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[Vinod Kapri @vinodkapri]

#PYRE Trailer is out now !

हिमालय में रहने वाले दो बुज़ुर्ग।
आमा और बुबू।
70-80 साल की उम्र।
एक छोटा-सा घर। और एक लंबा इंतज़ार।

आमा-बुबू की कहानी, अब आपके सामने।
PYRE (चिता) का ट्रेलर ये रहा -

30 अक्टूबर से सिनेमाघरों में।
हिंदी और मलयालम में।

[rajesH panT @PantRajesh_]

@tymboyszn 9941

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

If Prasar Bharati can spend ₹15 crore a year on a DD News show featuring a star anchor, while the ISRO Chairman’s basic pay is about ₹27 lakh a year, shouldn’t we rethink our priorities? If India wants to conquer space and attract our finest scientific minds, our rewards must match our ambitions.

[Neha Sharma @hellonehha]

Someone eating non-veg on Tuesday will hurt more sentiments than this.

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

I wish Indians would stop pretending—to themselves and to the world—that China and India are still clubbed together in any meaningful way. China has emerged as a major world power. There’s no guarantee that India will automatically follow suit.

[Anukram @AnukramWrites]

Chushant Sinha might be the dumbest Godi media anchor out there.

He can contradict himself within the same sentence if it helps justify the BJ Pee . Facts are apparently optional, logic is negotiable, and pleasing one particular party is the only consistent editorial policy.

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

This needs urgent attention, @PMOIndia @narendramodi. These people who are doing more than their duty as citizens should be rewarded, and the officials who have failed to do theirs despite all the state’s resources should be penalised!

[Ashneer Grover @Ashneer_Grover]

Delhi University infra is crumbling . Jo afford kar sakte hai - aur jinke bachhe honhaar bhi hai - woh bhi foreign university isiliye bhejte hai apne bachho ko ! Safety and quality of life first.

At least $2 BN (₹20,000 crores) investment chahiye DU ko world class banane ke liye.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

SANJAY SINGH GIVES REPUBLIC ABSOLUTE BELT TREATMENT 🚨

REPUBLIC: Why didn’t you go to Jharkhand?

SANJAY 🔥: Why didn’t Arnab go to Jantar Mantar after calling students anti-national?

REPUBLIC: Our reporters are in Jharkhand.

SANJAY 🎯: Our workers are there too. Want a video call?

REPUBLIC: But you went to Jantar Mantar.

SANJAY ⚡: It is one kilometre from Parliament. I raised students’ issues inside and stood with them outside.

REPUBLIC: Why focus beyond Jharkhand?

SANJAY 🙌: Because India has seen 148 paper leaks since 2015. Gujarat and UP are on top. Chhattisgarh SI leak came yesterday. Not one headline from you. That is selective outrage.

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

इस कुंठित केकड़े को आपके परिवार में या आस-पड़ोस में कोई मोटी बुकिंग फीस देकर कथा के लिए बुलाये तो जरूर बताना कि ये हमारे बच्चों को मरवाने के लिए सरकार को उकसा रहा था।

[Ronak Khatri @ronak_khatrii]

आज तानाशाही और सत्ता के अहंकार ने बेशर्मी की सारी हदें पार कर दीं।
वरिष्ठ कांग्रेस नेता एवं सांसद श्रीमती प्रियंका गांधी वाड्रा जी को बिना पर्याप्त महिला पुलिसकर्मियों की मौजूदगी के पुलिस द्वारा जबरन बस में बैठाया गया। लोकतांत्रिक मर्यादाओं और महिला सम्मान का भी घोर अपमान है।

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

🇮🇷🇪🇬 An Iranian father uses a handmade cardboard football pitch to help his visually impaired son experience the Iran–Egypt match through touch.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Naidu ji, let’s try a thought experiment. Say your salary is 2 lakhs and your driver’s is 20,000. You announce a 50% increase for everybody. Your salary is now 3 lakhs and your driver’s is 30,000. The percentage or proportional increase is the same — but aren’t you much better off than your driver, than you used to be?

That’s what your fellow Southern CMs are concerned about. You don’t think there’s any difference between UP’s 80 MPs today versus Kerala’s 20 MPs, if it tomorrow becomes 120 vs 30? Some proportionate difference, huge difference in political weight — with 90 more UP MPs against 10 more Kerala MPs. Is that of no concern to you at all?

@ncbn @vdsatheesan @INCKerala

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

How Nations Earn Respect

Because of power differentials, asymmetry is inherent in international negotiations. The parties are rarely equal in economic or military strength. Yet history shows that the stronger side does not necessarily prevail, whether on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. Outcomes between nations often depend less on material capabilities than on leadership, political will, national resilience, strategy and tactics.

In 1962, China, by launching a surprise war against an unprepared India, inflicted a humiliating defeat on an economically and militarily stronger adversary. More recently, the world’s most powerful military, the United States, has struggled to achieve decisive results against a much weaker Iran.

In 1999, China was no match for American power. Yet after the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, which killed three Chinese nationals, Washington was compelled to pay $32.5 million in compensation for the damage and for those killed or wounded. The U.S. also issued repeated apologies for the bombing, with President Bill Clinton personally apologizing to help defuse the crisis.

In 1971, defying U.S. military pressure and nuclear blackmail, a relatively weak India helped Bangladesh secure independence in a swift 13-day military campaign that produced the largest number of prisoners of war (POWs) since the end of World War II. The operation succeeded despite President Nixon’s deployment of a nuclear-capable naval task force off the southern tip of India.

In 1998, an economically vulnerable India brushed aside U.S. sanctions threats and conducted a series of underground nuclear tests, declaring itself a nuclear-weapons state. The decision reflected a willingness to bear costs in pursuit of national objectives and ultimately became a defining moment in India's rise and strategic transformation.

In 2026, by contrast, an India widely regarded as a rising power but seemingly lacking comparable political resolve responded fecklessly to the killing of three unarmed Indian merchant mariners by the U.S. Navy, demanding neither an American apology nor compensation for the victims’ families.

These episodes differed in circumstance and scale, but they shared a common lesson: nations earn respect not merely through economic or military power, but through leadership, resolve and a willingness to defend their interests.

Respect is earned, not bestowed. Power alone does not command respect; leadership and resolve do. Without them, even a rising power may find itself unable to defend its interests, uphold its dignity or secure justice for its own citizens.

[Mohit Chauhan @unmutemohit]

Nirmala Sitharaman has crippled India’s economy.

Gadkari has damaged your vehicles with ethanol.

S. Jaishankar has weakened India’s foreign policy.

Dharmendra Pradhan has destroyed India’s education system.

Amit Shah has destroyed Indian democracy.

Narendra Modi has failed India.

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

Nilekani has argued India does not need to build frontier AI models and should let the Valley handle it.

That view got tested on Friday when the US pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from every non American user within hours, The strategy works when access is permanent.

It breaks down when one export control letter can turn off your best AI tools overnight.

Nuclear comparison works in direction but breaks on difficulty, Pakistan built a bomb for about $3 billion using domestic uranium and its own physics talent.

Frontier AI needs Nvidia GPUs made at TSMC, both supply chains the US controls. You cannot go independent in AI the way countries went independent in nuclear because the basic inputs are not available at any price.

Space fits better than nuclear, Only 3countries can put humans in orbit independently and the barrier is cost, not secrecy, Same with frontier AI.

US hyperscalers will spend over $650 billion on AI this year. India entire IT sector makes around $250 billion. That spending gap alone explains why India cannot build a Fable competitor the way ISRO built a launch vehicle.

Open source AI from China and India right now is the equivalent of buying rides on someone else rocket while you build your own program.

India signed the Pax Silica declaration in February, formally joining the US led tech bloc alongside Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the UAE.

4 months later, Indian users still lost access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 because the ban hits all foreign nationals regardless of alliance status.

Being inside the bloc gives you a seat at the table for chip supply chains. It does not protect you from overnight model shutdowns. Alliance membership and frontier model access turn out to be separate commitments.

Chinese AI labs released their best models under free licenses partly because US chip controls pushed them toward open source as a workaround.

MIT research shows Chinese open source now leads US models in global downloads. On Friday when Anthropic two best models went dark for every non American user, Qwen and DeepSeek were still sitting on Hugging Face, downloadable with no permission needed.

For most of the world, Chinese open source just became the default insurance against American export controls on AI.

Trump June 2 executive order asked AI companies to voluntarily submit frontier models for government review before release.

Anthropic did not pause Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for that process, 10 days later Commerce Secretary Lutnick sent an export control letter forcing a total shutdown of both models for every user on earth.

I wrote this in the past, in Jan 2025. If you're curious, read it. Even the GOI or any nation knows this too. If I know this, I'm just a normal being. 👇

https://t.co/JjbVKnVS9l

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Watched this woman destroy an innocent girls life while reading her WhatsApp Messages on the news. For ratings. Had her call me anti-national on the news for speaking about women’s safety. For ratings. Now she’s ‘concerned’ about women. For ratings. Give me a break. That’s my take.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Dharmendra Pradhan ji, you can attack me all you want but it won’t absolve you of your crimes. Nor will it stop me from demanding answers for 18.5 lakh children.

Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?

Either you ran a background check and went ahead anyway - or you didn’t run one at all. Either way, you are complicit.

As for responsibility - if the PM cared, he should have sacked you long ago for ruining the futures of lakhs of students.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

An old man in our neighborhood died today. He was hospitalized with chest pain three days ago, underwent angioplasty, but passed away in the ICU. His wife had died during the COVID wave, and he had been living alone since then.

His only son lives in Australia and couldn’t come to see his father. Now, I’m not saying that the son is uncaring or abandoned his parents. I don’t know him. Maybe he is really a nice man. The elderly couple used to visit him every year and spend a few months with him. But maybe once you build a life outside, you can’t really come back. Life, distance, responsibilities, things become complicated.

The son hadn’t come to India in nearly 10 years. He couldn’t come for his mother’s last rites due to COVID travel restrictions, and I don’t even know if he’ll be able to come now or will have to arrange his father’s last rites from there itself.

This has stayed with me all day. To think of an old man spending his final years largely alone, losing his partner, and then leaving this world without his son by his side. Even as an unrelated observer, the whole thing feels unbearably sad.

[rajesH panT @PantRajesh_]

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