Ajesh Philip

Interests in geo-politics, current affairs, history, wild life & Cricket

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

Sam Harris : The End of Faith https://t.co/CZbDu3q2BM via @YouTube

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

A dog used to follow pilgrims to a Hindu religious site in Sri Lanka, and videos of it were shared warmly in Sri Lankan Hindu circles.

In late June, offended by the videos, a Muslim man went to the pilgrimage site, located the dog, kicked it, and uploaded the video, sparking outrage. During one such argument, a Sri Lankan Muslim wrote a derogatory post against the Hindu deity.

Anojan Sivarasa, a Sri Lankan Hindu working as a laborer in Saudi Arabia, didn't like the comment and responded with a reply that was allegedly derogatory to the Prophet.

Anojan's well-wisher immediately warned him. He took down the comment and issued a video apology within five minutes in which he said he was responding to an insult to his faith. However, it was too late. Anojan's fellow Sri Lankan Muslims had already taken a screenshot and emailed it to his employer in Saudi Arabia. His employer promptly reported it to the authorities, who arrested Anojan and put him on trial. He has been sentenced to death.

Saudi Arabia rarely reverses a decision once it has made one, but there should be global outrage over this. Blasphemy laws or whatever, the man was only responding to an insult to his faith, deleted the comment, and issued an apology within minutes, yet he will still have to pay with his life while those who provoked him are rejoicing in Sri Lanka. This is unacceptable. Anyone calling themselves a free speech supporter and not opposing this is a hypocrite of the highest order.

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@omarali50 @dsen68 Precisely, when religious/ideological biases takes over, plain facts become invisible.

[omar ali @omarali50]

@dsen68 Half the frigging world has decided it makes more sense to believe that bibi hired an Arab to attack an Indian, shake up the plane, but don't make it fatal, and have another 174 actors make uninformative videos then land in Saudi Arabia for maximum cultural impact 😭

[Khalid Baig @KhalidBaig85]

India has won 6 Gold Medals in a single day, Friday, 2nd Oct,2026 at the Asian Games taking place in Japan.

Fantabulous Achievement.

🏅 🥇 🏅 🥇 🏅 🏅

1. Boxing-Lovlina Borgohain: Women's 75kg

2. Boxing-Parveen Hooda :Women's final

3. Boxing-Ankush Panghal: Men's 80kg

4. Wrestling-Sujeet Kalkal

5. Archery-Ankita Bhakat, Kirti and Kumkum Mohod

6. Women's Hockey Team-Finals

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

Brilliant compact defending Indian women to win historic gold at Asian games 👏👏

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.

Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.

He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.

I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.

[🇮🇱 Reuven Azar @ReuvenAzar]

Together with 🇮🇱&🇮🇳&🇦🇪 nations I pray for the life of Captain Smit Machchhar, the experienced and gifted hero Indian pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073.
His courage & the courage of other Israeli & Emirati passengers & crew members saved the lives of 180 souls.

🇮🇱🇮🇳🇦🇪 United against terrorism !

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

A tiny newborn elephant was swept away from its mother while trying to cross the swollen Teesta River in India.

Fishermen spotted its trunk above the water and chased it for nearly 4 km through the powerful current before pulling the exhausted calf to safety.

Then, after a two-hour search, they found its mother. She rushed to her baby, took it back and began nursing it❤

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

The only thing watchable on TV. Whatay voice!

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@omarali50 @SouvickCh Cowardice has been feature of Pak judiciary barring few exceptions

[Damn. @Theonenameddamn]

Peak detailed aditya Dhar has confirmed that Jaskirat's mother saw him but deliberately ignored him because her pension was more important to her than her lost son.

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@randomvichar @AmrikanDesiAnon Shakti ka santulan bana rehna chahiye, communities which used to give some leeway to the other side, will push back once they realise the lack of reciprocity, it’s a natural human behaviour

[Lover Boi @Kuchhupuchhu]

Biggest Indian L

[India Aesthetica @IndiaAesthetica]

Happy Independence Day to the most diversely beautiful country on the planet.🏔️🌳🌊🇮🇳

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@balaji25_t @LakshmiManchu @rashmigautam27 @harshachemudu Congratulations, keep shining

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Picture a roaring, icy river slicing through the isolated Spiti Valley in 1972. The local villagers are completely cut off by a mountain collapse. The military says a traditional concrete/riveted steel bridge will take yrs to bring heavy machinery up the treacherous cliffs.

Then, a young woman steps out onto the frozen mud wearing a hard hat, carrying a set of rolled up blueprints under her arm.

She does not have bulldozers. She does not have massive cranes. Instead, she brings trucks loaded with small, lightweight steel components, like a adult-sized structural Lego set. In just 4 months, w/o a single piece of heavy machinery, her team hand-assembles a rock-solid, load-bearing steel bridge across the gorge.

Her name was Shakuntala Bhagat & she was changing the rules of civil engineering forever.

Born in 1933, Shakuntala was the daughter of S.B. Joshi, a legendary figure known as the "Father of Bridge Engineering in India". While other young girls of the 1940s were expected to follow quiet, traditional paths, Shakuntala spent her childhood staring at bridge trusses & stress diagrams.

In 1949, she walked into the classrooms of VJTI in Bombay. The lecture hall went dead silent. Dozens of male students turned to stare at the only woman in the room. In 1953, at just 20 yrs old, she walked out with a degree, making history as India’s 1st female civil engineer.

She flew to the United States, earned her Master's in Structural Engineering from Penn & trained across Germany & the UK.

When she returned home in the 1960s, she joined IIT Bombay as an Assistant Prof, taking charge as the Head of the Heavy Structures Lab.

At IIT Bombay, Prof. Shakuntala was obsessed with a single problem: Why did Indian infra take so long to build?Traditional steel bridges relied on slow, dangerous, on-site welding & heavy riveting. If a flood wiped out a road in Arunachal Pradesh/Kashmir, cut-off communities had to wait yrs for a replacement bridge.

In the late 1960s, turning her small Bombay apartment into a late night workshop littered with steel prototypes & stress formulas, Shakuntala & her engineer husband, Anirudh Bhagat, cracked the code.

They invented & patented the Quadricon Modular Bridge System & the Bhagat Unishear Connector.

Instead of custom-casting a bridge for every river, their system used mass-produced, interchangeable, lightweight steel modules. They could be packed onto small trucks, hauled up narrow mountain tracks & assembled on-site using simple hand tools, reducing bridge construction time from yrs to weeks.

Yet, when they took this revolutionary idea to institutional investors & govt departments for R&D funding, they were met with cold skepticism.

"If advanced Western nations have not developed a total-system modular steel bridge like this, how can an Indian couple do it?"

The establishment refused to back them. She & her husband took massive personal financial risks, mortgaging their own assets to build & test the prototypes themselves. In 1972, the Invention Promotion Board awarded them the highest honor for the Unishear connector.

The skeptics were forced to eat their words.

Shahkuntala Bhagat went on to design & oversee the construction of 200+ Quadricon steel bridges worldwide, including 69 vital superstructures across India’s most dangerous border terrains, from the high passes of Kashmir to the dense forests of Arunachal Pradesh, as well as projects in the US, the UK & Germany.

In 1993, she was named Woman Engineer of the Year.

When she passed away in 2012 at the age of 79, she left behind an army of students & a country connected by her steel.

We celebrate the famous monuments of concrete and glass in our metros, yet few history books mention the woman in a hard hat who stood on freezing riverbeds to connect India's most forgotten corners.

The next time you travel through a remote mountain pass in the Himalayas & your vehicle rolls smoothly over a steel bridge spanning a deadly gorge, look closely at the steel joints beneath you. You are driving across the indestructible genius of Shakuntala Bhagat.

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@prasannavishy Why Hyderabad not there, arguably the 4th largest economic zone?

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

@TweetinderKaul Substituted all attacking players barring Messi 😬

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

Spain thoroughly deserved to be the World champions, with such a young and talented team, can easily win many more in trophies in the 10 years

[Ajesh Philip @ajeshphilip]

When is VAR used in Football, that Williams goal looked legit?