Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳

Interior Architect - I Do Read Some Books

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[Architecture Hub @archpng]

La Plata, Argentina, was planned from the ground up in 1882 as the new capital of Buenos Aires Province.

Designed under urban planner Pedro Benoit, the city follows a strict grid crossed by diagonal avenues, with public squares placed at regular intervals. The result is the distinctive geometric pattern that earned La Plata its nickname: the “City of Diagonals.”

📸 @AnthonyQuigley

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Bihar’s development is finally visible. Govt files are melting and flowing directly onto the roads.

Welcome to Siwan, where every monsoon exposes the paperwork beneath the asphalt.

#YeThikKarkeDikhao

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@rashmibansal @Starbucks Right. They have specific criteria for required space to get the frenchise.

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@archpng It must have been a big task to work it out technically. Waterproofing challenge.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Video of mob attack on a family on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway captured on dashcam of another car.

[Rangilo Rajasthan @InfraholicR]

Udaipur oldcity can be role model to redevelop old delhi.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

I want to bring your attention to Mr. Manoj Wadhwa's case.

His family met with an accident due to pothole.
Lost his 3-year-old son.
Wife underwent 23 surgeries & 450 stitches.
Fighting the contractor in court for 12 years.

He is still waiting for justice @Justice4Pavitra

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@VishalBhargava5 What a Beauty it is.

[Janak Dave @dave_janak]

ધૃતરાષ્ટ્ર ગાડી ચલાવી રહ્યા છે સંજયની મદદથી…..

સંહાર નક્કી છે…. સામેવાળાનો…

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@ReutersAsia No bridge collapse in Rajkot. Dnt spread fake news. Only scaffolding of an under construction bridge collapsed because of heavy wind and rain.

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

If Chartered Accountancy has ZERO RESERVATION, why do we have RESERVATIONS for MBBS & Engineering?

What's the use of having Mediocre Doctors & Engineers getting audited by Top CAs of the Country?

#FI

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@rvivek @VidyaG88 https://t.co/JAlJWRQFwE

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@cbdhage INI are truly doing beautiful work. Hope clients understand and stop asking for glass facades.

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Images of all completed projects are uploaded on his profile with proper details.

Something extremely rare, as our team did not find this level of transparency on most MPs’ profiles.

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@VidyaG88 I haven't seen it. Recommended to you bcoz of Vishal bhai only. 😄
His recommendations are top notch.

[Bhumit Badrakiya🇮🇳 @Bhumitt]

@Nithin0dha Wow. I have been using Airtel since 2005. Almost 21 years. Never needed to leave the company.

[Initnamees 🇮🇳 @SeemantiniBose]

This should shake the core of the nation. It should be a non-stop headline across all media. 30 men! A 13-year-old child! But no.