Look at the arrogance of this guy, all other cars are patiently waiting in one line while this ass tries to cut ahead driving on the wrong side
Now he is blocking oncoming traffic and creating a massive jam
What should be the punishment for such rogues?
Thanks to PM Modi’s leadership, the Northeast has witnessed many historic firsts:
🔸 Mizoram became insurgency free for the first time ever.
🔸 Freight rail connectivity reached Manipur for the first time in 2022.
🔸 Mizoram witnessed its first passenger train trial run since Independence in 2025.
🔸 Meghalaya welcomed its first electric train in 2023.
🔸 Nagaland got its first railway station after Independence in 2022.
🔸 Vande Bharat reached Assam, ushering in a new era of modern rail travel.
These are not just milestones. They are symbols of a Northeast that is more connected, peaceful and empowered than ever before.
#12YearsOfRisingNorthEast
This is Anagha Rajesh.
And she is crazy.
She wants to store data in bacterial DNA.
Her startup is called BioCompute.
And last year, they actually did it.
They stored data in DNA and retrieved it in their tiny lab in Bengaluru.
This is a huge moment.
But why is she even doing it?
Because DNA is the ultimate storage tool available to us.
Just 1 gm of DNA can store about 215 petabytes of data - that's like storing over 2 million movies in 4K.
On top of that - this data can last for literally 1000s of years.
Right now, they still need to figure out a way to make the reading and writing process faster and cheaper.
But if BioCompute solves this problem - we could theoretically store all the data created in the world every year in the palm of our hands.
And that would be insane.
P.S. Check out this video from @vy0mbhatia going to Anagha's lab and actually doing it.
I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it.
It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing.
That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents.
So how does anyone make money on this?
Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province.
It wasn’t always there.
But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally.
Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container.
It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter.
His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking.
But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong.
His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi)
None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants.
Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table
I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear)
That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI.
I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006.
Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people..
But I admit that we need to think differently.
A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads
A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole.
I think that’s the work ahead of us now.
Not just more factories, and not just more parks.
Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood.
Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles.
We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore.
We need to do it on purpose
Something remarkable is happening in India’s defence sector.
Not one breakthrough. Not one headline. But an entire ecosystem moving forward at once.
Over the past few months, India has advanced in missile defence, strategic deterrence, long-range strike capabilities, anti-ship warfare, hypersonic propulsion, precision-guided weapons, and next-generation armoured systems.
Think about that for a moment.
These are some of the most complex technologies known to modern warfare. And India is developing and testing them simultaneously.
The real story is not any single test. It is the depth of scientific capability that makes all of them possible.
Behind every successful trial are thousands of scientists, engineers, technicians, and armed forces personnel working quietly for years, often without recognition and without applause.
A nation of 1.4 billion people sleeps peacefully because somewhere, someone is constantly working to ensure that India stays secure, self-reliant, and prepared for the future.
To every scientist, engineer, technician, soldier, and worker who made these achievements possible, thank you.
Thank you for choosing service over recognition.
Thank you for years of perseverance.
Thank you for building an India that can stand strong on its own feet.
#india #DRDO #missiles #MissileStrike #JaiHind
कभी हजारों सीढ़ियां और 2 घंटे की कठिन चढ़ाई, अब सिर्फ 7-10 मिनट का रोमांचक सफर!
महाराष्ट्र का 1.2 km का श्री मलंगगढ़ Funicular Railway आधुनिक भारत का वो कदम है, जो तीर्थयात्रियों की थकान को सम्मान में बदलता है। जो पहाड़ की कठिनाई को सुविधा और गौरव में तब्दील करता है।
यही है नया भारत, जहां विकास हर कदम, हर क्षेत्र में दिखता है! 📈
This is not an achievement. So no one is talking about this. If any western country or China did this, it would be covered by all Indian media.
But now…who cares.
BREAKING ⚡🇮🇳
DRDO successfully conducts test of Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha on 15th June 2026.
1000-1500 km range, Subsonic & Sea skimming to evade enemy Radars.
India's logistics cost as % of GDP is almost halved since 2014 with implementation of PM Gati Shakti schemes. We climbed to 38th in Logistics Performance Index in 2025 from 54th in 2014. Have you heard anyone talking about this?
India has overtaken England and joined the top five manufacturing countries list in the world.
By 2029, India will be the third-largest manufacturing country
India enters the big 5 in manufacturing toppling South Korea. At current growth rates, even considering rupee depreciation, India will displace Japan to become the world's third largest manufacturer (> $1 trillion) by 2029.
Also,
1960: $3 billion -> 2015: $328 billion
2015: $328 billion -> 2025: $781 billion
So India has added as much in manufacturing in the last 10 years as it added in the last 70+ years.