Kunal

[Vijay Thirumalai @vijaythirumalai]

Saw some Tech bro preaching about having FIRs as badge of honor

#1 --I am sure the Techbro kids will be in US / already on path to US F1

#2 --With just 1 FIR, all your visas are gone ( just visitor visas), more importantly your US and Europe visas- bid good bye to them

#3 --My EB5 customers after investing 8 cr are concerned and debating about how to disclose a parking ticket violation, with FIRs on your badge, no Big Tech will hire you, this will come as a stigma in every application and follow you for lifetime

Block all those bros who are egging you get FIRs as badge of honors, look for inspiration from the Athers, Skyroot and Praggys of India not from these professional protestors

[Buggy Human @SridharanAnand]

There are two Indias.
Aspire to be Elon, or settle for being Greta?

In 60s USA, scruffy kids rebelling outside Berkeley thought they were changing the world.

But it was kids outside Stanford who actually did.
Remember the Fairchild Eight?

[Kunal @Kunalm24]

🤐😅👍

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

🚨😭'Switch off, switch on': Skyroot CEO reveals Indian fix that saved historic rocket launch

"Like in India, if something doesn't work, what we do is switch off, switch on. We just did that," @PawanKChandana said at our Rising Bharat event last evening, adding that the issue was sorted the moment the system restarted.

https://t.co/Jyid1QFKbY

[Zest @Zest328117]

🚨 One man's belief. One family's sacrifice. One historic triumph. 🇮🇳⚽

Ranjit Bajaj reportedly took a ₹56 lakh loan, mortgaged his wife's jewellery, and even turned to crowdfunding—all to give young Indian footballers the exposure they deserved against Europe's best youth academies.

The result?

🏆 23 matches across Europe⚽ 295 goals scored
🥇 Champions of the 2026 Helsing Cup

This is what investing in grassroots football looks like—not just with money, but with conviction.

Now, Ranjit Bajaj wants the opportunity to lead India's U-15 team at the FIFA U-15 World Cup, believing this generation can make the nation proud.

Indian football needs more people willing to build dreams—not just talk about them.

🙏 If this story inspired you, please Like ❤️, Repost 🔁, and Share 📢 to help more people discover what these young footballers achieved.

#IndianFootball #Football #India #RanjitBajaj #YouthFootball #GrassrootsFootball #HelsingCup #FIFA #BlueTigers #SportsDevelopment

[Vijay Shekhar Sharma @vijayshekhar]

I like this post for many reasons !

[Karthik Nadar @runkarthikrun]

Mumbai is kinda a beautiful city - only if we completely get rid of political posters. #MumbaiRains

[Ashish Kacholia @LuckyInvest_ARK]

Excess Luggage at airline counter:

Indigo - QR code generated on pos machine...scan, pay, aagey badho

Air India - give your email and moble which inattentive staff get wrong and fill twice. Then payment link generated which goes to your email. Click on it and hope the network is working. If not, try a second time, pray to God and heave a sigh of relief when it is all done
20 precious mins wasted and one irritated customer walks away from check in counter.
Just get POS machines @airindia to improve customer check-in experience or even diehard loyalists going to be disappointed

[VatsRohit @KesariDhwaj]

Perfect example of FAFO!
I hope DP files an FIR against him for this unprovoked attack on their personnel.

[Facts @BefittingFacts]

Meet Zebaa Ali from Mussoorie:

• She is pursuing an LLB and is also a vlogger.

• She attended Rahul Gandhi’s event in Dehradun.

• She said that when India had a Muslim Prime Minister, there were no riots and no problems.

• She also claimed that Prime Ministers’ sons go abroad for their education.

• When a journalist asked her who the Muslim Prime Minister was, she replied, “APJ Abdul Kalam.”

She is studying law and wants change. 😭

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

When #Science is celebrated like this. Country is destined for stars and beyond.

Yesterday’s launch and kids.

[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

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace scripts history as Vikram-1 becomes India's first private orbital launch

By @AihikS

https://t.co/gSXjEYDv4z

[Urich Kamath @KamathUrich]

We need to come on roads now for simple things which government can’t handle . @CMOMaharashtra @MTPHereToHelp @CPMumbaiPolice

[Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 @ArunKrishnan_]

Replace 40 million with 1 Billion and this post could be about Sachin Tendulkar.

[Madhu @madhukarbk]

How can anyone not love sports ??? It brings everyone, together!!

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Your daily reminder of pathetically cheap life is in this country.

[Aniket / ABN Capital @aniket_abncap]

🔥

[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.

[Gaurav Dalmia @gdalmiathinks]

On "Modiplomacy". Good piece.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Every student dreams of getting into SRCC/Lady Shri Ram College, but not 1 in a 1000 knows that the man behind these legends started his life cleaning grease off textile machines.

We are taught that India’s industrial backbone was forged entirely in the boardrooms of Bombay & Calcutta. But while the British thought they had North India completely under their thumb, a young man in Delhi was quietly planning an industrial mutiny. His name was Lala Shri Ram.

In 1909, a 25 yr old Shri Ram stepped into Delhi Cloth & General Mills (DCM), not as a wealthy heir, but as an apprentice who had already failed in his initial independent business ventures. The mill was small, struggling & heavily overshadowed by British imports.

When World War I broke out, British factories shifted entirely to making uniforms for their own soldiers, leaving India’s domestic market stranded. Where others saw a crisis, Shri Ram saw a battlefield. He did not just ramp up production; he completely pivoted DCM to manufacture tents & specialized cloth for the war effort, multiplying the company's capital ~4x in less than a decade.

But his true genius was not just making cloth, it was replacing the British Empire in the daily lives of Indians.

He looked at India's reliance on foreign imports & decided to dismantle it piece by piece. He diversified into sugar, chemicals & vanaspati ghee (launching the famous Rath brand). Then came his masterstroke: Usha. Before independence, every sewing machine & electric fan in an Indian household came from Europe.

Shri Ram acquired Jay Engineering Works & mass-produced the Usha sewing machine & Usha fans. He put an Indian-made machine into the hands of millions of Indian women, making households self-reliant decades before anyone coined the term "Make in India."

At a time when industrial workers were treated like expendable gears, Shri Ram revolutionized labor. In 1920, long before it became a legal mandate, he introduced an Employees' Provident Fund, built free worker housing & created on-site schools for their children. He looked at industrialization through the eyes of the working class.

The British were so awed by his administrative genius that they eventually knighted him, but his heart remained fiercely Swadeshi. In 1930, at just 46, he stood next to Gandhi as the President of FICCI, openly demanding that India control its own fiscal destiny. When India finally won freedom, Jawaharlal Nehru turned to Shri Ram to help anchor the Reserve Bank of India & build the nation's industrial infrastructure.

Today, the names of his colleges are synonymous with the highest echelons of Indian education, but remember this.... long before he built the institutions that shape India's brightest minds, Lala Shri Ram built the machines that clothed, fed & powered a young nation's dreams.