Biswajit Sahoo

Knowledge Management Pro I Project Consultant I Social Entrepreneur I Tweets are original, RTs are not.

[Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS @vikramsampath]

Sadly the writers & @SwarajyaMag never heard of private efforts including @fihcr_info , @brhat_in , @midf_org , @BodhaResearch , @IndicaOrg @archive_indian & several others involved in long-term institution-building with or without govts in the loop! Govt institutions which are white elephants with bureaucratic tardiness hardly have any leverage or influence today unlike 1960s, esp with the young

[Riddhishree🎀 @Riddhishree27]

A to Z Songs of Asha Bhosle

Remembering the legendary Asha Bhosle on her birth anniversary❤️

A voice that gave us countless unforgettable melodies, moods, and memories

Which Asha Bhosle song is your absolute favourite? 💕👇

[The_Empress_Sridevi @SrideviEmpress]

Remembering the legendary Asha Bhosle Ji on her birth anniversary.
Her voice and Sridevi’s magic created an unforgettable musical legacy. Asha Ji sang the most songs for #Sridevi among all playback singers.
Two legends, forever alive through their music. ❤️
#AshaBhosle

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

@SqSehrish 16

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

#Cuttack is drowning under incessant rains, but for the administration, this disaster is just an 'Aapada mein Sampada' for a challan drive! The flagship Taladanda Canal Road is submerged completely making it entirely impassable for both cars and two-wheelers, lifeline of the city NH-16 is crumbling to deliver and the Samrat Talkies underpass was blocked by #PWD_Odisha with zero warning and advisory. While desperate citizens struggle through the chaos to pick up their kids or navigate to make their ends meet before the next downpour, the Commissionerate Police is completely missing from traffic management. Instead, traffic constables deployed at Samrat Hall are busy clicking photos to penalize victims of this civic collapse. To make a complete mockery of our suffering, their official X handle has zero traffic advisories which is only limited to BBSR city and the public grievance number remains permanently switched off. Stop profiting off from public misery and do your basics. #CuttackRains #OdishaPolice #AdministrativeApathy @cpbbsrctc @DCP_TRAFFIC @DGPOdisha @CuttackDM @CMCCuttack @CMO_Odisha @otvnews @sambad_odisha @ArgusNews_in @NEWS7Odia

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

The #consumer watch dog @jagograhakjago has completely surrendered to these quick commerce nuisance where all market players collectively ensured no consumer rights protected than only safe guard of their corporate interest. #consumerrights #Indianconsumers

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

Extremely disappointed receiving @hfltd Heritage Gold Milk received from @JioMart with all packages split and damaged. There is no packaging date listed. Expiration date is hard to locate. Pathetic arbitrary @JioMart_Support to register a complain.

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

Worst @JioMart @JioMart_Support intentionally restricts photo uploading of damaged received products with deliberate technical
snag. Poor consumers can’t even escalate it on WhatsApp. The chat bot doesn’t have the templates to receive a consumer complain.

[Dinesh Kumar @DineshRedBull]

एक बंदर ने एक बच्चे को बालकनी से गिरने से बचा लिया, और यह नज़ारा देखकर सभी हैरान रह गए।

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.

His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.

The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.

Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.

After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.

Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.

She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.

The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.

The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.

Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.

You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.

He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.

Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.

The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.

This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.

The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.

Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.

Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.

His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.

He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.

He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.

The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.

They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

[Russian Army @RussianSpoof]

A Russian soldier reportedly tried to stop a Ukrainian FPV drone by throwing his rifle at it.

Yes, you read that right.

Do you think he survived this moment ?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Smooth moves caught on camera

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

What is walking with self-confidence ...

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

I could not stop watching this. In China they make denim from Abaca banana stalks from the Philippines.

Whole Process was mesmerizing! 😳

[𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐣 𝐊𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐫 @XGuruManoj]

For many years, India depended heavily on imported MRI machines — expensive systems that required liquid helium and consumed high amounts of power, placing them beyond the reach of numerous hospitals.

Now, Bengaluru-based startup VoxelGrids has introduced India’s first fully indigenous 1.5-tesla MRI scanner. The system is already functioning at a cancer care centre in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, marking a meaningful development in the country’s medical technology journey.

What makes this innovation stand out is not just that it is manufactured in India, but that it is engineered specifically for Indian conditions:
• No dependence on liquid helium
• Reduced power consumption
• Approximately 40% lower cost compared to imported alternatives

For hospitals operating under tight capital budgets, VoxelGrids also provides a pay-per-use model, helping extend advanced diagnostic imaging to underserved and remote areas.

Leading this breakthrough is founder Arjun Arunachalam, who returned from a research career in the United States with the goal of addressing a long-standing gap in India’s healthcare infrastructure. With support from institutions such as Tata Trusts, the team dedicated years to research, refinement, and development to build a solution suited to domestic needs.

This achievement represents more than just a new medical device. It reflects a broader transition — from reliance to self-reliance, from importing technology to innovating at home, and from limited access to wider inclusion in healthcare services.

#MakeInIndia
#HealthcareInnovation
#MedicalTechnology
#IndianStartup
#AffordableHealthcare
#Innovation

[OFSDS @OFSDS_Projects]

The 14th National Workshop on JICA Assisted Forestry Projects concluded in Bhubaneswar. 200+ delegates and 12 states united to shape #FutureReadyForestry through climate resilience and digital transformation.
#Odisha #ForestGovernance #CAMPAOdisha #OFSDP

[OFSDS @OFSDS_Projects]

#Odisha leads India’s forestry future again. Hosting the 14th National Workshop of JICA-assisted Forestry Projects at Bhubaneswar (11–13 Feb'26), the state brings experts together on climate resilience, digital forestry & sustainable wood economies. #ForestGovernance #CAMPAOdisha

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

Honestly, it’s impressive how consistently HP Gas manages to delay every refill. This makes it the 3rd month in a row where had to wait over 10 days 4 delivery. Some next-level commitment to “testing customer patience”! Consumer No: 650397
UID: 21200991200000107 #HPGas

[Biswajit Sahoo @cambiswajit]

@HPCL Bravo on those flashy digital ads!🤳 LPG booked 7 days ago (No: 1250991200181382) apps, WhatsApp, HP Pay all work perfectly, except the part where the cylinder actually arrives. “24-hour delivery”? More like 24-hour illusion! #HPGas #HPPetroleum @PetroleumMin