhere in the world is vaccinated with vaccines made in India" is a powerful statistic often used to illustrate India's dominance in global vaccine production. India produces between 60% and 70% of the world’s total vaccine volume. 👏
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తాటి ముంజలు, నన్నారి షర్బత్, కర్బూజ పండు, లేత కొబ్బరి బోండాం….ఎండాకాలంలో ఇలాంటి comfort food ప్రకృతి అందిస్తుంటే, TV లో ఈ “కోలా”ల గోలేంటో!!
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Except for aberrations in integrity of democratic institutions, people ultimately deserve who they elect. In the end, there are no performance metrics in politics other than winning the elections.
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It is a pity that leaders’ of global stature with responsibility for their people and influence on world peace can’t come to a common minimum terms of agreement that would at least lead to end of war and give more time for unresolved issues for next round of negotiations.
It is amazing to hear about Pakistan playing its part in pulling off a last minute ceasefire announcement not just from Trump but even Iran and Israel seemingly agreeing for it. The world heaves a sigh of relief…atleast for now.
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Considering the war broke out in the midst of negotiations facilitated by Oman, what had changed in the negotiations terms that are not freshly created by the war itself?
It is amazing to hear about Pakistan playing its part in pulling off a last minute ceasefire announcement not just from Trump but even Iran and Israel seemingly agreeing for it. The world heaves a sigh of relief…atleast for now.
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It is amazing to hear about Pakistan playing its part in pulling off a last minute ceasefire announcement not just from Trump but even Iran and Israel seemingly agreeing for it. The world heaves a sigh of relief…atleast for now.
Apparently, complete breakdown (or silence?) of international diplomacy to facilitate a ceasefire between US and Iran before the situation assumes catastrophic proportions seem to be the biggest tragedy of technologically superior, real-time interconnected modern world.
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Watching the activity on the ground at Amaravati reminds me that, there are few careers, spanning across politics, businesses or professional, that are immersed perpetually in building new infrastructure, new institutions and new businesses from scratch. 1/2
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Just as the previous effort scales up into a mature, stable and result yielding outcome…the next project is ready to start all over again. I have done it all through my career and there is a sense of purpose that keeps it going. 2/2
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Apparently, complete breakdown (or silence?) of international diplomacy to facilitate a ceasefire between US and Iran before the situation assumes catastrophic proportions seem to be the biggest tragedy of technologically superior, real-time interconnected modern world.
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Amaravati as capital, state financial health & way forward, investment/development steps in AP - Absence of noiseless and critical analysis in these issues in social media makes it very difficult to gain unbiased insights. One needs many filters to distill any meaningful info.
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