Nikhil Bellarykar

A jack of some trades.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

My new paper, published in this year's BISM quarterly, deals with a Dutch report on Maratha invasions of Bengal. Some new stuff including a ship bridge built by the Marathas.

https://t.co/ZwqeSdaPov

[Himanshu Sinha @hsinha1445]

This is Andrew Feldman, the Cerebras CEO, sizing the AI market the lazy way: one software engineer will burn $50,000 to $100,000 a year in AI tokens. There are 47 million of them. That's $5 trillion.

Now do India. We have 5 million engineers. At his numbers, that's $250–500 billion a year in inference — and every rupee of it leaves the country, because we make neither the chips nor the models.

India's whole crude oil bill is about $130 billion.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@shivakjolad Very interesting, thank you sir. To take your point further, I think that the archives of not many princely states have survived the present day as well. What say ?

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@Yours__Pranav 3.5% Brahmins - do they even matter in box office game? thoda tari logic wapra

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@RahulVKadam2 @memumbaikar2018 अतिनेमके. जातीयवाद आणि हिंदूद्वेषापोटी हिंदू धर्माला नेहमी अंधश्रद्धा, घाण वगैरे लेबल्स लावून झोडपल्यामुळेच "भय्यांचे हिंदुत्व" पुढे आलेय. मराठी फ्लेवरचे हिंदुत्व यांनीच स्वतःच्या कर्माने नष्ट केले मग भय्या फ्लेवर आल्यावर यांची का जळते ?

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@memumbaikar2018 तर तर ! भीमरूपी स्तोत्र रचणारे आणि त्यांना मानणारे यांना जेव्हा फक्त जातीमुळे शिव्या दिल्या जातात तेव्हा कुठे जाते मराठी संस्कृती ? हिंदू धर्माला उठताबसता शिव्या घालणार्‍यांमुळेच भीमरूपी मागे पडून त्याची जागा हनुमान चालिसाने घेतली आहे. याचा दोष जातो तो पूर्णपणे पुरोगाम्यांकडेच.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@Damyantispeaks Yes, agreed. Some especially interesting topics do deserve recordings. Others, probably not so much.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

To all the interested peeps: On this Sunday, that is 31st May, 2026, various recent findings in topics like Archaeology, Epigraphy, early medieval Indian History, Maratha History, Mughal gift diplomacy will be presented at BISM Pune. (1/n)

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@Damyantispeaks Unfortunately no recordings for this event. BISM does record some events, let's see in future how this plays out.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

BISM is a leading repository of researchers, who, very often, without a formal degree in History, make substantial contributions to their respective fields. Citizen-Historians, so to speak. We are proud of this unique legacy. All are welcome !! (n/n)

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

This is a unique opportunity for all those interested in History to see "Historiography in the making" i.e. how the recent findings in various disciplines provide completely new info and/or perspective that forces us to revise the existing conceptions of History. (3/n)

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

Entry is open and free for all. Venue: Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Sadashiv Peth, Pune. Date: 31 May 2026. Time: 4 pm to 7:30 pm. (2/n)

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@foidjeetaa Dafaq, sending back podi dosa as an Indian is wild LOL.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@Garjana206 Bajirao, Chimaji Appa, Nanasaheb and Madhavrao were no different. Same goes for Kanhoji Angre, Raghuji Bhosle.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

Read and despair

[Deedy @deedydas]

A 19-year old broke into India's largest high school examination system of 2M+ students a year, the CBSE, and was able to view and CHANGE any students' marks.

He responsibly wrote to the team 3 months ago, and it took them 3 days to fix only one of the issues. Today, they took the entire website down.

This is a absolute embarrassment. The futures and lives of millions rests in the hands of the utterly incompetent. There is also no mass media reporting on the matter.

This topic is close to me because not only is this the education system I went through, but 12 years ago and silently for 5yrs since, I'd written about and reported a much less severe vulnerability allowing me to scrape these results too. More than a decade later, not much has changed.

This 19yo, Nisarga Adhikary, wrote a great piece outlining each vulnerability he reverse engineered:
- the master password leak
- the client-side 2fac / OTP validation workaround
- tokenless access to the entire internal app (dashboard, evaluator details, etc) setting dummy browser values
- changing any password without knowing the old one
- an IDOR vuln allowing you to act as any user and edit exam marks

For those interested in a beautiful study in security breaches, this is a must read (link below).

If there's any light at the end of the tunnel, it's that a 19yo who never went to college can do things 99% of top engineers couldn't figure out.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@punch_des Colonization using maritime power within Asia was probably done only by Oman during late 18th or early 19th century. No other power comes to mind.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@SuperheroFreak Hindi madhe bolne mhanje tyanchyawar upkar karne hoy.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@TeamHinduUnited How come the Arab is pronouncing such clear P which is not there in Arabic language?

Also, how come the Arab guy is using the word Satyanash, which is not generally part of a Pakistani vocab even?

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@TeaChaiLa They could've tried for the same elsewhere, maybe eastern side ? that is nearer to UP Bihar anyway.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

@KamathGurudutt Depends. In south Mh esp. Miraj-Sangli area we call it Bread chi usal. In Kolhapur and other areas it is called Bread chi bhaji.

[Nikhil Bellarykar @Bellarykar]

Such peeps are dime a dozen, sadly.

[Dale Cooper @stefdhrhsf]

There is a subset of the aspirational class of Marathis in MH who think speaking in Hindi makes them more sophisticated, and knowing Hindi is some achievement. They have weird pride in bending over for nationalistic interests. Truly weird people - no other state's people behave like this; they balance nationalism with regionalism. Some even think speaking Marathi is vernacular