Shubashree Desikan | சுபா

Scribe with IIT Madras Shaastra, Translator based in Chennai. Physics PhD. Love Poetry, fiction. Views my own.

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

“People of Gopallapuram” my translation of the famous novel by legendary Ki Ra ( Gopallapurathu Makkal) reviewed by Sudha Tilak for The Hindu… made this Sunday special! Read the review here… Madras Book Club event on April 8. @Moutushi2382 @peerjournalist @thoongumoonji1

[TheHinduBooks @TheHinduBooks]

'People of Gopallapuram', Ki. Rajanarayanan’s celebrated Tamil novel in translation by @Shubawrite

https://t.co/bfJFWIIBpC

[Sutirth Dey @SutirthDey]

Registrations are now open for my NPTEL course on Evolutionary Biology. This is a very basic introduction to the subject.
Please spread the word.

https://t.co/3GwDtvSHVt

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@NaturallySudha Primordium, bud, blossom, bloom etc I don’t know more but English also would have words.

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@thoongumoonji1

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.

10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.

6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.

But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

A timely and thoughtful piece on the usage of AI in the context of a new subject - computational thinking and AI being introduced in school, by @SutirthDey

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@PoojaPrasanna4 Atal Behari Vajpeyi - May 2026??

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@IAmSudhirMishra Glad to see you reposting a quote from Sofia Kovalevskaia - not to detract from this - I want to add is that even arithmetic is not just plain arithmetic. This year’s Abel Prize winner Gerd Faltings has developed important contributions in what’s called Arithmetic Geometry…

[Peer Mohamed Azees Marya | பீர் முகமது அஜீஸ் மரியா @peerjournalist]

On Translation
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[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@Vincentsjotting @Moutushi2382 @peerjournalist @thoongumoonji1 CP Arts Centre - Apr 8, 6.30 pm

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

“People of Gopallapuram” my translation of the famous novel by legendary Ki Ra ( Gopallapurathu Makkal) reviewed by Sudha Tilak for The Hindu… made this Sunday special! Read the review here… Madras Book Club event on April 8. @Moutushi2382 @peerjournalist @thoongumoonji1

[TheHinduBooks @TheHinduBooks]

'People of Gopallapuram', Ki. Rajanarayanan’s celebrated Tamil novel in translation by @Shubawrite

https://t.co/bfJFWIIBpC

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

Tha Abel prize for 2026 goes to German mathematician Gerd Faltings!

[The Abel Prize @abel_prize]

We congratulate Gerd Faltings as the 2026 Abel Prize laureate! 🎉 He recives the Abel Prize "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

[The Abel Prize @abel_prize]

We congratulate Gerd Faltings as the 2026 Abel Prize laureate! 🎉 He recives the Abel Prize "for introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long-standing diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang".

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

Shiraz. The city of Saadi and Hafez.
A place where Tagore once lingered and wrote, drawn by the fragrance of Persian poetry and memory.
Persian wisdom carries a sombre proverb: when the fire spreads, the dry wood and the green wood burn together. The innocent and the guilty perish in the same blaze.
I think of Persepolis — the great capital of the Achaemenids — burned by Alexander more than two thousand years ago. Empires rise, destroy, and pass. Yet Persian civilisation endured: in poetry, language, music, and memory.
From Babylonia and Mesopotamia to the Indus, these lands carry humanity’s earliest chapters. They are not merely territory. They are the archives of civilisation.
Saadi wrote that humanity is “one body.”
Hafez warned that the pride of kings passes like dust.
And Yeats, in another age of turmoil, sensed the widening gyre — a moment when the centre struggles to hold.
Powerful states speak today of deterrence and strategy. History speaks in a quieter, sobering voice.
It reminds us that when war spreads across landscapes layered with millennia of memory, the flames do not distinguish between soldiers and children, between stone and story.
And so the old Persian warning returns:
when the fire spreads, the dry and the wet burn together.

#WestAsia #Civilisation #History #Iran

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@radhikasan Congratulations!

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@ConfluenceSSS @GautamDesiraju @joshiamitabhevo @Pavan_KumarGV @SumanPhysChem @Abhadra7 Not loading the article! Will try again

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@ConfluenceSSS @TVVen @InspireFaculty I could not read it - says server error - page cd not be found. Will try again .

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Four mathematicians posted the first significant advance on Chowla’s cosine problem, a question about the Fourier transform, in 20 years. Their strategy had almost nothing to do with traditional Fourier analysis. In fact, before last summer, the foursome had never even heard of Chowla’s cosine problem. https://t.co/hkZa9ueMIL

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@Jairam_Ramesh A fitting tribute to a great scientist!

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@anilananth @iitmadras Wow Anil that’s fantastic ! Hope to see you more and listen to you more!

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@sowmiyashok @CholamandalPann Congratulations on the success of the book! Best wishes for your talk.

[Shubashree Desikan | சுபா @Shubawrite]

@peerjournalist Poor scientists have to go to all this trouble to prove some mistaken illusions wrong.