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[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

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My account was debited 11th June and active Autopay is set up. Yet my account says no subscriptions 😞
Please help. I have mailed screenshots to [email protected] on Saturday, no response yet.

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

Spot on!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Come to India.

Work with us.

Design in India.

Develop in India.

And create solutions for the world.

@BharatInnov2026

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

In the 60s, When we didn't have food to eat, we created an independent body called ICAR as an agent of change, put agri experts in charge, facilitated awesome collaboration between local knowledge & international expertise, gave them complete freedom of action and eliminated the traditional Indian babudom

Result - We are the largest producer of food in the world

When we didn't have milk, we created an independent body called NDDB as an agent of change, put a hard driving Dr Kurien in charge, gave him complete freedom and eliminated the traditional Indian babudom

Result - We are the largest milk producer in the world

When we found we were lagging in digital payments, we created an independent body called Npci as an agent of change, put bankers and industry experts in charge and eliminated the traditional Indian babudom

Result - We have one of the largest and most used digital payment ecosystem in the world

Today we are afraid we will lose the battle on AI and Technology

We have a solution which has worked very well in the past and has saved us from many a crisis.

The only question is, Do we have the will to implement it?

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Deeply shocking to read this official US statement, which contains absolutely no expression of regret or condolence for the loss of innocent Indian lives. How can a “friend” and strategic partner be so deeply insensitive?

Why couldn’t a non-compliant commercial vessel have been stopped using other, non-lethal means? Is it not possible to disable a ship's propulsion or steering without firing missiles targeted to kill civilian crew members?

Practically every merchant ship navigating these crucial waters has Indian crew on board. Are they all considered fair game for US missiles now?

This approach is unacceptable and I hope @DrSJaishankar had said so to @marcorubio.

[Aravind @aravind]

Peaceful rural life in India. Tourists must visit such areas of India, like this in the foothill of Himalayas. Indian railways connect well, people are very kind, stays are so cheap and cultured, you can still get internet, even 5G, unlike the US or EU.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This exact orange doesn't exist anymore, and the reason is a single chemical element.

Those are high-pressure sodium lamps. Excited sodium atoms emit light almost entirely at 589 nanometers, a narrow band deep in the orange-yellow part of the spectrum. No blue, no green, almost nothing else. That's why the whole city glows one color, like the photo was shot through a filter. It wasn't. The light itself was monochrome.

Cities loved sodium for one reason: efficiency. A sodium lamp converted electricity to visible light far better than anything else available in the 1970s, so Chicago installed roughly 270,000 of them. The tradeoff was color. Under sodium light a red car, a green car, and a blue car all look like slightly different shades of brown. Your eyes literally cannot resolve color because there's no spectrum to reflect.

The grid pattern is the other half of the image. Chicago runs on a near-perfect 8-blocks-per-mile layout dating to the 1800s, so from a plane every street becomes a glowing line on graph paper. Sodium plus grid is what makes it look like a circuit board.

Then it ended. Between 2017 and 2022, Chicago swapped about 280,000 sodium fixtures for white LEDs, around 85% of its entire streetlight stock, cutting the energy bill by more than half. Almost every major city did the same.

So this photo is a fossil. A specific wavelength of light, blanketing an entire city, that an accountant's spreadsheet quietly deleted.

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

This is epic 😻

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Cannot make this up.

TMC leader Brahmanand Chakraborty found by police hiding under a pile of sarees in Howrah, not far from Kolkata.

Accused of taking “cut money” in exchange for govt housing scheme benefits.

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@NonsensicalNemo Whoa! Some satire, this. Too good 😀

[KV Iyyer - BHARAT 🇮🇳🇮🇱 @BanCheneProduct]

Every ounce of flesh had melted away. His ribs were exposed. He had no strength left to even move.

When the British saw that this 25-year-old boy was not giving up, they forcibly tried to feed him milk by inserting a tube into his nose. The tube went into his lungs instead of his esophagus.

The milk filled his lungs. He continued to suffer, vomiting blood, but he did not break his fast.

On September 13, 1929, a revolutionary died in Lahore jail. 63 days... yes, 63 days without eating a single grain of food.

In the pages of history, we often talk about Bhagat Singh's hanging, but forgot the companion who died in Bhagat Singh's arms.

Today we are talking about 'Yatindra Nath Das', known to the world as 'Jatin Da'.

 He was a bomb maker by profession, but his own body became his weapon.

If he wanted, he could have apologized, he could have eaten. But he had only one demand: "Stop treating Indian political prisoners like animals."

The British thought hunger would break him. But they didn't know that his body was made of steel, not clay.

When Jatin Da's condition began to deteriorate, the British crossed all limits of cruelty. The prison doctor and guards pinned him down. A tube was inserted through his nose. He screamed in pain, but his resolve remained unshaken.

When news of his martyrdom broke, the entire nation wept.

It is said that when his body was being transported from Lahore to Calcutta, thousands of people stood at every station with flowers. More than 600,000 people attended his funeral in Calcutta.

Subhash Chandra Bose himself shouldered his mortal remains.

But today? How many people today remember that 63-day penance?

As he lay dying, Jatin Da said, "I am not a saint, I am just an ordinary man willing to die for the dignity of his country."

Whether independence came with the spinning wheel or without swords and shields is a matter of debate. But it is true that the decayed bones of young men like Jatin Da are embedded in the foundation of independence.

We did not get this freedom for free; someone sacrificed 63 days of their youth by fasting for it.

It is the duty of every Indian to know the price of the air they breathe.

Share this information so that future generations can know who the real 'heroes' were.

This post is solely to pay tribute to those forgotten heroes.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳 🙏 🫡 🫡 🫡 

Vande Mataram

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

Too good 😊

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

From Pune to Mumbai, every sign on the Expressway leading up to it calls it the Missing Link. & then sign above the tunnel entrance calls it the Connecting Link.
The real missing link seems to be the communication between the people printing the signs.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

There are some moments in public life which touch you very deeply. Today is one such moment for me.

Assam’s Maternal Mortality Rate has come down to 84. For the first time in our history, Assam is now below the national average of 88.

When I took over the Health Department in 2006, our MMR was 480. At that time, this journey looked almost impossible. But thousands of doctors, nurses, ASHA workers, health officials and frontline workers across Assam kept working silently, tirelessly and with compassion year after year.

This achievement belongs to them.

Behind this number are countless mothers who returned safely home to their families. Behind this success are years of sacrifice, sleepless nights and an unwavering commitment to save lives.

Assam has achieved something truly historic today. What once seemed impossible has become reality through collective effort and the blessings of the people of Assam.

I bow with gratitude to every health worker who made this possible.
@nhm_assam @JPNadda

[Rupali Ganguly @TheRupali]

It’s funny hearing the word “humiliation” for Our Prime Minister, a leader who is continuously being honoured by countries around the world with their top civilian awards. My PM is among the most internationally respected and honoured leaders in the world today, and he is the democratically elected Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy. He has been winning democratic elections continuously for over 25 years now. First as a Chief Minister and now as Prime Minister. There are simply no words to describe how deeply millions of us love, admire, and trust him.

And as for India’s progress, leave that to us Indians. More than 1.4 billion Indians are capable enough of deciding what is good for our country. We don’t need a YouTuber sitting abroad, disconnected from India’s ground reality, pretending to be our spokesperson while building his entire online career around mocking, criticizing, and fearmongering about the very country that made him relevant.

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@SecRubio Welcome to India Sir.

Atithi Devo Bhava 🙏

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@thekaipullai The story at Pune airport is not much different!

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

Whoa, too good 😊

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Indeed! To conflate a Rasgulla with an Idli is not just a culinary error; it is a profound cosmological misunderstanding.

To begin with, the comparison is practically a biological impossibility. She is comparing chhena (the delicate, squeaky, pristine curd of milk) with a meticulously fermented batter of parboiled rice and black gram (urad dal). Their compositions are from entirely different kingdoms. One is an airy, spongy lattice designed to trap light sugar syrup; the other is a dense, wholesome, steamed matrix of complex carbohydrates and proteins. Their taste, consistency, structural integrity, and existential purpose share absolutely nothing in common.

But more important, her attempt to dismiss the Idli as merely a blank canvas for sugar syrup does a grave disservice to what is arguably one of the greatest engineering marvels of the culinary world.

The Idli is not a mere "bland cake." It is a masterclass in biotechnology. To achieve the perfect Idli is to balance the delicate microflora of wild fermentation over a cold night, resulting in a steamed cloud that is a triumph of gut health, lightness, and nutritional balance. It is a savoury monolith of South Indian culinary genius, perfectly engineered to absorb the sharp tang of a well-spiced sambar or the fiery depth of a molaga-podi (gunpowder) paste infused with cold-pressed sesame oil or nutritious melted ghee.

To suggest an Idli would even consent to being drowned in sugar syrup is to fundamentally misunderstand its dignity.

If this lady finds Rasgullas overrated, argue that on the merits of their sponginess or sweetness. But please, leave the noble, perfectly fermented, steamed majesty of the Idli out of your dessert-table polemics, ma'am!

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@pHequals7 Of course, service provider headcount will reduce.

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@pHequals7 Indian IT service providers usually code in the client's network and the software runs on the client's environment, at least for large banking clients. So isn't inference cost the bank's problem and not the service provider's?

[Umashankar A S @Umashankar_AS]

@vinaykesari @pHequals7 Superbly written and a timely warning!

[pH @pHequals7]

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