Swathi Prakash

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

I had called my Dad was explaining him El Nino

He simply said that rains will begin with Ashadh irrespective of whichever fancy words I use

Our ancestors were very observant & thoughtful

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[The Hawk Eye @thehawkeyex]

Some of the actors are different. Very different from rest of the bollywood. He is one of them. Vidyut Jamwal, an actor, martial artist and youth ambassador at the Yoga event, addressed the audience in a very sweet and gracious Sanskrit language 😇👌🏼

[Pattern Preacher @chanakyaspeakss]

INDIA IS DEFINITELY STILL POOR IN ADMINISTRATIVE AND REGULATION MATTERS

As I previously mentioned that foreigners are coming on Tourist or Visas and learning these arts and skills to monetize globally.
She is violating her visas by learning skills while on tourist visas.

We could have regulated this as a special Skill Training visa and charge a special fee.
This French woman mastered this now running her own online academy where she charges 75€ per session.

Next they will open a European academy and start issuing Skill certificates and become an authority on it.
Next Indians will have to travel to Europe and get skill certificates to seek employment.

This entire system of Government recruitment based on reservation and lack training in administrative matters is costing us a big time.

Systems, procedures , standards and regulations is what determines the quality of life and Global Standard achievement.

[Pattern Preacher @chanakyaspeakss]

KALARIPAYATTU - MOTHER OF ALL MARTIAL ARTS
Kalariyapattu is a 3000 years old martial arts form was so goated that British Banned it after finding this Martial Arts form as a Threat.
We must revive these practice India wide. I see that so many foreigners are coming and learning this and god knows if they will credit ot relabel it to something else.

[𝕲𝖚𝖗𝖚 𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖓𝖔 🇮🇳 @spinesurgeon]

That paneer is Rose Water sir

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

80% of all autoimmune disease patients are females.
Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hashimoto's... the disparity is massive.

​But WHY is the female immune system so prone to attacking itself?

[Amey Kulkarni 🇮🇳 @AmeyKulkarni_21]

No temple town is able to adopt the excellent services provided by Shegaon Gajanan Maharaj devasthan

Shegaon model must be implemented at all Temple towns in India!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I can’t fully explain to younger people how cool the internet used to be. We had open forums, personal websites, weird experimental pages, and chaotic corners of the web, before Amazon, Google, and Meta turned it into a sterile, closed ecosystem of clutter, and commerce.

[History इतिहास 🇺🇲🛕 🚀 @ShreeHistory]

I recently interviewed a lot of candidates for my erstwhile employer because they wanted to start an AI practice.

I found that graduates from India's premier institutes are not employable because colleges did not prepare these kids.

The colleges seem to have just changed the name to AI without teaching Keras, TensorFlow or basic Hopfield neural networks!

The kids graduating are smart, extremely diligent but learnt nothing specific to AI.

So to help the younger generation I am starting out here giving some helpful tips.

No college can prepare you for a career in AI. The field is so new and so fast changing that you have to be your own teacher.

Then, for those who want to learn fast here are two of the best books I recommend for anyone pushing for AI career.

Read them before you apply.

Second one also has GitHub companion page that can be useful for high touch learners who code first to learn!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[N’wa Mucanyi 🫶🏾 @KhananiShingan1]

Whoever designed wet wipe packs where you pull one out and four come with it should have been put in charge of ATMs.

[Gitana @Gitana1369877]

"To be happy, you must be your own sunshine."
— C.E. Jerningham

[The Educated Moron @EducatedMoron]

Subah uthke adhe ghante newspaper. Phir 1 ghante Disney Hour. Phir cousins/pados ke dosto (depending upon khud ke ghar pe hai ki naani ke ghar par) ke saath random indoor games (ludo, monopoly, ya kuch bhi khud se banaya hua game) , phir 2 ghante cartoon network ya cable wale ne koi nayi movie piracy se chala di toh woh, phir 2 ghante mostly bore hi hote the kyunki dopehar ko sone ki aadat nahi thi ya phir koi cricket samrat, saras salil ya champak type magazine padh lete the, phir 2 ghante mast cricket, phir 1 ghante disney hour, phir 1 ghante padhai ka natak, phir mummy/mausi jo bhi serial dekh rahi hai wo 1 ghante.

Average Summer Vacation routine.

[Chandrashekhar Dhage @cbdhage]

Public parks of Pune Series Part 1,
The Pune Metropolitan Region is exceptionally green for a major Indian urban center, boasting approximately 300 public parks and gardens.
The Journey started with Empress Botanical Garden (1838), first civic park established at Bund Garden Park (1869) by Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, PMC established first park Kamla Nehru Park 1951.

Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden (Pu La Deshpande Garden), Saras Baug, Empress Botanical Garden,Baner-Pashan Biodiversity Park, Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park are major Parks.

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[Rajashree @defiantsunfloer]

Cooking daily & in many homes,2X a day in this heat isn't just "running a household." It's intense physical labor. Yet,"What’s for lunch/dinner?"is treated like a casual question,even when she's sick,exhausted or burnt out

Normalize respecting women who feed you every single day

[J Gopikrishnan @jgopikrishnan70]

CBSE fiasco in nut shell - All of a sudden this year, few months before exam, CBSE decides to change the exam paper evaluation pattern. Earlier answer sheets were evaluated by teachers at valuation centres. This time CBSE introduced OSM (On Screen Marking).

What is OSM ? All the answer sheets will be scanned and teachers will evaluate the scanned papers on screen. Why scan the answer sheets? Now we know this unwanted scanning contract was given to Coempt for Rs.390 crore ... Why such a wastage of money for scanning 18 lakh students answer sheets ... Who brought this bogus idea of scanning? 😎

[Naturally Sudhaish @NaturallySudha]

While travelling with a group of friends from Coimbatore to Mettupalayam, we stopped at a hotel for breakfast. They served a glass of reddish-pink water, it made curious!

A friend then explained that it was Pathimugam water. She told me more about this interesting cultural aspect which, before modern water purification systems became common, many households would add a piece of Pathimugam in their drinking water while boiling.

I have not seen this served at hotels at Chennai, but she said that in many parts of South, especially Kerala it is common.

Instead of plain water in homes, temples and community gatherings, this water would be served.

This wood is known for its cooling properties, antioxidant content and digestive benefits.

Have you drunk it?

[Manish Sharma @Cheekytogeeky]

be @ni5arga

→ 19 years old, from West Bengal, studied in Delhi for a few years
→ just finished his own Class 12 exams in 2026
→ calls himself a hobbyist cybersecurity researcher
→ says he is an engineer, not a hacker
→ built an OSINT engine, a stock-tracking TUI, a pastebin in Rust
→ once found bugs in FOSS United and disclosed them quietly
→ just another CBSE student watching his own board roll out a new digital marking system

then he opened the portal

→ CBSE moves Class 12 evaluation to On-Screen Marking, 1.8 million students affected
→ Nisarga sees the portal link is fully public, gets curious
→ opens DevTools, downloads the Angular JavaScript bundle
→ first vulnerability found in 30 minutes
→ a literal master password sitting in plain text inside the frontend code
→ enter it, the OTP field auto-fills, the entire login flow gets bypassed
→ OTP validation happens in the user's browser, not on the server
→ no route guards, every internal page reachable by editing browser storage
→ password reset API never checks the old password
→ systemic IDOR across the entire API, change one value in sessionStorage, become any examiner
→ outcome: take over any teacher account, view answer sheets, edit marks

25 February 2026. He reports everything to CERT-In the same day.

→ CERT-In asks for a screen recording, he sends a full walkthrough
→ acknowledgement comes back as a boilerplate reply
→ reference number assigned: CERTIn-16590126
→ he follows up multiple times. no response.
→ three months pass. portal still live. Class 12 results released. vulnerabilities still there.
→ 22 May: publishes the blog post and a thread on X
→ Deedy Das, Satish Acharya, Internet Freedom Foundation amplify it
→ the post goes viral
→ CBSE issues a clarification: that was just a test portal, no breach
→ the URL CBSE cited in their own tweet was not even a registered domain
→ a friend buys the domain and points it at Nisarga's blog
→ CBSE quietly deletes the tweet

then it gets worse

→ 25 May: finds an SQL injection vulnerability on the live production portal
→ reports to CERT-In, gets a one-line thank you
→ gains admin access to the live https://t.co/1WpmNGsczK server
→ portal stays up for four more hours
→ he uploads anime videos and memes, links them publicly from CBSE servers
→ plays a viral Japanese song on a CBSE page, makes the news for it
→ CBSE finally takes the whole portal down

then he reads the database

→ master table accessed: 10 GB, 9.3 million records
→ examiner names, addresses, school names, bank account details
→ passwords stored in plain text
→ login tokens anyone can paste into a browser to log in as that user
→ 31 May: finds a second live CBSE production portal, 45,074 records of failed payments
→ emails, phone numbers, payment IDs, order IDs, all readable
→ 31 May, the bigger one: an AWS S3 bucket is misconfigured
→ ListObjectsV2 works without authentication, the bucket root is listable
→ samples pulled from 18 lakh scanned 2026 answer sheets, every subject
→ multiple institutions sharing the same bucket
→ also notices something strange in the scans: bedsheets visible in the background of answer sheets CBSE paid for proper scanners to handle

CBSE responds

→ posts an AI-generated image saying the system is robust and secure
→ three days later admits some vulnerabilities existed and have been contained
→ refuses to name the cybersecurity firm doing the audit
→ claims they tried contacting him. he says they have not.

→ Internet Freedom Foundation writes to the Ministry of Education and CERT-In
→ asks for an investigation into CBSE, a review of the contract with vendor Coempt EduTeck, a full audit

→ he points out he could have sold this data and made a lot of money
→ he did not. he is a CBSE student too.
→ his own analogy: the door wasn't just unlocked. the key was lying on the ground in front of everyone.

a 19-year-old with a anima pff broke a national exam evaluation system in 30 minutes with browser developer tools and the government is still pretending it was a test environment