Vikas kapoor

curious about everything. love traveling

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

The philosophy of karma is often misunderstood as “what goes around comes around.

[Shazia Ilmi @shaziailmi]

Landing in Geneva, one is reminded how quick we are to romanticise “the West” and run down our own systems in India.

Geneva is beautiful, efficient in many ways, no doubt. But at the airport? No lifts or elevators where you’d expect them, confusing baggage belts, barely any signage or help.
A lady with crutches had to hobble down the stairs because there was no elevator!
It made me think of our own airports — from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport to Indira Gandhi International Airport, Rajabhoj International Airport, Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport and Jolly Grant Airport — where navigation, accessibility, and passenger support are so great . Such amazing service and aliveness !

We in India often complain endlessly about how bad things are at home and how “great” “abroad” is. Travel teaches the opposite too: every system has its flaws. And sometimes, back home, we are doing far better than we give ourselves credit for.
👏
@narendramodi @GOI_MoCA @MoCA_India @BJP4India

[OpIndia.com @OpIndia_com]

UN Special Rapporteurs, including Ben Saul had accused India of atrocities against Muslims after the Pahalgam attack, in a statement by UNHRC last year.

UN Watch has now found that Saul got $150,000 from China.

OpIndia had exposed the bias last year
https://t.co/RAgwhsnVSL

[Pratham khanna @Portfolio_Bull]

A man named Mudit Agarwal lost his wife, Rani Agarwal, to suicide on the night of Diwali.

During the postmortem, doctors handed over her gold chains, rings, lockets and 10 bangles to the police.

Soon after, Mudit was arrested in a dowry death case.

17 years later, the court acquitted him after finding no evidence against him.

He then asked the police to return the jewellery.

The police's written reply was unbelievable:

• The jewellery was kept on the terrace to dry.
• Rain "destroyed" the gold jewellery.
• Whatever remained was taken away by monkeys.

The court questioned the police:

"Why was jewellery kept on a terrace?
And how can rain destroy gold?"

The court concluded that police officials had misappropriated the jewellery and made false entries in official records.

Yet, even today, Mudit has neither received the jewellery nor any compensation.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Just a few hours into the hunger strike, he couldn’t resist some hot chicken soup from a thermos flask.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

My jaw dropped listening to this

“My husband worked for a very large mobile gaming company, and these are the craziest things he ever told me”

He says they estimate the value of each users home by their home WiFi signal. “Let's talk about data tracking — They would estimate the value of your home, and the way they did that was by looking at your WiFi signal, and depending on how strong the signal was, they would know how far you've walked from where the router is in your house, and they could estimate the square footage of your house from that, compare that to your general location data, and guess how much your house is worth and then they would sell you coin packs based on how much money they thought you had”

“They tracked the days of the month that you got your direct deposit, your paycheck, and they would send push notifications locations and targeted ads on those days to get you to buy coins”

I verified all this is not only possibly, but it’s 100% happening

- Mobile apps with permission can access WiFi signal strength
- As you move around with your phone, the app logs how signal strength changes weaker farther from router. This can roughly estimate room sizes, floor plans and overall home footprint especially combined with GPS and location data for the neighborhood

This is not what you sign up for when you download an app

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Trade secret: three times a day they quietly run off to “relieve” themselves for a few minutes or “take a bath” - is when they have their meals.

[SARCASTIC @S0rcastic]

His name is Sarthak Goswami, and I believe the entire country needs to watch his reporting, understand it, and become more aware. If this isn't stopped now, it may never be stopped.

This video gives you an idea of how dangerous ethanol factories can be. Not only that, producing ethanol also consumes a huge amount of water, as many of you may already know.

The Ethanol Minister seems to be prioritizing personal interests over the risks of pollution and worsening water shortages. Across the country, many people oppose ethanol blending—except, it seems, the Ethanol Minister
and his son.

What are your thoughts on this?🤔

[Sachin Gupta @Sachingupta]

दिल्ली–देहरादून एक्सप्रेस वे पर सहारनपुर (यूपी) में रोड एक्सीडेंट में 3 लोगों की मौत हो गई। Tiago कार बैक हो रही थी, तभी स्कॉर्पियो की टक्कर लग गई।
@AmitGup96968797

[Vikas kapoor @_vikaskapoor]

@dmuthuk How does TN govt. plan to deal with bans imposed by state govts on use of fireworks during festival time?

[Monica Verma @TrulyMonica]

Damn! UK police is arresting people for buying and installing air conditioners as it is against the govt policy. No freedom to British citizens? Why is @BBCWorld not covering this assault on democracy?

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

(Trigger warning: Sensitive content)

In many developed countries, a school bus starts flashing its warning lights before stopping. Once it does, all traffic must stop at least 20 ft away. Vehicles coming from behind, as well as the opposite direction must also stop unless there's a divider. Traffic cannot move until the bus doors are closed and the lights stop flashing.

India has no such nationwide rule. To make matters worse, school bus staff are not adequately trained or made to feel responsible for children's safety. In many cases, the doors are simply opened and children are allowed to get off without ensuring it is safe.

That said, even if such a rule existed, there is a fair chance traffic would still ignore it.

This is why, as parents, you should always receive your children from the school bus and escort them home safely. Never leave their safety to the poor judgment or negligence of others.

Video from Beed, Maharashtra, 27 June 2026. The girl, a Class II student, fortunately survived.

[Deccan Chronicle @DeccanChronicle]

A tiger in Thailand loses patience and reacts after being abused by tourists for selfies. #StopCruelty #AnimalAbuse #SaveTigers #Thailand

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[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

You mean the same way the Palestinians went on voting for Pakistan at the OIC when our people were being killed?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Every Sunday, I had decided to share 1 story of a startup built by an exceptional Indian founder solving deep, structurally complex problems.

This week: https://t.co/w2AGE2k93X, envisioned by neurosurgeon Dr. Ajay Bakshi Ji (@bakshi_dr).

If we open any generic LLM today & ask it to explain a verse from the Upanishads/the Gita, we are highly likely to get an answer heavily filtered through 19th century European translations (like Max Müller). These colonial-era works systematically retrofitted deep Sanskrit concepts into rigid Abrahamic frameworks, simplifying Dharma to just religion/Atman to soul, completely stripping away their multi-dimensional, algebraic logic.

Worse, modern generative AI loves to hallucinate. It spits out smooth, half-remembered platitudes that sound spiritual but completely distort the actual texts.

Most of the AIs are treated as Guru these days, but Dr. sahab relied on Sevak approach. Mygurukul uses a highly curated, closed-loop library of authenticated Indic translations (completely bypassing corrupted European editions).

By running Agentic Search & RAG on top of this closed database, the platform tries to eliminate AI hallucinations. When we query a concept, it maps it across a verified living graph of texts (Vedas, Darshanas, Ayurveda, Arthashastra) & presents it completely free of charge, honoring the ancient Vidya Dana (gift of knowledge) tradition of our historical Gurukuls.

Although the philosophical foundation & engineering guardrails are brilliant, from a pure product, scalability & long-term tech roadmap perspective, the platform faces significant blind spots, IMO:

- The platform is still fundamentally relying on English as the intermediary vehicle to deliver classical Sanskrit insights to a modern audience. No matter how accurate an English translation is, it strips the vibration (dhvani) & the multi-layered etymological (Yauglika) roots of the original verse.
- Currently, the platform balances consumer-friendly features like "Daily Sacred Readings" ending in a reflective question with a backend scholarly project. The risk here is turning into a wellness/mindfulness app rather than a true intellectual fortress. If it scales purely on daily lifestyle motivation, it loses the raw, uncompromising rigor of a traditional Gurukul.
- Keeping it 100% free is a beautiful tribute to the Vidya Dana (gift of knowledge) tradition. However, scraping, maintaining, vectorizing & running agentic AI compute over 10s of 1000s of complex texts is incredibly expensive in terms of GPU costs.

Although, Dr. sahab is incredibly sharp, imo, these might be the quick fixes:

- The AI needs to map semantic distances based on actual original Sanskrit root words and Paninian grammar algorithms, displaying the Anvaya (prose order) alongside translations.
- Keep the consumer interface free to honor the Gurukul ethos, but monetize the API layer for global academia & media houses.
- Create a clear bifurcated architecture: a Sadhaka Layer (for casual readers looking for life context) & a Pundit/Scholar Sandbox.
- Also, agentic search should not just retrieve text; it must integrate audio archiving.

The platform is still quite early & is a fantastic example of using modern tech to protect ancient heritage from modern tech's own flaws. It is trying to stop AI from rewriting our past.

Anyway, at least test it once.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Absent achievement, they celebrate activity.

In 730 days State Elections

won: 1
lost: 13

[Anupam K. Singh @AnupamNawada]

चंदा चोरी की शिकायत करने वाले कारसेवक संतोष दुबे कह रहे कि चंपत राय लड़कों के बिना सो नहीं पाते। यति नरसिंहानंद ने कहा था कि चंपत राय के ड्राइवर नहीं होते, पार्टनर होते हैं।

असल मुद्दे से ध्यान भटकाया नहीं जाना चाहिए। किसी के निजी जीवन में नहीं जाना है।

[Gagan Sokhey @waveringmindz]

Ethanol blending and BS6 phase 1 thingy 🤷🏻‍♂️

Refuelled my Honda WR-V with normal petrol at IOC pump as XP95 was not available.

After refuelling, I reset the trip, etc drove the car, came to a halt at the light point, the computer showed 15.6 kmpl and in 60 seconds it came down to 7.8 kmpl.

Then started again, reached home and fuel efficiency fluctuated to 12.3 and then came down back to 9.8 when I parked at the home ramp.

Pre E20 era the car range always used to show around 540-560 kms and now it shows 400-420 kms from the 40L tank capacity.

Do I need to use any additives?
Thoughts plz @volklub @NsNitinsinha

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Stop using "please find attached" in your emails.

Here's what to say instead:

[Self Defense DIY @SelfDefenseDIY]

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