Shantanu Shekhar

Seeking soothe in whatever form it may come apart from falsehoods and pretences.

It's possible to be brutally tolerant or peacefully savage. Retweets endorsed.

[Shantanu Shekhar @SeekerSoothe]

This is me.. Well sort of (as genuine as networking is these days) .. And for the first time I have joined Twitter.

Will tweet my thoughts for the all-remembering void of the internet regularly.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

OMG! Global Passport Index 2026: India slips to 125th position.
1 plus 2 plus 5 is equal to 8. 😭😭

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

Mr. @prasoonjoshi_

Can you please enlighten us on why 127 cuts were recommended for the film Panjab '95?

The same film, now renamed ‘Satluj’, has been taken down from an OTT platform in less than two days. The CBFC has no jurisdiction over OTT platforms or international releases.

Panjab '95 tells the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, a man who exposed documented human rights abuses and paid for it with his life. If a film based on documented facts cannot be seen by Indian audiences, then the public deserves to know why.

This sends a very direct message to filmmakers and production companies: if you're paying homage to a great personality from a minority community, you'll have to face the CBFC.

Journalists should be asking the people running this censor board some hard questions. Why are some politically insensitive films able to pass with ease while others spend years in limbo?

A red carpet for Kashmir Files, Bengal Files, and Kerala Story. Roses for Dhurandar 1 & 2, a fictional documentary/explainer for the unthinkable and the unexplainable.

How does it feel to feast on four years of a director's career?

In Nehru's India, this would have been litigated in court. If filmmakers cannot tell the stories of people who stood up for justice without years of obstruction, what kind of cinema are we encouraging them to make?

Jaswant Singh Khalra Abducted again,
This time by the CBFC

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

Cabo Verde players on IG.😂♥️

[Code Geek @codek_tv]

Seismic moment tensor components and their corresponding beachball diagrams.

The six independent orthonormal basis tensors (normalized so that the Frobenius norm ‖M‖_F = 1) are displayed together with their beachball representations. Black areas indicate positive (compressional/upward) P-wave first motion; white areas indicate negative (dilatational/downward) first motion.

The left column shows one complete set of basis elements; the right column shows the orthogonal complement (including sign flips for selected components). All matrices are symmetric 3×3.

[' @Mci_tony_]

messi’s respect moment..🫡

[Dinda Academy @academy_dinda]

Just a man pretending to be okay💔

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Tensors generalize vectors as lists and matrices as grids into higher-order arrays like 3D cubes.

Comparisons include a vector as a list, a matrix as a grid, and a 3-tensor as a cube, along with the stress tensor σij on a cube featuring arrows for components like σ11 and σ23, the product derivative rule, the Riemann curvature tensor R(u,v)w = ∇u ∇_v w − ∇_v ∇_u w − ∇[u,v]w, quantum superposition 1/√2(|00⟩ + |11⟩), and algebraic operations like the tensor product.

It is used to analyze internal forces and deformations in engineering materials and to describe the geometry of spacetime under gravity in general relativity.

[Veritasium @veritasium]

The 3 Criteria For A Good Game Theory Strategy
#veritasium #science #physics #math #gametheory

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

Green’s Theorem is one of the most important ideas in vector calculus. At its heart, it connects two ways of looking at the same region: what happens along the boundary and what happens inside the area enclosed by that boundary.

The central idea is simple. A closed curve surrounds a region. Green’s Theorem says that the total effect measured around that curve can be understood by adding up the behavior inside the region.

This makes the theorem a bridge between boundary and interior.

Historically, the theorem is named after George Green, an English mathematician born in Nottingham in 1793. Green had little formal mathematical education and worked around his family’s mill, yet he produced one of the most influential mathematical works of the nineteenth century. His major work, published in 1828, was titled An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism.

Green’s work was not immediately famous. Its importance became clearer later as mathematicians and physicists realized how useful his ideas were for electricity, magnetism, fluid motion, and boundary-value problems. Today, Green’s Theorem is part of the same larger family of ideas as Stokes’ Theorem and the Divergence Theorem.

The mathematical power of Green’s Theorem lies in how it connects local behavior with global behavior. A field may have small rotational effects at every point inside a region. Green’s Theorem says that when all those small effects are added together, they correspond to the total circulation around the boundary.

This idea appears naturally in fluid dynamics. The motion around the edge of a region can reveal something about rotation inside the fluid. It helps connect circulation with vorticity, which is important in understanding rotating flows, whirlpools, air circulation, and many other fluid patterns.

Green’s Theorem is also useful in area measurement. It allows the area of a closed region to be found by tracing its boundary. This is the principle behind the planimeter, a mechanical instrument used to measure irregular areas. Instead of measuring every point inside a shape, the boundary itself becomes enough.

In physics, Green’s ideas became especially important in potential theory and electromagnetism. Many physical systems are described by what happens on their boundaries. Electric fields, gravitational fields, heat flow, and other boundary-value problems all use mathematical ideas connected to Green’s work.

In modern computation, Green’s Theorem is still used in numerical methods. It helps convert area calculations into boundary calculations, which is useful in geometry processing, simulation, mesh generation, and computational physics.

The importance of Green’s Theorem is not only that it is a beautiful formula. Its importance is that it reveals a deeper structure: the edge of a region is not separate from the region itself. Under the right mathematics, the boundary can tell us what is happening inside.

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

“Six years down the line, I must say that I am really disappointed and even feel isolated. This silence – of opposition parties, of civil society groups, of celebrity activists who have made a career out of piggy-backing on people’s movements – emboldens this regime to go after further dissidents.”

[Shantanu Shekhar @SeekerSoothe]

@theanandprasad @varungrover Laughing at us most definitely. Ego boost.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

So many people got to serve the nation selflessly. No one’s complaining except this anti-national account.

[Zerigala @Zerigala69]

Deni saw Ja throw a grenade into a crowd of innocent people and begged the Blazers to trade for him

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

Is Modi getting FAKE Awards? 😂

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| BREAKING: Lionel Messi is now just 5 free-kick goals away from equaling Juninho's all-time record.🐐

[433 @433]

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐗

Messi scores his 6th goal from outside the box and surpasses Rivelino's record of 5 goals.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

बेहद प्रभावशाली कविता और उतना ही कमाल का पाठ राजेंद्र जी का। गिरने का महत्व बहुत सुंदर से बताया गया है। इसे सुनने के बाद गिरते रहने की असीम प्रेरणा मिलेगी। जो भी गिर रहे हैं, ज़्यादा गिरने के लिए यह कविता सुनें।

राजेंद्र जी के यू ट्यूब चैनल का लिंक-
https://t.co/F08YBm1faP

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

Thank you for your kind messages!

Currently, despite the old age, I am focussing on my professional chess career. On top of that, we are busy building modern opening preparation tools at ChessMonitor.

FIDE presidency, therefore, indeed will have to wait.

Thank you.🎙️

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Advanced calculus relies on these specialized determinants to study function behavior and transformations.

The Jacobian captures how small changes in input variables affect outputs through its matrix of first partials.
Building on second derivatives, the Hessian aids in determining the nature of critical points.
Meanwhile, the Wronskian helps verify if a set of functions forms a fundamental solution set for differential equations.

It is used to model physical systems in mechanics and optimize machine learning algorithms.

[Basketball University @UofBasketball]

Players with the greatest offensive impact over the last 3 years…

What stands out?