International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."
🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:
July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.
July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.
July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.
July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.
July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.
July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.
July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).
Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.
Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.
Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.
June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.
June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.
June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.
June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).
June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.
June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.
Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.
Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).
June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.
@thsottiaux One thing I’d love: expand/collapse for chats in both ChatGPT and Codex. Some of my conversations turn into novels, and scrolling through them to find that one great answer is a workout 😂
I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point
Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.
Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.
There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.
I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.
But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
Someone told me yesterday that when they feel nervous about doing something & their heart starts beating really fast, that they call it their "Inner Applause" because their body is cheering them on, and I think that's the cutest narrative adjustment ever 🥹
I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
When building with AI, it’s tempting to ship as soon as it works.
I’ve learned to pause and understand what’s going on — and orgs should normalize that review time too.