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Here is my prediction. With the amount of fake bullshit being peddled on social media, there will be a giant market for actual analysis based on real-world data in the next decade.
Eventually, everything has to die, and this "trust me bro" analysis has to die. Mainstream Media can only chase a certain number of stories based on clicks.
People also tend to get sick and tired when they get bombarded with ridiculous horseshit packaged as information. The interest in authentic, properly researched news is small but growing slowly right now.
Audiences will eventually prefer a person who lays his/her biases upfront rather than a charlatan who pretends to be "neutral." Expertise will eventually make a comeback, albeit in a new style. It will be deeply AI-dependent. It will be a human/AI comeback, and the truth shall be restored.
Indians will get richer, and they will demand more and more authenticity. They would be in a position to subscribe to and pay for information backed by research. The Flynn effect will kick in simultaneously with capitalism, making them richer.

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Canada would get rid of many issues if it did the following things:
1. Crackdown on Khalistanis and their illegal activities
2. Stop asylum claims from India irrespective of the state, religion, or identity of the Indian.
3. Triple the Trade with India while tweaking the immigration to suit Canadian needs rather than catering to fraudulent immigration consultants.
4. Fix the primaries and put them under the scanner of Elections Canada.
5. Go back to being a resource economy rather than an immigration economy.

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Cockroaches of the Cockroach Janta Party also have a right to speak. The Delhi Gymkhana elites also have a right to remind people how they are elites and so unique. And everyone has a right to tell them to fuck off. This is what free speech is all about. See you all in Bengaluru.

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Join us at 7.30 pm IST tonight for the IPL Playoffs. Gujarat Titans take on Royal Challengers Bangalore tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUv_i...

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The Final Four of the IPL are not surprising. I would have predicted Punjab over SRH though. But this is the thing about the IPL. It is very hard to maintain dominance for 14 games. Mumbai was very consistent though. They were horrible from start to end 😬😬

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This is the entire cohort of voters from the age of 18-29 in India, as per actual data, which is 22.78%
www.eci.gov.in/EBooks/atlas-2024/mobile/index.html…
"In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 21% of young voters supported the Congress, while 39% voted for the BJP and nearly 7% for the BJP allies. Together NDA stood at 46% vote share amongst the youth."
www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/csds-lokniti-…
Now, let us assume this Cockroach Janta Party phenomenon is real. Every bit of the cockroaches is real. How does one statistically prove that the BJP's youth voter base has gone and liked that Instagram account? What if it were the already anti-BJP youth vote that had gravitated towards another anti-BJP fad?
The amount of horrifying analysis devoid of any logic and first principles that goes on in India is now reaching depressing levels. The harsh fact is, the news media are discussing the Cockroaches because that is what is getting clicks as of now. Tomorrow, if the Butt Plug Janta Party becomes popular, the news media will talk about butt plugs too.
And clicks do not necessarily mean votes or any tangible social or electoral impact. Remember Ajaz Khan? He had millions of followers on Instagram, and when he contested, he got a grand total of 155 votes.
Your job as a serious analyst is to educate people, not to entertain people. Or call yourself an entertainer and stop calling yourself an analyst.

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Folks I am coming to Bengaluru for the launch of my new book Blasphemy: Let Me Speak. We will have signed copies that you can buy at the venue.

The address of the venue is:

📍 The ‘Spark, Pullur Center, Whitefield, Bengaluru
🗓 Sunday, 31 May 2026
⏰ 11:00 AM onwards
🎟️ Free Entry

See you there. I will wear my MI Jersey 😬😬

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I spoke with ‪@aftab_puttoo‬ on his podcast about my book Blasphemy. This was my first podcast on the book where I was swearing. So elder citizens do not watch if you do not like swearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwd6_...

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Is there something like a Deep State? Yes there is. But for some here the Deep State is kinda like a God. It is Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, etc. It has become beyond actual measurement in the form of evidence. It is formless and beyond description.
You can use that word to escape scrutiny without providing any evidence. Everytime people use a God description of the above variety and attribute real world actions to it they know they don't need to face scrutiny in the form of providing evidence.
This is what happens when the word "deep state" gets used these days. Anything happens it is the deepstate. We cannot show where that deepstate is, we cannot show specific evidence but it is the deepstate. A classic god of the gaps argument.
When you cannot use simple Occams razor to explain phenomenon in geopolitics just blame the deepstate. It is like a God that can never be proven or disproven. People just lap this stuff up and this is also called analysis these days.
Maybe the DEEP STATE is making all these posts about how important and powerful the DEEP STATE is. After all it is everywhere 😎😎 People forget the so called Deep State is full of humans and they are as useless as you and me.

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