Credit where it is due-The IT filing process has been seamless, especially while choosing new Tax regime!!
The ITR is processed within 24 hours!
@IncomeTaxIndia
Learning for the day: -
Never let the guard down, even in a game!!
I admire how Australian Cricket Team of early 2000s played ruthlessly without giving an inch and were invincible for the opposition teams.
I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.
This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.
Let me tell you what actually happened.
The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.
381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.
India sent five kids.
All five came back with gold.
Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.
We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)
That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.
Now here is what the exam actually was.
Two papers. Each five hours long.
The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.
The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.
That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.
Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.
HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.
Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.
Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.
In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.
Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.
Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.
So who built this.
The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.
They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.
The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.
The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.
Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.
This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.
The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.
That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.
But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.
That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.
So yes, be proud. Loudly.
HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.
But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.
I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.
But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.
Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.
#WATCH | 🚨 Nearly 3,000 LPG cylinders swept away by floodwaters in Maharashtra's Raigad.
Heavy rain washed cylinders from the HPCL Patalganga bottling plant into the Patalganga River, with dramatic visuals now going viral.
The Raigad district administration has reportedly appealed to residents not to touch or retrieve any cylinders they may come across along the riverbanks or downstream areas.
#HPCL #LPGCylinders #Maharashtra #Flood
Happy Birthday, Ranveer Singh. ❤️
Some films stay with you forever. Dhurandhar will always be one of those films for me. Not just because of the story we told but because I got to witness something very few directors ever get to witness.
I’ve always known you’re an extraordinary actor. But this journey made me fall in love with the artist you are and even more with the human being behind the artist.
There were days on Dhurandhar that I knew I was witnessing something incredibly rare.
The 26/11 sequence. The final tea shop scene. The Pathankot massacre. The pump house scene. The court exterior. Just to name a few. Take after take, scene after scene, you never once looked for the easy choice. Every emotion landed exactly where it needed to. Every silence had meaning. Every glance had intent. Every beat was pitch perfect.
The consistency was almost impossible to comprehend. It genuinely felt like watching someone touched by divine grace. As though Maa Saraswati herself had placed her hand on your head and blessed you with every ounce of artistic brilliance she could.
As a director, there are moments you spend your entire career hoping to experience. You gave me those moments again and again.
I truly believe what you’ve done in Dhurandhar is one of the finest performances Indian cinema has ever seen. It isn’t just a performance, it is a force of nature. Fearless, towering and so complete that it disappears into the soul of the character.
I have no doubt people will talk about this performance for years, perhaps generations to come.
But what I’ll cherish even more is everything that happened between “Action” and “Cut.” The conversations. The shared conviction. The relentless pursuit of getting every single moment right.
Somewhere along the way, you stopped being just my actor.
You became my brother.
Thank you for trusting me with your heart, your craft and your madness. Thank you for giving Dhurandhar every piece of yourself.
I couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve created together.
Love you always.
Happy Birthday, brother. ❤️
This is the first time in my riding experience where it was continuously raining right since leaving office at Santacruz till reaching the abode at Thane, which took almost 2 hours to reach!!
#MumbaiRains
I hope @narendramodi ji has become a catalyst to dismantle the infamous VIP culture on roads, thanks to the impending fuel crisis due to prevailing geopolitics!!
PM TRAVELS WITH JUST 2 CARS IN HIS CAVALCADE.
Originally, the PM’s convoy comprised 12-15 vehicles: armored Mercedes-Maybach S650 Guards, Range Rovers, Toyota Fortuners, escort vehicles, jammer units, decoy cars and an ambulance.
Our Most Hon'ble PM told us to save petrol & diesel by using public transport & use car pooling. Hon'ble PM also told us one year don't holiday abroad & don't buy gold. We will all stand by our PM, this war is not his fault but let him promise us,
1) BJP ministers won't travel in huge convoys with entourage! The union & state Babus will use public transport.
2) We won't purchase gold, but gold is used as a medium to hide black money by politicians, babus & judges so Hon'ble PM will go after that!
3) We wont go abroad, but nepo kids of Netas & babus who study abroad must be asked to come back & study in India & lastly
4) No more freebies like Ladli Behn & free LPG.
JAI HIND JAI BHARAT!
Now that the Election season is over at least for now, time for the BJP/NDA Government to step on the accelerator and get the mojo back by starting with the big bang reforms; reminiscent of period between 2014 and 2019!!
Ab nahi toh kabhi nahi!!
@narendramodi@AmitShah
Received this message suddenly and simultaneously for everyone in the office. Some of them panicked thinking this as cyber attack!! #Disastermanagement
🧵 Ekadashi isn’t just “religion” — it’s the original BIOHACK (11th Day Science) 🌙⚡
Most people think Ekadashi is only about pleasing Lord Vishnu.
But what if I tell you…
Ekadashi is actually a 5000-year-old body reset system designed by our Rishis. 🚩
👇THREAD (Must Read)
solo dates hacks every man should try, at least once every year
1. take yourself to the cinema alone. buy popcorn. pick a seat you actually want. laugh, cry if you need to. no one talking to you. just you and the movie.
2. go to a cafe on a weekday. order a drink and a small pastry. sir by the window and face your phone down for a bit. watch people going to work, students rushing, cars passing, birds singing, children playing, just life moving in that pace.
3. book a nice but affordable hotel in your city. pack a small overnight bag like you're traveling. order room service or buy food on the way. take a long cold shower, wear your robe, lie on the bed and do nothing if you want. journal, watch a movie, listen to a relaxing music, sleep in clean white sheets and covers with the ac on.
4. take yourself on a saturday breakfast. wake up early, shower, wear something cute. go somewhere that serves breakfast. sit there, and order something nice. enjoy your meal, take some selfies even if you not photogenic.
5. enjoy yourself man. come on, you deserve it. you need it.
bookmark and share to others
buena suerte 👍
In the 1990s, India was facing a Biological Colonization. If Dr. R.A. Mashelkar had not stepped in, we might have ended up paying a royalty to a US corporation every time we used turmeric on a wound/exported Basmati rice.
In 1997, a Texas-based company called RiceTec was granted a patent by the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) for Basmati Rice lines & grains. They claimed they had invented a superior strain of rice. Mashelkar realized that if this patent stood, Indian farmers would be barred from selling their own rice under the name Basmati in the US. It was a theft of Geographical Intellectual Property.
He did not just shout Injustice. He assembled a team to find Genetic Fingerprints. They proved that the new rice was actually derived from Indian germplasm that had existed for centuries. The USPTO was forced to strike down the majority of the claims.
2 researchers at the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for the use of turmeric in healing wounds. To a Western patent officer, this was a novel invention. To an Indian, it was something their grandmother did every day. Mashelkar produced an ancient Sanskrit text as Prior Art. The USPTO demanded a translation. He provided evidence from the Journal of the Indian Medical Association dating back to 1953 + ancient Ayurvedic texts.
This was the 1st time in history that a patent granted to a US entity was successfully challenged & revoked based on the Traditional Knowledge of a developing country.
Mashelkar also realized that India could not fight 10000 legal battles every yr. He needed a Scalable Solution. Patent officers in the West were not malicious; they were just Data Blind. They could not read Sanskrit/Tamil/Persian. If a discovery was not in an English journal, it did not exist in their system.
He hired 100s of experts (Ayurveda practitioners, IT engineers, & Patent lawyers). They took 500000+ formulations & converted them into a digitized Shloka to Code format. The data was rendered in English, French, German, Japanese, & Spanish.
Today, India has signed agreements with the USPTO, the European Patent Office, & others. Before an officer grants a patent, they run a TKDL Scan. If the herb/method is in the library, the patent is rejected instantly.
For BSNL, our government has provided three revival packages totalling ₹3.22 lakh crore.
We have dealt with the burden of oil bonds, addressed the “Fragile Five” economy, and undertaken bank restructuring and recapitalization. These were not small amounts but those of ₹3 lakh crore - ₹4 lakh crore, and now even fertiliser subsidies.
Wherever there were weaknesses in the economy, they were left unaddressed earlier, and we are now paying for all of it. Yet, we are being questioned about GDP growth and fiscal deficit. The reality is that we are clearing the liabilities left behind.
On spectrum allocation, after our government came to power, spectrum in bands such as 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2500 MHz and 3300 MHz has been provided to BSNL at auction-determined prices for 4G and 5G services.
On BSNL, I must respectfully say that every criticism made against it is incorrect.
If anything, BSNL was pushed into a critical condition earlier. It was in the ICU, and we have revived it and brought it back on track. The Union Cabinet has approved revival packages for BSNL.
The capital infusion between 2022 and 2023 stands at ₹2.26 lakh crore. This includes spectrum allocation, capital expenditure on infrastructure, AGR dues, and restructuring of the PSU.
The Make in India mandate for BSNL is a strength, not a restriction. There is no restriction on BSNL. In fact, under the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative, BSNL has placed an order for 1 lakh indigenously developed 4G sites for pan-India deployment.
As of 28th February 2026, 97,906 sites have been installed with 4G equipment, out of which 96,103 are already operational.
Additionally, the BharatNet Programme is strengthening BSNL further.
An amount of ₹1.39 lakh crore has been approved to extend optical fibre connectivity to all villages across the country.
- Smt @nsitharaman in Rajya Sabha
Mumbai introduces India’s first Musical Road, inspired by Japan and the US.
Vehicles driving at a set speed produce the melody of ‘Jai Ho’ through specially designed road grooves.
You wake up. You sit in traffic. You do your job. You pay the bills. You go to sleep.
The next day? You press repeat.
You think you’re just "being an adult." You think this is what responsibility looks like. But there is a reason the last five years of your life felt like they vanished in five minutes. It’s not just because you’re busy. It is because your brain is shutting down.
Let’s look at the biology of it. Your brain doesn't age strictly because of time; it ages because of repetition. When you live the exact same day over and over again, your neurons stop firing with intensity. They quiet down. Your brain builds neural pathways based on experience, but when the experience is 100% predictable, your brain stops recording new memories. It stops encoding. It just goes on autopilot and references the old files.
Think back to when you were still a child. A single holiday felt like a lifetime. Why? Because everything was new. Every day was a discovery. Your brain was lit up, building new connections every hour.
Now you are 25,30,40. January turns to December in the blink of an eye. Why? Because you are living in a loop. Everything is familiar. Your brain is bored.
And I need to speak to the men specifically because this is the silent tragedy of modern masculinity.
Society has scammed you. We tell men: "Be consistent. Be stable. Don't take unnecessary risks. Just provide." We praise you for being predictable. So you turn yourself into a machine. You sacrifice your spontaneity for stability. You kill your sense of wonder just to keep the lights on.
That is why you see men who are only 45 but their eyes look 70. The routine is eating them alive from the inside out. You are trading your perception of time, your actual life for a paycheck.
But here is the truth they don't tell you: Neuroplasticity doesn't stop just because you have a stable job or source of income. You can still grow new neurons. You can still learn. You can still slow time down.
But you have to break the algorithm.
You have to shock your system.
Take a route to work that doesn't make sense. Quit the safe index fund and learn the market strategy that scares you.
Your brain will only wake up when it doesn't know what is going to happen next.
Don't let the "Grind" turn you into a zombie. If you don't break the loop, you’re going to wake up old one day realizing you didn't live a life. You just lived the same boring year 40 times in a row.
Wake up.