Pranay Khandelwal

learning growing valuing. lost within. value investor. seeker

[The Australia Today @TheAusToday]

🧬🌏 Genetic evidence places India at the centre of early human history 🇮🇳, challenging colonial-era myths fabricated to divide and rule communities.

In India, it was the 'Aryan' invasion/migration theory; in Rwanda, the 'Hamitic' hypothesis helped entrench divisions with devastating consequences.

History should follow evidence, not ideology or propaganda.

Read here: https://t.co/Hiak3GtQcz

@Pallavi_Aus @DrAmitSarwal @JitarthJai @ProfVemsani @subhash_kak @HindolSengupta @sanjeevsanyal @drishtikone @davidfrawleyved @nickcollins1953 @authoramish

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Anthropic's latest models available worldwide. In other words, Chinese open source models posed a serious enough threat to market share.

In a different context, an Indian customer of some of our products told me recently "A big Microsoft Office license renewal came up and they hiked the price drastically. We told them we are looking at the Zoho office suite and they dropped the price by 90%" - he thanked me for saving them big money, even without buying our office suite. If you are facing renewal of Microsoft Office license, I suggest you mention Zoho.

Some history: Microsoft is a convicted monoplist by a US Federal Court (April 2000) and the monopoly finding but not the suggested remedy was upheld by the U.S Court of Appeals (DC circuit) in 2001. Microsoft has a long illustrious history of milking the customer dry (see the AI link below for details).

Competition is always important. The fact that American AI models have serious competition from China is important for India and other countries.

Finally, I am now confident that India will catch up in AI models. There is no reason to be despondent. There are multiple efforts going on in academia and industry and the cost to train AI models is starting to fall. Recently I met people from the BharatGen team (IIT Bombay) and they are making great progress. I will write more about BharatGen soon.

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

WhatsApp CEO should also know that there are no words in Indian languages for cash flow negative businesses and non GAAP/IndAS Adjusted EBITDA.

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

If this happened in any city in India, it would have been national news.

[Aravind @aravind]

At least 40+ people have died in France in the last week due to extreme heat. France24, one of the alleged red-green cabal infiltrated media cartel, has still not done a news piece titled "40+ poor people die in Macron's France." like they do for "Modi's India."

All French media did news on "extreme heat" in India just a month ago. And Indian media haven't covered the heat waves in Europe and how they are suffering without AC and dying. This is India's failing.

There must be a balance. Also, offense is the best defense. If India wants to shut their nonsense about India at the behest of their anti-India globalist, islamist and communist sponsors and editors, Indian media must focus on bringing all the dirt out about these countries.

Indian media need to cover just one crime, rape, accident from EU, US, and China everyday in India. Program 1.4 billion Indians against how bad things are. The way they do against India everyday. What INC used to do to Indians against the US, China, Pak one time.

The strategy will be extremely effective at shutting these foreign state media constantly doing negative stories on India. Even if not, it will ensure Indians understand it's not like only in India everything is the worst.

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

Can France pls plant trees and not cut the existing ones for building infrastructure?

Am I doing this correct?

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The idea that to be "secular" one must be anti-Hindu is one of the worst low IQ ideas of progressive "intellectuals". That is why they hold conferences to "eradicate" Sanatana Dharma.

The very fabric of Sanatana Dharma is "secular" in the sense of being broad-minded and doctrinally accepting of various faiths, including no faith at all.

So what the progressive intellectuals follow is fake secularism of the worst kind. It attempts to replace the broad-minded spirituality of our ancient land with dogma.

The Deepam Row in Tiruparankundram is a direct consequence of the Sanatana eradication program of the DMK.

@TVKVijayHQ would be wise to reject the pseudo-intellectual garbage of the DMK era.

This does not mean accepting the BJP political philosophy. It means respecting the spiritual heritage of Tamil Nadu and Bharat.

My prayers to Subramanya Swamy of Tiruparankundram to guide us towards a better approach🙏

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.

When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.

I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.

What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.

My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.

If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

[Hemant @nothemantsharma]

Took an auto today from Indiranagar to Koramangala and asked the driver for the QR code to pay
Bro lifted his wrist, the QR code was on his smartwatch

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

IMHO this is what is happening:

India is adding a lot of green cover. I know this because I know few people who are involved in this + illegal mining has stopped at several places so the Forrest is taking over

The online outrage is about the absolute mess of the bigger cities. People who are online mostly live in those cities and these people tend to speak more often on social media

When you are stuck 2.5hrs in traffic, when the roads are broken in your city, when the footpath doesn’t exist, and garbage is everywhere, you tend to see the whole country as an extension of it

[Pranay Khandelwal @Prix07_]

@nithinkd You wont find out unless you try it

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

"We don't need more financiers in India, we need more factories in India. Indian youth requires to learn how to build things."

"18.48 verse of Bhagavad Gita says - 'Every start is imperfect and there's no perfection in the world' and India can never be a perfect country but we have to start ourselves."🔥

"In next 15-20 years we have to build Electronics, Aircraft engines etc. So we cannot complain about imperfections, we have to live with it. If we all don't get togehter, it's impossible."

- Ajay Sharma (President Edelweiss)

[Pranay Khandelwal @Prix07_]

@nithinkd imo Chargezone is the most reliable while BPCL is the most affordable.

There are issues like stations being advertised as 120kW but that is total power, so if both chargers are being used, youll only get 60kW

[Pranay Khandelwal @Prix07_]

@nithinkd Did a 1,800km total trip from Indore to Pune to Mumbai to Indore with Harrier EV. It was my first trip with an EV and did face some issues on the way like a charger not working. But faced them only in the first part of the trip. So I guess there is just a learning curve to it

[Yogmaya 🪷 @Vtaemin0]

Vande Bharat x Mount Kanchenjunga , India 📍🪷

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Salesforce is running an ad claiming 40% off to beat Zoho. We have watched this playbook for years where they give deep discounts to get you in, followed by aggressive escalation once you're locked-in.

Before you switch anything, ask them to show you standardised multi-year pricing. If they don't, that's your answer. Enterprise software is a con-game of "discount" bullshit by vendors like Salesforce. Buyer beware!

As for "old CRM", Salesforce is a garbage bin of acquired enterprise software companies over decades, held together with bubble gum and duct tape.

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[Trains of India 🇮🇳 @trainwalebhaiya]

Damn! Indian Railways has successfully standardized its poor service across all trains 😉

Passengers everywhere are reporting the exact same issues, regardless of the train they're on :)

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

Why are people offended by proto Elamite imagery during IPL final half time show?

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).

From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.

Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage