POV: You are watching India’s space era unfold.
Chandrayaan. Aditya-L1. SpaDeX. XPoSat. Gaganyaan.
And now, a whole new generation of Indian space startups taking off.
Too many milestones for one video.
So we made one anyway.
#NationalSpaceDay
I love how Twitter will have ppl with usernames like "FruitBytheFootjob69" and their analysis of geopolitics contains a level of understanding that Atlantic staff writers have nightmares about.
Alex in USA enjoys a high quality of life because his grandfather Peter worked hard in factories during 50s-90s and supported mass industrialisation and reforms.
Whereas Ananya protests against every nuclear plant, metro project, industries, and opposes Dharavi redevelopment.
This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"
$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.
Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.
Media Release - Reliance Industries and Rolls-Royce announce strategic intent to partner and develop India's indigenous combat engine for the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme
London / Mumbai, 14thAugust 2026: Reliance Industries Limited (Reliance) and Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR., ADR: RYCEY) today announced their strategic intent to partner and offer capabilities for the design, development, manufacturing and delivery of a sovereign indigenous combat engine for India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme.
As part of the partnership, Reliance and Rolls-Royce will explore the formation of a dedicated Aerospace Gas Turbine Complex that will be a centre of excellence for power and propulsion technology in India.
The partnership will offer a compelling proposition for joint development of the AMCA engine in India, bringing together world-leading technology and industrial execution capabilities. This marks a step towards realising the vision set out by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, for India’s defence ecosystem to deliver an indigenous engine to power the country’s fighter jet programme.
Statement from Sh Anant Ambani, Executive Director, Reliance Industries Limited: "India’s strategic autonomy requires sovereign capability in critical technologies. Our intent with Rolls-Royce is to combine their world-leading expertise in advanced propulsion with Reliance’s technology, manufacturing, scale and execution capabilities to build an indigenous aero-engine ecosystem in India. Together, we aim to build an enduring national capability that can make India self-reliant and, over time, globally competitive in advanced propulsion technologies. This is our contribution to the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of an Atmanirbhar Viksit Bharat."
Statement from Tufan Erginbilgiç, CEO, Rolls-Royce plc: "I welcome the opportunity to join forces with Reliance Industries, bringing together our century-long heritage in advanced engineering and proven engine expertise with their homegrown leadership in Indian industry. Together, with our existing partnerships and capabilities in India, this marks a major milestone towards building a robust, self-reliant aerospace ecosystem in the country."
By combining Rolls-Royce’s global leadership in engines with the established industrial strengths of Reliance, the Aero Gas Turbine Complex will build sovereign, end-to-end Indian capability across design, development, manufacturing, testing, production and through-life support. This will also unlock opportunities to explore wider collaborations across defence, civil aerospace, and new power and propulsion systems.
The alliance will support India’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ vision for technology indigenisation and help position the country as a global leader in advanced propulsion capabilities.
About Reliance Industries Limited:
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company, with a consolidated revenue of INR 11,75,919 crore (US$ 124.0 billion), cash profit of INR 1,71,258 crore (US$ 18.1 billion) and net profit of INR 95,754 crore (US$ 10.1 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2026. Reliance’s activities span hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, advanced materials and composites, renewables (solar and hydrogen), retail, digital services and media and entertainment.
Currently ranked 85th, Reliance is the largest private sector company from India to be featured in Fortune’s Global 500 list of 'World’s Largest Companies' for 2026. The company stands 55th in the Forbes Global 2000 rankings of 'World’s Largest Public Companies' for 2026, the highest among Indian companies. Reliance has been recognized in Time's list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024, marking the only Indian company to have achieved this honor twice. Website: https://t.co/B8UecqbgR7
About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc
Rolls-Royce is a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. Our products and service packages help our customers meet the growing need for power across multiple industries; enable governments to equip their armed forces with the power required to protect their citizens; and connect people, societies, cultures and economies together.
Rolls-Royce has a local presence in 47 countries and customers in over a hundred more, including airlines and aircraft leasing companies, armed forces and navies, and marine and industrial customers.
Through our multi-year transformation programme, we are building a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing Rolls-Royce. We are building the financial capacity and agility to allow us to successfully develop and deliver the products that will support our customers through the energy transition. Annual underlying revenue was £20.1 billion in 2025, and underlying operating profit was £3.46 billion. Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a publicly traded company (LSE: RR., ADR: RYCEY, LEI: 213800EC7997ZBLZJH69).
We had a compliance auditor from a Big 4 accounting firm in the office last week.
He was 26 years old, wore a branded fleece vest, and had the nervous energy of someone who just drank three cold brews.
He sat in my office, opened his spreadsheet, and asked to see our disaster recovery redundancy logs.
We don't have redundancy logs.
Our entire backup strategy consists of an external hard drive I keep in my bottom desk drawer and update whenever I feel like it.
I haven't felt like it since October of 2021.
I couldn't tell him that, so I offered him a sparkling water and calmly closed my office door.
I told him we abandoned traditional sequential logging because it was hopelessly vulnerable to chronometric spoofing.
He stopped typing on his laptop and just stared at me.
I explained that our backups exist in a state of continuous quantum flux across a decentralized hybrid-mesh network.
I said we don't take snapshots of the data, we take temporal impressions of the server state.
He asked to see the physical documentation for the temporal impressions.
I told him that observing the data fundamentally alters the encryption hash, triggering a localized collapse of the security perimeter.
I leaned in, looked him dead in the eyes, and whispered the phrase "Schrödinger's data packet."
He started sweating profusely.
He knew that if he asked me to clarify, he would expose the fact that he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.
In corporate consulting, admitting ignorance to a senior executive is a career death sentence.
So he just nodded vigorously, swallowed hard, and typed the words "Quantum Mesh Validation" into his spreadsheet.
He didn't ask to see a single file after that.
Instead, he spent the next 4 hours auditing the physical locks on the server room doors because it was the only thing his brain could comprehend.
He meticulously tested every RFID scanner while I watched an entire season of a true-crime documentary on my second monitor.
Before he left for the day, he shook my hand and thanked me for running such a forward-thinking infrastructure.
He told his managing partner that our proprietary architecture was lightyears ahead of industry standards.
He certified our compliance framework for another two full years.
I celebrated by taking a 3-hour nap on a pile of uninstalled ethernet cables in the sub-basement.
The entire cybersecurity industry is just a massive LARP where everyone is terrified that the other person is smarter than them.
If you speak with conviction and use enough multi-syllabic buzzwords, you can convince a professional auditor that a USB drive is a military-grade cloud array.
I'm untouchable as long as I can invent new ways to combine adjectives with networking terms.
Next year, I'm going to tell them we use kinetic blockchain virtualization.
It doesn't mean anything, but it's going to save me at least 10 hours of paperwork.