Durjoy Datta

Novelist and screenwriter | [email protected]

[Vivek Panwar (Tech Dekhoji ❤️ Media) @TechDekhoji]

My YouTube channel Tech Dekhoji is gone. Just like that 💔

10 YEARS of my life.
1,700+ videos.
Countless days, nights, Sundays & holidays spent building this channel - deleted overnight without a single warning.

What makes this even harder to accept - in 10 years, we never received even ONE Community Guidelines strike. We’re a YouTube Partner and have always taken YouTube’s policies seriously while creating content around tech & gadgets

And yet, the entire channel simply vanished.

No warning.
No opportunity to explain.
No human reaching out before wiping out a decade of work.

This is exactly why creators should be worried about long term partnership & automated enforcement. One wrong decision can erase someone’s life’s work overnight.

I genuinely believe this is a mistake and urgently request @YouTube @YouTubeIndia @nealmohan @YTCreatorsIndia @YouTubeCreators to have a HUMAN manually review what happened to Tech Dekhoji.

To the tech community, creators and everyone I’ve connected with over these 15+ years - I need your support today 🙏

Please amplify this until someone at YouTube actually looks into it.

10 years of work deserves at least one human review before being erased.

[Karti P Chidambaram @KartiPC]

If the dancing outraged you more than the AK-47 then you are a Whatsapp uncle.

[Gill @Hanjigill]

The same people who mocked the reporter are now apologizing to him... this is the best thing about this generation that they realize their mistakes quickly and own up to them. So happy to see him smiling again.

[vishal dayama @VishalDayama]

all eyes on gambhir

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

24 hours to lift-off. 🚀

Eight years ago, @SkyrootA started with just two people with an idea.

There was no policy framework for private spaceflight in India, no real funding ecosystem for space startups, and we were taking on one of the world’s hardest engineering challenges. The odds of success seemed incredibly small.

Today, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket stands on the launch pad, ready for lift-off.

This moment belongs to every member of our team, our investors, the Government of India,@PMOIndia, @isro, @INSPACeIND, our partners, suppliers, customers, and everyone who believed in us long before this day.

We have done everything we possibly could.

Now we let physics do its job.

Whatever tomorrow brings, every second of flight will teach us something invaluable. Reaching the launch pad and attempting an orbital launch is a landmark milestone for India—and an achievement only a handful of companies worldwide have reached. Every milestone we cross will advance not just Skyroot or India’s space journey, but the global commercial space ecosystem.

Tomorrow, we take the next step. 🇮🇳🚀

[funi @funirudh]

gonna watch only the first 10 mins of the new christopher nolan movie so i can tell everyone i watched thodyssey

[The Seeker @TheSeeker268]

It's a shame no major film has been made about Biju Patnaik. He lived a life that sounds almost fictional:

In 1938, he flew his entire wedding procession by aircraft to Rawalpindi for his marriage to Gyanwati Sethi (who became the first Indian woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license, and the couple later flew daring missions together.)

While serving in the Royal Indian Air Force (including as head of Air Transport Command), he secretly ferried freedom fighters like Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, and Aruna Asaf Ali to their hideouts. He also airdropped 'Quit India' leaflets to Indian troops while evacuating British families.

The British once jailed him for transporting nationalist leaders and distributing anti-British literature but also honored him for bravery in evacuating civilians from Japanese-occupied Burma.

During WWII, he flew daring missions delivering arms and supplies to Soviet forces in Stalingrad, and over the treacherous 'Hump' route to China in
support of Chinese Nationalist forces against the Japanese.

In July 1947, he and his wife flew a Dakota into Indonesia, landed on an improvised airstrip while evading Dutch anti-aircraft fire, rescued Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir, refuelled using abandoned Japanese fuel, and flew him safely to India via Singapore.

A couple of months later, during the Pakistani invasion of Kashmir, he airlifted one of the first Indian troops into Srinagar.

The same year he founded Kalinga Airlines, one of India's earliest private airlines.

As Odisha CM post-1962 India-China war, he secretly visited CIA headquarters at Langley to forge a covert India-US partnership against China, which led to the Aviation Research Centre (ARC) at Charbatia, which supported U-2 recon missions over Tibet.

He was also a legendary administrator and statesman, laying much of the foundation of Odisha's industrial empire (mines, ports, heavy industries etc).

When he passed away, Indonesia observed 7 days of state mourning. Russia observed 1 day. He remains the only person in Indian history whose body was draped in the national flags of 3 nations - India, Indonesia, and Russia.

Few public figures have left such a footprint.

His extraordinary life needs to be brought to the big screen.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

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

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

The Capgemini employee who exposed toddlers being abused at the creche on the company campus was fired first. Now she has been arrested for sharing the videos.

This is deeply disturbing.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

I would like to know how fast this case is moving. It could have been anybody. It could have been your daughter. I want to know what’s happening here.

[Durjoy Datta @durjoydatta]

Everyone’s talking about #Toxic, but keeping the core plot hidden is the ultimate trump card. The world-building and the massive character lineup look insane. The teaser did its job to perfection, teasing just enough to get us seated. Bring on the trailer!

[Abhishek Baxi @baxiabhishek]

Screw your chai-pakode, vada pao, and rimjhim-gire-sawan playlist. For urban India, rains see a kid dying in his school bus, somebody's car being crushed under a car, and girls getting electrocuted on the road. The romance of rains isn't for us.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

VS is being punished by a mediocre coach for being exceptional.

[Guerra en la Universidad @GuerraenlaUni]

Colonial aesthetics.

[Durjoy Datta @durjoydatta]

Sukrut Deo delivered a powerful performance and got emotional. Samay Raina gifting Ai+ Nova made it even more special. Not on the bucket list moment.
Ai+ Nova phones sale goes live on Flipkart on 26th June 12pm. #AiPlusNovaonFlipkart

[The Tatva @thetatvaindia]

🚨Indian construction worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship in Romania after risking his life to save a five-year-old girl who fell into an icy lake. He kept the child above water for nearly 30 minutes until rescuers arrived

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

A rocket's structure has to be strong enough to survive launch and light enough to reach orbit. This episode is about how the team turned to carbon composites and cork to meet both demands, and what it took to master the manufacturing from the ground up.

#JourneyToOrbit #Vikram1

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

I find it odd when people turn businessmen into role models, and this seems to have become more common in the last 5-odd years. It's the same with idolising movie stars and sports stars. None of it should happen, really. 😀

When people come to me for advice, my first reaction is: What makes you think I'm qualified?

Just because I've gotten lucky in business, does that make me qualified to advise you on your career, your life choices, or anything apart from how to get lucky? 😀

There are startup founders, especially people working in the social sector, whom I meet through @RainmatterOrg, and I think they are far smarter and more capable of giving advice than I am.

If you still pick a role model, pick someone for a trait worth admiring in real life, not because of what they project to the outside world.

[Durjoy Datta @durjoydatta]

Something about #Bandar felt painfully personal. Maybe because we've all seen men being publicly humiliated before facts proven. Society talks about justice, but sometimes people just want someone to blame quickly. #bobbydeol @thedeol https://t.co/kYMxgNZbbN