Anindya Chatterjee

CRM, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Indian Politics, Food, Chess: fun above all!
IT-BHU and IIM-C alum (distant past!)
Tweets personal. Retweets provocation.

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

There is supposed to be a coming left resurgence in West Bengal. It has been almost as long coming as Rahul Gandhi's coming of age. This is what i think.
#cpim #bengal

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

BBC is fighting for India's independence, Qatar for India's secularism, China for India's territorial integrity, Pakistan for India's religious freedom, Canada for India's Moolnivasi rights and America for India's rightful place in the world but Modi is blocking them all ☹️

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

How's tmc even a party?
A party without an ideology is just a mob.
No, "Maa mati manush" is just a slogan.
Ask any Trinamooli or Chhinnamooli what their ideology is.
They have no idea.

[𝐑𝐢𝐣𝐮 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐚 @RijuDutta_84]

TMC is the primary opposition party in Bengal with 80 MLA’s. But party is crumbling and leaders doing survival meetings in Delhi.

Left Front with just 1 MLA is protesting on the Streets in Jadavpur.

BJP couldn’t be happier….
They didn’t just win, they are dominating & it’s showing…

[Ritika @Im_Ritikaa]

This country is beyond Repair ☠️

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

@AITCofficial @MamataOfficial চোরে চোরে মাসতুতো বোন

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

@Aagan86 A govt that went to court multiple times to stall construction of metro line which would benefit its own people?
No one believes you.

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantan_gh]

This is my personal political opinion, not an analytical assessment.

Suvendu Adhikari’s meeting with the rebel TMC MPs has made the BJP’s role behind the split quite visible. In my view, the same interpretation can also be applied to the split among the MLAs.

I am not sure BJP voters in Bengal, especially those who supported the party out of frustration with alleged corruption in the TMC, will necessarily appreciate this development. That said, I do not see this posing any significant electoral risk to the BJP in West Bengal in the upcoming elections.

My question is whether this move was really necessary at this moment. If the objective was merely to increase the NDA’s numbers in the Lok Sabha and politically weaken Mamata Banerjee, it could perhaps have waited. There are many more pressing issues and governance priorities in Bengal that deserve the BJP government’s attention.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

- All 4 people were on different Vande Bharat trains.

- All 4 people had window seats.

- All 4 people were seated next to a kid and his father.

- All 4 people had the worst journey experience.

- All 4 people clicked the same photo.

What a coincidence!

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

"We have solved extreme poverty, which was the easy part"

-- Manu Joseph

Yesterday it was Tavleen Singh who said "Anyone can build a road"

Today it is Manu Joseph...

I think the hardest problem in the world is to get BA Engliss pass elites to stop being so full of themselves

[Incognito @Incognito_qfs]

Police stopped them because they were not wearing helmet and these two idiots argued with the police, even pushed the cops and abused them.

If something like this had happened in US, police would have thrown them on the ground, tased them and handcuffed them.

People in India feel they can get away with anything and that's why they don't follow the rules.

Just put bodycams on the cops and give them tasers, a lot of things will get solved.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

@DibyenduDa21375 My family lost quite a large ancestral property in South Calcutta to- squatters- ahem- rok baaj mastans of Chetla during CPM times. Good for my dad, who called himself a communist a voted CPM always.

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

@DibyenduDa21375 If those ARE the arguments that "Pro BJP Middle Class" gives. They are straw-men.
The actual argument is respect for property. If squatting in your living room is not allowed, why is squatting on public land justified?

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

So touching - this faith of opposition that some messiah is coming, some kalki- avatar who will come and rescue them.
From having to decide between Rahul/ Arvind (Mamata has always been an also ran), now we get Dipke.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

And how…!! Cockroaches survive even a nuclear holocaust- don’t take them lightly. Onwards and upwards @abhijeet_dipke
#cjpprotest

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

I think Dharmendra Pradhan should lose his job. It's the right think to do.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

THIS 18-YEAR-OLD DID NOT BLINK 🔥

RAJDEEP: CBSE says TCS quoted around ₹951 crore, Coempt Edutech around ₹384 crore. Lowest bidder wins, so rules were followed.

SARTHAK 🎯: My question is not whether CBSE followed the rules. My question is why CBSE changed the rules.

RAJDEEP: People say you are batting for the opposition.

SARTHAK 🔥: In a democracy, opposition parties are pressure groups. If someone supports me, I am thankful. If someone ignores me, I do not care.

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

It's the vocal middle class that is to blame; yes, it's us.
We are used to the chai samosa from the pavement stall for a pittance. We know if that guy had his shop in a "proper" place, it would cost ten times as much.
The hawkers will be back; because we are addicted.

[LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More @MediocreJoker85]

I took an elevator up to the 80th floor for a meeting.

As I was getting out, the operator said, “Have a good day, son.”

I frowned and said, “Don’t call me son. You’re not my dad.”

He scratched his head and said, “No… but I brought you up, didn’t I?”

After the meeting, I got back on the elevator to head down, and the same operator was there.

Neither of us said a word.

When we reached the ground floor, he looked at me and said, “I’m sorry.”

“Because you called me son?” I asked.

He shook his head.

“No, son… because I let you down.”

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Exactly 102 yrs ago today, on June 4, 1924, a 30 yr old, virtually unknown Indian reader at Dhaka University walked down to the post office & mailed a short, 5 page manuscript to Albert Einstein.

Satyendra Nath Bose was in a bind. He had just completed a paper titled “Planck’s Law & the Light Quantum Hypothesis,” which he had written after making a literal mathematical error on a classroom blackboard while teaching his students. Instead of treating quantum particles like separate, individual entities (the classical Western approach), his mistake treated them as completely indistinguishable: they lost their identities & bled into 1 another.

He had sent the paper to the prestigious Philosophical Magazine in England, but the editors summarily rejected it. Convinced his logic was flawless, Bose took a massive gamble. On June 4, 1924, he slid the manuscript into an envelope along with a cover letter that began with the lines: “Respected Sir, I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal & opinion..." He addressed it to Albert Einstein in Berlin.

When Einstein opened the letter a few weeks later, he did not just read it, he was stunned. He realized this young Indian scholar had solved a foundational contradiction in quantum theory that had blocked European physics for yrs. Einstein personally translated the paper into German, had it published & used Bose’s math to predict a brand-new state of matter: the Bose-Einstein Condensate.

Yrs later, when the brilliant British physicist Paul Dirac formalized the mathematics of these subatomic particles that love to flock & share the exact same space, he gave them a permanent name in honor of the man who dropped that letter in the mail on June 4th: Bosons.

Fast forward a few decades, Paul Dirac, comes to India to visit him. The 2 physicists prepare to leave for an academic function. Bose, operating with typical Indian hospitality, invites a massive crowd of his eager postgrad students to come along.

As they walk outside, Dirac looks at the modest, compact car parked at the curb, then looks at the crowd of students & freezes. Dirac, utterly distressed by the spatial chaos, taps Bose on the shoulder & says "Satyen, this is highly illogical & impractical. There are far too many people for this vehicle. There is simply no room left."

Bose looks straight at Dirac & says: "Oh, come now, Paul! We believe in Bose statistics here! Do not you remember? An infinite number of Bosons can occupy the exact same state simultaneously!"

[Anindya Chatterjee @canindya]

Smart kids. I hope the Padma awards come their way.