Pranav Ganugapati

Bibliophile | Amateur Catan Player | Avid cricket follower

[Rohit Shinde @rohitshinde121]

Does GDP really not matter? I've cried myself hoarse saying this - "Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough".

Any benchmarking of multidimensional poverty and HDI metrics are going to be strongly correlated with GDP.

[CEO Uttar Pradesh @ceoup]

Mr Fact-checker please fact-check your own facts.
There is no such scheme as “Buy one Get one free” scheme by Election Commission.
As per your post, the voter had submitted only two applications and he got 4 EPIC cards.

This statement is false.

The voter had submitted 4 applications.

If you want to dispute our facts then you post the reference numbers of two applications that you claim he had submitted and we will post the reference number of the remaining two.

The problem of generation of multiple EPICs on submission of multiple forms of an individual is a long standing one. We do deduplication through ECINET periodically. We are on path to achieving the objective of catching multiple forms submitted by an individual at the submission stage only. We will achieve our objective very soon.

Please do not incite people by making patently false statements about ECI and thereby trying to create disaffection among the citizens towards a Constitutional Body.

You are advised to rectify your mistake by amending or deleting your post after completing your own due diligence now that you have been informed by us about your wrong information.

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

CEA Nageswaran’s op-ed judges Make in India the fair way, against peers who weathered the same decade of pandemic, tariff wars and geopolitical conflict. India comes out ahead.

From 2002 to 2013, world exports tripled from $6.2T to $18.8T. From 2014 to 2025, they grew by less than two-fifths. Even so, India’s share of world manufacturing value added rose from 2.4% to 3%, a bigger gain than Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia or South Africa made.

India’s manufacturing value added grew 73%, against 51% for China and 36% for the world. That came while China’s surplus tripled to $1.19T and German industrial output fell 14% below its 2018 level.

home, manufacturing’s share of GVA rose from 14.7% to 16.1% in three years, and factories added 14 lakh jobs in 2024–25. Solar module capacity grew from 2.3 GW to 192 GW, and electronics exports hit $47.96B.

Industrialisation is the work of decades. In a decade unkind to historic laggards, India built capability faster than the world around it @businessline

[Suganthan Mohanadasan @suganthan]

What 🫣🫣

https://t.co/Op6eF5Ke5E

What a time to be alive man….

[Ranvir Shorey @RanvirShorey]

This needs urgent attention, @PMOIndia @narendramodi. These people who are doing more than their duty as citizens should be rewarded, and the officials who have failed to do theirs despite all the state’s resources should be penalised!

[Rajahmundry Forever @Rajahmundry4U]

🔴 It is deeply concerning that construction of 4 Road Over Bridges (ROBs), sanctioned long ago, has still not commenced, especially with Godavari Pushkaralu 2027 rapidly approaching, just 10 months away.

🛣️ These ROBs are crucial for diverting National Highway traffic from Rajanagaram to Kadiyam without entering Rajahmundry City.

🚧 At the very least, Chaitanya Nagar & Kesavaram/Z. Medapadu ROBs must be completed before Godavari Pushkaralu 2027. Failure to do so could result in severe traffic congestion in Rajahmundry City during Godavari Pushkaralu 2027.

🔴 చాలా కాలం క్రితమే మంజూరైన 4 రోడ్ ఓవర్ బ్రిడ్జిల (ROBs) నిర్మాణ పనులు ఇంకా ప్రారంభం కాకపోవడం తీవ్ర ఆందోళన కలిగిస్తోంది, ముఖ్యంగా గోదావరి పుష్కరాలు 2027 కేవలం 10 నెలల్లో రానున్న నేపథ్యంలో.

🛣️ రాజానగరం నుంచి కడియం వరకు జాతీయ రహదారి ట్రాఫిక్ రాజమహేంద్రవరం నగరంలోకి ప్రవేశించకుండా మళ్లించడానికి ఈ ROBలు అత్యంత కీలకం.

🚧 కనీసం చైతన్యనగర్ & కేశవరం/జి. మేడపాడు ROBలు గోదావరి పుష్కరాలు 2027కు ముందే పూర్తవ్వాలి. లేకపోతే గోదావరి పుష్కరాలు 2027 సమయంలో రాజమహేంద్రవరం నగరంలో తీవ్ర ట్రాఫిక్ రద్దీ ఏర్పడే అవకాశం ఉంది.

#Rajahmundry #Rajamahendravaram #Kakinada #TwinCities #Visakhapatnam #Vizag #Amaravati #Vijayawada #Guntur #Nellore #Tirupati #Kadapa #Kurnool #AndhraPradesh

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Pulling off the Vande Bharat Express on this route is fascinating because the route has a 55‑kilometre stretch of mountain.

Between Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road, the railway line drops down the Western Ghats. The gradient there is 1 in 50, which means for every 50 metres, it also drops a metre.

Dozens of tunnels. Sharp curves one after another. Trains crawl through it at around 25 kmph.

It is so steep that the section has catch sidings, which are dead end tracks built beside the main line. If a train ever loses its brakes going downhill, it gets diverted into one of those and stopped by the ground itself.

That is the level of risk railway engineers plan for on this stretch.

For years the safety commissioner kept heavy restrictions on running passenger trains through it.

A proper day train between Bengaluru and Mangaluru was talked about for two decades and kept getting pushed back.

But two things changed that.

First, what Vande Bharat is.

A normal train has one locomotive at the front pulling twenty dead coaches behind it. Going uphill, all the power comes from one point. Coming downhill, all the braking effort has to be managed from one point too, which is exactly what you do not want on a 1 in 50 slope.

Vande Bharat is not that.

It is a self propelled trainset, meaning motors sit under several coaches along the length of the train. Power is spread out, so it climbs better.

And braking is spread out too, with the motors themselves acting as brakes on the way down and feeding energy back into the overhead line instead of turning it all into heat on brake pads.

The rake used in this trial is also fitted with Automatic Emergency Braking, specifically for controlled descent.

The second change happened in December 2025.

Indian Railways finished electrifying that 55 kilometre ghat section, which was one of the toughest remaining unelectrified gaps in the south.

With that done, the entire Bengaluru to Mangaluru route is electric end to end. No electricity through the ghat meant no Vande Bharat through the ghat.

So what is this trial for.

The trial was a timing trial for the full route.

It left Yesvantpur at 6:05 am, stopped at Hassan, Sakleshpur and Subrahmanya Road, and was scheduled into Mangaluru Central at 2:25 pm.

That is 363 km in 8 hours 20 minutes. The return leaves Mangaluru at 3 pm and gets back at 11 pm.

The interesting detail is that South Western Railway's own headquarters has told officials that 8 hours 20 minutes is too high and asked them to bring it down.

So the timetable being tested is a starting point.

Now right now, getting from Bengaluru to Mangaluru means a 7 to 8 hour bus ride down NH-75, or a flight, or a train.

The fastest existing train on the route, the Bengaluru to Kozhikode Express, takes about 9 hours 23 minutes.

Many trains on this line also skip Mangaluru itself to save time. This one runs during the day, in both directions, and drops you at Mangaluru Central.

Coastal Karnataka sends a lot of people to Bengaluru. Students, hospital patients, families, the huge Mangaluru diaspora working in the city.

A comfortable morning departure that gets you there by afternoon, and an afternoon return, is game changing for them.

Yes, 363 km in 8 hours 20 minutes works out to an average of about 44 kmph. By Vande Bharat standards that is slow. Anyone expecting a four hour ride is going to be disappointed, and that is not the train's fault.

The mountain sets the ceiling. The right comparison here is the bus and the existing 9 hour 23 minute train, not a Rajdhani on flat ground.

The bigger picture is that this is what Indian rail growth actually looks like now. Not just new trains.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

What the Night Sky on Mars may look like...

140 million miles away from us!

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

A rare India-positive piece in @washingtonpost: “The BJP is consolidating power just as India takes its place among the world’s great powers: largest by population, second-largest by military personnel, on the way to becoming third-largest by economy, and the only nation with the potential to counterbalance China in Asia.”

The piece argues, “More votes have been cast for Modi than for any politician in human history, by a margin in the hundreds of millions. Modi has comfortably outperformed every other democratically elected leader in the world in Morning Consult’s global leader approval tracker for many years, despite the longevity of his tenure.” https://t.co/kt4N0fYJgl

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"Operation Sindoor: 21st century’s most successful military campaign and the shifting axis of global power." @australian
https://t.co/1mR4QTEpFm

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

People don't realize how absurd this view actually is.

A camera. On a robot. On Mars.

Built by humans on a planet 140 million miles away, launched on a rocket, landed using a sky crane, and now driving across an alien desert taking pictures so detailed you can count the rocks.

100 years ago, your great-grandparents thought airplanes were a miracle.

You are scrolling past Mars on your phone.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Facing an imposing supreme court bench, Senior Advocate @jsaideepak takes us on an incredible journey in constitutional law to bolster his case for overturning Sabarimala judgment. He is fighting ferociously for dharma, armed with nothing but his intellect.

Watch, and be amazed:

[తెలుఁగువారు @Telunguvaaru]

@StarSportsTel దయ చేసి మీ మీఁదువల్కరం (commentary)లో ఎక్కువ తెలుగు పదాలు ఉండేట్లు చూడండి. మనం ఇప్పటికే తెలుగులో చాలా ఆంగ్ల పదాలు వాడుతున్నాం. @IPL అనేది కొన్ని లక్షల్లో చూస్తారు, కాబట్టి వీలైనంత వరకు తెలుగులో పలకడానికి ప్రయత్నించండి ముఖ్యంగా వెరసులు (numbers).

తెలుగును కాపాడండి!

[Infamouspurple @Infamouspur]

@BlrCityPolice @CPBlr
@rpobengaluru
Today for police verification at police station, I received an SMS from the officer asking for unnessary documents like parents address proof, birth certificate and others when I had my freshly received passport, Ids and other docs.

[Sahil @ExtraTimeMeme]

You’re bored because you’re not doing side quests, man.

Life is more than just working and then throwing yourself into bed doing nothing.

Here are 50 side quests to complete:

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

This is incorrect. Indians were making paneer millennia before the Portuguese language even existed. For God’s sake please educate yourself.

Indians were making soft cheeses like paneer over 4400 years ago by using perforated vessels placed inside a big pot like the ones pictured from Rakhigarhi (2300 BCE) to filter out whey from boiled milk. The study “Compound specific isotope analysis of lipid residues provides the earliest direct evidence of dairy product processing in South Asia.” (Chakraborty, K.S., Slater, G.F., Miller, https://t.co/iTCYsu9epW. et al. , Sci Rep 10, 16095, 2020) analyzed lipid residues in unglazed ceramic vessels and found evidence of dairy fats on pottery fragments.

The study showed that as far back as 2600 BCE, Indians in Kotada Bhadli, Gujarat, were processing dairy inside pottery vessels, based on lipid isotope analysis that clearly distinguishes milk fats from meat fats. This means milk was not just consumed fresh but was heated, stored, and transformed into other dairy forms. The authors note that a previous lipid residue study on a perforated vessel from Nausharo had yielded similar lipid residues. This means that Indians likely used perforated inserts to separate whey while making acid-set fresh cheeses like paneer over 4400 years ago. These perforated strainers have been found at multiple Indian sites of that era.

The milk was likely curdled using sour yogurt which is exactly how the Indian recipe is still made today. Even today in Bengal the traditional technique uses clay pots just as we did thousands of years ago.
The Portuguese version traditionally uses animal (calf or lamb) rennet to set the cheese.

The study can be accessed here:
https://t.co/2avhqb1j1k

[Pankaj @the2ndfloorguy]

i was tired of stupid people on road so i hacked my helmet into a traffic police device 🚨

while i ride, ai agent runs in near real time, flags violations, and proof with location &amp; no plate goes straight to police.

blr people - so now ride safe… or regret it.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Facts below (1/5):

In 2025, average earnings per hour (EPH), excluding tips, for a delivery partner on Zomato were ₹102.
In 2024, this number was ₹92. That’s a ~10.9% year-on-year increase. Over a longer horizon also, EPH has shown steady growth.

Most delivery partners work for a few hours and only a few days in a month. But if someone were to work for 10 hours/day, 26 days/month, this translates to ~₹26,500/month in gross earnings. After accounting for fuel and maintenance (~20%), the net earnings for the partner are ~₹21,000/month.

Note: Earnings per hour are calculated on total hours logged in, including the time when the partner might be waiting to receive an order. Earnings per “busy hour” will be higher but that’s not the right metric to look at.

On top of this - delivery partners earn 100% of tips given by customers. The average tip per hour in 2025 on Zomato was INR 2.6 and in 2024 was INR 2.4 per hour. Tips are transferred instantly, with zero deductions. We absorb the payment gateway processing cost ourselves. About 5% of the orders get tipped on Zomato; 2.5% on Blinkit.

[Manu Khajuria @KhajuriaManu]

If Jamia Millia can reserve 50% seats for Muslims and still receive government funding under constitutional protection,
then Vaishno Devi Medical College, built and fully funded by a Hindu Shrine surely deserves recognition as a minority institution in J&K too. And the vulnerable Hindu minority of JK getting minority benefits would be the real “cute democratic thing”.