Arpit Chandra

Far from the madding crowd, yet surrounded by it

[Arpit Chandra @chandra_arpit]

@radhika_bajaj @Uber_India I booked uber rental and even then the driver asked to pay by meter. Ended up paying atleast 800rs more. Uber, Ola and Rapido are part of this banana republic for cabs. MAHA Government is supporting taxi unions so there's not much they can do.

[Aravind @aravind]

The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

Three Titans Of Hindutva 🔥🔥🔥

Be scared Hinduphobes …be very very scared before targeting Hindus again

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

The heat has been brutal this past week. Temperatures hit 45° in Nagpur, 44° in Ahmedabad, 43° in Prayagraj, 42° in Delhi. Even Bengaluru hit 37°. And we're still in April 😬

A big contributing factor behind rising temperatures is the loss of forest cover, and India has lost a lot of it. Back in 2020, we met the team behind Farmers for Forests (F4F). Their idea was to do agroforestry at scale. The challenge is that farmers can't afford to wait years for trees to pay off, and most tree-planting projects don't survive the first monsoon. The idea was ambitious, and we at @RainmatterOrg backed them early.

Most tree-planting in India is monoculture, just rows of one species. But a plantation isn't a forest. F4F plants multi-layer agroforests with fruit, timber, shrubs, intercrops, and native species, trying to mimic what an actual forest does.

Six years later, they've gone from 50 acres to 5,000 acres and have just secured funding to reach 40,000 over the next three years. Compared to traditional crop farming, per acre, they're seeing ~4x carbon sequestration, ~3x farmer income, and meaningful improvement in biodiversity and soil health. Still early days, but promising.

Those numbers needed to be verifiable. So F4F built TreeLens, an open-source tree-tracking system that uses drone imagery to measure carbon sequestration, tree height, and biodiversity across thousands of small farms. 15 other organisations now use it.

The hardest problem in agroforestry is time. Fruit trees take 5 to 7 years to pay off, and most small farmers simply can't wait that long. So F4F is now working with the government and the larger ecosystem to design financial instruments like carbon bonds and first-loss guarantees that protect farmers while the trees grow.

Really glad we backed Arti, Aditya, and Krutika early.

[Aravind @aravind]

If you are in India, and have to share one fact to your friends and family this summer, use this:

In the last many decades, the whole world has been heating up. Annual mean temperature in every country has been rising 1-1.5 degrees a decade.

But India has been an anomaly. It has heated up the least at 0.5-1 degrees a decade. This is a scientific fact acknowledged by climatologists worldwide.

India has also increased its green cover, tree cover in cities, and forest cover in the last decade or so. This is not India's own data alone.

This is data by UN in their Global Forest Resources Assessment – GFRA 2025 report based on satellite imagery, which can't lie.

India has also increased ecological conservation efforts in recent decades as its wealth grew. It has improved its populations of endangered animals like Asiatic lion, Rhinos, Tigers and many birds and animals.

This is much better than many other countries - even developed ones (where they will shoot a wolf, shark, or bear if they increase in population, get close to human habitation, and attack a human).

Anyway, there will always be programmed Indians who will come to discount India's tremendous achievements in Paris climate goals and in protecting its environment even as a highly populous developing country.

We can't do much trying to convince these DS programmed and blackpilled bots. Just watch the comments below. They will come to tell you how numbers are fake, how they saw it has become bad, or change the goal post to another topic to berate India.

[राजस्थानी ट्वीट @8PMnoCM]

2026 Year of Scams ?

[Arpit Chandra @chandra_arpit]

@LoganTGott Funnel

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

Yes Iranians have shown resilience against a mighty powerful enemy ! Even if they go down.. Alteast they will fight and give a bloody nose to Western Epstein Elite ! Pedo-Satanists !

I have no love for the Iranians or even the Israeli’s; my only allegiance is to my motherland Bharat 🇮🇳

Having said that i want America to face a humiliating loss like Vietnam & Afghanistan ! This evil empire has wrecked havoc on the world.

Their arrogance needs to be shoveled deep under. Hope the Orange Man loses in Midterms !

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Israel’s war and what it means.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

What is SARVAM AI? And How it is different from ChatGPT and Gemini?

SARVAM is India's very own "built from scratch" foundational AI model.

ChatGPT/Gemini and other models train on the entire public internet, which is heavily dominated by Western/English content.

This biases their "worldview" toward Western concepts.

The Western Models also struggle with Indic Language nuances.

Sarvam AI curates datasets specifically from Indian sources (literature, government documents, diverse speech data).

This means if you ask it about a specific Indian legal clause or a cultural nuance in a regional festival, it is less likely to hallucinate or give a generic "westernized" answer.

SARVAM developed in 3 phases:

Phase 1: OpenHathi (December 2023)

This was their "proof of concept." It was not built from scratch; it was a fine-tuned version of Meta’s Llama 2.

It proved they could make a Western model speak Hindi accurately

Phase 2: The Foundational Leap (2024)

Launch of Sarvam-2B - This was their first Foundational Model. It wasn't a Llama copy.

They trained it on 4 trillion tokens of data (Aug 2024)

Release of Sarvam-1: A 2-billion parameter model that outperformed significantly larger US models on Indic language tasks (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, etc. (Oct 2024)

Phase 3: The "Sovereign" Era (2025 - Present)

The Indian Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) selected Sarvam AI as the first startup under the IndiaAI Mission to build the official indigenous foundational model.

February 2026 (The "Triple Threat" Launch):

Sarvam Vision (Powered by SARVAM Akshar): A new model that beat Google Gemini and GPT-4o on OCR benchmarks (reading text from images/scanned handwritten Indian documents).

Sarvam Edge: Technology to run these models entirely offline on ultra cheap smartphones. Game changers for AI penetration in India.

Sarvam Kaze: Announcement of smart glasses for voice-first AI interaction - first tried on by PM Modi at the AI Summit 2026

[Ujjwal Chadha @ujjwalscript]

I attended the AI Impact Summit today.

5 made in India AI Products BLEW my mind:

1. EkaScribe: A doctor in a busy rural clinic see 5 patients without touching a keyboard. The AI handles the prescriptions, history, and filing.

2. Ottobots: Made in India autonomous robots that can deliver medicines in hospitals, navigating elevators and cooridors by themselves (no more family members rushing to pharmacies).

3. Sarvam Kaze: Sleek, Made-in-India AI spectacles that "see" what you see. They don't just record - they explain the world to you in your local language via bone conduction like a genius translator whispering in your ear.

4. Sarvam Edge: AI that runs on your phone with zero internet - translates 22 languages in real-time even while you're in a basement.

5. Mankomb’s "Chewie": AI native kitchen appliance that literally eats your waste. It converts wet waste - bones, meat, and fluids into nutrient rich "RegenSoil" in hours using real-time AI sensors.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Abuse me all you want, but Yogi should not pay for the Centre’s blunders. Don’t scapegoat the one CM who has actually tried to impose order on a chronically misgoverned state.

Yogi is among the rare CMs running a large, complex state toward development, with no appeasement, no reckless freebie culture, and zero tolerance toward extremism and organised crime. While other states proudly market cash doles and monthly handouts as “development models,” even the so-called DMK development model runs Ladli Behna–type cash schemes, yet UP has resisted that temptation so far. What the future holds, I don’t know. Pressure politics exists, especially if Akhilesh starts dangling promises, but till now, UP has held the line.

Yes, democracy forces you to perform a few symbolic rituals you may personally dislike. That’s the price of electoral politics. But symbolism is not governance, and optics are not law and order.

If Yogi goes and Akhilesh returns, UP regresses straight back ten years: an era where the state bent before Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari, and Atiq Ahmed were power centres, organised crime thrived, police stations were ornamental, and appeasement was state policy. Don't let it happen.

[Aravind @aravind]

IMO, @PiyushGoyal ji need not do so many interviews and pressers trying to explain the hard negotiated trade deals he and his ministry have clinched for India (working with MEA, PMO, OIL & GAS, and other ministries.).

Only a few people will understand what has been achieved, and even fewer will appreciate. Others will believe whatever they want to, many times ignorantly or based on political paradigms.

For those of us following geopolitics keenly and understanding the issues, what India is doing now during a very rough geopolitical climate clearly looks in the best interests of the country and its people.

Of course, there will be give and take and that is understandable. We are not that sort of hegemonic power to dictate all terms in our favor.

This is how trade deals work and even a hegemonic power like the US is giving up some of its interests when negotiating with India no matter what Trump claims.

But those who can't understand these things will always criticize everything no matter how much and how well it is explained. They find pleasure in doing so. No point wasting time on them.

One detailed common presser with questions taken is enough for all the deals by trade and commerce ministry. Rest of the foreign policy questions asked by many to trade ministry, @MEAIndia can handle them separately in their presser.

[Aravind @aravind]

The firing happening at Washington Post is not because of financial issues as they claim. It is because its owner Jeff Bezos has pivoted to the new all-American nationalist DS under Trump from the old legacy DS. I think this was forced by the Epstein files stuff the US govt has on him.

WaPo is letting go of its liberal, left, globalist, islamist, communist staff to reinvent itself in American national interests. WaPo's tone and coverage will change in the coming year. It will align with Trump admin and US interests more, rather than being a mouth piece of the China influenced GLISCO-DS it has been till now.

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

Being born a Muslim didn’t stop Zakir Hussain from being Bharat’s most loved tabla player, being born a Muslim didn’t stop Amjad Ali Khan from being Bharat’s best Sarod player, being born a Muslim didn’t stop Azim Premjee from being one of Bharat’s most successful industrialist or A P J Abdul Kalam from being the president of Bharat, but the minute A R Rehman’s creativity and quality started drying up, he started to remember that he is a Muslim!

[Arpit Chandra @chandra_arpit]

@the2ndfloorguy Pune needs this solution more than any other city. Police is unable to catch culprits, traffic endangers lives and people flout rules on daily commutes. Tagging @RtoPune @PuneCityPolice @PuneCityTraffic

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

A continuing fake narrative. If you do not even Trust the highest court in the land which has deeply studied the severe charges and denied bail because of the severity of charges and the evidence provided, it only reflects how fake and biased you are. We can disagree with the SC and do but to cast aspersions shows a demented hate filled person living in denial. Very shameful. @Iyervval

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

I am sorry didn't Sharjeel Imam said

"Seperating Assam for India is our responsibility"

"We will stop Army Supply, Chicken neck belongs to Muslims"

How is he a political prisoner when this is a clear cut case of endangering India's territorial integrity

Attaching video proof 👇

[Flt Lt Anoop Verma (Retd.) 🇮🇳 @FltLtAnoopVerma]

Anupama Chopra during release: “Dhurandhar is a horrible Movie”

Movie gets 200 Crores Start

Arfa Khanum after the release: “Movie is Anti Muslim”

Movie crosses 400 Crores

Dhruv Rathee after 2 weeks: “I will destroy it’s propaganda”

Movies enters 650 Crore Club. All Set to become highest ever grosser 😂

All 3 deserves compliments from us 😂🤓😂

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Rathee is one of the most insecure and cowardly influencers around, constantly posturing as brave, but retreating the moment he’s challenged.

He claimed his video would "destroy" the film Dhurandhar. But once it went live, the response didn’t go his way. The comments were filled with people calling out the flaws and contradictions in his so-called analysis, and that clearly rattled him.

Instead of engaging, he shut down the comments, quietly deleted the unfavourable ones, and later reopened the section only for subscribers, ensuring a carefully curated stream of praise.

This pattern mirrors his behaviour on Twitter as well, where he has blocked large numbers of users pre-emptively, without any interaction, simply to avoid uncomfortable or questioning replies under his posts.