Suresh

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

India should ban social media for young children too.

I believe young children should read physical books, play in the dirt under the sun and stay away from social media!

[Suresh @Avittam29]

@Iyervval Hahahaha

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Japan was our first office outside India and the US. That was 2001.

Yesterday, I visited our office in Yokohama and I'm reminded that we were a small unknown company from Chennai and we chose the hardest market first.

Nobody in Japan buys because of a brand or a pitch. They watch how you behave when something breaks, and if you pass that test they stay with you for decades. That patience got into our engineering culture and never left.

ありがとうございます 🙏

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Doctors per million Indian population: 931. NGOs per million Indian population: 2357.

There are more NGOs in India than there are doctors.

[Suresh @Avittam29]

@NBDwrites Brilliant !!! Loved this

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

As of this year, about 50% of Tamil Nadu school students study in government schools. This percentage has dropped considerably because the government schools have gotten worse. Often even poor rural parents borrow money to send their children to private schools when they can, because of the deterioration in government schools.

One key problem is the corruption in government school recruitment, which has been a long standing open secret and the going rate I am told is about one year of salary paid in advance.

I studied in free schools funded by the government (aided school) so I want to make the system stronger.
We are happy to run our free private schools, and we will expand them further, but we need to make our government schools much stronger.

We still have many dedicated teachers in government schools. We have to strengthen them. A good place to start is to end the corruption in school teacher recruitment.

The infrastructure of government schools is good in some places, not so good in others. But fixing that comes next, only after fixing recruitment.

Our poorest communities need strong free schools. Thank you 🙏 @CMOTamilnadu

[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!

[महावीर, ಮಹಾವೀರ, Mahavir @Mahaveer_VJ]

Kumar Vishwas on Dhurandhar 2: hits the nail on the head... fantastic reply.

Wow! Perhaps one of the best tributes to Aditya Dhar for making Dhurandhar. In just a few words, Kumar Vishwas hits the bullseye

The interviewer looks visibly uncomfortable and must be cursing his luck for asking the right question to the wrong person. Enjoyed this conversation 😘😍👊🏼

[Praveen @DrPraveenwrites]

Maridhas arrest – What Chief Minister Joseph Vijay should learn from Karunanidhi and Jayalalitha!

I feel this arrest was unwarranted and only brings bad repute to an otherwise performing government.

Dissent and criticism are hallmarks of a healthy democracy. If you crush people who come up with constructive criticism, you are effectively digging your own grave because criticism often helps a government identify and rectify its shortcomings.

If the government wants to listen only to cheer leaders and stops listening to critics, what happened to @arivalayam in 2026 could very well happen to @TVKVijayHQ in 2031.

Karunanidhi’s approach!

More than the journals that supported Karunanidhi, he was known to closely read publications that criticized his government.

For example, Karunanidhi regularly read Thuglak and paid attention to Cho Ramaswamy’s criticisms. At times, he would even rectify mistakes and personally inform Cho that corrective action had been taken. Karunanidhi, despite all his political flaws, was relatively tolerant of criticism.

Jayalalitha’s approach!

Even though Jayalalitha was often perceived as intolerant of criticism (and the media was rarely kind to her), barring a few incidents, she generally did not resort to arresting her critics.

Instead, she would file defamation cases against journals and media houses that wrote against her.

@CMOTamilnadu should learn how to handle criticisms from the approaches adopted by these two leaders. Filing a legal case against @MaridhasAnswers and allowing the law to take its course would perhaps have been the more mature, generous and democratic approach.

This arrest appears unnecessary, and I hope @MaridhasAnswers is released soon.

[Suresh @Avittam29]

@TulsiGabbard Prayers for your husband’s healing.

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Our political movement has achieved a milestone, with over 10 lakh leaders registering within just 10 hours. This extraordinary response is a powerful reflection of the growing belief in our shared vision and collective mission.

I extend my heartfelt gratitude to every individual who has placed their trust in this movement.

https://t.co/ZCljDx3Zgu

[Suresh @Avittam29]

@AstroCounselKK @KasthuriShankar Wow! Loved it

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[🇮🇳 Sangitha Varier 🚩 @VarierSangitha]

Theory of relativity, Einstein, Cosmos,
Dark matter, Parasakthi & Mahakavi Bharathi- seamlessly connected all in 3 mins..!!
His eloquence, his knowledge, his connect with the masses is unmatched !

#HBDThalaivarAnnamalai

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Karuvi update: these are the major issues that come up in power tools design. At 11000+ rpm, does it overheat, does it vibrate too much and does it produce too much noise?

We have to find parts that work well and are also price competitive. Low end Chinese power tools won't pass all the tests but they are very cheap. We decided we have to pass all the tests the Japanese and German tools would pass.

Finally we have the product that meets that quality bar shipping to trial customers locally.

Tooling costs are another major issue. We are planning a tool room.

All this has taught us a lot of lessons. We will roll out a full line of tools later this year.

To build anything that truly lasts, it takes time!

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Modi-hatred is almost a requirement to be called an "intellectual" in some circles. We have to counter them, so let's recall some history.

Congress had left Punjab, Kashmir, Assam all burning. The Naxal menace had made middle India ungovernable. Bihar and UP had become lawless. Bengal stagnated and deteriorated.

Today, Bengal has been rescued from the lawless TMC. For the first time since my childhood, we can discuss development and progress in all these states. We can disagree on specific paths to development, but at least we get to have that conversation.

These achievements did not happen magically. They required a lot of hard work and sacrifice - and all of it happened democratically. Let us not forget that Congress used Article 356 very often to dismiss state governments and now they lecture us on "democratic values".

If we elect the wrong crowd, we risk losing all the gains we have made.

Modi and Shah have provided strong and resolute leadership that has allowed these useless intellectuals to indulge their Modi hatred. Deep down, even they know the truth.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Omar-bhai is right. I would add that no other civilization has been as resilient in the face of so many attacks.

No other civilization has as much diversity - in language, food, culture, art, music, dance and spirituality - as we do. We have to fight to protect, nurture and sustain this for the ages.

[Suresh @Avittam29]

@Vairamuthu What a fraud you are!!! Dishonest and vulgar