India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱

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[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

Missed a heartbeat seeing this! Thank you so much @narendramodi sir for appreciating my idea - UPI is truly a revolution that the whole world today is taking notice of.

This pat on my back will keep me going for years, thank you so much!

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[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

I’ve spoken about UPI and Digital Payments quite often but I really liked how you’ve used the sound of money transacted through data sonification to effectively convey the point.

Very interesting, impressive and obviously informative! @indiainpixels

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Next up, India.

After the end of the License Raj, growth really kicked into high gear.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

@opensource_nn https://t.co/DPhIKfZV4a <- more details on how Google computes the score. Google normalises the search in each state first by dividing the search term volume by all searches.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

How interested was your state in "Sonam Wangchuk" in the past week?

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

@opensource_nn Google doesn’t disclose that unfortunately

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

@uberfaustian Nope, not normalised by population

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

@Abhikau04787027 It's a relative measure. Odisha has the highest search volume, whatever the number be. The other values here can be regarded as % of Odisha's search volume.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

Google search trends for "Rath Yatra" in last 24 hours. ⭕️‼️⭕️

[Rahul Sanghi @RahulSanghi1]

TIL there's an entire sub-genre of Mughal miniature paintings that features demons leading fantastical beasts made up of intertwined people and animals

[NewsGram.com @NewsGramHQ]

How Do Indians Date? New Data Reveals the Most Popular Dating Apps Across States

#datingculture #tinder

A new report by India in Pixels, based on Google Search interest from 2021 to 2026, reveals the most searched dating and matchmaking apps across Indian states and Union Territories. While Tinder dominates several northeastern states, Bumble leads in Karnataka, Grindr sees strong interest in Tamil Nadu, and https://t.co/kmJCpUMqrX remains popular across much of India. The report reflects search trends not actual users but offers an interesting look at how dating and matchmaking preferences differ across the country.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

One interesting pattern: while Tinder and Grindr see relatively higher interest in several Northeastern states, Bumble is strongest around India's major tech hubs, and Shaadi remains concentrated across much of North and West India.

Note: Google Trends measures relative search interest, not the number of users.

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Comparing relative search interest of popular dating apps in India in last five years

Tinder 1/4

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Shaadi dot com

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@prathoshap Incredible work, sir! Thank you for making this open sourced 👏

[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.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

Indra isn't just a natural phenomenon in the Vedas, he is lot more complex than that. In Kausistaki Upanishad, he is identified with supreme reality. Tales of Surya or Siva don't even come close to the slander Sakra goes through. If anything, Indra is the Lord of Faustian spirit. He was overthrown by the very non Faustians who would've found his aura threatning.

[The Indian Matrix @indianmatrix]

Namo Bharat RRTS is rewriting the rules of how Indian megacities move.

First engineered by NCRTC, the system was designed to decongest the National Capital Region. The flagship Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut corridor, 82.15 km fully operational since February 2026, demonstrated the system's transformative potential.

Following this success, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs recommended in July 2025 that the RRTS model be expanded to other megacities facing severe congestion.

The logic is simple. Indian cities are choking under migration pressure. When a town like Meerut is under 60 minutes from the capital by rapid rail, people no longer need to migrate into the city core.

The RRTS system pulls commuters off congested highways onto fast, reliable networks, decongesting roads while acting as a catalyst for balanced regional development.

Namo Bharat RRTS is a paradigm shift, from road-dependent, fragmented city growth to integrated, rail-anchored, multi-nodal urban development.

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@real_mahalingam How come that doesnt happen with any other Vedic or Pauranic deity