India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

[uddu]

https://x.com/GabbbarSingh/status/1969268064374976810
@GabbbarSingh
This ******* spent entire day laughing at Indians & his poor dad back in India. Now suddenly reality hits

[uddu]

https://x.com/CoHNAOfficial/status/1969108592742842619
@CoHNAOfficial
Coercion, promise of US citizenship, and promise of large sums of money to testify against
@BAPS
.

Yes, remember this development from summer of 2023? A group of artisans filed a petition in the Rajasthan high court withdrawing their complaint against BAPS, stating that they were forced by US lawyer Swati Sawant to testify against the Hindu organization.

The below letter and thread is a good reminder that such agenda driven actors will go to any level to dismantle Hinduism and the good work of Hindu organizations and spiritual leaders.

We will be watching and calling out the Hinduphobia without holding back.

https://x.com/CoHNAOfficial/status/1680290348348723200
@CoHNAOfficial
#BIGBREAKING:

Remember the case against
@BAPS
Hindu temple in 2021 that alleged "caste discrimination"?

#JUSTIN: A dozen artisans claim coercion, promise of US citizenship and large sums of money to testify against BAPS, are withdrawing the case.

[ricky_v]

Unfortunate turn of events for the brethren, but this is now a time where opportunities must be firmly seized, we were discussing here the lack of Indian alternatives to Big Tech, now there might be ample workforce on the way to effect some of these changes.
With some cushion in savings and a weakened rupee, a different mindset, more entrepreneurial, there are many things to work on

The primary would be focus on the Indian stack, os, search engines, sm platforms, to other refined niches

Hope the babucracy spring onto this opportunity and devise policies accordingly

[syam]

US doing cold war with India. But Indian thought leaders are as usual sleeping and hoping it will pass away like a bad dream.

Only thing left now is, sanctions on India like Iran has and kicking us off swift. Heads should be rolling.

On positive note, US playing all the cards it has at least in optics arena. H1b is the core aspect in Indo-US relationship at citizen level. Add the racism Hindus facing abroad. Their American dream is over before it started. Can they secure any future for their children? What guarantee they have that they won't be facing next version of Trump in future? Better we have this setback in earlier stage and be safe.

[S_Madhukar]

Someone need to tweet to Indian Americans "Doctors needed in India to provide quality healthcare to 1.4 billion people. Welcome back to India."

Well one heart specialist married Madhuri Dixit and has been growing his luxury car and real estate portfolio. Hope we get ones that want to practise at reasonable rates

[Bharadwaj]

This a blatant attempt by that ******** Lutnick to make Modiji and India bow down. I have said it before- these are feral people. Hit and Hit hard. Tell every US company it is out of India. Shut twitter, Facebook and google access overnight. Open our markets to every other country and reduce setup costs to as a low a level as we can dare. Make the U.S Pay. We will bleed but this undignified silence is sending all the wrong signals.

[Tanaji]

People who are saying this is a good thing are missing the point from the employees perspective. Indian IT majors are largely sh*tty places to work for with no concept of work life balance and boundaries. Some CEOs like those of Infosys are psychopaths that revel in toxicity. Couple this with middle managers that are on power trips with no reasonable WFH policies make this a workplace no one wants to work in with H1-B even for a few years a goal itself for most.

It does not help that the infra in our Tier1/2 cities is appalling with 1hour+ commutes quite common. Employees are going to be dissatisfied and this is going to manifest in various ways including against GoI however illogical and unreasonable it may be.

[Mort Walker]

This a blatant attempt by that ******** Lutnick to make Modiji and India bow down. I have said it before- these are feral people. Hit and Hit hard. Tell every US company it is out of India. Shut twitter, Facebook and google access overnight. Open our markets to every other country and reduce setup costs to as a low a level as we can dare. Make the U.S Pay. We will bleed but this undignified silence is sending all the wrong signals.

On the contrary, if they ramp up hiring in India they can stay. Re-impose digital taxes on US technology firms should they not have a large domestic presence.

I predict TACO by next August. US graduate programs in STEM will be hollowed out at most state universities.

[S_Madhukar]

I think NaMo is waiting for trade deals to fructify with EU and other countries so that non- US options are visibly and profitably on table. Till then smile at TACO while Wall St sweats and TACO has to relent. No point in glaring at US when we have not covered for contingency.

[drnayar]

People who are saying this is a good thing are missing the point from the employees perspective. Indian IT majors are largely sh*tty places to work for with no concept of work life balance and boundaries. Some CEOs like those of Infosys are psychopaths that revel in toxicity. Couple this with middle managers that are on power trips with no reasonable WFH policies make this a workplace no one wants to work in with H1-B even for a few years a goal itself for most.

It does not help that the infra in our Tier1/2 cities is appalling with 1hour+ commutes quite common. Employees are going to be dissatisfied and this is going to manifest in various ways including against GoI however illogical and unreasonable it may be.

all American multinationals in bharat needs to pay taxes equivalent to what America does to india. , lets start with 50 %

[putnanja]

This will hit enrollment at US universities too. If there is not going to be any opportunity to work after studies, with threats of withdrawing OPT too, no one is going to invest crores into education in US. Not just India, this will affect Chinese and lost of East Europeans too , who go to study in US and then work there.

[gakakkad]

This will shave off 20% + from us economy and science and tech will shore up elsewhere .

[uddu]

There is a negative effect to it. It will create inflation on items that are literally monopoly areas or areas where the U.S companies are competitive or we don't have any presence. Like engines. What about 1/4 or 1/5th rule. 10 percent for U.S 50 percent tariff. The American multinationals need not be touched as they employ and source items from India. Only the ones sourcing parts from U.S will lose market share to Indian companies.

[Mort Walker]

This will hit enrollment at US universities too. If there is not going to be any opportunity to work after studies, with threats of withdrawing OPT too, no one is going to invest crores into education in US. Not just India, this will affect Chinese and lost of East Europeans too , who go to study in US and then work there.

Definitely. Already over 30% drop this academic year of international students to the US. Another big drop coming next academic year. My guess is that Trump admin actions will be bigger than the drop due to covid.

This link is from academic year 2024-25:
https://opendoorsdata.org/wp-content/up ... 2024-1.pdf

[Mort Walker]

There is a negative effect to it. It will create inflation on items that are literally monopoly areas or areas where the U.S companies are competitive or we don't have any presence. Like engines. What about 1/4 or 1/5th rule. 10 percent for U.S 50 percent tariff.

Existing products less so, but new products being planned will be a different story.