Pratik Kanodia

Education | Politics

[Pratik Kanodia @PratikThePathik]

@roshanbisoi_91 @SadhguruJV @Ishalifeindia That's why it's easier to be a self-styled godman than a self-styled businessman

[Pratik Kanodia @PratikThePathik]

Worse than normal commercial organizations in how these guys speak with you. An order I placed in October last year has not been fulfilled, neithes has it been refunded. They mostly don't answer phone calls, and when they do they are rude. @SadhguruJV
Unfortunate. @Ishalifeindia

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

If you think Instagram has been blanking out the Jharkhand student protests, you’re right.

And tonight, with data, I show there’s good reason to believe the algorithm is choosing which protests to boost.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

Bengaluru, let's support this initiative and clean up our city.

Whenever I travel to any other city in India, Bengaluru's debris, waste and bad roads pain me.

Let's come together to clean up the city. One road at a time.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 French ex-pilot Pierre-Henri Chuet, who claimed the Indian Air Force lost Rafale jets during Operation Sindoor and praised Chinese fighter jets, has been detained for spying for China.

[FinSkeptics @FinSkeptics]

We have said this earlier. Unaccountable social media and a culture of virality seeking is damaging the idea of reality itself. If a bunch of self promoting narcissists are going to decide our reality backed by all power algorithms, then the very idea of civilisation is in question.

[Pratik Kanodia @PratikThePathik]

@aravind This will instead be a point of pivot internally. Too much is at stake, and the situation gives a good opportunity to provide cover for high level changes that were earlier difficult

[Naval @naval]

Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t want your children to buy.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Never thought I’d find this gem.
Arundhati Roy exposing the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller, and Arvind Kejriwal.
Fascinating blast from the past.

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

When I first came to India, the space industry was closed to private players.

The most well-known "startup" at that time was TeamIndus. Skyroot didn't exist.

A year later, in 2018, Skyroot was founded. Private companies in India couldn't launch rockets yet, but Pawan and Bharath forged ahead regardless, optimistic that liberalisation would happen someday.

Then, in 2020, it did. Indian companies were finally free to compete with American, Russian, European, and Chinese startups. They could build their own launch vehicles. And satellites. At an undisclosed location in the United States, Elon swallowed hard.

I was publishing videos about Indian companies on YouTube at this point. I remember thinking, "Making content about these spacetech developments is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Now, ~6 years later, Skyroot has gifted India with the biggest white pill of all time. While the world watched, a team of ~1,000+ Indian optimists (with an average age of 28) flawlessly executed an orbital rocket launch.

No private space company IN THE WORLD has ever done this on their first try. As I write this, I have goosebumps. I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to witness this firsthand. I also feel inspired by the resilience, ingenuity, and wherewithal of the entire Skyroot team.

The next chapter of India's space journey has officially begun.

[Ambassador Sergio Gor @USAmbIndia]

Fake news alert! No one has rejected anything. Both sides had very constructive meetings and reaffirmed their commitment to finalizing a trade deal. We continue to stay actively engaged.
Reuters - you can do better!

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

VERY INTERESTING SPACE STARTUP - @astrobase_space

Only ONE full-flow staged combustion (ffsc) rocket engine has ever flown - SpaceX's Raptor.

-only 7 have run on a test stand, anywhere, in history.
-ISRO has never attempted the cycle.
-Bengaluru startup (founded '24) is trying this!

Astrobase wants an 800 kN FFSC methane engine
-7 of them under a reusable rocket
-and orbit by 2029.

BUT ffsc is the Everest of engine cycles:
-2 pre-burners instead of one
-all propellant turned to hot gas before it meets in the chamber
-Rewards: extreme chamber pressures (Raptor exceeds 300 bar), top-tier efficiency, engines that can fly hundreds of times

What Astrobase has actually demonstrated:
-sub-scale hot fire, September 2025
-successful on the first attempt, per the company
-21.5-acre test site at Anantapur with a 200-tonne stand
-India's first private high-thrust LOX-methane facility

CREDIBLE TEAM
- Selected June 2026 for IN-SPACe's ₹500-crore Technology Adoption Fund
-3 winners from 43 applicants; ₹25 crore cap)
-backing its own engine design
-no ISRO blueprint changing hands

Can they pull it off? Is it workable? Do they have the money to make it possible? How much of this is actually real? Isn't it too early to say anything?

An in-depth explainer in @SwarajyaMag

https://t.co/Ems7r9ODKx

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The people who change the world are the ones naive enough to think they can, and stubborn enough to try.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

3 decades of illegal encroachment, cleared 3 years ago & Nature has reclaimed what was rightfully Hers.

The majestic elephants are back at the southern periphery of Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary.

Eviction DOES result in restoration and its continuation will be OUR policy.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

In truth, the experts who are experts in the way things used to be are the last to see what's coming next.

[cow @cowincrisis]

RT if you love cows 🐮❤️

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

When Sarla Bhat was cremated in Kashmir, a mob of over 200 people descended upon the crematorium and stomped over her ashes.
Were they all JKLF militants?
A day later her house was bombed as well.
Her cousin speaks to News18 J&K.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

#BREAKING: Mahesh Dixit 1993-batch Telangana cadre IPS officer appointed as the new Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief of India: Dixit had critical role to play during Article 370 nullification from Jammu & Kashmir and restoring calm in the valley and Counter-terror Ops.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

After 36 long years of exile, an elderly Kashmiri Pandit woman returned to her ancestral home in Danew, Bogund, Kulgam.

The moment she stepped into her courtyard, time seemed to stand still. She bent down, touched the soil she had been separated from for decades, and kissed the old walnut tree that had silently witnessed her childhood, her memories, and her absence.

Overcome with emotion, she broke down in tears. She knelt before the tree, folded her hands in prayer, and embraced it as if she were reuniting with a beloved family member lost to time.

With a trembling voice, she whispered in Kashmiri:

“Che cheya b’e yaad?”
(“Do you remember me?”)

A question not just to a tree, but to a home, a homeland, and a lifetime of memories left behind.

One of the most heart-wrenching scenes you will ever witness, a reminder that exile may separate people from their homes, but never from their roots.

36+ years of forced exodus from homeland Kashmir. Hope the world remembers the genocide and ethnic cleansing against Hindus of Kashmir.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

JD Vance says: “We love Pakistan”.

The same country which sheltered Osama Bin Laden near a Pakistani Military Garrison in Abbottabad.

Wonder what the families of victims of 9/11 terror attack think about this change of heart in US Administration.