Amit Sachdev 🇮🇳

Proud Indian, Plantsman

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Mahrang Baloch fought for her disappeared father - now she faces life in a Pakistani jail. Respect for Mahrang Baloch. Shame on coward Asim Munir and his coward gang. https://t.co/xL88KwMyUp

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[Chandrashekhar Dhage @cbdhage]

The reasons keep coming 👌🏻

Under Yogi Adityanath, UP doesn't give you one reason to believe in it and then go quiet.

It stacks them. Year after year. Policy after policy. Project after project. Each one adding to the weight of evidence that this state has genuinely, irreversibly changed.

This week's addition is significant even by UP's recent standards.

Rs 29,000 crore from Prestige, Embassy, Raheja Mindspace, and Sattva at a single event in Bengaluru. Tech parks and GCC campuses on their way to UP. 500+ Global Capability Centres in the pipeline. 43 million sq ft of office space coming. A state that is actively positioning itself among India's top three FDI destinations.

For everyone who has been watching UP and waiting to be convinced, Yogi Sarkar just added another reason to the list.

That list has been growing for nine years. It shows no sign of stopping.

#UttarPradesh #YogiforGrowth #UPGlobalGrowthDialogue2026

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Deeply happy that a road in Chennai has been named Major Mukund Varadarajan Road! Fitting tribute to an amazing soldier.

The braveheart’s parents would be so proud of their ‘Amaran’ 🙏🏽♥️

A throwback to when I met them last year.

#IndiasMostFearless

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Let’s enable leadership in AI quantum & other emerging technologies through less regulation & greater investment from VCs & Capital markets.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We had nauseating, disgusting levels of corruption in Tamil Nadu under the DMK. This is known to the entire Universe, not some grand secret.

It reached such Himalayan heights, their own Finance Minister, someone not corrupt who was caught up with the corrupt crowd, was complaining about it (sadly for him his remarks became public and he was demoted to became the IT Minister).

This is not about ideology.
Even the Marxists of Kerala, then allied with the DMK, would say how deeply corrupt the DMK was.

I have always appreciated people like Shri Balagopal, the former Finance Minister of Kerala, for his devoted public service. I am sure he and I will not agree on political philosophy or ideology but I deeply respect him.

If the DMK truly wants to introspect, they must start with their corruption.

Instead, they spend their time attacking a messenger like me as a TVK stooge or a Brahmin or a Sanghi and so on.

May be they can study Kural 423: focus on the message, even if the message comes from a "Brahmin Sanghi TVK stooge" like me:

எப்பொருள் யார்யார்வாய்க் கேட்பினும் அப்பொருள்
மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்ப தறிவு.

[Krishnan @cvkrishnan]

12 years and the Modi govt ignored this major segment to our own peril.
Sorry fellow RWs that such a dire deficiency either didn’t reach him(PMO) or that the PMO was not appreciative of its ramifications tells really bad about the priorities of his PMO and his vision.

They are all high on “ToT” local manufacturing/assembly = aatmanirbhar nashaa!
It’s a crime of omission and I’m giving the benefit of doubt in saying that.

[Kaveri Janta Party @KaveriEngine7]

Do everything “just don’t make your own jet engine effort”.
Safran, Rolls Royce, GE, UEC koi toh de do.. but we don’t fund our on program.

[Ruban Raja Singh @rubanrajasingh]

@anandmahindra God bless you 🙏🏻

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I’d like to contribute, along with many others, who I know will be moved by his passion…

The video didn’t seem to provide details of how & where.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The monsoon has been weak this year. Our ponds are not even half full and normally they are brimming during this month.

We do not want to do deep borewell based farming.

We are shifting to crops that need much less water, so we won't do rice planting until the November rains.

Praying for rain 🙏

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Our rural school Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam, which provides completely free education to rural children, faced delays getting approvals from the previous government. Of course, significant money was demanded and we were told that was the only way, even if it is a completely free school.

After @TVKVijayHQ came to power, approvals have happened quickly and automatically.

I am very happy to appreciate this positive development in our state. Thank you Thiru Vijay Avl for this refreshing change🙏

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

Budgets are limited- as you say, hard choices have to be made

To date the total cost of the M777 (a 155/39 gun) to India, including this sustainment package, is ~$967 million. Divide that by 145 and each gun has cost India ~$6.7 million

ATAGS,a 155/52 gun, is ~$830 million. Divided by 307 guns is ~$2.7 per gun.

Yes ATAGS is not meant for the same role as M777 but at least the vast vast majority (>70%) of the cost of ATAGS will remain within India, he fed back into creating greater capacity and spiral development. It makes no sense to be advocating to ship yet more billions to foreign OEMs. It’s a pure zero sum game.

[Krishnan @cvkrishnan]

In today’s edition of shameless things happening in Indian defence sector…

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Very proud moment for Zoho signing the MoU with the Indian Army.

We are deepening our R&D commitment.

Jai Hind 🫡

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

We have been working on structural type systems and verifiable code.

Best wishes to Pramaana Labs team! I am very happy to see cutting edge R&D in India.

Using these approaches, I believe far more efficient as well as highly reliable AI systems are possible. That is also why I fundamentally don't agree with the trillion dollar bets being made but that is a separate topic.

[Smriti Z Irani @smritiirani]

जिनको कोई नहीं पूछता, उनको मोदी पूजता है।

[Krishnan Srinivasan @Sastha93883062]

Namaskaram
My name is Dhandapani Subramaniam (70),a bachelor.
Am a Kurukkal(Temple Priest) in Padagacheri,( a micro interior village ).
near Valangaiman - Kumbakonam,Tamilnadu.
Living here with my Widowed Sister,Vasantha (78).
I am doing Temple Kaingaryam for Sivan Temple,Perumal Temple,Vinayagar Temple,Murugan Temple,here in Padagacheri.

No income.

Struggling to buy medicines,pay for transport,etc.,

Night tiffin,tea is served daily for us by Balasaraswathy, neighbor.
She prepares Swami Neivedhyam daily.

The house where we both live is in very bad shape. Needs repairing.

Requesting you to please help for our survival.
Namaskaram.
Dhandapani Subramaniam
Canara Bank
17152210000058
IFSC CODE
CNRB0001209
Ph:9080256339
(no Gpay)

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Sad to see this temple priest's plight. It is near my village in the Kumbakonam area. We will contact him and arrange for regular support.

I am also going to appeal to people who left all these villages: we abandoned our ancestral villages and abandoned our temples. Prosperity alone will not make us happy. We have to do our duty to our ancestral land and our kula devatas and grama devatas.

Our culture and spirituality have always emphasized simple living and high thinking - contentment at the core. That survived thousands of years but risks being swept away in the tsuami of modernity.

It is time for us to rethink, at least those of us with the means.🙏