Parag Kumar

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

@USTennisCenter Of course, Mensik is good. But people don't love a potential world no. 4 who has achieved something as much as a potential world no. 1 who might have shown only a random glimpse. This is how world behaves. Djokovic never looked brilliant to media until he started beating Fed/Nad.

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

French Open 2026 men's final should be between Cobolli and Jodar

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Every year, IPL results are hugely skewed towards the team batting second, which normally starts moving back to the normal as the pitches and players get tired.
It's not happening this year, chasing teams are still dominating, so a fellow game theory enthusiast friend and I were wondering whether instead of the toss, what if captains offered how many runs they were prepared to give up if they controlled the toss?
So, both teams give an envelope saying these were the number of runs they are prepared to give up as a handicap at the toss, say 15. The one with the better offer wins.
Or if you want to give a home team advantage, give them a chance to match any offer made by the visiting team.
I know it will never happen, but it was a fun discussion, and added a level of game play to the sport.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Why so much hullabaloo about Cockroach Janta Party?
It's not like pests haven't been in politics before.

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

Such a dumb question. People are paying taxes to BJP today, the accountability is on them. The day Congress comes to power, the accountability for how they are spending public money will be on them.

[BJP @BJP4India]

22 साल… 54 विदेश यात्राएं और आय से कई गुना ज्यादा का खर्चा!

अब सवाल ये है कि इन यात्राओं का खर्च आखिर कौन और क्यों उठा रहा था? 🤔

#WhoFundsRahul

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I have written to the Prime Minister recording my dissent from the CBI Director selection process.

I cannot abdicate my constitutional duty by participating in a biased exercise.

The Leader of Opposition is not a rubber stamp.

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

Kal toh desh ko gyan de rahe the ki tel bachana hai, aaj manoranjan ke liye jet show chalwa rakha hai 🤣

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

@TweetManasroy @Ronitper What he is saying is lets say TCS needed 4 engineers for 2 weeks & billed 100 bucks for it. Cost was 72. So profit was 28 (28% margin). Now you need 2 engineers for 1 week. Billing becomes 25 but cost will also go to 18. Margin will become 7/25 .. revenue drops but margins hold

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2.

This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

It's Sigmund Freud's birth anniversary. I was quite blown to discover that Freud, Hitler, Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Josef Tito all lived in the same 2 mile radius in Vienna at the same time, 1913!

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Strange election rules we have.
A one-time transfer of cash, rum, biryani, whatever for a vote from party funds is illegal.
But a monthly transfer of cash from government funds is a legitimate election promise.

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

@cb_doge @elonmusk Wrong. Law restricts freedom to commit crimes. Criminals don't restrict the implementation of laws, they circumvent the law. It doesn't mean that criminals are on the right side.

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

Incredible

[Grok @grok]

Based on Tesla's latest Vehicle Safety Report (as of April 2026), FSD (Supervised) is 7x safer than the US average human driver—1 crash every ~5-7 million miles vs. ~660k for humans, with over 9 billion miles of data.

On a 1-10 scale (10 being zero risk, perfect autonomy), I'd rate it an **8.5** right now: transformative edge over manual driving, but still supervised (human ready to intervene) with ongoing NHTSA scrutiny on edge cases. Data keeps improving quarterly.

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

Makes him a lot more controllable I guess

[Saravanaprasad Balasubramanian (Modi ka Pariwar) @BS_Prasad]

This ECI is really funny!! 😃
They have posted 2006 batch IPS officer Abhishek Dixit as new police commissioner of Madurai police in poll bound Tamil Nadu!!!

Now check his past records.
Abhishek Dixit was suspended from his role as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Prayagraj by the Uttar Pradesh government on September 8, 2020. The suspension followed allegations of corruption, specifically regarding transfers and postings, and negligence in duty, including poor law enforcement and failure to follow directives from the Police Headquarters.
Key details regarding the suspension:
• Corruption Charges: Accused of demanding money for transfers and postings of subordinate officers.
• Negligence & Misconduct: Reports highlighted laxity in patrolling and the failure to hold security reviews for banks and financial institutions.
• Covid Protocol Failure: He was accused of not effectively ensuring compliance with Covid-19 guidelines.
• Post-Suspension Status: Following the suspension, he was attached to the DGP headquarters and later faced a vigilance probe regarding allegations of indiscipline and disproportionate assets.
• Reinstatement: According to reports in 2022 and 2024, the officer was reinstated after a departmental inquiry, and a proposal was made to return him to his parent Tamil Nadu!!!!

Now with this credential, ECI finds him good enough for s police commissioner post and talks about maintaining integrity and putting “untainted” officer on key chairs !!!

Funny, isn’t it ??? 😄😄
By Sanjay Bhadra

#ECI #AssemblyElection2026 #tamilnadupolitics

[Parag Kumar @Parag_2]

That is why you have minority rights embedded in the constitution

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Democracy, simply put:

If ten people vote and six agree on a free lunch paid by the other four, the motion passes.

Majority decides- even when the bill is shared unequally.

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Yups. Because “sitting on the steps of Parliament & having tea and biscuits” is what’s really wrong with our democracy .

[Winny Patro @winnypatro]

500 runs in 240 balls.
Unbelievable Batting.
Unbelievable the way England competed with the bat in such a high scoring.
Bumrah is the difference. Period.
#ICCMensT20WorldCup #INDvsENGSemiFinal