Smruti Choudhury

Producer, Showrunner, Screenwriter. Crafting stories that spark conversation. Tweets on culture, chaos and everything in between.

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@manas_muduli So basically corrected the Bihari 'd' problem...most of them cant say 'd' and write it as 'r'....since the earlier bureaucrats were mostly from Bihar, they did this to most places across the country

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@odishayatri its happening again despite your assurances last week

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@UberIN_Support @Uber_India can you please train your drivers how to read maps? Also is there any penalty for them when they cancel a ride after 4 phone calls and making us wait for 10 min?

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@kiraayedarr Yeah true...https://t.co/RHLGzFpNaV

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@MasalaBai https://t.co/RHLGzFpNaV maybe this will help

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@odishayatri There is nothing you can assist me with...instead you can penalise the driver. And you don't need to reach out to me for that

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@odishayatri please take note of this auto driver who hasn't shown up at the pickup location and has kept me waiting for more than 45 min. He won't cancel the ride either. Please take strict action against him.

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

Oh no...but what else do you expect from the uneducated

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

Another good news from Bengal.

Under the ongoing hawker eviction drive, notices have now started being issued to booksellers in College Street ... or our beloved Boi Para.

Street that dedicated to books. world’s largest 2nd hand book market & India’s largest one.

Congrats. 🥀

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

This story highlights the smarts of the absconding convict but not the incompetence of the police. Journalism today. "Actor Hemant Modi who worked with Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh, Amitabh Bachchan, more exposed as absconding murder convict" https://t.co/GEuhhCY7Af

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

Why is it that wherever NaMo goes, he is greeted by classical Indian dances? Doesn't he get to see it in India? Doesn't Europe has its own song & dance routine?

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

This is an excellent idea @myogiadityanath ...hope its applicable to all religions and not just to 1. Namaz On public roads: ‘If they don’t agree, we have other methods’: Yogi Adityanath on namaz on UP roads https://t.co/BiQiZRoUr2

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@BjornQuixote Ok. So? Even my ancestors were land owners and now I am living in a rented place....isn't this everyone's story?

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Indian cuisine conversations often revolve around Punjabi, South Indian or Bengali food. Odiya cuisine deserves a much bigger place on that table.
What struck me most was its restraint. No overload of cream, butter or chillies. Just balance, mustard, fermentation, texture and freshness.
Dahi Bara Aloo Dum (popular street food), Drumstick-Brinjal Besara, Chhena Tarkari, Chakuli Pitha (like dosa) Aloo Patra Besara… all made at home.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.

GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.

Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.

The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.

The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.

Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.

GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.

Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.

For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.

GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.

Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.

Take a bow!

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

A recent report says that voice notes are huge across the world… apart from in Britain.

Here’s my two cents (or pennies) on why I dislike voice notes:

1. I don’t want to have to put in earphones or find a quiet place when out and about, just for you to tell me “yes” or “no” about whether you’re free for a cup of tea next Wednesday.

2. While I’m watching telly, I want to be able to glance down at my phone and get the information I need in text form. I don’t want to have to turn the telly off and listen to your private podcast that’s just for me.

3. I don’t want to wade through three minutes of waffle and chit-chat I never asked for when a thumbs-up emoji will do.

4. It makes me feel like you expect a voice note back - and I’m not doing that.

5. I have no interest in tangents about how you’ve just seen an interesting pigeon on the pavement. I asked if you could give me a lift to the station, and 12 minutes in you’re talking about a pigeon and I’ve missed my train.

6. The convenience is all yours. It’s quick to send a voice note, but much slower for me to consume it. It’s bad manners.

I think that about covers it. Of course, if voice notes are a more accessible option for the sender (due to difficulty typing, vision impairment, language barriers, etc.), that’s completely understandable - a different kettle of fish! But if you just like waffling, I’d rather not be the waffle sounding board.

(Really I think I’m just jealous of people who are able to talk coherently for minutes at a time).

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@SoVeryBritish Couldn't agree more

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@sukhdeep7896 Why is take home half of this 52 lakh package?

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

I didn't agree with his argument but Pappu has never been hotter. This is a big win for us women. Claim it before the opposition does. #sheshakti

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

https://t.co/6ykHJdOCQZ

[Smruti Choudhury @Smrutzc]

@SAI_Edu_In bbsr the parents of your students are creating a ruckus and blocking the road making it difficult for commuters. Kindly arrange for traffic police management @BBSRBuzz @BDA_BBSR @cpbbsrctc @odisha_police