Ananth

Jack of quite a wide variety of trades.

[Ananth @ananth]

e-City off Hyderabad is built with ambitious goal to improve the country's electronics manufacturing capability. Industries can not thrive here unless Telangana state govt commits to provide basic infrastructure like roads within the industrial area. @OffDSB @TelanganaCMO 1/

[Ananth @ananth]

Can @ExicomPower / @ExicomEnergy ransack ecity roads and footpath like this? @CommissionrGHMC @sjaju1 @HYDTP @cyberabadpolice

[Ananth @ananth]

@scribnar @ShegunTweets Pure fun. Excitement of programming. Infinite possibilities.

[Ananth @ananth]

So nice of you @sjaju1 sir, for visiting ecity facility last week. But they cleaned/patched it up ahead of your visit. Now please come and see: 1. Heavy vehicles parked on road obstructing traffic, 2. Loose sand on roads (risk of skid). 3. Pathholes

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

Nuts: How much is healthy? Which ones? Raw, roasted or soaked?

Nuts are among the healthiest foods you can add to your diet. But there is a lot of confusion around them:

❓How many should you eat?
❓Are almonds better than peanuts?
❓Should you soak them overnight?
❓Are roasted nuts unhealthy?
❓Are nuts the same as dry fruits?
Let us separate science from social-media nutrition myths. Bookmark this thread for future reference, and share for wider reach.
1/n

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The same walk before and after the zombie outbreak in SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004). 🤯

[T M Krishna @tmkrishna]

While the english media is talking about NEET exams reform etc, one person has been forgotten, he name is S. Anitha, a Dalit student who committed suicide. She was the first victim of this oppressive and discriminative central exam system called NEET. It would be respectful to remember her at this moment.

[Suresh Kumar R @scribnar]

If you don’t pay for the product, then you are the product

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

What kind of 'terrorist' fasts for 16 days to attract govt's attention?
What kind of 'anti-national' puts his life at risk to make education minister accountable?

It's shocking to see that this govt isn't even responding to Sonam Wangchuk's near-death situation. #SonamWangchuk

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

Your heart disease risk is not determined by just one blood test. It is the combination that matters.

▶️Think of these 3 markers as three different pathways leading to heart attack and stroke:
🟠 LDL-C → Cholesterol that drives plaque formation
🟠Lipoprotein(a) → Genetically inherited risk that accelerates atherosclerosis and clotting
🟠 hs-CRP → Ongoing inflammation that makes plaques more unstable

▶️Recent studies, including a large JACC 2026 cohort, show that each marker independently predicts future cardiovascular disease.
▶️But when 2 or all 3 are elevated, the risk rises progressively, regardless of ethnicity.

✅One marker can miss risk. Together, they provide a much clearer picture.

▶️If you have a strong family history of premature heart disease, or multiple risk factors, discuss with your doctor whether checking all three (LDL-C, Lipoprotein(a), and hs-CRP) would help better estimate your cardiovascular risk.

✅Lower cholesterol, reduce inflammation and know your Lipoprotein(a).
✅Prevention starts before the first heart attack.

Dr Sudhir Kumar @hyderabaddoctor

[Ragu @rpattabi]

S. Janaki's voice transcended borders, languages, and even across film music eras. RIP 💔

[Ragu @rpattabi]

தமிழின் ஒரு அருமையான எழுத்தாளர் மறைந்துவிட்டார். 😢

அவருடைய "வெக்கை" தான் "அசுரன்" என்ற படம் ஆனது. படத்தைவிட அந்த நாவல் மிக ஆழமானது.

https://t.co/F8xuSxsdOQ

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[Ananth @ananth]

@55SweetThing Delightful playing. Which composition is it?

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Whine-Yard @HAX_u_ANYTIME]

In addition to all the useless taxes that were extracted from me and fellow citizens, I'm willing to donate few more bags of cement to fix this abomination near IKEA, which is also next to that 250cr per acre auction you've recently achieved.

Kindly advise to process to donate.

Cc @CYBTRAFFIC @cyberabadpolice @GummallaSrijana @MC_Cyberabad

[Ananth @ananth]

Oh, it's Scottish Lungi!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The most interesting thing about a Scottish Highland Great Kilt is that it's a "skirt".

This is how they wear a traditional one.

[📹andythehighlander]

[Ananth @ananth]

Dear @CommissionrGHMC, e-city area roads are full of loose sand and gravel. Bikers frequently skid and fall. No action from GHMC despite multiple complaints. Just need some cleaning, nothing major. Please save the engineers building India's future🙏
@CoreenaSuares2 @TelanganaCMO

[Rushil @RushilM_]

🚨 FASTag has a MASSIVE security loophole & nobody is talking about it.

Today, literally anyone with access to your car & RC can get a NEW FASTag issued on your vehicle in THEIR name & mobile number.

No OTP.
No owner authorization.
No consent from the actual vehicle owner.

The moment that happens?
Your existing FASTag gets blacklisted/deactivated instantly under the “One Vehicle One FASTag” policy.

That’s exactly what happened to me.

I’m currently transporting my car from Mumbai to Delhi & handed over the vehicle to the transporter’s driver on Saturday.

He casually asked me if there was balance in the FASTag.

Next morning, I received a message from ICICI saying a new FASTag had been activated on my vehicle & my existing FASTag would be deactivated.

Within minutes, it was blacklisted/deactivated.

Honestly, God knows what the plan even was.

Maybe he thought the balance would transfer.
Maybe he wanted to misuse it during transit.
Maybe something worse.

The scary part?
The system ALLOWED this without a single authorization from the actual vehicle owner.

The NETC FASTag portal was down the entire day.

After 4+ hours of calls, ICICI finally told me the new FASTag was issued via Airtel Payments Bank.

Later, I checked the Airtel Thanks app & guess what?
The FASTag had been registered by the SAME driver who took the car.

This is where things become ridiculous.

Airtel Payments Bank support told me THEY cannot close the FASTag unless the person who activated it calls them personally.

Read that again.

The actual vehicle owner has ZERO control over the FASTag -
but the person who fraudulently activated it does.

The NHAI helpline at 1033 was equally useless.

No emergency block.
No fraud handling.
No owner protection mechanism.

So if someone activates a FASTag on your car, you’re basically stranded.

How is this acceptable infrastructure for something linked to a vehicle owner’s identity & movement?

This is no longer just a scam.
It’s a massive security vulnerability in the FASTag ecosystem.

NPCI/NETC urgently needs mandatory owner authorization.

At the very least, mandate OTP verification from the registered vehicle owner before ANY FASTag change is approved.

This needs immediate attention, @NPCI_NPCI @FASTag_NETC.

Pathetic support, zero accountability, and absolutely no protection for the actual vehicle owner while someone else fraudulently took control of the FASTag.
That should never be possible, @ICICIBank @airtelbank.

[Ananth @ananth]

Company is constructing factory in Hyderabad ecity, destroyed the sidewalk and piled up mud/sand on the road like this causing danger to commuters. Is this allowed? @CEC_EVDM @GHMCOnline @CommissionrGHMC @CPHydCity @HYDTP @hydcitypolice https://t.co/BXb4egXNnw

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Stanford neuroscientist published a paper a few years ago that quietly answered one of the oldest questions in human history, and almost nobody outside his field has heard of it.

The question is why we dream. Not what dreams mean. Why they exist at all. Why your brain spends a third of its sleep hallucinating images instead of just resting like every other organ in your body.

His name is David Eagleman.

He runs a lab at Stanford. The paper is called "The Defensive Activation Theory", and the moment you read it the explanation collapses every other theory you have ever been taught about dreams.

Freud said dreams were repressed desires. He was guessing. He had no brain scans. He had no electrodes. He had a couch and a notebook and a century of credibility that nobody has been able to fully scrub off the subject since.

Modern neuroscience replaced him with the memory "consolidation theory". The idea that dreams are your brain sorting through the day, filing things away, deciding what to keep. That story is partially true. Sleep does consolidate memory. But it does not explain the single strangest thing about dreams, which is that they are almost entirely visual.

You do not dream in pure sound. You do not dream in taste. You do not dream in smell. You dream in pictures. Vivid, detailed, often impossible pictures that activate the back of your brain so hard a scientist scanning you would think your eyes were wide open.

Eagleman started from one fact almost nobody outside neuroscience knows. The brain is territorial. Every region holds its turf through constant electrical activity. The moment a region goes quiet, its neighbors start invading. They take the silent territory and reassign it to themselves.

This is called "cortical takeover", and it is not slow. It is not a long process measured in years. In experiments where adults are blindfolded, the visual cortex starts processing touch and sound within an hour. One hour of darkness, and the territory is already being annexed.

In congenitally blind people, the visual cortex is fully repurposed. It runs language. It runs hearing. It runs touch. The hardware never went unused. It was just reassigned to whoever showed up first.

Now sit with the implication of that for a second.

Every night, when you close your eyes and fall asleep, the sun has set. The planet has rotated. The visual cortex, which takes up roughly a third of your entire cortex, is suddenly receiving zero input. For eight hours. Every single night. For your entire life. And evolution has shaped your brain inside a planet that has been spinning into darkness for billions of years.

If cortical takeover happens in an hour, the visual cortex should have been lost a long time ago. Stolen by hearing. Stolen by touch. Reassigned by morning. Humans should have evolved into a species whose vision works fine during the day and then degrades every time the sun goes down because the territory keeps getting renegotiated overnight.

But that did not happen. Vision works the moment you open your eyes. Which means something is defending the territory while you sleep.

Eagleman's claim is that dreams are that defense.

Every 90 minutes through the night, a precise burst of activity fires from the brainstem into the visual cortex. Pontine-geniculate-occipital waves. PGO for short. They are anatomically aimed. They are not general arousal.

They are a targeted volley of signal launched directly at the back of the brain where vision lives. The cortex lights up as if it is receiving real images, and you experience that artificial activation as a dream. The bizarre narrative your conscious mind invents around it later is just your brain trying to make sense of the noise.

The dream is not the point. The dream is the side effect. The point is keeping the territory occupied.

The evidence for this is the part that should haunt you.

Newborns spend roughly 50% of their sleep in REM. Adults spend twenty. Old adults spend fifteen. The amount of dreaming you do tracks almost perfectly with how plastic your brain is. Newborns have the most plastic brains on earth. Their visual cortex is in the highest danger of being overrun by neighboring senses while it develops.

So evolution gave them an enormous defense budget. As you age, your brain becomes less plastic, the takeover risk drops, and the defense system scales down accordingly.

Eagleman and his co-author ran the same correlation across twenty-five primate species. The more plastic a species' brain, the higher the proportion of REM sleep. The relationship held across the entire primate family tree. Plasticity and dreaming move together. They are two halves of the same evolutionary equation.

A species that ranks higher on flexibility and learning also dreams more. A species that is born ready to walk and survive dreams less. Plasticity is the asset. Dreaming is the insurance premium.

And the prediction the theory makes is the one that quietly closes the case.

Of all your senses, only one is disadvantaged by darkness. You can still hear in the dark. You can still feel in the dark. You can still smelll and taste in the dark. The only sense that depends on light is vision. Which is exactly the sense your dreams are made of. The defense system is targeted at the only territory that is actually vulnerable while you sleep.

Memory consolidation is real. Emotional processing is real. Your brain does do those things at night. But Eagleman's argument is that those functions piggyback on a much older system whose original job was simpler and more brutal. Keep the lights on inside the visual cortex while the planet is dark, or lose it.

For thousands of years, people have asked what dreams mean. Prophets wrote about them. Poets wrote about them. Freud built a discipline on them. None of them had access to the actual answer, which is that dreams may not mean anything in the symbolic sense at all.

They may be the visible flicker of a defense system running in the background, the way a screen saver protects a monitor by keeping the pixels moving even when nobody is looking.

The strangest thing about the theory is how cleanly it explains why dreams feel so real. Your visual cortex cannot tell the difference between a PGO wave and an actual photon. It is the same hardware lighting up the same way. The cortex does its job. It builds an image. Your conscious mind, half-awake, wraps a story around it and calls it a dream.

You are not seeing your subconscious tonight. You are watching your brain defend a piece of itself from being stolen.

Every animal that has ever closed its eyes on this planet has done the same thing.