Christopher Nolan confessed he wished he had personally written the iconic line, “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become villain,” from The Dark Knight.
He admitted, “My brother wrote it. It kills me because it’s the line that resonates most. I’m plagued by it because I didn’t write it.”
Men like him should be in the list of heroes for India and for the Sikh community. Wonder if Narinder Singh Kampany's name figures in any school texts in Punjab.
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A teacher in Dehradun told his class that light travels only in straight lines.
One boy in that room spent the next forty years bending it, and the internet now runs on what he built.
His name was Narinder Singh Kapany.
Born in Moga, Punjab in 1926. Schooled in Dehradun, graduated from Agra University, worked as an officer in the Indian Ordnance Factories. In 1952 he went to Imperial College London.
There, with a professor named Harold Hopkins, he bundled thin strands of glass together and transmitted a clear image through them. Around corners. Along bends. Nobody had done it before.
That is fibre optics. Undersea internet cables, endoscopy, laser surgery. He gave the field its name in a 1960 article in Scientific American.
Nehru wanted him back in India as scientific adviser to the defence ministry. He went to America instead. Founded Optics Technology, took it public in 1967, held over a hundred patents, and became one of the first Indians to build a company on that scale in Silicon Valley.
In 2009 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the transmission of light through glass fibre. It went to Charles Kao, who had solved the problem of impurities in the glass swallowing the signal.
Kapany was not named.
Whether he should have shared it is still disputed by people who understand the physics. What is not disputed is that Fortune had already listed him among the seven unsung heroes of the twentieth century, ten years earlier.
He died in California in 2020, aged ninety four. India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan the following year.
Mr. @RepRileyMoore You’re so concerned about India’s FCRA, but why does America itself have a similar law the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) passed by Congress in 1938 to curb foreign influence and propaganda money coming from other countries?
Is anyone in America working against Christians under this law ?
Who are you ? India is democracy you are no one to detect us what we do what we eat what we buy, we don’t poke our nose to your internal matters if we start you will not going to tolerate us
It’s as if a cow was declared a revered animal after 2014. The reason these leftists lose out is coz their hatred for the current govt begins by the hatred for the symbols of the religion.
They conflate BJP with Hinduism, a community with 113 crore people, and somehow they think of winning by going against it.
Andre Agassi lost his first three matches against Boris Becker.
Then he noticed something almost unbelievable: Becker’s tongue revealed where he was about to serve. 👀
Agassi didn’t expose the tell immediately. He saved it for the biggest points—and finished their rivalry leading 10-4.
Tennis isn’t always won with power. Sometimes, it’s won by noticing what nobody else sees. 🎾
Would you call this genius observation or an unfair advantage?
The tension in the House Judiciary Committee completely boiled over when .@RepHankJohnson looked directly at .@RepBrandonGill and threw out the heavy accusation that he is "anti-racial justice" and "anti-gender equity".
Gill didn’t skip a beat before delivering a devastating reality check on the absolute hypocrisy of the lecture.
He fired back by saying he finds it particularly amusing that the exact party that still can't define how many genders even exist in the first place has the nerve to lecture anyone about gender equity.
It completely shut down the opposition's attempt to use canned talking points, exposing the absolute contradiction of trying to police equity for identity groups they cannot even clearly define.
How often is a Test series decided on the final day?
#OnThisDay in 2025, The Oval delivered a classic.
England needed 35 with four wickets left, but Mohammed Siraj’s fiery spell turned the match.
Despite Harry Brook’s stunning century, India held their nerve to defend 374, winning by just 6 runs and drawing the series 2-2.
Final image on my show tonight—this drone footage over the Indian Ocean of a grieving mother bottlenose dolphin refusing to let go of the dead body her newborn calf. Sorrow & yearning are not unique to humans.
Rest well, baby 🐬💔
When robbers enter her home, steal all her belongings from her 1st floor flat, 50 years later her grand kids will thank the robbers for leaving a ladder, which the kids can use now. 🥲
Pete Sampras ended his career in storybook fashion, defeating Andre Agassi in the US Open final to claim his fifth US Open title and 14th major (2002).
LEGEND 💪🏼.