Ankit Chansoria

Officer at the Parliament of India | Digital Transformation | Electronics | AI | Education | Social Development and Public Policy

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

India needs @Starlink 🇮🇳

• 11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G coverage as of May 2026.

• India had 1.093 billion internet subscriptions in March 2026, but only 440.87 million were rural. Rural subscription density was 48.31 per 100 people, compared with 126.80 in urban India.

• BharatNet had laid over 850,000 route-km of fibre and made about 221,000 Gram Panchayats service-ready. However, its Points of Presence were reported operational at only 80,472 Gram Panchayats in June 2026.

• Only 4.26% of India’s internet subscriptions were wired connections in March 2026. Starlink could give underserved communities another route to high-speed broadband.

• Starlink has already built 20 gateway sites in India, according to SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer, speaking at India Mobile Congress today.

• Starlink says it has developed India-specific security controls designed to keep Indian user data within India.

• Its satellite network could bring high-speed internet to remote villages, mountains and islands where extending fibre or mobile networks is difficult.

• Better connectivity could help rural schools access online learning, clinics offer remote consultations and small businesses reach more customers. Starlink already supports education and healthcare in remote communities internationally.

• Portable Starlink terminals have supported disaster response around the world. They could give Indian emergency teams backup connectivity when floods, earthquakes or storms damage ground networks.

• Direct to Cell could also help ordinary 4G phones connect beyond tower coverage, subject to Indian approvals and mobile operator partnerships.

• The government itself identifies difficult terrain, low commercial viability and infrastructure constraints as reasons for remaining coverage gaps. This is exactly where Starlink could help India reach more people.

• India should complete the remaining clearances and spectrum allocation so Starlink can begin commercial service.

• SpaceX’s Vice President of Starlink Business Operations, Lauren Dreyer, said that Starlink is ready to help achieve Prime Minister Modi’s vision of 100% connectivity across India. She highlighted its potential to connect remote classrooms, support telemedicine and restore connectivity after disasters, adding, “With Starlink, people can get connected within minutes, not years.”

India’s hardest-to-reach communities deserve reliable internet too.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

MANUSMRITI, CHAPTER 3, VERSES 267 THRU 272:

tilairvrīhiyavairmāṣairadbhirmūlaphalena vā,
dattena māsaṃ tṛpyanti vidhivat pitaro nṛṇām.
“By the proper offering of sesamum, rice and barley, māṣa, water, roots and fruits, men’s pitṛ (ancestors) are satisfied for one month.”

dvau māsau matsyamāṃsena trīn māsān hāriṇena tu,
aurabhreṇātha caturaḥ śākunenātha pañca vai.
“For two months by fish-meat; for three months by the meat of deer; for four by that of sheep, and for five by that of birds.”

ṣaṇmāsāṃśchāgamāṃsena pārṣatena ca sapta vai,
aṣṭāvenasya māṃsena rauraveṇa navaiva tu.
“For six months by the meat of goat; for seven by that of spotted deer; for eight by that of the black antelope, and for nine by that of the Ruru deer.”

daśamāsāṃstu tṛpyanti varāhamahiṣāmiṣaiḥ,
śaśakūrmayostu māṃsena māsānekādaśaiva tu.
“They are satisfied for ten months by the meat of boars and buffaloes; and for eleven months by the meat of the hare and the tortoise.”

saṃvatsaraṃ tu gavyena payasā pāyasena ca,
vārdhrīṇasasya māṃsena tṛptirdvādaśavārṣikī.
“For one year by cow’s milk and milk-preparations; and by the meat of old goat there is satisfaction lasting for twelve years.”

kālaśākaṃ mahāśalkāḥ khaṅgalohāmiṣaṃ madhu,
ānantyāyaiva kalpyante munyannāni ca sarvaśaḥ.
“The porcupine, the meat of the rhinoceros and the red goat, and honey serve for endless time; as also all kinds ok her mit’s food.”

GARUDA PURANA, ACHARA KHANDA, CHAPTER 97, VERSE 72:

palāṇḍulaśunādīni jagdhvācāndrāyaṇaṃ caret,
śrāddhe devānpitṝnprārcya khādanmāṃsaṃ na doṣabhāk.
“The use of garlic or onion in food, should be atoned by performing a Cāndrāyaṇa penance. The use of any cooked meat on the occasion of Śrādha ceremony, and after dedicating it to one’s departed pitṛ does not entail any sin.”

Even your scriptures don’t respect your “sentiments.”

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

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[R. K. Singh @RajKSinghIndia]

An open letter to all my countrymen.

Do you want India to remain a democracy? Then you must understand what Gyanesh Kumar, the CEC, and his bosses are doing in the so-called SIR.
They are violating the law.
- As per Section 21 of the law, a special revision is to be undertaken only in special cases, for reasons to be recorded in writing in each case; and that also only in any constituency or part of a constituency. An order for intensive revision for the whole country was illegal. An exception allowed for special cases cannot become the rule. The Supreme Court order upholding the general SIR was wrong.
Another question is - who took the decision for SIR in the whole country? Was it the full commission; or only Gyanesh Kumar.
- Section 21 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, provides that where the revision of an electoral roll is taken up, the electoral roll in force at the time of the issue of the notification of revision shall continue in effect till the completion of the revision. The revised electoral rolls become complete only after all the appeals filed against inclusion or deletion are disposed off. Where the appeals were still pending, the original Electoral roll which was valid on the date of notification was to be used. Contrary to this the new roll with deletions was used during the elections even though appeals against deletions were still pending. This was illegal.

- Section 22 of the RP Act provides that the Electoral Registration Officer, and not anyone else, can remove a voter's name from the roll and that also only on the grounds listed in Section 22(a), (b), and (c); and only after a specific enquiry, after giving the concerned person a reasonable opportunity of being heard, and only after appeals against his order are disposed off. Gyanesh Kumar removed the names of all the voters who had been listed by the ERO's after 2003, without any basis, without any enquiry, and without any show cause to the registered voters. This was blatantly illegal.
The persons whose names were removed summarily had to apply as fresh voters in Form 6 and give evidence that they were eligible to be registered. This is a clear violation of the Supreme Court judgement in Lal Babu Hussain and Others v. Electoral Registration Officer and Others, [(1995) 3 SCC 100], which held that the enquiry authority or the objector and not the voter - must bring forth material evidence to back any claim that an enrolled voter be disqualified. And in such cases the voter must be asked to show cause why his name should not be removed on the basis of the grounds adduced by the enquiry officer. All this did not happen.

The established jurisprudence is that the onus to prove that there are sufficient grounds for subjecting any person to a disability or punishment is on the
person or institution which is seeking to inflict the punishment. Here, Gyanesh Kumar has inverted the burden of proof. This is also against the law.

Up to now, the efforts of the Government and the Election Commission have always been to enroll all eligible voters. It was a mission to deepen democracy and empower all citizens. This is the first time in history of the country that the mission is to disenfranchise people.

Gyanesh Kumar added a new appendix to Form 6. He was not authorised to do so, as Form 6 is mandated by statutory rules. And he added this himself – against the views of the two election commissioners. The decisions of the commission are to be taken either unanimously – or by a majority. The majority was against the addition of the new appendix to the form. So the addition of the new appendix was against the decisions of the Commission itself. So why was it added? On whose orders? This was illegal. This appendix asks the applicant to state the serial number in the 2003 voter list on which their parents' names were listed. Where can an ordinary person – a young man of 18; access the 2003 roll in 2026? This stopped the registration of all young voters. BJP knows that young voters will not vote for it.

Objections to inclusion of voters names in form 7 were filed in bulk. Who filed them? How were the forms accepted and acted upon when the persons who signed it did not appear?

Names of 16 lac voters found valid by the ERO were not registered in Bengal because, it seems, the EC filed appeals against them. Why? On which grounds? Who authorised the Commission to file appeals? Two Election Commissioners say they did not do so. So the Commission did not authorise anyone to file appeals. Who did it? Gyanesh Kumar? These people were prevented from voting in the election.

So the Election Commission and some people from a political party were acting in cahoots to get bogus Form 7 objections filed in bulk and delete names?

How were elections allowed to be held when the appeals of lakhs of voters were pending? The ECI and the Supreme Court have to answer. The appeals which have been decided show that 90% of the voters who were left out were valid.

A ridiculous thing was brought up called "logical discrepancy". Gyanesh Kumar does not have any idea of how the poor live in India. Their children are not born in hospitals. They do not have birth certificates. They do not have calendars in their homes. When the BLO approached them to enroll them in the voter list they gave their estimated year of birth. Similarly, when their fathers' names were enrolled in the electoral roll, they gave their estimated year of birth. The dumb people in the Election Commission, under Gyanesh Kumar, said that any difference of less than 15 years between father and children would be a logical discrepancy justifying excluding their names. The “Logical Discrepancy” names were excluded without enquiry, contrary to sec 21 of the act.

The largest number of exclusions have been the poor and the underprivileged, those without a voice. They were and are mostly away from their homes, earning their daily bread. Lakhs are working in faraway places/states. They could not and cannot afford to go back to their homes for a month to get their names registered. They will go hungry if they do not earn. They cannot fill the complicated forms. They do not have birth certificates and the papers. Why should they sacrifice their daily wages for a vote?

The illegal immigrants are not affected. The first thing they do on entering India is to get their documentation made—Aadhaar card, ration card, etc. The earlier immigrants are their support systems. It is the poor Indian citizens who have been disenfranchised. The dumb people in the Election Commission and their bosses did not understand this. Or they wanted it this way.

Gyanesh Kumar has made a digital electoral roll and empowered it to refuse addition of names because of “Logical discrepancy”. In the name of "Logical discrepancy", the names of millions of voters have not been included. This is against the law. The only authority designated by law to add or delete names and publish the electoral rolls is the Electoral Registration Officer. Contrary to this, the electoral roll was centralised and the revision happened centrally. This was illegal.

Two Election Commissioners pointed out that the only people authorized to add or delete names – the ERO, the DEO and the CEO were not being allowed to access the voter list. In Goa, 97 electors were found by the ERO to be valid and fit for inclusion in the roll. They have not been able to add their names to the roll as yet.

The centralisation of the voter list amendment is dangerous. It can be used to cut voters from booths which vote against NDA. Is this what happened?

Deleting voters names before verification is a heinous offence, and Gyanesh Kumar is guilty thereof.

13 crores names have been deleted by SIR so far. This is 13% of the voters, and SIR is not over. The difference between NDA and INDIA in the 2024 elections was only 3%. So the deletion have had and will have a material impact on the elections.

The press note issued after the Commission meeting on 26th September confirms the illegalities mentioned above.

Did Gyanesh Kumar commit all these illegalities himself or was he directed to do so by his bosses?

The Opposition says that they will impeach Gyanesh Kumar. That is an exercise in futility. They just do not have the numbers. If they really want a remedy, they should file criminal cases against Gyanesh Kumar.

The next step to be taken is that all opposition parties should unite and say that they will not participate in any election till the CEC and Election Commissioners' resign and the selection of their successors is as per the previous selection system, with the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and a sitting Supreme Court judge. Elections held in states while the appeals of lakhs of voters were pending must be set aside and fresh elections held. And the poll must be held by ballot not by EVMs because no electronic system has yet been invented which cannot be hacked. That is why none of the economically and digitally advanced countries use EVMs.

If we want to preserve our democracy the whole country will need to be made aware and united.

The reputation of the Supreme Court has been besmirched by the judgement on SIR. It is at par in infamy with the judgement upholding the emergency. Hon’ble Judges may please note.

The procrastination on the challenge to the law on selection of Election Commissioners is also sending a bad message about the Supreme Court – as it is an open and shut case that the Election Commissioners should not be selected by the party in power; but by a neutral selection committee to ensure their neutrality.
Let us unite to save our democracy.
RK Singh
(IAS Retd. Ex Union Home Secretary)

@abhijeet_dipke @Cockroachisback @RahulGandhi @kharge @ArvindKejriwal @MamataOfficial @yadavakhilesh @mkstalin @yadavtejashwi @Pawankhera

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I love swimming in the sea when it's rough. It teaches you that rough is just another kind of calm.

[Zatchfcb @zatchfcb]

Hands down the best Youtube short ever made. What an incredible edit! 👏

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

https://t.co/Ye9CVzr8qU

[Kaustubh Misra @MisraKaustubh]

Delhi has housed at least 18 empires & is dotted with their remains. The history nerd in me has always wanted to trace the kingdoms who built these monuments, where in Delhi were they built & where their remains stand today.

I've made a website for this: https://t.co/URWAZb7Aic

[Mahakaushal State - Jabalpur Capital @coooolamit4646]

जगत अन्नू जी

आप महापौर हो कोई सड़क के युवा नेता नहीं हो जो शहर को पोस्टरों से पाट दोगे
आप पर शहर को सुंदर बनाने की जिम्मेदारी है न कि शहर को पोस्टरों से बदसूरत बनाने की

कृपया आप "काम करू जहाँत भर गाना गाऊं रात भर" वाला काम मत कीजिए

बाकी शहर जनता है आपने क्या उखड़ा है 4 साल में

[Arun Arora @Arun2981]

आम जनमत पार्टी - 620 करोड़
• गरीब कल्याण पार्टी - 138 करोड़
• सत्यवादी रक्षक पार्टी - 330 करोड़
• स्वतंत्र अभिव्यक्ति पार्टी - 219 करोड़
• न्यू इंडिया यूनाइटेड पार्टी - 200 करोड़
• भारतीय नेशनल जनता पार्टी - 191 करोड़

ये इन गुजरात की पोलिटिकल पार्टीज़ का पैसा किसके पास गया होगा?

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Very good story @shubhangi_misra 👍 last year also @Divya_Bhaskar did a similar story . Will @ECISVEEP investigate as to who is putting large monies into these small unknown parties (in this instance they are Gujarat based but they are all across India!) ? Will ED check if this another gigantic money laundering exercise? Or are some issues not to be touched?

[Ankit Chansoria @ankitchansoria]

इतनी कंगाली ?

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

Itna plagiarism @ndtv @ndtvindia ???

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

Itna plagiarism @ndtv @ndtvindia ???

[Nistula Hebbar @nistula]

Parliamentary Affairs Minister @KirenRijiju told @the_hindu that there is no proposal to have any special session from August 16 to 18 on Women’s Reservation and Delimitation bills, reports @fewcan

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

This guy lost his phone at the office. Find My was disabled by his company's MDM. Spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Nothing.

So he asked Claude how to find it. Claude suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength. Then wrote him a working signal meter in about a minute.

He walked around watching the number climb. Found it.

Here's what the tool actually does.

→ Scans every nearby Bluetooth device and shows signal strength in real time
→ Hunt mode lets you track one specific device by name
→ Add sound and it clicks faster as you get closer, like a parking sensor
→ Works from the command line, no app, no dependencies, no Find My needed

The signal strength tells you roughly where you are. Arm's reach, same table, same room, far away. You walk slowly, watch the bar move, and zero in.

He open sourced the entire thing.

@un1c0rnioz

[beamnxw ./ @beamnxw]

This paper is f*cking brilliant

A computer science paper replaces Mixture-of-Agents with Graph-of-Agents for multi-LLM collaboration

The result: structured node sampling, directed message passing, and graph pooling deliver state-of-the-art benchmark scores using only 3 active agents instead of 6

The crazy part is how graph engineering cuts multi-agent inference cost while improving decision accuracy

Relevant model nodes are sampled via domain cards, directed edges pass responses from expert to generalist models, and graph pooling aggregates final consensus

Most multi-agent architectures blindly feed every query to every model in the pool

This framework converts multi-agent collaboration into an optimized communication graph

Read the complete paper + article below

Bookmark it for future reference

[Prahlad Singh Patel ( वृक्ष से जल, जल से जीवन) @prahladspatel]

"भारतीय जनता पार्टी छोटे राज्यों की समर्थक है। महाकौशल एक अत्यंत व्यापक और समृद्ध क्षेत्र है। जितना खनिज संसाधन इस क्षेत्र में उपलब्ध है, उतना पूरे राज्य में कहीं और नहीं है। इसी प्रकार, जल संसाधनों के दृष्टिकोण से भी यह क्षेत्र बेहद संपन्न है।

मैं स्वयं जियोलॉजी का छात्र रहा हूँ। संपूर्ण भारत में जितनी 'जियो-प्रॉपर्टी' जबलपुर संभाग क्षेत्र में उपलब्ध है, उतनी पूरे देश में किसी अन्य स्थान पर देखने को नहीं मिलती। जब इतने विपुल और समृद्ध संसाधन हमारे पास मौजूद हैं, तब उनके अनुपात में हम विकास के पैमाने पर कहाँ खड़े हैं—यह सवाल लोग अक्सर उठाते हैं, और इस विषय में कोई दो राय नहीं है।"

(IBC24 संवाद)

[President of India @rashtrapatibhvn]

The Invitation from the President of India to the guests for Independence Day Reception reflects the cultural and artistic diversity of Bharat.
This year's Invitation celebrates the interdependence between communities, creativity and conservation. The theme of this year's invitation and the Reception is inspired by the vibrant living art traditions of Chhattisgarh, Goa, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

[Mahax @Mahaximus_]

Anthropic engineer:

"You don't need better prompts. You need graph engineering that turns agents into one system."

In 25 minutes he shows how Anthropic builds graphs where agents have roles, run in parallel, and share a memory that never resets.

The missing piece most people skip: how to wire those agents so the graph catches its own mistakes.

Watch it, then read the full guide on graph engineering below.

[Ichigo @iiiichigo_chan]

This paper is f*cking insane.

Prompt Engineering just got replaced by Graph Engineering.

A new 20-page paper formalized what the best AI builders are already doing:

Stop writing one giant prompt.

Build a graph of agents instead.

Planner → specialists → verifier → feedback loop.

The authors test this definition against LangGraph, DSPy, AutoGen, CrewAI, Prompt Flow, and Claude Code subagents.

The prompt is no longer the system.

The graph around it is.

Bookmark this, then read the full Graph Engineering guide below.