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I’m thinking of dropping a detailed roadmap on how to start freelancing
covering all the mistakes I made along the way and how you can get your first client.
If you’re interested,
drop a “hi” in the comments.
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Explore more in my book 'How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World'.
maritimetradehistory.com
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Arnab Goswami sharing the conversation he had with Rahul Gandhi before the interview.
This is hilarious tbh and I think Rahul Gandhi is the dumbest Congress president ever. 😂
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he beat them at their own game, based meter broke 🗿
BlackRock’s private-credit arm was defrauded of over $500 million by an Indian named Bankim Brahmbhatt.
Brahmbhatt ran a telecom-financing firm named Carriox Capital and fabricated customer contracts and invoices from major telecom companies such as T-Mobile, Telstra, and Telecom Italia Sparkle, even faking email domains to make the fake receivables appear legitimate.
These falsified assets were then used as collateral for huge loans from BlackRock and BNP Paribas.
When the deception was discovered, the borrower companies and their financing arm filed for bankruptcy in August 2025, followed shortly by Brahmbhatt's own personal bankruptcy.
Follow: @AFpost
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This reminds me of another masterpiece crafted by Nayaks. Ceremonial obviously but look at these carvings...
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The collapse of 2011-13 wasn't a slowdown. It was the nation's economic immune system shutting down.
The core pathology: a full-blown Twin Balance Sheet Crisis. Corporates were overdosing on debt, and the banks were turning into zombies, choking on the NPA fallout.
On the streets, it was pure stagflationary poison: your savings vaporised by double-digit inflation while the economy flatlined.
And beneath it all, the fiscal black magic of Oil Bonds - a time bomb set to cripple the next government.
The "expert economist PM" was a silent warden in a prison of his own making, paralysed by the ideological dogmas of his communist coalition partners.
India wasn't just in crisis. It was on a ventilator, waiting for someone with the courage to pull the plug on the old system.
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What happens when a sleeping giant finally decides to wake up in a world that wants it to stay asleep?
Until 2014, India was a spectator to China's dominance. Post-2014, India became a player.
But this rise was never going to be easy. It meant facing down a rival determined to be Asia's only tiger, using everything from border skirmishes(Galwan, Doklam.....) to economic warfare to keep us down(rare earth mineral ban).
It meant weathering the tantrums and "hit jobs" from a West(multiple times onadani - GOI's asset), unsure of how to handle a truly sovereign India.
Despite it all - pandemic, global wars, internal sabotage the trajectory shifted.
This wasn't just economics. It was a testament to a renewed civilizational will.
Here's the story of that national reset. 🧵👇
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> Grandfather farmed sugarcane in UP
> Father worked at Delhi Jal Board
> Scored JEE rank 182 – first IIT engineer in family
> Graduated IIT Delhi in Electrical Engineering (2012)
> Started at ITC as Management Trainee
> Moved to InMobi in Strategy role
> June 2015: Quit his job – family called him crazy
> July 2015: Co-founded Fashnear with IIT roommate Sanjeev
> Operated from dining table in 2-room Koramangala flat
> Fashnear died in 6 months – stood outside stores begging customers
> December 2015: Noticed housewives selling on WhatsApp – pivoted to Meesho
> Spent 18 months pitching – "A lot of people laughed at me"
> Met housewife who'd been begging husband for business money for 20 years
> Most investors said "This unconventional model won't work"
> July 2016: Y Combinator accepted them – first breakthrough
> Had to pivot again – refocused entirely on women entrepreneurs
> 90% users were women – accidentally built what India needed
> October 2017: Raised $3.1M Series A from Elevation Capital
> June 2019: Facebook invested $125M – FIRST Indian startup they ever backed
> April 2021: Hit unicorn at $2.1B valuation with SoftBank
> September 2021: Raised $570M at $4.9B from Fidelity
> August 2021: Became India's most downloaded app – beat Instagram and Amazon
> 2021: World's most downloaded e-commerce app globally
> 2023: Crossed 500M downloads in just 6 years
> 2025: Crossed 740M total downloads
> FY24: ₹7,615 crore revenue, 134.2 crore orders delivered
> Cut losses by 97% – from ₹1,569 crore to ₹53 crore
> Empowered 1.5M sellers and 175M transacting users
> Now preparing for $1B IPO at $10B valuation
From a dining table in Koramangala to India's third-largest e-commerce platform.
That housewife who couldn't get ₹10,000? She now earns lakhs every month.
740 million people downloaded what VCs called "a joke"
Remember the name – Vidit Aatrey.
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This guy on Reddit literally dropped the perfect prompt that makes ChatGPT finally give clear, accurate, to the point answers
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You don't need US, Canadian or German Citizenship for remote jobs!
Discover 14 sites that pay in USD globally.
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Remotejobsfinder.co is another website to get remote roles, it can also help you auto apply for jobs