Arjan A Singh

people only paint you with colours they have. and people like @kunalkamra88 keep validating this line. because hey, when was the last time you saw kunal actually appreciating a homegrown product, idea, concept, infrastructure, speech, people, or anything? maybe it's just his way of earning a living at this point: simply riding the waves, taking a contrarian opinion with a truckload of gaalis (i think they're still less!), and keeping his name alive to sell shows. but what's not okay here is the mindset being promoted among younger generations. (you can't deny these guys have reach.) a mindset that makes them think of businesses as bad, discourages them from celebrating our entrepreneurs and builders as people contributing to the nation, and instead promotes becoming a 'krantikari' who is little more than a keyboard warrior. and i know this because even i was one of them back in 2018–19. i really used to like this guy as a 14-year-old. got introduced to him through stand-up comedy (he's got those skills), only to realise later that all he's selling under the 'be rational' umbrella is his own biased worldview, which is never going to be positive-sum. and there's something else worth pointing out about his latest post. science deserves scrutiny. every ambitious scientific claim should be questioned, tested, challenged and, if necessary, disproved. but asking someone to prove their claims wrong is not the same as ridiculing them for attempting something ambitious in the first place. confidence isn't proof of scientific validity, and money can't buy scientific truth. but neither does cynicism establish that something is fraudulent. if you want to challenge someone's science, bring better science. that's how progress happens. but honestly, all this doesn't even make me sad or angry anymore, because i've been noticing a pattern lately. and it's as simple as a single word we hear almost daily: 'hypocrisy'. perhaps the most common trait among people who constantly moral-police others, portraying their contribution to overall growth as negative (not even zero). their day starts with mocking and abusing builders (because people love watching achievers being pulled down), making a show out of it, telling everyone how bad capitalists are, and then hanging out with those same capitalists in a benz after the show. tell us, why are you still friends with samay raina and others, if you hate capitalism so much, @kunalkamra88? and since you'll probably never answer it, let me tell you what i think: because you crave power too, but don't want to accept it openly. anyways, i know there's no stopping all these doomers. we need more people looking up to those working in laboratories, building semiconductor fabs, developing indigenous defence technology, pushing the boundaries of space exploration, building globally competitive products and solving problems that actually matter. these are the people whose work deserves to become mainstream conversation. and the tl;dr for anyone who has read this far is simple: fuck this anti-national mindset (i mean it). make people in your surroundings aware of this hypocrisy. make scientists and entrepreneurs your heroes. celebrate people who attempt the difficult, build the seemingly impossible, and push the boundaries of what we believe is possible. and always remember: optimism is your moral duty, and the greatest service you can do to a nation is to build it with all you have. p.s. these are some of the people who inspire me. tagging them here because sometimes people deserve to know that their work matters, that someone's watching, learning and getting inspired. @deepigoyal @protosphinx @paraschopra @nikhilkamathcio @svembu tag your heroes too. let them know.